01.30.09

Just started – newbie questions

Posted in Questions and Comments at 12:33 pm by stumper

Tony,

Thank you for your book.  It was an easy read and I learned a bunch.  I finished reading your book last Friday and my first campaign was up Tuesday.  My first affiliate trials are promoting Amazon products.  I have had no luck with my first campaign (i think the niche is too small) but I am learning how the ad interface works.

I have a 2nd campaign that I just started not even 12 hrs ago and my stats are: 532 impressions, 24 Clicks, 4.5% CTR, NO conversions!  I checked the link- thats good. Maybe I am jumping the gun on realizing conversions?? Is Amazon just a slow/poor convertor?  My add specifically states what they are to buy at the click.  Please give me some direction as to where my investigation should begin.

Brian

01.14.09

Starting My Own Website

Posted in Questions and Comments at 2:21 am by T

Tony,

Thanks for the book – great foundation for getting started in affilliate marketing! 

After some mild success with direct linking from Google to an afilliate program’s site, I’ve decided that I need to start my own website.  Once I’ve developed a theme for my website, what is the fastest & easiest way to join the affiliate programs that match my theme?  Do I have to search & join many affilliate networks to find the right affiliate programs that match my theme or is there a faster way to pull this site together?  It seems like a huge amount of work to join many affilliate networks to piece together affilliate programs that match my website’s theme. 

Also, if I create multiple websites then what is the best way to let affilliate programs know about each so that you have a better chance of being accepted?  For example, if I have a travel website and a mortgage website then I want to be sure that the travel-based affiliate program is evaluating my travel website and the mortgage-based affiliate program is evaluating my mortgage website.

Any help is appreciated.

Best,

T