Help me with Affiliate Marketing on a Budget... Please!

[pwnzor]

Okay well I've got a nice site that converts pretty well.. the only probelm is I cannot seem to get any decent amount of traffic to it. I know if I got more traffic I'd be able to convert 3-4 sales a day @ about $40 each for me...

I lost my job and I've only got about $100 I can spend on this.. the rest I need for my bills and such.

So can anyone advice me a poor mans affiliate marketing plan?

Can anyone elaborate on how to find low cost per click keywords for adwords?

Like less than .10 cents.... All the ones I find have crazy low traffic.

Whats the minimum monthly traffic I should aim for per keyword?

oh and im in the health/fitness niche

[pwnzor]

someone told me I should run an adwords content campaign vs the search campaign because I can get my ads shown at much lower prices and still have a good ROI.

[tferraro]

Can you show me your current website or blog for your niche. I may be able to help you and drive your website to the top 3 pages of Google for $100.00

Thanks,
Tony

[Teresa Coppes]

Have you done:

article marketing
Squidoo/Digg/Hubpages etc
Blogger/WP blog
built any backlinks

All of those would increase your traffic and are free (or very minimum cost to purchase a backlink WSO for example) versus paying out what limited funds you already have. Just a suggestion.

Good luck!
Teresa

[Spencer Jones]

If you want to, you can keep the $100 in your pocket and bring in traffic to your site with some hard work. All those Teresa listed will be enough to get you enough traffic - long term results that will sustain.

Note: If you are not experienced with Adwords, there's big probability that you may loose money.

Spencer Jones

[TLTheLiberator]

Originally Posted by Spencer Jones

If you want to, you can keep the $100 in your pocket and bring in traffic to your site with some hard work. All those Teresa listed will be enough to get you enough traffic - long term traffic that will sustain for life.

Note: If you are not experienced with Adwords, there's big probability that you may loose money.

Spencer Jones

Good advice!

I would also add that if you're looking for paid traffic, you can test out Google's site placement ad program.

You can find a free google ad coupon with a search on the net and someone had a thread about a $100 coupon last week.

You can run $10-$20 tests and perhaps there will be extra cheap traffic for your niche such as 25 cents per 1000 impressions of your ad throughout google site placement network.


Hope This Helps!!

TL

Ps. Don't ignore blogging as it is a free source of visitors that you can funnel to your offers.

[pwnzor]

adwords coupons dont work if my account is a few months old do they?

[TLTheLiberator]

Originally Posted by pwnzor

adwords coupons dont work if my account is a few months old do they?

Not really, unless you account is empty then you can just delete it and open another one - if that's feasible.


If you have funds, it won't hurt to test $10-$25 on google site placement ads.

Just track what happens.


TL

[pwnzor]

okay does anyone recommend against using content over search?

[gbhomebuz325]

Need to sign up as an affilate. You can put you own redirect page. Research some other site offering free reports or JV.

[sbucciarel]

$100 Adwords budget is very small and will get eaten up so quickly that I doubt you will see results from it, even if you are experienced at Adwords. If you are not, you're likely to lose that $100 very quickly. I would go for the free traffic methods ... article marketing, backlinking ... all the others mentioned previously.

[pwnzor]

well then what would the best way to make the most out of this $100?

[Teresa Coppes]

Originally Posted by pwnzor

well then what would the best way to make the most out of this $100?

You seem to be extremely anxious to part with your money so again I will offer my 2 cents. Outsource. All of the above that I mentioned previously can be outsourced to allow you to focus on additional things to bring traffic to your site. You can find warriors for hire to help you here: Warriors For Hire

[Charleskidd]

Listen here, the best advice I can give you is to look for new companies on the rise for health and fitness. Take an ad on them and start there then escalate doing article marketing.

[kevinpotts]

Personally I love PPC....I can build a list of 50,000 opt ins every 3-4 months and I don't need any SEO or ranking. Now I am not saying I don't use SEO...I do and all the stuff we teach, but PPC is fantastic and the fastest way to build a list and if you can acquire a prospect for 21p or about .30c then compare that to the time you spend doing Search Engine Marketing and I believe the cost benefit of this strategy wins hands down every time.

However and here is my big note of caution.....it takes a fair while to really really learn how to do PPC properly and if you don't put in the time to learn, you can easily lose your shirt with paid for advertising.

Hope that provides a balanced picture.

Kevin

[TLTheLiberator]

Originally Posted by pwnzor

okay does anyone recommend against using content over search?

I'm talking about Google's site placement d program which is completely different from adwords and its content or search options.

Looks like you got some decisions to make and actions to take.

All The Best!!

TL

[AnniePot]

Forget paying any part of you $100 for pay per click. It's a losing game, believe me, I learned that a LONG time ago.

My advice, download these free ebooks:

Casey Gentles Newbies Fast Cash Guide
Alison Wood's Become a Squidoo Epert in 24 Hours

and this $7 ebook:
Davion Wong's Article Cash Robots

Read, read, read and read them some more. They will provide you with all the information you will ever need.

Best of luck. I've been exactly where you are and slowly, I'm winning. You can too ;-)

[pwnzor]

thanks guys i think im going to look into outsourcing and then look at the adwords placement program.

any other tips, hints recommendations... whatever are appreciated

[TLTheLiberator]

Originally Posted by pwnzor

thanks guys i think im going to look into outsourcing and then look at the adwords placement program.

It's not the adwords placement program.

It's called Google site placement ad program.


All The Best!!

TL

[Pipinscott]

A combination of all the expert tips already given will give you a well rounded traffic generating campaign.

PPC can give a quick boost to your traffic. Article marketing and content sites will give you the branding and sustainable traffic.

One major difference with your article and content marketing is that your developing a relationship of trust. Believe me it is easier for your customer to buy from you when you have that trust factor firmly planted.

[Colin Palfrey]

IF you are willing to pay for traffic. Go somewhere like rent a coder and spend $50 on getting 50 articles written for you and then submit to the main directories then start again. IF the first $50's worth was worth it. This is a quick way to get a lot of targeted traffic.

This method only works if you make the resource link sound exciting.

Better yet write quality articles yourself. It's cheaper

ABOVE ALL - add lots of relevant keywords

[JonMills]

If your on a budget, leave PPC

PPC is effective but if your familiar with it, you will lose that money fast.

Focus on Natural search, social media, video and blogging