Originally Posted by Achilles1963

Nice landing page, but i had a hard time reading the "summary of program requirements" because it was transparent, also i was thinking...do your stats (CTR etc.) take into account the traffic from this thread visiting your site?

Originally Posted by SacredWealth

Hi Warriors,

After going through a lot of stuff, I have finally decided to go ahead with my first thrift with CPA. I am not sure I will be able to earn a lot of money with this but, it at least will be a learning experience for me.

So, here is what I plan to do...

CPA Network:

I am currently a member of only one CPA Network i.e., Vcommission.

CPA Offer:

I have chosen to promote the best converting offer at VCommission which is a Free Restaurant Gift Card for those who take the Best Pizza Survey. It converts at 136.36% per lead and pays $1.12 per lead.

Technical, I don't know how anything can convert at 136.36%. That's just too good to be true, but I am going try it anyway

Advertising Method:

PPC on Google

Keywords Chosen:

pizza and cafe
sports bar pizza
pizza and wine bar
pizza and steak
pizza and seafood
pizza and restaurant
pizza and coffee
pizza and bbq
pizza and bar
bistro and pizza

Estimated Avg. CPC

0.05$ But, I will pay $0.07

Global Monthly Search Volume

12950

Global Monthly Daily Search Volume

431.6666667

Estimated Clicks

It depends on how appealing my Ad is. I am myself a beginner so I am not sure, if I will get any clicks at all in the first place.

Keywords Tool:

Google Keywords Tool

Estimated Income

Let's assume, I get 50 clicks from 431.6 impressions, I will lose $3.5.
However, if those clicks actually convert as per the conversion estimate of VCommission i.e., more than %100, I will earn $50.

So, investing $3.5 to earn $50 is not a bad thing. Is it?

But, lets not count the chickens before they hatch.

I still need to prepare my landing page (which I am not so experienced at), setup my domain forwarding. So, there is a lot of work to do. I will update the other things, once my campaign gets started.

OK. Let me go and kick some butt with my Frontpage.

Originally Posted by senve

SacredWealth, not many guys would be as opened and honest as you are\we appreciate your work here, and your sharing!

Keep up the great work!

Originally Posted by SacredWealth

Latest Update:

My Quality Score is still Great (10/10) and I have now got over 600 impressions in the last 12 hours. Although my bid is $0.07, due to the quality score that I have Google estimates, its going to charge me only $0.01 .

However, the biggest problem is not getting any clicks. on my Ads.

Again, this can be due to two reasons:

1. Usage of Free Domain Name in the Ad Or
2. Badly written Ad

I have finally purchased a new domain name. Once that gets activated I will start using it. Also, I will change my Ad a little to see if that works.

Originally Posted by madkt94

Good job. Keep working.

Originally Posted by Matt Wolfe

I haven't experimented with PPC a whole lot but I have done a little. My recommendation is that you write several ads for the same offer. Create 5 or 6 ads using the same keywords. After a couple of days, you should know which ads are effective and which ones are not. Cut out the ads that receive no clicks, keep the ads that generate traffic, and possibly create some new ads to throw in to the mix for testing. I know in Adwords it's pretty simple to create several ads to the same campaign.

Originally Posted by scar tissue

Hi SacredWealth,

Your thread is really inspiring lots of newbies who want to jump the CPA Marketing - awesome ! I have created a clean landing page for your CPA offer (based on yours) but I don't know whether or not it will suit you. Please copy paste this link to your browser :

imagecows.net/out.php/i10530_sample.gif

I hope this simple landing page can leverage your daily CTR and improve your earnings a little bit. Let us know when it does, bro

Originally Posted by jdjenkins

- nice looking, clean and simple page; should get results! Just a quick question - I've seen similar pages which have some article content in small type at the bottom; would this help?

best wishes,

Jon.

Originally Posted by rogerioLidango

SacredWealth - care to share your ad copy? I'm sure people following this thread would love to chip in with suggestions/improvements.

Originally Posted by scar tissue

Hi SacredWealth,

Your thread is really inspiring lots of newbies who want to jump the CPA Marketing - awesome ! I have created a clean landing page for your CPA offer (based on yours) but I don't know whether or not it will suit you. Please copy paste this link to your browser :

imagecows.net/out.php/i10530_sample.gif

I hope this simple landing page can leverage your daily CTR and improve your earnings a little bit. Let us know when it does, bro

Originally Posted by jdjenkins

- nice looking, clean and simple page; should get results! Just a quick question - I've seen similar pages which have some article content in small type at the bottom; would this help?

best wishes,

Jon.

Originally Posted by jdjenkins

- nice looking, clean and simple page; should get results! Just a quick question - I've seen similar pages which have some article content in small type at the bottom; would this help?

best wishes,

Jon.

Originally Posted by SacredWealth

Sure, I have no problems providing my Ad copy.

Here it is:

© Free $500 Pizza Card
Just Tell Us Your Best Pizza Place
& Get A Free $500 Gift Card Now
www.PizzaSurveyFreeGiftCard.co.nr

Pizza & Cafe Surveys ®
Answer This Quick Survey And Get
Get $500 Worth Cafe & Pizza Voucher
www.PizzaSurveyFreeGiftCard.co.nr

Please suggest, what better I can do with limited characters per like

BTW, I had applied for Lidango earlier today. Hope to get approved soon.

Originally Posted by cheree

wow, so nice to see someone willing to tell everything from step 1. i'm new too & haven't yet started, so congrats for getting to where you already are & best of luck!

Originally Posted by ccmusicman

Hey,

I'm not here to burst any bubbles or to discourage anyone from taking action...however, I think some realism is needed to be injected in this thread...

You are probably going to experience around a 5% conversion rate from traffic sent TO your offer. (If you have a landing page, that will drop some).

Second, best of luck direct linking. You most likely will NOT be able to get google to send you any traffic. If you do, it will probably end up costing you.

Third, be sure to have a budget to support this. It's going to be expensive. I almost ALWAYS double my bid to twice the expected CPC. I start high, then I lower it down. This gives me super high CTR. When the quality score hits 10, I then lower it down. I take a huge hit at first, but by the time I have a 10, I can lower it down to 25% my initial cost and my spot only drops from 1 to 3. The CTR drops some, but not much.

After that, I keep dropping until I can't anymore. I aim for spot 4 to 6.

This whole process takes about a week and I end up spending almost 500 bucks. However, by the time it's done, I'm paying about 15 cents a click, in spot 4 to 6.

I then send them to an opt-in page, where I can send emails every day for 14 days, sending them to my offer. This gets about a 10% sign up with the CPA and after 2 weeks, I'm in profit.

You can find out a different method, of course, but realistically, you will NOT experience any higher than a 15% sign up rate at the CPA. So, I would adjust your math a lot:

100 clicks to CPA at 30 cents a click is 30 bucks. Expect 5 to sign up. If you get paid 3 dollars a sign up, thats 15 bucks. In the hole by 15(This is with direct linking..) If you do a pre-sell page inbetween, expect about 50% to click to the actual site. So, 50 click through, and you still might get 5 people (so a 10%) due to your pre-sell. But more likely it will be 1 to 3 that actually sign up.

So, you have several options:

1. Get a squeeze page going and start capturing their info. Then you can sell to them over and over again, offering related offers. You will have a powerful backend funnel and you will make more money.

2. Obviously, focus on getting a higher CTR on your landing page.

3. Focus on getting lower bid prices.

Or, the smartest,

All three.

Once you do this, then you'll be making WAY more money, for a lot cheaper.

Hope this helps,

Rob

Originally Posted by Chucky

I'm no expert in PPC, but I feel .co.nr domain sounds professional, am I the only one?

Chucky

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

how can you say "co.nr" sounds professional?

to be honest...i dont even know what ".NR" stands for...and i am w/ computers and the net for eons already .)

There is only .COM and .ORG, maybe .NET which sound "professional".

Clicking on a .nr site looks to me like i would end up on a site in Kuala Lumpur or Nigeria. FAR from "professional". I still dont get what the big deal is spending $7 for a .com, .org. or .net a year.

And: www.PizzaSurveyFreeGiftCard.co.nr

It just doesnt look good at all, too long, too "odd". Those are really very simple things you could've done already....get a site like FreePizzaOnUs.com - pizzaforlifefree.com or something like that. I bet it would inc your CTR.

Originally Posted by SacredWealth

Apologies for the delay once again.

I have re-modified my landing page now and I am no longer using my Free Domain. Yes. It now looks very comic that I actually tried using it. May be I was just too optimistic. Anyway, my new domain name is FreebieOcean.com

Please let me know how my landing page looks now.

I am now running 5 Adgroups in my Adwords account. I have used all the Ads suggested by warriors here.

I was still not able to create my Privacy Page and the About us page because I was working on my real job throughout my weekend and I will be working throughout this week till Friday. So, my progress will be slow...but I will try and find time for things.

Tomorrow evening you should find the Privacy Policy and TOS in the place where they should be.

Thanks again for all your support. I hope this works out now.

Originally Posted by heretowin

Your landing page looks cool!
But if you are targeting keywords like "Pizza", I am afraid your ads will have a very low quality score. Reason: Not enough content in your page. 4 lines won't convince google that the page is relevant to its users.

btw, since its your domain now, you can remove the "Blink web" link from the bottom I guess

All the best !

Originally Posted by ac3spad3s

Very neat landing page (great idea). Have you compared keywords from your competitors website?

Originally Posted by bilt

CPA networks is the way to go man but PPC i hate google is not good y ou loose more money and you will never make any with PPC and CPA combined unless you do adware networks PPV is the way to go

Originally Posted by promo_guy

Hi SacredWealth

Great thread and I wish you the best of luck. Despite sharing everything, you also expose yourself to what you may be doing wrong and are able to get help.

I'm no expert but if you aren't able to create your own sites what about downloading a free CSS template or use Wordpress and a free theme?

I saw this free template - Template Preview (freeradicals) - Free CSS Templates

You could replace that bowl of oranges for your own pizza image I reckon. Or, as mentioned, why not use wordpress and upload a free theme that way you don't have to create new html pages. Have you thought of that? Also you could add some content from article directories, maybe just rewrite them a bit?? Not so sure about the redirect from your domain to that .co.nr page.

Anyway, hope this helps, you'll get there eventually, I'm sure!