Well here are my adsense earnings for the day, they don’t exactly live up to the finance campaign I am running but they keep ticking and I get the odd $2 click here and there, I wont lose any sleep over it as I dont use adsense much… maybe I will have to wait a while for this check to come… hehe

This morning I logged into Adwords like normal and I noticed a lack of impressions / clicks so I started to sniff around wondering WTF is up… It seems that they have finally twigged that my display URL is not going where it says it is, so all of my ads are sitting in “disapproved” status, fair cop I guess but sheer laziness on my part.

I guess I need to actually do a bit of work now. My plan is to create a landing page on my domain and set a redirect to the merchant, I thought I had read this somewhere, does anyone know if this is allowed?

If anyone knows of a better way around all this please let me know?

Preferably of the Google flavour…

That’s right I am looking for the link juice of like minded bloggers / blogettes (a word?), the higher the PR the better. If you are interested in swapping links either leave a comment or drop me a line.

Ok so I said I would keep you updated on the ppc activity for my first financial campaign. I saw a big rise today, here are my updated stats. So far sooooo good:

Expenditure: £11.20
Income: £245.00
Net: £233.80
ROI: 2088%

I am still lacking click volume but not complaining

I think I need to get a site up pretty smartish for those organic sales.

I will start off by saying that I am very new to PPC and poop myself everytime I set my daily spend to £5!

A few weeks ago I created a PPC campaign via adwords, I wont advertise the details for obvious reasons but it was a very low value product as too was the commision.

On the first day I had 25 clicks and 1 sale but was losing money so I decided to pause the campaign. The clicks cost around £3 and I made £1 for an unacceptable £2 loss, yeah so what I’m a cheap skate…

Fast forward 2 weeks and the campaign is still paused but I have had 6 sales from those original 25 clicks. I have now made £18 so that’s £15 profit from the original £3 I put in.

I am not sure whether the campaign was a success or it’s to do with the Christmas Rush. Either way I’m investing another £3 in the new year…

Update: I am far from as tight as I make out above, I am new to PPC and just testing the water. If I had the money to lose I wouldn’t hessitate in setting a high daily spend. Now stop e-mailing me

I started in the affiliate marketing game only 4 months ago, which feels like a lifetime already. I have learnt so much about marketing and loads of do’s and don’ts.

My motivation was simple:

1. I don’t like being skint
2. I don’t like having a boss anymore
3. I don’t like the 9-5 routine
4. I want to upgrade my Audi A3 to the new model
5. I don’t like office politics
6. Oh and… I want to earn stupid amounts of cash!

One Saturday morning I hit all the major engines with a flurry of “make money online” variations and got the usual sales pitch letter sites for example: “Buy our e-book and earn $100,000,000 a month”. WOW this sounds great but that’s a sure sign for it being complete bollocks, being internet savvy anyway I knew about these and knew to avoid them but despite this I was still very tempted in buying something I knew would be garbage. However, I figured I was an easy target and moved on.

If you are new to the affiliate game I am confident that you will find yourself (like I did) on a quest looking for the ‘magic secret’ that will make you millions overnight, the truth is that there are no secrets. The quicker you accept this and move on the better.

I continued pounding Google for answers and eventually ended up at the A4U Forum (now a regular) and read this inspirational post by Aquanuke. This site has been a godsend and if you’re serious about affiliate marketing you need to register and get involved. It’s a very busy forum and the people there are friendly and helpful.