So as a tip for adwords starters…first run the ad with the google search network and then move on to the content nework. Don’t make the same mistake as I did.

Thanks

I recently found a pretty good way to promote affiliates, without much effort.

Instead of taking your time to make a website to convert traffic into actual “customers”, I’ve found e-books to be a goldmine. By promoting affiliates through e-books you can give readers, who are already interested in the topic, a nice offer.

For obvious reasons I’m not gonna disclose exactly what niches I’m doing this in. Nevertheless I’ll give some examples:

Get, Buy or download one of those packs with a lot of different resellable e-books. Let’s say you find an e-book called “Making a killer with AdSense”, you edit the e-book to include some of your own affiliate links. E.g. in a chapter introducing people to AdSense, put in your own affiliate link to adsense. Besides that, you could also find a nice place in the e-book to insert recommendations for other things you are promoting – say webhosting, seobook.com, cloaking software – whatever you like. You’re really only limited by your own imagination.

Finally when you have your own custom-tailored e-book done, you’re ready to start distributing it. I use different kind of ways to distribute my e-books, but here are some of places – it’s only your imagination that stops you from finding 100’s of other places.

1) Kazaa, Limewire, E-mule.. etc.
2) Torrentsites
3) E-bay (sell the e-books for $0.01)

If this is done right, you can actually make a fair amount of cash.

The biggest mistake I see out there are ugly, stick-out ad blocks, completely unfiltered. People don’t like to be hit over the head with “ads” they like subtle info that tickles their brain.

Don’t bury it at the bottom of the page like it’s an apology or footnote. Fold it into your content and you will get the most eyeballs looking at it – then make sure if they are looking, they are seeing something on topic.

The youtube algorithm will choose the display thumbnail from the frame directly in the middle of the video.

For instance, if your video is 1min long, placing a still image of a girl in a bikini at :30-31 seconds will generate thousands of more hits.

You can also keyword stuff the description which will help your video appear next to ‘related’ videos.

1. Use custom graphics rather than default banners. I create custom graphics for each ad to compliment my site’s content and design style. PS: I obtained permission from my affiliate manager before doing so.

2. Use your Affiliate manager. They are there to help you. Unlike Adsense they are more than happy to talk with you via phone or email. Have a chat, run your ideas past them, you’ll gain valuable feedback and suggestions.

3. Get people to sign up under you. This month I am making more with my sub-affiliates on Azoogle then I am with my own account.

4. Understand you will have to change, update, etc… your CPA offers more than with Adsense. Offers will often expire before the date originally stated. Use some sort of include files in your sites or even a full-blown script to keep track of your offers and allow for easy updates. Otherwise CPA becomes a pain.

5. Join more than 1 CPA network. Different CPA networks have different offers and tools. Sign up and explore the variety. Some CPA networks even offer nifty tools like Co-reg and datafeeds. Plus this means that you gain access to more affiliate managers = more info and ideas for you.

Good luck

I guess this is one of the best ideas ever! You should do this much more often since this is a nice thing to bring your readers some extra value!

Great idea!

I feel like a light bulb just went off. All this time, I had been sticking an ad here, or and ad there, some of them quite random. To build an entire page or even site around a single CPA ad is a concept that I had not yet conceived.

This last year, I have made a small fortune with Google Adsense and YPN. CPA advertising might be the third stone I am destined to uncover.

one of my biggest mistake when starting out was thinking that traffic equals sales. i was looking for untargeted traffic – what a big mistake.

i was promoting a dvd title and bidded on broad keywords and was giving money to google fast. then i learned about targeted traffic and now i only bid on “specific phrase”. its better to have 50 clicks and maybe 1 conversion rather than 1000 clicks but no conversion!