This is interesting.
“We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google’s commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our [...]
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lurksteraz on August 17th, 2007
That’s right, Pimpin aint easy. If you think about it, affiliate marketing is just like pimpin’.
Now bear with me, and take a look at this chart I created about the relationship between them.
| AffiliateMarketing |
Pimpin |
| Find a new niche |
Find a new corner to pimp your women |
| You build a website from scratch, |
You find a new bitch, doll her up with makeup and clothes |
| Make your site conversion friendly |
Teach her how to turn tricks |
| Testing keyword sets in PPC |
Send her to private events to see if it’s the right crowd for Ho’in |
| Narrow in on a niche and capitalize |
If she does well at a moose lodge party in a major hotel, send the bitch back for more |
| Build the site out if it works |
Give her some fake breasts and new finger nails |
| If it loses money over a long period of time, start on something else |
If she can’t turn tricks, kick the bitch to the curb |
| Your niche is now making massive amounts of money |
She’s a well known Ho on the block and every Tom wants a spin |
| Recieve monthly checks |
Snatch the bitches money and send her back out |
| Affiliate company doesn’t pay |
Ball up the fist and knock the bitch out! |
Ok, so the last one is for affiliate businesses that don’t pay, I had to throw that in there. I may be crazy, but if you look at them side by side it makes sense. Now I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll stick with affiliate marketing and leave the pimpin to the Don Juan’s and Sugar Daddys.
So anyways, I’ve decided to try the global approach. I’ve secured my euro-host and registered some co.uk domains. I think I’ll give this a shot as well. has anyone else had success with the European market?
lurksteraz on August 14th, 2007
I just wanted to give a quick update on what I’ve been doing. I have been building more and more websites. In the past week I’ve added an additional 5 complete websites all in different industries. That brings my count to, well, a lot of damn sites to maintain. I’ve also resorted back to my roots of implementing many black hat techniques for natural rankings. I tried to go legit and not do any shady stuff, but when it’s easy to do it, why not.
Anyways, I’ve decided to also set up a few sites specifically for drop shipping products. I was able to work out a few deals with some vendors for unique products to drop ship. I figure this would be good for wife to at least process orders as they come through.
Unfortunately, I have to wait for payday to relaunch more PPC ads. Went broke on the first run of campaigns that hadn’t produced any conversions. When payday rolls around again, I’ll relaunch the campaigns with some tweaks that include a tests I’d like to run and see what happens. If these tests don’t pan out, I need to wait again for another paycheck just to fund them. That sucks! Luckily Adsense will be depositing in a week or so.
In other news, I seemed to have built up about 6 weeks of vacation and decided to take off. I’ve been planning my attack for building out an additional 25 domains. Shouldn’t take too long if I plan accordingly.
Well, I’ll make another post in a day or so, I’m typing this from my cube and don’t want the boss to what I’m doing.
lurksteraz on August 2nd, 2007
I don’t like asking for advice but I had to ping someone and I wanted to thank Derek B for giving me some awesome tips in an email exchange that we had. I have so many questions, and nobody to turn to. Derek stepped up with great advice.
This leads to the frustration and giving up seems like the easy way out. A lot of questions and concerns go through my head such as, ‘why am I throwing this much needed money away?’, ’why won’t these damn products or offers convert?’ and ‘why can’t I find a starting point to marketing these products?’. A lot of these thoughts run through my head nonstop. The frustration is starting to get to me and quitting seems so easy.
Google has killed 2 campaigns, disapproved numerous ads which further diminish my will to keep doing this. I mean, why research products, do the keyword research, build the campaigns yet have all that hard work come to a screeching halt? This game sucks!
After reading Amits Blog post on Why 2% of affiliates rake in 95% of the profits, I’ve since re-sparked the burning desire to make it. But what am I making, what is ‘it’? Well, to me, it’s the freedom to be financially free, being able to spend every waking moment with my 8 month old baby boy, to not have to work in a cubicle(which, by the way is where I’m typing this from), not have to drive an hour and fifteen minutes to work. I think my turning point was when I was driving home from work on Monday this week, and ended up T-boning a lady that ran a red light. Luckily nobody was hurt! What this accident did do, was further embed my desire to not have to work for anyone else.
My fire is lit to a small spark right now. My goal now will be to get that small flame to a raging inferno! The kind of fire that burns everything in sight and doesn’t stop until there is nothing but a charred landscape. My charred landscape will be me and my family on a beach someplace in the world like a Corona commercial. Except my commercial includes me with a great big middle finger in the air to the rest of the 9 to 5 working class. Do I sound bitter?
Enough ranting, I need to get some work done before my boss see’s me.
lurksteraz on July 28th, 2007
It didn’t take too long for Shoemoney to sell off his startup AuctionAds. I remember signing up for the service when it was Shoemoney Ads. I ran the service on a couple car sites and saw a little revenue, but I never gave it the attention I should have.
TechCrunch has some good commentary. Congratulations go out to Shoemoney and Dilsmack!
lurksteraz on July 25th, 2007
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Been busy taking care of side jobs making web sites and doing a little consulting, while trying to have a normal job and spend some time with my wife and baby boy. I think the wife is feeling a little neglected, but understands we need the money and need to what we have to, to survive.
Anyway’s, since my last posting, I’ve had a bunch of ads denied by Google. I scoured the adwords guidelines, but I may have missed it. So I ended up just closing the campaign totally. To top that off, I’m seeing 25% clickthrough rate combined on all of my ads, but zero sales. Not sure if this is normal, but I guess there could be numerous reason for no conversions. I’m thinking it’s time to revisit the keywords and see if they can be targeted further. I’ve been reading informative blogs such as Derek B. I think I’m still not understanding a key component, and I can’t place my finger on it yet I don’t know what question to ask. So that leads me to believe that I need to rethink my campaigns strategy and how I approach and execute them.
Anyway’s, I guess this is how everyone leans, so let’s see how the next couple days go, and see if we can’t turn something around.
lurksteraz on July 18th, 2007
Andrew Wee has a great write up about the recent Google slap on Squidoo. If you have searched for anything on Google, you may have found yourself landing on a Squidoo page that reads more like a sales letter. I personally have.
Squidoo was recently hit hard as alot of their pages were dropped. Makes sense though if you think about it. Google has been trying clean out the search engine from spam or from what they deem spam. I think Squidoo was a perfect avenue to have additional sales pages included in the SERPs that were very effective. But it seemed whenever I would search for something, I would see the same basic sales pages but made by different people.
Anyways, check out Andrews write up which contains
lurksteraz on July 17th, 2007
I received an unexpected call last night. But a good one.
I answer the phone and on the other line is someone who found my number from a domain WHOIS site. First thing I thought of was ‘great, I’m infringing on a business trademark or something’. Well, this guy was actually interested in purchasing one of my oldest domain names. It’s been registered since 2001. One of the first domains I ever registered and that I’ve held onto for all of these years.
I told him I was unsure of a price and had to do some research. He decided to throw out a number and I thought it was good($1000). I wanted to check with a few friends who deal in domain resale and a couple said I should hold onto it and some others said I should sell. So, I decided to sell.
I’ve never sold any domains. So I am a little unsure of the process. I was able to find escrow.com and they only seem to charge about 3.25%. Not bad, I figure that since he contacted me, I should be a little skeptical on the sale. I think escrow.com may be the place to go through as far as protection for us both. He gets the domain and I get paid.
Has anyone else had this similar situation? If so did you use any type of escrow service?
lurksteraz on July 16th, 2007
Well, this weekend was like a coding marathon, and now I now have brain fry. Starting Friday night, I wanted to research some niches but the competition for some of them was too much. Then sometime after midnight, I ran across one. It’s one that I like, I can relate to and wouldn’t mind spending a little time on to test it out. And the best part is?, there are a decent amount of searches and nobody is buying ads in Google. Which by the way, I’d like to make a post on keyword search volume tools in another post.
I then went to look for domains and realized I had been sitting on one that would be perfect. Ok, so now I’m starting to put the pieces together.
Saturday morning, I start creating templates and trying to plan a layouts and mapping on how I want this to work. If visitors land on the site naturally, I want to have them flow through the site without abandoning for cheesiness. Good, I’m all set and have a plan.
Saturday afternoon, I start fine tuning my templates for scalability, so in the long run, I can grow the site out if testing and profits are in my favor. I then leave for a little while to spend some time with my wife and baby boy so they would remember who I am.
I return Saturday night and start creating category pages and product pages. I start thinking that this is taking forever, and that there could be a better a way to do this. I should mention that these are products from a Commission Junction advertiser. And since my account is new, I don’t have access to feeds(oi). From what I understand, you need to generate a certain amount of money first before accessing the feeds to merchants. So, if you’ve ever entered products in through CJ, you know my pain.
Sunday morning after entering a ton of products, I realize that I basically reinvented the wheel(ugh). For some stupid reason, I didn’t even think to use a database and dynamically pull in the products. My original thought process was to create maybe 20 or so product pages, and the next thing I know during the long hours is that I was side tracked and started entering way too many products out of excitement for just testing. Although this is good for the long run, but I could have wasted hours and hours of time on something that may not work.
Live and learn I guess. It’s early in the morning here in AZ, and I’m sure this post doesn’t make sense in some parts, sorry…. I just got into work and I’m tired.
lurksteraz on July 13th, 2007
Ok, so I didn’t like the old theme that I was using. Took too long to load and was very image based. So, we’ll see how this one does.
I haven’t posted in a few days, work has been keeping me locked down with long hours and to top that off my commute home is about an hour and fifteen. Anyone thinking of moving to AZ, make sure you work near your home if you can afford it.
Status update: I’ve still been working on the development of my affiliate site by loading in products that I want to push. I hope to have something wrapped up this weekend. Not sure how it’s going to go, but it’s worth a shot. I figure by following others’ advice will give me fighting chance at being successful or at least breaking even for the first try. If not, then move onto the next site idea.
lurksteraz on July 12th, 2007
Derek Beauchemin has a great post for beginners on structuring your pay-per-click campaigns. This is exactly the kind of posts I look for to learn more. This is awesome since I’m a beginner at PPC campaigns, any little bit of information helps.
