Hello everybody.
I haven't written in a while. A big while. I know, that's a big blogging sin, and I hope the internet god will forgive me for that. That's because I have great news for him.
January 2008 will be remembered by me as the first month that allowes me to use the word profit. Finally, after two losing months, comes a month and shows me this is possible. Internet marketing does work, there is money to be made out there. If I get another sale today or AdWords doesn't go over $16 today (preferably both), I can put a little plus sign. And if AdWords takes the entire budget, well, losing $4 can be called break even.
Lately, and that's one reason I need another sale, Google gave me wonderful QS, but clicks were nowhere to be found. People just ignore my ads between 0:00-6:00 in the morning (PST). Then they come in a bulk and at the end of the day I end with 30. When my page starts converting 10%, that'll be acceptable. Now it's converting about 4% (which means about 10% of the people who go to the sales page!), so I need 40-50 clicks to make two sales. I suspected the low number of clicks was due to position preference, but now, when I turned it off, it doesn't seem to have an effect. AdWords is a weird system indeed.
And finally, like every quarter, Google is going to report its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007 and the report for the entire year. It's going to be interesting to see how a company that keeps going against its customers (the new QS rules are harsh, but they seem to ease for me. Nine words went from OK of $0.15 to Great of $0.05) turns out a bigger profit than last year. Reports are after Wall St. closes, at about 4:00pm EST. Conference call is at 4:30 pm EST (right when Blogger is down... Weird...).
Have a great February!
nadavs
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Better Landing Page, More Sales
Hi again, everybody.
I haven't been updating lately since I was working on some improvements to my landing pages. Someone from DP forum gave me his specially made landing pages to use, and... two sales.
Now I implemented his methods on my landing pages, hoping they'll bring a good amount of sales as well.
Also, AdWords has finally reduced my CPC below the dreadful 30 cent mark. Now I can get about 60-100 clicks per day, but since I use position preference I don't even get near 50 clicks a day. If that continues into tomorrow, I'll resume another campaign which has improved landing pages. And then, who knows? Maybe I'll finally make the $100 mark.
As you can see, I added a list of goals to the blog. You might wonder why there is a goal number zero. Well, that's because it's not really a goal. It's more like a personal wish, and I promised myself that one day I will see "cohypnosis" as the vendor in my transaction list.
The last goal is "Main source of income". I just want to achieve that until I finish my military service, which means until 2012-2013.
See you later,
nadavs
I haven't been updating lately since I was working on some improvements to my landing pages. Someone from DP forum gave me his specially made landing pages to use, and... two sales.
Now I implemented his methods on my landing pages, hoping they'll bring a good amount of sales as well.
Also, AdWords has finally reduced my CPC below the dreadful 30 cent mark. Now I can get about 60-100 clicks per day, but since I use position preference I don't even get near 50 clicks a day. If that continues into tomorrow, I'll resume another campaign which has improved landing pages. And then, who knows? Maybe I'll finally make the $100 mark.
As you can see, I added a list of goals to the blog. You might wonder why there is a goal number zero. Well, that's because it's not really a goal. It's more like a personal wish, and I promised myself that one day I will see "cohypnosis" as the vendor in my transaction list.
The last goal is "Main source of income". I just want to achieve that until I finish my military service, which means until 2012-2013.
See you later,
nadavs
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Plan on Going Viral
Hello everybody!
After being suspicious about ClickBank, it turns out the system was either good from the beginning or fixed yesterday. Whatever that is, after more than two weeks of boring commission page, it finally came back to life.
In fact, I do believe there was a problem at ClickBank. Other people at Digital Point forums mentioned that their sales were back to normal too yesterday. I hope ClickBank will look into this, and will return the lost money to the affiliates.
And now, the viral part. I am planning on writing an eBook and giving it away for free, and even encouraging people to give it away for free too. This might help my website's traffic and recognition. And the best part is: there is no eBook on that topic, at least from what I've seen. This will lead to a wide distribution and hopefully more traffic.
Until later,
nadavs
After being suspicious about ClickBank, it turns out the system was either good from the beginning or fixed yesterday. Whatever that is, after more than two weeks of boring commission page, it finally came back to life.
In fact, I do believe there was a problem at ClickBank. Other people at Digital Point forums mentioned that their sales were back to normal too yesterday. I hope ClickBank will look into this, and will return the lost money to the affiliates.
And now, the viral part. I am planning on writing an eBook and giving it away for free, and even encouraging people to give it away for free too. This might help my website's traffic and recognition. And the best part is: there is no eBook on that topic, at least from what I've seen. This will lead to a wide distribution and hopefully more traffic.
Until later,
nadavs
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Another Day, Another Nothing
Hi.
Another big day of nothing has gone by. Google keeps getting its money, I keep not getting any. I now have a proven seller (which I took down after some problems) resumed, and if it doesn't sell something is definitely wrong with ClickBank. I'll pause my PPC campaigns and start working a little on SEO.
I also started experimenting a little with AdSense. I saw that some of the products I promote get a small yet steady flow of traffic (if two hits count as traffic...), so I put some AdSense ads in them. I also put AdSense in the pages that point to math and physics tutors that I promote on Yahoo Answers (you can find me there on math and physics).
Let's see what tomorrow brings. This starts to get annoying.
nadavs
Another big day of nothing has gone by. Google keeps getting its money, I keep not getting any. I now have a proven seller (which I took down after some problems) resumed, and if it doesn't sell something is definitely wrong with ClickBank. I'll pause my PPC campaigns and start working a little on SEO.
I also started experimenting a little with AdSense. I saw that some of the products I promote get a small yet steady flow of traffic (if two hits count as traffic...), so I put some AdSense ads in them. I also put AdSense in the pages that point to math and physics tutors that I promote on Yahoo Answers (you can find me there on math and physics).
Let's see what tomorrow brings. This starts to get annoying.
nadavs
Friday, January 18, 2008
Top CTR
Hi everyone.
Today I managed to get a CTR of over 9% for a campaign. This was probably due to an improved Quality Score (which Google seems to be changing every two minutes) which led to my ads appearing above organic results. Now I'm using position preference to keep them away from the top of the page. That will also ensure a lower CPC.
Still no sales from my new, improved landing page. I've seen some complaints at the Digital Point forums about weird ClickBank statistics and really low and unusual sales activity. Something's fishy with ClickBank, and I really hope this is all just a temporary bug that will get fixed soon.
And finally, Blogger now supports Hebrew, but I don't really need it. My English is quite good and after yesterday I really don't want to work with Israelis. Maybe I'll expand on this in the future.
See you again tomorrow,
nadavs
Today I managed to get a CTR of over 9% for a campaign. This was probably due to an improved Quality Score (which Google seems to be changing every two minutes) which led to my ads appearing above organic results. Now I'm using position preference to keep them away from the top of the page. That will also ensure a lower CPC.
Still no sales from my new, improved landing page. I've seen some complaints at the Digital Point forums about weird ClickBank statistics and really low and unusual sales activity. Something's fishy with ClickBank, and I really hope this is all just a temporary bug that will get fixed soon.
And finally, Blogger now supports Hebrew, but I don't really need it. My English is quite good and after yesterday I really don't want to work with Israelis. Maybe I'll expand on this in the future.
See you again tomorrow,
nadavs
Thursday, January 17, 2008
More Landing Page Techniques
Hello again.
Yesterday I asked the guys at DigitalPoint forums about my landing page for the six-pack abs promotion. With their advice and some making up of my own, I came up with this. Also, for the women, there is this page.
The new technique I used is "customer participation" - when the user clicks one of the checkboxes, it's almost certain that he'll move on to the link I provided (after all, he checked all that applies to him). Maybe that will increase conversions (increase meaning more than zero...).
So far, no sales. I'm starting to get suspicious about something there. Let's see how it goes.
Until next time,
nadavs
Yesterday I asked the guys at DigitalPoint forums about my landing page for the six-pack abs promotion. With their advice and some making up of my own, I came up with this. Also, for the women, there is this page.
The new technique I used is "customer participation" - when the user clicks one of the checkboxes, it's almost certain that he'll move on to the link I provided (after all, he checked all that applies to him). Maybe that will increase conversions (increase meaning more than zero...).
So far, no sales. I'm starting to get suspicious about something there. Let's see how it goes.
Until next time,
nadavs
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
A Young Marketer
Hello everybody!
I am Nadav, a 17 (soon 18) year old internet marketer. I've been in this area for three months now, and I decided to open a blog to document my way to... well... financial freedom.
I'm driving traffic mainly from AdWords, but yesterday I somehow got a sale from an unknown source, so I guess AdWords is not the only traffic driving method I use. At least consciously.
Until the next time,
nadavs
I am Nadav, a 17 (soon 18) year old internet marketer. I've been in this area for three months now, and I decided to open a blog to document my way to... well... financial freedom.
I'm driving traffic mainly from AdWords, but yesterday I somehow got a sale from an unknown source, so I guess AdWords is not the only traffic driving method I use. At least consciously.
Until the next time,
nadavs
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