Need Help!! Regarding BING ads and MaxBounty

You said you were using direct linking right? I think you need to get a sales funnel for it & you should get better results. This will enable you keep their email address as well & help you start building a list. You usually have to warm up your audience 1st & they may need to see it 10 times before they buy anything.

Hi,

You can try it:

Choose right audience & Keywords
Use Ad Extension
Analysis of Negative Keywords
A/B testing of Ads Copy & Landing Pages

use autoresponders like aweber.

Perhaps try an alternative to direct linking. Create your own landing/squeeze page to pre-sell the offer and capture users e-mails. If this is your very first attempt at affiliate marketing, don't get discouraged by your initial loss, it's very common for everybody starting out. Get back in there and keep learning and improving.

Good luck.

I often hear this standard advice that says do not use a direct link to a sales page but use a squeeze page to capture the email address, build a list and than send to the sales page. I can see the obvious reasoning for this suggestion.

However as a consumer I would just about never do this. If the see "click here to get X", and then get sent to a squeeze page to eneter my email address (possibly with an incentive to do so) and than later I will get my chance to get X. I would never do this. It means an extra step that I do not want. I have never heard a good explanation as to why making the process more involved, more complicated for the consumer will increase conversions. ??? Wouldn't making things easier for the consumer be a good idea? Any thoughts?

There's nothing wrong with direct linking. But, you must target quality traffic that is looking for the offer. If you use your own sales page, fine. But if you have poor quality traffic, that's not going to help you more than direct linking.

I'm with DWaters here. You must show the offer as soon as possible, that is, right away and not have your visitors jump through hoops. You'll lose a lot like that. It's simple: people are in a hurry and want to be shown what they are looking for right away.

So, as I've seen so many times before, you are probably not targeting correctly with your keywords and match types. Your ads need to encite people not only to click but predispose them to buy as well.

Finally, the landing page has to close the sale. If these offers' pages don't do that, you won't get conversions. So you have to choose offers where you believe the page will convert at a high rate.

That first one looks not too bad (8/137), at least a good start, but you'll probably do much better with better keywords and ads. The others don't have enough data to gauge long term although if I was an affiliate marketer, there's some I would not do.

It can be your direct link which suck since the EPC is $0.09 which it's the lowest I saw till now.

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It can be the keyword you are targeting which bring low quality click. However, I agree with the other you will need to capture the lead so you can market them and build a business. However you can still make money with direct link. I already did and it was a CPL offer too and my EPC was $0.50 on spending $0.20 and lower.

So I would go and review the keyword. I would suggest to use exact keyword that way you will avoid bidding on something unrelated. Unless you add negative keyword and make sure to add all the unwanted keyword.

Track the keyword that don't convert and shut them down. If you are not tracking the keyword that convert or not you are gambling.

Go through the campaign setting make sure everything is right.

Verify my Quality Score too. Which play a big role.

Make sure my ADS is compelling with my page. You don't want to put ads on Orange to find out your page is about Apple.

So I tried to add every scenario that might be your problem verify them. Since I don't know what your campaign is and how you set it up.

I hope it help!

Many of the offers that you promoted on only pay $1.60 per conversion. That is too low to make an ROI. Although it's possible, it would be very difficult.

You should look for higher paying offers, such as lead gen or cost per sale.