Wondering If I should Even Waste My Time With Google..

Interesting , I am also on the same position. Someone said its ok too get start with google, someone said SNS and PPV is your first choices. I think I have to stick to my plan and try out with google and at the same time , do some test on other paid traffic sources.

I'll tell you from experience man, google is a absolutely great source of traffic for cpa offers. However, they absolutely hate affiliates. Whatever you do, do not create a single page lander with just an offer lander, contact us page, about us, and privacy. They will ban the hell out of you. You need to build a "Unique visitor experience" in order to be succesfull with them. The days of a one page lander which direct links to an offer are long gone.

Hey iamx,

I think you should give it a go but make sure you to the proper research and tracking. Track every little thing and test. I think every says PPC is hard just because they don't make money from it. Trust me if you wanna move to PPV its the same thing.

So if you don't wanna lose any money. Don't do any paid traffic and stick to free traffic. In my opinion you have to spend money to make money and sometime not all that money is made back right away.Instead you'll learn from your mistakes and end up hitting the jackpot.

If you buy every PPC or PPV eBook its not gonna benefit you till you start doing it yourself. Plus if some guy is making $$$$ why would he sell his method?

Moe

Google is the last ppc engine you should be trying

When I first started this I used 7search it was a hell of a lot cheaper then Google and they let you put almost anything up there. I stopped using it cause I had no clue on how to run a good campaign but if i did they would be the one getting my money. And your ad goes up right then and there no waiting. Still don't know how there doing but I would just check them out for an alternative.

How about only us LPgen?

i am using yahoo because google adwords didnt work for me.

I'm sorry, people bash on Google, but it really is a power house traffic source when you take in account speed of use, self serve capability, quick optimization of campaigns, transparency of data, responsive traffic, etc.

But I will say, don't try to "get around" google. If you're going to use them, lead your visitor down a longer path. A lot of times this will increase conversion rates because a lot of the time, if you can get the visitor to take more actions and say yes more often (fill out a quiz, register, etc) they will be more likely to convert. Especially for content based advertising where they aren't necessarily looking for the solution you're providing. With CPA offers I wouldn't suggest using Googles Conversion Pixel to track.

If you guys are having problems with building a content site to appease google, stop looking at your cpa or affiliate business as 1 single offer after another. What verticals are most CPA offers in?

- money niches
- financial assistance niches
- education niches
- health niches
- dating/relationships
- entertainment niches (quizzes, mobile offers, etc)

A longer term thing would be to get a magazine blog style thing made in each one of these niches. There are people on this and other forums that will build a blog with 10 articles for $37. If you had a blog with original content in these larger verticals, and if you had some light content creation being done over time with some backlinking, then you could build the cpa offers into the content in TONS of different ways. And you'd always have a site that is somewhat relevant for each niche. People would trust it more too. The good thing about this strategy is if you get enough comments and such going on and enough organic traffic, you start to build a traffic source in a way. Very cool.

But outside of that, yes there is a world of traffic out there. POF is pretty affiliate friendly but it's CPM bidding which can be tough if you're just starting out. Facebook I find far more lenient than Google and they have a lot of volume. Ad approvals are actually easy if you read the terms well, and aren't pushing weight loss stuff for the most part.

Those are just the obvious ones outside of G/Y/M. There are many more, but people have made fortunes on these platforms.

Quit thinking of this as a smash and grab. It's tempting because that's how the money flows sometime. But then you're just learning slick techniques and not marketing principles.

Sorry I rambled a bit there.

It's a lot harder to get ads approved, but there is still immense amounts of money there. Persistence pays off!

Thanks again guys.. From what I read I think I'm going to stick with Yahoo/Bing. Also Dive into the content Network.

If you are promoting any of the offer by directly linking your ad to the sales page (not your own site or your site with very low content), Google will ensure that you will not be able to advertise by decreasing your quality score. Hope that helps.