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MySpace Advertising Not a Total Bust - Results Part II

John — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:00:18 +0000

Ok, so this is just going to be a short post about the results from my last attempt at MySpace Advertising. The site was for iron man collectibles and the targeting information can be found here.

In my opinion, this was bad for the $75 that I spent to gain traffic to my site. I really am not sure how to track what clicks came from Myspace through my site to ebay, but on the days the campaign ran, I got a total of 49 clicks to ebay.

At this time, my monthly balance is nothing stellar, but I see almost no return on my investment in Myspace advertising. I really didn’t know what to expect, but I really thought I was targeting users very well and those that clicked through would have bid for sure. I really can’t expect that every single click will WIN a bid, it’s not like just clicking through and BUYING. The user still have to WIN the auction.

With this bad news I wasn’t even going to post screenshots, but I think that before I advertise my own site on Myspace again, I am going to have to find a better way to track the clicks. This would be just so that I feel comfortable reporting the results.

Myspace advertising is still plenty worth it and the one thing that I would announce to those that follow this blog for advise, make sure you realize what audience you are trying to reach and how LARGE that audience is. If you are going to get views up the ass, make sure it’s worth what you are paying for clicks.

I am not giving up, I have a couple of other sites AND affiliate offers that I know will still work on Myspace, so stay tuned. If you have had success with Myspace, why not leave a comment here and let us all know how it went!

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Myspace Advertising Not a Total Bust - Results

John — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:43:28 +0000

A couple of months ago I posted about how easy it was to set up an ad on Myspace. Since then, I have also attempted to two campaigns and posted about them here and here. The first was an attempt at promoting a dating site that wasn’t really done all that well. The second was for a niche site that I created and seemed to go much better once I had the targeting feature all figured out.

So now, I attempted my 3rd go around with Myspace Advertising and again, I chose the niche site as the landing page. This site is making me about $200 a month now, I thought I would see if I could increase that with Myspace.

Ad Information

Since I am promoting Iron Man Collectibles, I knew I had to target an audience that was into things like the movie, action figures and comic, for sure. These types of people love to shop, collect and spend big $$$ on ebay. Below I listed who I targeted for this campaign.

Demographics

Males only
18-30
Education - all
Relationship - all
Perental Status - no preference

Geographics

National - US

Interests

Comics, Batman, X-men, Iron Man

I thought about it for only 10 minutes or so before I started the campaign and Myspace only gives you a few options when it comes to targeting interests. I really like Facebook better for this, but I felt that promoting this site would be better on Myspace.

My PPC was set at .50 (about half way between recommended), I set my budget to $25 per day for a total campaign budget of $75. That means I will spend $25 per day, but never more than $75 total. In this case, it only took 3 days to reach my maximum.

As you can see, my CTR was .20% which I guess isn’t all that bad. I did like to see the 74,432 ad views though. I targeted a larger group than I thought and maybe could have narrowed that down a bit, on the other hand, I did go through all my clicks in under 3 days! That is nice to see as well. If my clicks would have taken 2 weeks, I would have had to look at who I was targeting and maybe clean that up a bit. It looks like I targeted the right group fo clickers, that’s a plus!

Where Did All The Clickers Go?

Since we know that I am promoting a niche site hooked up through ebay, I also checked the stats available from the EPN. Right now, it is showing about 49 clicks through to ebay on these 3 days. I checked my EPN stats and I can see the clicks through to ebay. Since the cookies are good for 7 days, I will have to update you on the actual amount of $$$ the clicks made.

Stay tuned!

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Welcome WPThemeKid.com To Affiliate Obsession

John — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:59:24 +0000

I have had a couple introductions so far for JWRMedia and AverageGal, welcoming them to Affiliate Obsession. Today I would like to introduce our newest commenter, Daniel at WPThemeKid.com.

First Impression

At first glance I see a wordpress theme designer giving away simple free themes to help boost his presence on the net. There are a few photoshop tutorials (helpful to me) and it seems the blog was just started last month. Since it’s so new, we can’t really give any indication on how well he is doing. Maybe he’ll stop back and let us know.

Photoshop

PS tutorials are always a help and the ones I read through on WPThemekid.com are very easy to follow. Step by step instructions for some basic things you probably didn’t know you could do in photoshop.

Themes

The themes seem to be created by Daniel and are quite fresh from what I normally see when people are giving away themes. I am sure, as a designer, we will see more complex themes to come.

Summary

Thanks Daniel for coming to comment and I hope that you will stick around to learn a few things about affiliate marketing. Pass this post along to friends and let them know they can be introduced as well. I urge all of my readers to visit WPThemekid.com and say hi to Daniel.

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Who Wants it More? Free Money Contest is Here

John — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:24:00 +0000

I have money. Do you want money? If you answered “so what” and “yes” to those questions, then keep reading. I want you to tell me how you want it more than any other person around this place (my blog of course). This is a contest and I am going to get some subscribers out of it if I have to make up 10 fake emails to get them!

It is quite simple really, just like all of the other contests that you see all over the interweb.

Typical Contest Entry Information

The first thing you have to do is subscribe to my blog via email. All verified emails from the date of this post will be entered in the contest. You can do that with the form posted right at the bottom of this post.

Secondly, you will have to post about my contest, telling me how you want it more. I will even give you the words to use if you cannot think of any for yourself. Just copy and past the information below or, if you are creative enough, you can use your own words, but the 2 links must be included.

I am too lazy to write my own post about for a contest entry, so I have just copied and pasted this one. Hurry and subscribe to John’s Affiliate Marketing Blog and you can win money, too. The more people that enter, the more money he is giving away. Also, if you like learning about affiliate marketing, you should read his posts. Good luck.

Let’s here how bad you want this money (starting at $10) and for every single entry, I will throw in $5. I must say that I like this type of contest, but I didn’t invent it, I am borrowing it from John at JWRMedia.com.

And there you go, it’s quite simple, don’t you think? The winner will be chosen, at the end of March, from all of the entries. I will be reading each one and choosing the most creative post answering “Who Wants it More?”, so keep that in mind. I will now that you entered because you will have subscribed to my blog AND written a post about this contest. Tell your friends and let us all share in the wealth.

Contest Starts: Today
Contest Ends: March 27th
Winner Announced: March 31st

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How to use Google Trends in Affiliate Marketing

John — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:33:18 +0000

One of the most important parts of marketing any type of affiliate offer is targeting that offer to those that will convert. With Myspace and Facebook advertising platforms you really have control of who is going to see your ad via keyword and geo-targeting.

One option, that I use to check the areas of the USA that I want to target an offer, is Google Trends. If you don’t know, Google Trends shows the amount of activity of a search term used in Google Search. By typing in a search term, you will see how many searches are done and even from what locations throughout a selectable region.

You might be asking how Google Trends can help. I really didn’t get it 100% until I read a post that Shoemoney did about promoting locally. If you are going to advertise on Facebook, for instance, you are going to have a better CTR if you can target a certain group. Of course, it helps if the group is associated, in some way, with your affiliate offer.

Take all the weight loss offers on the web today. You can try about 100 different products, JUST PAY SHIPPING! The offers are everywhere and if you really want to promote one, you are going to want to see what region is searching for “weight loss”, right? By searching Google Trends for that term, searched in the US in the last 12 months, you get the results shown below.

It would appear that for that search term, Charlotte, NC has the most activity, followed by big cities from two other states. With this information you can go to Facebook and target these areas. Of course, there is no guarantee the users will click your ads, or even care, but at least you did a little extra research before throwing your hat in the ring. By targeting these cities and certain keywords, you will narrow the group of users down that will see your ad and your CTR should be higher because of that.

Without this information, you might be inclined to just target a wide range of users by keywords, and you will see a poor CTR for sure. Your ad will be shown so many times that a couple of clicks will look like nothing to you. Keep your ads targeted, at least until you find what demographic works for you, and I am sure your CTR will increase over time.

Do you use Facebook to promote any offers? If so, have you had any luck?

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Flip Mino HD Contest at SmarterWealth.net

John — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:02:02 +0000

Ryan McLean from Smarter Wealth is giving away a brand new Flip Mino HD to one lucky reader. This will be the easiest Flip Mino HD to win because barely anyone is going to enter meaning more chances that you can win.

The Flip Mino HD is the coolest gadget around. You can shoot one hour of video in HD (so you can play it on your plasma) and you can even edit your footage right on your device. This device is so small that it will fit in your pocket so you will never miss capturing a moment ever again.

To enter all you have to do is sign up for Ryan’s newsletter and post about the competition.

Check out all the details of how you can enter the Win a Flip Mino HD competition now.

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How I Made Money With One Post eBook

John — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:22:15 +0000

Well, I was thinking of a way, or two, to increase the readership around this place and I thought, “why not write about what I know”?. Believe it or not, I have been able to retain some things over the last 6 months.

When I first started blogging for the sole purpose to make some “extra” money, I was trying to learn everything possible. I was reading shoemoney, problogger and a couple of the other top blogs, staying up all night and trying to setup up blogs that “make sense” to readers. Trying different tactics to get the Google to see me in the sea of millions of blogs. And all of a sudden, it clicked and although I didn’t realize it until it was almost too late, I did take advantage in one major way.

I thought about giving the ebook away as a prize to a subscription contest, but I have also been talking about creating a newsletter for 2009. I don’t really think that I have enough information to spread around the net every month or even bi-monthly. Without that constant information, I really am not sure that I can keep the newsletter going. I will try and plan a series of longer posts that I can just stick in the newsletter, but for now, I am going to just stick to posting on the blog.

You can download the PDF file through a link in my email feed. Subscribe today and the link will be sent to you. If you download it, please consider reviewing it by commenting on this post. Thanks for the feedback!

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Welcome JWRMedia to Affiliate Obsession

John — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:08:13 +0000

About 2 weeks ago I started a little series where I introduce one of my lucky commentors to my audience. I haven’t had much time to blog the last couple weeks, because I have been up to my nose in other projects, but I wanted to give another shout out.

Since I will be listening to webmasterradio tonight (Facebook monetization) I will be posting more attempts at promoting affiliate ads via Facebook soon!

In the meantime, let’s take a look at JWRMedia.com.

On my first impression, I would say that I really liked the theme. It didn’t appear to be a theme that I have seen in the past, so if it is a custom one, good job! The owner and author of JWRMedia.com is John Robinson and it looks like he has been doing his part in the online world, one way or another, since 1996.

From the About Me Page

With over 290 websites developed, John has certainly gotten his hands dirty and you can download a 52 page “Flipping Websites” article to help you along the way to making money while flipping sites. For a limited time it is 1/2 off at $17.50!

I encourage all of you to take a minute to visit JWRMedia.com and see what you can learn. I would certainly recommend the Flipping Websites download, because you can never learn too many things about making money online.

Other Stuff

I would also recommend to those of you that are trying to learn to code, check out JWRMedia’s PHP Lessons.

I would also like to mention that JWRMedia.com is having a twitter contest and you can earn hard cash. Here is the link: Win Big Bucks With JWRMedia

If you would like to be a featured commentor, simple leave a comment on my blog and I will choose another lucky person to post about in Feb.

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Welcome AverageGal.com to Affiliate Obsession

John — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:16:37 +0000

I thought about a way to two to increase the readership of my blog, but I still wanted to keep in on topic and clean of spam. This new experiment is going to last the rest of January and at the end of the month I will see how well it went.

The idea is to introduce each new blogger that is commenting here on AffiliateObsession.com. Obviously I would like to be able to give each and every single person links to their blog or website, but I want to keep it clean and targeted towards readers that I already have.

What I am going to do is write a simple review of the blogger (and their site) based on information I read about on their site/blog. That way, I can introduce those that are new to Affiliate Obsession, to those that are reading already.

What is the Point?

Well first off, I think it will help create a since of community here and might even encourage others to comment as well. The one catch is that you will have to comment, leave a web address you are associated with (preferable with an About Me page) and deal with the fact that you will not be getting a link to your blog. I know the point of a review is sometimes that you get a little link love, but these will not be paid reviews or anything like that. (No, I will not accept money, I just want more comments!)

So, if you want to play the game, simply leave a review and based on most others that I have, the sites are related to some type of internet, affiliate marketing or blogging, so that topic works great. I am just trying to increase the exposure for those in my niche.

What can you do to help?

You can leave a comment like AverageGal did (no SPAM, I am not new to this)
You can send a tweet to all your friends and tell them how they can get more exposure (minus a link)
You can email my post to others and encourage discussion on this blog.

It’s is very easy and in case that I get a lot of comments or replies to this post, here is the disclaimer:

I will be choosing the introductions I do randomly, based on the comment itself (se be creative). Those without websites will not be eligible for this so please, don’t forget to fill in that field on the comment form.

If I get overwhelmed I will NOT give up, but I might only do ONE per week. If you are missed, I am sorry, but I can only do so much and really hope I can still count on your participation on this blog. Any questions, please use the comment form.

With that said, here is the intro for AverageGal.com.

I would like to welcome a new reader of AffiliateObsession.com, Rachel Holmgren of AverageGal.com. She had left a comment on my Kontera post this week. I like to follow as many bloggers as I can, so I visited her site and I was happy to see some of the things she posts about.

From the About Me page:

She is a married, college grad with 2 children and is hoping to make it big like the rest of us online. While maintaining a success online business and stay at home relationship with her children, Rachel seems to have a bit of knowledge of things related to affiliate marketing, as well as, blogging in general.

Her blog is fairly new, but I encourage everyone to welcome her to AffiliateObsession and visit her site (from her comment link) to give feedback and support!

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Kontera $25 New Publisher Reward

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:34:00 +0000

Do you have a blog or a content website? You can make money with the simple words that you type. Kontera is a service that adds links to keywords in your content. By linking to the keywords to advertisers in their system, you can make money when your readers clickthrough to the advertiser.

My friend Matt at BlogAboutYourBlog, wrote up a little post about the deal at Kontera. It’s pretty straight forward, see below.

How to do it?
1. Join Kontera by Jan 15th.
2. Sit back and relax.
3. Reach $75 in your account, and we’ll send you a check for $100!

Seems very easy. Take a look on the website and see what kinds of benefits the publishers get with Kontera! Happy New Year!!

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