Affiliate Marketing Works: My First $1000.00 Day On Azoogle

March 1, 2008

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As I mentioned on this article: Strategies to Learn Affiliate Marketing for Free I will be posting some testimonials of affiliate marketers making good money from it. My first post of this kind had found it on Digital Point Forum in this thread. aj22 is the one who claim to make that amount of money. Hope this kind of post can inspire you:

3 years, 275 failed campaigns, dozens of landing pages, thousands of man hours of research and PPC tweaking…. but I finally hit my first $1,000 day in affiliate marketing. I solely use Azoogle and Adwords for now, but have experimented with other advertising platforms and networks and will be rolling those out shortly.

I suppose the point of this post is this: affiliate marketing works. It’s a hell of a lot of work, but test it, tweak it, and just DO IT and eventually you’ll find your one golden ticket. I started on this mission 3 years ago. I was in complete awe of the kind of money people were making online… I spent a lot of those early years reading and not really DOING.

It wasn’t until this past August (2007) that I began working full-time 12-16 hours a day on finally making this work. That was when I joined Azoogle. Fortunately, I’m a full-time college student, so I do have time on my side for now.

Anyway… some things I will divulge:

• My main money maker is ringtones.
• My main traffic vehicle is Adwords. I spent $500 on PPC to yield the $1000+ day.
• I don’t promote using ANY keywords that contain the word ‘ringtone(s)’ or any synonym or derivation thereof.
• The content network is your friend, your best friend. If you wonder why all the ‘big name’ bloggers out there bash the content network, well, it’s for a reason: They don’t want you in their playground.
• I learned most of my basic strategies from WickedFire and DigitalPoint forums.
• I design my own landing pages (but this may change).
• Some of my other short term goals include launching other offers in other niches with my profit and exploring other traffic sources. All the eggs in one basket = bad idea.

Other than that, ask away, and I’ll be happy to answer time allowing. Next stop, $5,000.00 a day!

I will thank aj22 for making this kind of post in Public forums, because lately I have received many emails from wanna-be affiliate marketers saying that they will stop doing it because they are not making money. I will say to them, stop wasting your time in reading every new e-book that is out there, start using adwords and be ready to loose money from the start. Then when you get a profitable campaign you hit the jackpot and start replicating what you did in that winning campaign.

aj22 added some nice tips about advertising in adwords: “I don’t promote using ANY keywords that contain the word ‘ringtone(s)’ or any synonym or derivation thereof.” this works pretty well in any niche. Try to brainstorm and think out of the box. Don’t use general keywords like “ringtones” or “free ringtones”. With this article don’t start to promote ringtones as well, you can make $1k per day in Any niche. The secret here is to find the profitable keywords in any niche. Test, Test and Test.

Here is aj22 explaining this tip:

sure, I mean that i have an ad group for ‘cat food’ (example, not for real) and it converts for ringtones. i have an additional buffer landing page to transfer the traffic from their topic of choice (cat food in this case) onto my ringtones landing page. this takes a lot of testing, as 98% of niches/subjects are duds. sorry if it’s too vague, but that’s really the best i can do. think ‘outside of the box’.

cat food ad group —> cat food landing page —> ringtones landing page —> offer page

again, cat food is a pure example off the top of my head i don’t use it.

For a real example:

You can check what are the latest music in the market let’s say “In the club” (Is quite old no?) then you can build your keywords based on this: “In the club ringtones”, “50 cent ringtones”, “[album name]“, “in the club”, “[music name] [phone model]” and here we go, there are billion of keywords that you can create for ringtones niche.

Some FAQ’s:

• Do you only use Content Network and what match types do you bid on (broad match “phrase match” [exact match])?
  

  Broad – I never saw a difference using match type. Google scans your ad group for a common theme – that’s the most important element of managing a content network campaign. I only use content network

  but just speaking in general, my point of this thread is to get people to stop following advice and to learn for themselves. sometimes ‘weird’ or unorthodox things work very well – my adwords campaigns would be proof.

• Congrats! Thanks for the tips and do you use any dating sites to help reach that 1000$ per day?
  

  I only promote ringtones for now. If you’re asking if I run ads on dating sites FOR ringtones, then no.

• Can you explain a little bit about this point. “I don’t promote using ANY keywords that contain the word ‘ringtone(s)’ or any synonym or derivation thereof.”
  

  sure, I mean that i have an ad group for ‘cat food’ (example, not for real) and it converts for ringtones. i have an additional buffer landing page to transfer the traffic from their topic of choice (cat food in this case) onto my ringtones landing page. this takes a lot of testing, as 98% of niches/subjects are duds. sorry if it’s too vague, but that’s really the best i can do. think ‘outside of the box’.

  cat food ad group —> cat food landing page —> ringtones landing page —> offer page

  again, cat food is a pure example off the top of my head i don’t use it.

  In my “cat food ad group —> cat food landing page —> ringtones landing page —> offer page” model, there is about 1 1/2 steps missing. They are the steps that typically make the conversions happen. Sorry, but that step is my secret

  Traffic relevancy would be correct. Funnel your relevant visitors all the way down to what you want to sell, and most importantly:

  Go after people in the “buying” state of mind.

  It’s very do-able.

  Thanks for the congrats everyone. I hope my posting accomplishes two things: one being motivation, and two, to perhaps open some new doors for some of you – a new way or angle of looking at how things can be done.

  I’ve gotten 5-6 PM’s from people telling me not to spill my secrets, or that I’ve said too much in my little cat food formula posted on page 1. I guess I should clarify a bit: that formula is only 2% of everything. There are a couple of elements that account for 98% of what produces the conversion, which will remain for my eyes only.

  That being said, I still think what I did offer can hopefully change your thinking a little bit. Thanks again everyone.

• The $500 on adwords, is that per day?
  

  It was $500 in PPC for the $1000 day (actually it was a $1,500 day, some conversions didn’t track on a few carriers that day!).

  I aim to get back my daily expenditure, plus double that amount each day, and more or less I hit that goal.

• You pay for cheaper words and then drive the traffic to the most expensive words websites?
  

  Not necessarily… but not a bad all-around tactic if you can find the cheap stuff that not only converts on the cheap but converts for completely unrelated niches.

• how many LP? any QS issues or any tips on overcome QS? How many domains you using?
  

  I went through dozen’s of lp’s until i found a few that converted just a couple % higher then the others. I’m on content network, so QS doesn’t affect me has hard as being on search network, so since my campaign is still running, I’m gonna guess my QS is fine.

• What is your avg cpc? I know some ppl tried with $2+ per click. Do you using any CPM as well?
  

  my CPC is under .10

• did you try direct link to offer page instead of LPs?
  

  yea – landing page yielded a better eCPC and overall conversion in my case

• how many keywords in each adgroup? or just dumping 2000 kws?
  

  About 150 per group for the content network. I use Google’s keyword tool, since the keywords it outputs are already algorithmically tuned to the content network (I think, anyway). By that I mean that Google assigns every ad group one theme, and if you use the keywords they suggest, it will have an easier time assigning that theme.

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