JOURNEY: (Not the Rock Band) To Make $100 A Day By January 4th

Thanks for the words of encouragement. Like I said, I was going to start with some article marketing, and I have. I've submitted an article to ezinearticles today. This is the first time I have done this so I am expecting quite a wait for it to be approved. I've linked the article to a domain of my own (landing page) and then that links to the offer which is a 4 field and then email confirm offer paying $1.50.

This feels like such a small drop in the bucket, but its a start I guess. Obviously I need a lot more articles, but I have a few questions.

Should I keep submitting articles to ezinearticles even while waiting for the first one to get approved? Is there a limit on how many I should submit in a day?

While I am waiting for the articles to get approved, what is the best use of my time now?

So overwhelming but exciting as well.

Thanks for the help.

I know these kinds of posts are wearing thin. It wasnt meant to be a "oh poor me, please help me post" but I understand what you're saying. I think this forum is probably one of the best resources online for anybody looking to seriously make some money online, and I figured that since I have gotten so much inspiration from other threads (not just similar ones to this), that maybe I could do something that would help out here as well. You are also right on Kenster. Such a big help to so many people here. The kind of guy that makes you want to keep going and actually believe it is possible.

Anyway, redicelander, stay in touch, maybe along the way I can help you out. I have no idea what your experience is but if I can....I would love to help anybody here because we all know how hard this can be, but also how rewarding it can be!

UPDATE: Just checked my Maxbounty account since I sent out another email today to my small list. I made about $23. This is all on $1 - $1.50 CPA offers. Not a lot, but it really is motivating to refresh the page and see some money start to come in. Just a matter of multiplying this now! I have an aricle submitted to ezine and am going to submit some more tomorrow. Also have some money in Adwords, but not exactly sure what to do there. Oh well, back at it tomorrow!

I am also in the same situation. Started yesterday, got a maxbounty account and a ymultimedia account.

Are you doing strictly article marketing? I have an article submitted as well however not too sure how my landing page should look like!

Ok, this is what I have done so far.

Right now I am only dealing with Maxbounty as it was the first network I signed up with and I dont want to get ahead of myself with too many networks just yet.

TIP: I realized that you must answer the phone when they call you after you sign up, or if you miss the call...PHONE THEM BACK! I realize this sounds simple but I think if you just show some enthusiasm and sound like you know what you're talking about, you will have no problem being accepted. I have heard this advice many times and it is true. Also have a website that you can put in your application. I had a domain name already and I set up a wordpress blog with simple information on it about affiliate marketing, surveys, making money online etc. Most of the content is taken from other sites (with permission). Articles and such. Atleast it shows that you have a "home base". I'm not sure how well received a free blog without your own domain would be, I have not tried that. Anybody have any experience with this?

Ok, so I guess in a way I am starting out with a bit of a head start because I have a list that has been compiled from a totally different business, but I thought I would try out some CPA offers to this list. I just wanted to see how the process worked as far as putting links in an email directed to an offer I chose.

I chose a few "Surveys" offers and sent an email to my list with the links. I was totally shocked when the next day (after I actually forgot about it) I logged in to Maxbounty and saw about $22 in my account. That showed me that "Hey, people actually clicked the links, and I actually got credit for it"

I also deposited $100 into Google adwords to try that out. At first I set up an ad and some keywords for an affiliate program with the webhost I deal with. Again, I didnt care if I made any commissions, I just wanted to see how everything worked...ads, keywords, clicks ets. Well, I got some clicks but no sales. I know my ads, keyword choices sucked but it was just an experiment. I am still confused with keyword research and how to set up ad groups.

I guess what also confuses me is:

Do I have to have my own domain name and full site for every single CPA offer I choose to promote? I did try to direct link to a CPA offer through adwords and the ad didnt even get approved. Or can I have a domain with nothing but a one page "landing page" that directs people to an offer?

I am realizing that this post is all over the place, but so is my brain so bear with me. (there's a bear with me?) sorry, I watch too much Little Britain.

Anyway, so what I gather from PPC to CPA offers is...the best way is to have a domain name and some content on it that relates to the offer you are promoting. Then you build a landing page on that site, which is where you will direct people from your adwords ad. Then your properly built landing page gets the person to click on through to your actual CPA offer.

So you need to:

1. join a network
2. choose an offer
3. register a domain name preferably with related keywords to your offer
4. put content on that site related to your offer (pre-written articles will do)
5. make one of the pages on your site a landing page which will be the actual page you send people to from your ad.
6. deposit money into a PPC site (google, yahoo, msn etc)
7. create a campaign, ads, keywords etc.
8. make sure your ad points to the landing page and not the "home page" of your site. They will probably be different pages.
9. run your campaign and make adjustments to the almost endless different factors that effect your success with your PPC ads!

NOW, the 9 steps I just listed was more me thinking out loud than trying to be instructional. I know I missed a lot, but this is my understanding of one way to do PPC. So like you, I have more questions at this point.

• Is this the best way to promote CPA offers with PPC?
• Do you have to register a domain name?
• Do you have to build a full website related to your CPA offer?
• Is there a certain style or structure to the website?
• What is the best way to do keyword research?
• How many keywords do you need to start with?
• How do you improve your quality score in adwords?

I could go on forever with the questions here so I will stop right now. Maybe together we can find some answers to these and any others we might have. Of course I may be ignorantly assuming that you guys have these same questions. lol.

SUMMARY: So far I have seen results with sending some CPA offer links in emails to an already established list that I have. Its not a big list but I used it just to see how this works. Emailing my list cant go on forever so I need to figure out PPC so I can expand and promote other offers. I have also written one article related to a CPA offer and I submitted it to Ezinearticles. I opened a brand new account (free) so this was my first submission at about 6 pm EST yesterday. I will post once I find out if its approved or not and see how long it takes. I know this takes a bit of time but again, I did this to test out the process of submitting an article to EA and see how it works. And 1 article isnt going to do much, but I am waiting to see what happens with my first one before I submit any more. Is this the right way to approach this or should I be submitting more right now? I will also submit an article today to goarticles and see what happens there. I remember hearing somewhere that a good strategy is to write 10 articles and submit them to 10 different networks and let them do their thing. Then move on to other forms of marketing your offer. Does this sound effective or stupid?

So as of right now, I have a few emails sent to my list, 1 article waiting approval and an extremely limited knowledge of PPC which is holding me back from setting up a campaign and running it.

The action I am going to take now is to write some more articles, but I don't want to run the PPC ads until I know the best way to do that...see questions above.


SUGGESTION: I just found an amazing website that has video presentations on all sorts of different things related to affiliate marketing. Its called "Marketing Experiments". Just google it, its very helpful.

Sorry for the scatterbrain post, but if anybody can answer some of my questions, that would be a big relief. I will update as soon as I do anything else or learn anything else. Thanks guys!

Ok guys here's an update for today. I just got an email saying that my article that I submitted to ezinearticles on Monday the 7th, has been accepted and will be published within 48 hours. WOO HOO! I have no idea if this is fast or slow as far as being accepted, but now I will start to submit more articles every day to EA. I also submitted 1 article to goarticles today. I am not exactly sure of their policy as far as when it will be accepted or published. This is good news, but I also want to get some other form of marketing going. I have not done anything today with PPC, although I did get an email from Gauher Chaudhry saying that google has slapped a bunch of adwords accounts and not really given an explanation as to why. Apparantly running campaigns for email submits and such isnt looked on too favourably by the G, I am not familiar with any of this as I have not yet done the PPC thing. Anybody have anything to add to this?

Just so I know I am not writing to myself here, is anybody actually following along? lol, just curious!