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Author Topic: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?  (Read 2122 times)

crazycool

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I've been reading alot.. and since I'm just starting out I can't afford a $500 dollar per day adwords campaign.

Will getting a TLD and just using basic SEO like SE submission, social boomarking, backlinks in forums, etc work at all or am I wasting my time?

I see that the big bucks (ie. traffic/conversions) come by investing in PPC campaigns.

I was thinking to offer some clickbank stuff..

I know I won't become rich like this but I need just enough money to get started with PPC.
What do you all feel?

lina

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2009, 04:01:02 AM »
PPC is definately the way to go.. if you dont have much, start with a little amount and use the money you earn and invest all of it back...
all the best

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2009, 04:44:49 AM »
Yup PPC is the way to go  and if you have no money do a jv first with an investor you do all work ,

techforlyf

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2009, 05:23:41 AM »
wait..i am so confused.......you guys are saying that if you want to make money with affilate programs the best way is with PPC?

what about all the methods on here....bum marketing, articles marketing, offline/online marketing, youtube marketing....all of them eventually lead people to an affilate program yet dont use PPC. your saying these arent the most effective?

sam

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2009, 06:17:25 AM »
techforlyf, the methods you mention do work but they take time, my advise is to start with those, learn and build ur bank up before taking on ppc

ruth cowdrey

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2009, 06:29:09 AM »
There are different ways to make money online, PPC just speeds up things (you recieve traffic instantly), at the cost of paying for every visitor you recieve. If you can't afford PPC advertising, or know very little about it, I advise you to tread carefully. PPC can get costly very fast. I know someone who tried PPC but knew very little of what they was doing and ended up in a lot of debt.

gavin tann

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2009, 12:42:41 AM »
wait..i am so confused.......you guys are saying that if you want to make money with affilate programs the best way is with PPC?

what about all the methods on here....bum marketing, articles marketing, offline/online marketing, youtube marketing....all of them eventually lead people to an affiliate program yet dont use PPC. your saying these arent the most effective?

All the methods are good but they certainly can't compete with PPC for traffic generation....Especially for beginners, i think these methods take a lot of time to materialize... These methods are also good and one should definitely practice them as they also help a lot...Crazy cool  since you have limited budget,i would suggest you start off with these methods.. With good consistency, you will be able to generate  money..then you can go forward with PPC
Good luck!
« Last Edit: May 18, 2009, 12:50:39 AM by gavin tann »

mike777

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2009, 03:40:16 AM »

I'm sure that it is possible to make profit with ppc and affiliate marketing. It's probably possible to make a lot of money if you can find the right niche. But this opportunity is being overrun by hucksters and shills for those hucksters trying to promote get-rich-quick schemes based on this strategy. These hucksters and shills post lots of messages, reply to themselves, and create the impression that this is easy money. On the contrary its pretty tough work as well.

crazycool

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2009, 05:24:13 AM »
hey thanx a lot guys for sharing such useful tips...

nathankind

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2009, 08:03:33 AM »
My methods involved joining Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, participating in those communities, and linking back to my site. Drives a ton of free traffic - but it's not instantaneous.

Here's the thing - I don't believe there is any FAST method to drive a lot of traffic to your site for free. If you do social networking you get a lot of quality, targeted traffic, but it takes time and effort.

If you use PPC, or write press releases and pay a lot of money to put them on the better press release distribution sites, that drives traffic quickly but of course it costs money.

ruth cowdrey

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2009, 01:01:41 AM »
PPC can be a very fast channel to make money through Affiliates but you have to be a top performer. Your landing page has to convert very high (it has to be perfect) and you must have a GREAT quality score. The reason being for is because you are working on such a small margin; therefore everything in your PPC campaign must be perfect. One of the great things about being an affiliate though is that you can get super creative with your advertising in other ways that your competitors can’t.The idea is to test, test, and test. The key idea is to be creative with your advertising and make sure that everything is performing at it’s best.

lina

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2009, 01:12:48 AM »
Nice post Ruth!!

nickdnerd

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2009, 03:56:57 AM »
Initially , when I started i  decided to choose one product that paid almost $50 for each signup. That’s a pretty big payout for each customer, so I figured I had a lot of margin to work with. I could spend up to $49 to get one client and still make a profit.
     The thing I didn’t really think of was that while testing this kind of offer, I just might spend and lose a whole lot of money while trying to make this thing work. I realised this after losing 150$.
          So, I found an offer that paid little and didn’t cost me much to try out.What I figured out was that the amount I was willing to pay for each customer to click on my ad was too high (CPC, which is “cost per click”). Because of that, I was spending more money than I was making from the company.
I adjusted that maximum cost per click about 3 or 4 times until I found an amount that actually started to make me a few dollars a day.

So i think it is possible to earn good money from ppc .. But take care of two things:
1. before you jump into PPC marketing and lose a bunch of money, spend someone else’s
2. don’t learn on the big payout offers. They’re expensive to play with, and although you might win big, you could also lose big too.

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2009, 04:40:43 AM »
hey everybody i am new to the forum and already learning loads...
that was a guod post nickdnerd...hope to learn lots from this forum..

nickdnerd

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Re: Please suggest..Is PPC a necessity in affiliate marketing?
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2009, 05:41:22 AM »
welcome lucymarketer!! yeah you are definitely going to learn a lot...folks here are very helpful... :)

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