The Story so far

With my new found optimism i jumped in feat first with a few PPC campaigns. These did deliver my first 4 sales which was a great feeling. I was beginning to think that the affiliate game was a con and was a closed network for people to get sales! If you have tried affiliate marketing before im sure you will have had similar thoughts.

This did prove to me that this isnt the case and that there are people out there looking to buy products from me and you. It also taught me the valuable lesson of not making your campaigns to broad and the need to use very very (very) targeted keywords. My background is in PPC or Search Engine marketing, but for corporate clients with much bigger budgets than mine! So i think i initially approached this with the same mindset of building big keyword lists and covering all angles, but what you need to do is look for at least 3 word keywords and more like at least 4 or 5 words with strong purchase intent. Before showing you what i mean, ill show you what not to do by showing you what i did:

Campaigns so far:

Campaign 1: Twitter

First promoting, Twitter Exposed

$41.47 spent - 1 sale $21.26 - Clicks 239 - CTR 0.57% - CPC $0.17

Keywords that gained most traffic: (286 keywords in total in the campaign)
Twitter money - 24 clicks
Twitter traffic - 31 clicks
Twitter - 30 clicks
Twitter marketing - 10 clicks
Twitter make money - 11 clicks

Then i changed over to Traffic Machine

$5.00 spent - 1 sales $11.98 - clicks 35 - CTR 0.60% - CPC $0.15

Same keywords but refreshed copy. This campaign is still running but with much more restricted keyword lists

Second - Unlimited Wii Cheats

$29.67 spent - No sales - 191 clicks - CTR 2.34% - CPC $0.16

Keywords with most traffic:

Wii Cheats - 96 clicks
Wii Cheat Codes - 21 clicks
Video game cheats - 10 clicks
Cheats for wii - 7 clicks

Negatives used included - psp, playstation, etc

Also used price points in the creative so people new the price before clicking

Have since paused the campaign due to no sales. Had thought of re launching with keywords for each game but the affiliate has been removed from clickbank.

Wii Tennis Cheat
Wii Zelda cheat
etc

Third - Wealthy Affiliate

$38 spent - 1 sale - 106 clicks - CTR 0.64%

A lot of the traffic came on keywords which i have since paused for being to general. So this could still work and i have since trimmed the keywords significantly (i even had 'affiliate' and 'affiliate marketing' in there). This has significantly reduced my traffic but i generated my first sale after this cull, so will be continuing to perceive with this.

I have also introduced a few new strategies which i will share at a later date.

Fourth - Movie Downloads but was blocked by Google.

Fifth - *** Ebook campaign

First campaign that i feel i have set up correctly with only a handful of keywords 3 words long and the majority are 5 and longer.

I wont share the keywords im using just yet but the stats so far are:

16 clicks for a 4.49%CTR and only $3.39 spent which has generated 1 sale so far worth $16.69

I will follow up tomorrow with the lessons i have learned on choosing a niche and selecting the right keywords which can be used for PPC, Article writing or even creating your own landing pages.

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Wealthy Affiliates review

Before starting this review i spent a lot of time thinking about how i could do it justice. How i could demonstrate how great this product is without it sounding like every other review out there which all sound like the hard sell.

So I'm going to be honest from the start, there are some things you should know:

• If you follow my links i will earn commission if you join Wealthy Affiliate

But that is not the motivation for doing this review. If i am truly going to make a success in Affiliate marketing then it wont be from just promoting the product that gave me the tools to make myself a success.

So i will do you a deal - You can either click here which will earn me no commission or if this review is useful to you then please click this link www.wealthyaffiliates.com. You can't get much fairer than that.

• By writing this review i will be encouraging you to join Wealthy Affiliate

But only because the product is so good and it has taken me from being a complete novice (by joining i actually found out i even new less than i thought) to being an advanced beginner. I could and should be much more advanced but through my own laziness and jumping feet first into a few ideas i have delayed my progress.

However, i do feel that i have recently had an epiphany moment and i am now taking this serious and giving it the time and effort it deserves and my progress is accelerating day by day.

So what is Wealthy Affiliates?

Wealthy Affiliates was created by Kyle and Carson, who started out in Affiliate Marketing 7 years. It was a way for them to 'pay it back' to the community where they had made their fortunes.

What they have created is effectively a university dedicated completely to affiliate marketing. Inside you will find:

• A community 24,000 strong
• A forum with over a 1/4 million posts on 50,000 topics all willing to share ideas, learning's and answer questions.
  
• An 8 week Action plan which takes from zero to expert in easy bite size steps
• Accreditation courses in SEO & PPC to university standard
• A learning resource centre jam packed with guides, manuals and tutorials
• Keyword research tool including competitor analysis and Clickbank monitoring
• Guides to Article Writing and tools to ensuring they are effective
• A huge share zone where fellow members have written guides and advice (It was actually here i got my epiphany moment)
• The ability to request and offer jobs
• Affiliate product tracking, monitoring and selection tools
• Tracking and cloaking tools
• Guides on how to make money without a website
• $1,000,000 blue print shared to one of their highest performing campaigns
• Niche marketing guides to help you identify a niche, drill down and create the most targeted campaigns possible.
  
• Free website builder
• Free website hosting
• 1-2-1 training with Kyle and Carson (which i can vouch for as i have taken advice from them personally)
  

This list could go on and on but i hope you can see that this community really does have every piece of knowledge, training and tools you will ever need. But the one thing that really makes it stand out to me is how everyone is willing to help each other and share their learning's and mistakes.

This is not a quick fix, get rich solution. But it is a serious proposition for those determined to take online marketing seriously and get their slice of the pie.

No matter what level you are at, or what experience you already have - YOU WILL benefit from being a member of this site.

When you join Wealthy Affiliates, feel free to say hi to me inside (PPCGuru).

In the coming weeks we'll be providing updates on our own progress plus more detailed reviews of all the products and tools you can find inside including

1. Niche Q - A guide to profitable niches - www.nicheq.com
2. SiteRubix - Create & Publish professional looking websites - www.siterubix.com
3. Beating Adwords - Follow this link to get this great tool free with WA - www.wealthyaffiliates.com/Offer