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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th January 2017, 11:51 PM
Replies: 177
Views: 11,736
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Affiliate Marketing is dead

OP -

I never got to your level but was making about $9,000 a month running a collection of mini niche sites and after Google changes etc. it all started to dry up.

I've seen refocused entirely...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th January 2017, 03:44 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 196
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Any resources on YouTube Video Ad Creation?

I know you skip through the ads but people do watch and click through those ads. I hear this about banner ads that "no one would ever click on a banner ad!" but if you create a clever banner ad I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th January 2017, 03:36 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 955
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Why do a Majority of Affiliate Sites Look Ugly

Two things:

1) Ugly sites can make money if they are content rich.
2) Not all affiliate sites are ugly.

Check out SEO Training and Link Building Strategies (http://backlinko.com) - far from...
Forum: Pay Per Click/Search Engine Marketing (PPC/SEM) 3rd January 2017, 09:49 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 495
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Need Help on Bing/FaceBook PPC Ads for ClickBank Promotion

Agree with Laksh - selecting offers is important and understanding offer conversion is importance.

Spend a lot of time on different sites that carry a lot of ads and see what's converting. You'll...
Forum: Pay Per Click/Search Engine Marketing (PPC/SEM) 2nd January 2017, 11:53 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 495
Posted By williamstraus
RE: Need Help on Bing/FaceBook PPC Ads for ClickBank Promotion

I can get traffic down to $.10-$.20 per click on Bing with relative ease.
I have a few campaigns that are getting keywords at less than $.10 but they are few and far between.

In my experience -...
Forum: Pay Per Click/Search Engine Marketing (PPC/SEM) 6th October 2016, 10:32 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 933
Posted By williamstraus
Re: My Bing + Clickbank Journey Begins

Let me give you some advice - I make my living on Bing & a few other PPC networks.

1) Find cheap high volume keywords using your favorite keyword tool (I actually use Google Keyword Planner)
...
Forum: Pay Per Click/Search Engine Marketing (PPC/SEM) 24th September 2015, 05:59 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,316
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Does direct linking with bing and clickbank still work?

I agree with Shaun 100%.

I have a few direct linking campaigns up in Bing and they do work and turn me a profit. I don't care enough about the niche to build a list in it and scale it up.

The...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th September 2015, 01:55 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,377
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Do clickbank products sell anymore or should they be avoided?

I make a full time living on Clickbank & Amazon affiliate sales and am working on my first CB product.

CB is a weird beast!

But, it's got some golden products inside. With Clickbank I've...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th September 2015, 04:56 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 318
Posted By williamstraus
Webinars Over PPC - Worth It??

Hey Y'all -

I'm thinking about setting up some PPC promotions to run a Webinar with my partner.

Here's what I think:

- Setup a webinar landing page with LeadPages
- Host the webinar with...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st May 2013, 03:07 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,468
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Should i use Negative SEO?

No that is not the case. If you'd like, I'll be happy to point GSA Search Engine Ranker at one of your sites and let it run with the right settings. I bet it will tank in 2 weeks.

I recently had...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st May 2013, 02:56 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 4,528
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Best PPC network?

For me it's been Bing. Bing it on baby. Bing was simple, dead easy to learn and the CPC is decent. They let me do landing pages so I use it primarily for list building.

Facebook also looks...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 21st May 2013, 02:48 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 3,398
Posted By williamstraus
Re: How Much $$$ Did You Make Today?

I'm averaging between $250-$400 per day. How much of this is profit?

Here are my costs:

- Hosting: Email Hosting/VPS/Web Hosting Accounts - ~$250 per month
- Facebook & Bing PPC ~$400 per...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 3rd May 2013, 07:10 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 7,393
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Bring the Fresh; Done-For-You Sites and the FTC?

Good grief - just buy some link building packages (quality press releases, web 2.0 etc.) and high PR contextual links. You still would have spent less and you absolutely would have ranked.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd May 2013, 11:44 AM
Replies: 64
Views: 2,155
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Some Chick Just Stole My Website

It is annoying - and thanks again to the Warrior Forum for the help. Special thanks to Alexa - don't know you at all but your posts have really helped me be more successful online.

I'm putting...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th November 2012, 10:04 AM
Replies: 101
Views: 15,740
Posted By williamstraus
Re: How to Increase Clickbank Sales from $100 per day?

Celente,

You're right on the money. Guest blogging syndication and PPC to my landing pages where people get on my list is how I started making REAL money on ClickBank.

And in spite of knowing...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th November 2012, 09:41 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 520
Posted By williamstraus
How to Increase Conversion & Make More Money (pre selling/reviews)

Hey Warriors,

Wanted to share some tips I've picked up over the years on writing better reviews and making sure people click your affiliate links.

I recently looked at a friend's blog and had...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th July 2012, 06:02 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,204
Posted By williamstraus
Re: My ClickBank Product Is Getting Refunded :-(

I've sold hundreds of products as an affiliate and am pretty confident that a lot of the "Everything in ClickBank is crap and results in refunds!" is because people obsessively run straight into...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th July 2012, 09:10 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,334
Posted By williamstraus
Re: What kind of clickbank products are best for ppc

Any product is OK to promote over PPC. For ClickBank and any product though you need to drive that traffic straight to your opt in page. Actually - I would say ESPECIALLY for ClickBank or...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th June 2012, 11:12 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 1,395
Posted By williamstraus
Re: 4-5 Refunds out of Every 10 Sales - Continue Promoting or Drop Product?

People are trusting your review and buying. It's not the $300 a month that is of value it's your ability to tap into buyers in a lucrative niche. Find a better product for them one that they know...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd June 2012, 09:48 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,201
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Clickbank Question: How to drive traffic to your own CB product?

Try Bing PPC or some solo ads. You need to prove your product converts and is worthwhile before affiliates will promote it.
Forum: Email Marketing 19th June 2012, 10:47 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 9,603
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Should I bother with free solo ads?

Here's the way to do it starting from scratch:

1) Create an awesome give away / report that people really will enjoy and get value from.

2) Create a nice landing page - doesn't have to be one...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th June 2012, 10:37 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,861
Posted By williamstraus
Re: List Building Courses?

I don't know what courses you need on this - it's all just common sense and research on your own. Figure out how to setup Aweber etc.. Some sites I follow though:

Email Marketing Tips and Best...
Forum: Mind Warriors 19th June 2012, 10:28 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 1,402
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Never Give Up When Trying To Earn Money

Don't cry to give up, cry to succeed:

[ Eric Thomas ] On Quitting...vs. Moving Forward - YouTube
Forum: Mind Warriors 19th June 2012, 10:26 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,276
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Do you really believe in yourself?

You gotta not only believe in yourself but believe in your dream and that you can do the hard work necessary to make it real.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th June 2012, 06:23 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,801
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Can I trust Clickbank?

The legitimacy issue is often brought into question because:

- Clickbank with tens of thousands of products in its marketplace obviously has quite a few stinkers (IMO the crap is largely sitting...
Forum: Social Media 27th May 2012, 01:59 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,393
Posted By williamstraus
Re: The Death of Email & The Rise of Social Media

Yes - I hate getting emails too which is what turned me off initially. But I started paying attention to my girlfriend's online habits and saw that she really was influenced by email.

- She loves...
Forum: Social Media 27th May 2012, 11:11 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,393
Posted By williamstraus
The Death of Email & The Rise of Social Media

Warriors!

Check out this blogpost and tell me that email marketing is dead! On the contrary, it seems that email marketing is on the rise and year after year in spite of guru's telling us it's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th January 2012, 05:11 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 574
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Spinning Bookmarks for Submission? Other ways to get indexed fast?

helpmePPC,

To get indexed in Google all I ever had to do was setup a blog and submit my XML site map to Google via Google Webmaster Central. Get data about crawling, indexing and search traffic....
Forum: Mind Warriors 17th January 2012, 11:15 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 1,945
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Feeling demotivated

I think your site design is fine - I'm sure you can make it cleaner but with AdSense you probably want that many ads right? I don't do adsense at all so I can't say.

Check out scroogle.org to see...
Forum: Mind Warriors 17th January 2012, 07:35 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 1,945
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Feeling demotivated

Setup your sites in Google Analytics and Webmaster tools (or something like this) to see how they're doing. If you really are at number #1 you'll soon see yourself ranking for new keywords and find...
Forum: Mind Warriors 15th January 2012, 07:08 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,698
Posted By williamstraus
Re: How You Can Attract Wealth

I think Travlinguy just posted the smartest and most insightful post on the WF I've seen in a long time.

We need to fix our heads, hearts and souls and bring things into alignment before taking...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th January 2012, 06:44 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 505
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Does facebook fanPage work?

I've seen some snazzy ways of doing a "like to reveal" and getting people to opt-in to your Aweber list. That's something I'm going to be doing in the coming weeks. From what I've researched it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th January 2012, 07:15 PM
Replies: 164
Views: 6,806
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Article Syndication - It's All a Big Scam

I've done SEO and it's made me first few dollars online but the more I think about things long term the more I realize I need to rely on strategies that are under my control.

My focus is going to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th January 2012, 03:57 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 396
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Question to ClickBank Vendors...

Yeah - I know about the hopad and the hoplink.

When I log into my affiliate account and go to the hopad creator I get to enter in:

Keyword:
Affiliate ID:
Tracking ID:

Can't screen shot it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th January 2012, 03:25 PM
Replies: 164
Views: 6,806
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Article Syndication - It's All a Big Scam

Gak..Rushmore. Good point ;)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th January 2012, 10:26 AM
Replies: 164
Views: 6,806
Posted By williamstraus
Article Syndication - It's All a Big Scam

Or so I thought.

I tend not to pay attention to the arguments back and forth here between the syndicators and article directory marketers.

I'd grin and dismiss both sides as being silly and...
Forum: Mind Warriors 11th January 2012, 04:25 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 810
Posted By williamstraus
I Believe In My Dreams

I'm up at 4:00 am today. I set my alarm early and got up two minutes before it rang ;-). That means I was able to turn it off before that awful sound it makes. I love when that happens.

Came...
Forum: Mind Warriors 7th January 2012, 09:25 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 2,311
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Did anyone do a WSO on Self-Improvement?

I would agree with @Travlinguy - that is the demographic I'm in also and most of my friends are just looking for something quick and easy. But not everybody has an overnight transformation or a rags...
Forum: Mind Warriors 7th January 2012, 09:15 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 562
Posted By williamstraus
Re: How to Take the Lid off of Your Wealth Attraction Power

This is exactly how I feel about staying active. Too much time in front of the computer and I need fresh air or head out for a run. I hate getting out there and doing it but then 10mins into the...
Forum: Mind Warriors 6th January 2012, 08:03 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 976
Posted By williamstraus
Re: What's your favourite motivational video?

9 minutes long but unbelievable:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Forum: Mind Warriors 6th January 2012, 07:58 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 10,474
Posted By williamstraus
Re: $400 Per Month ClickBank Blog - Success After Years of Failing!

You're welcome! BTW - as I said in my original post I did have a bit of luck with syndication via EZA but not that much. In the last 2 weeks I stumbled across something pretty cool (probably one of...
Forum: Mind Warriors 18th December 2011, 10:53 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 3,381
Posted By williamstraus
Re: 7 Principles that drove Steve Jobs' Success

I finished reading his biography a week or two ago. He's an interesting fellow, very intense, deeply driven and also somewhat frail and broken (you can say we all are).

He seemed to have a mix...
Forum: Mind Warriors 18th December 2011, 10:48 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 587
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Visualize/Affirm = automatic action?

Visualization is key to improving your life. Whether you want to or not you're visualizing and when you're afraid you're visualizations reflect that. The idea is simple - put better pictures in...
Forum: Mind Warriors 18th December 2011, 09:16 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 10,474
Posted By williamstraus
Re: $400 Per Month ClickBank Blog - Success After Years of Failing!

@TiffLee - Wow - thank you for the kind words!

I know this part of the forum doesn't get as much traffic but I've found myself more productive browsing through here then getting sucked into other...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th December 2011, 12:19 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 1,161
Posted By williamstraus
Re: My new product!

Henry - ClickBank will accept it. Even with their new stringent rules they'll accept it. They've got everything from Witchcraft to make a million dollars delivering pizza eBooks in the marketplace...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 18th December 2011, 12:03 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,018
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Chris Rempel's - Conduit Method

It's only $15 and he's the first hit when you google.

This is basically setting up a review site and yeah, I've got one ClickBank blog that does a very lengthy review of a high ticket item and it...
Forum: Mind Warriors 16th December 2011, 04:33 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 10,474
Posted By williamstraus
Re: $400 Per Month ClickBank Blog - Success After Years of Failing!

howimakemoney,

I've learned with CB it's best to avoid the IM niche altogether. It's really crowded and very difficult.

I'm actually going to start going into the gardening niche. Low...
Forum: Mind Warriors 15th December 2011, 10:30 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 10,474
Posted By williamstraus
$400 Per Month ClickBank Blog - Success After Years of Failing!

I have to say I've studied the IM arena on and off for a long time. I knew what to do to make money online but could never apply myself to do it.

I then broke it down (chunked it down to be...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 15th December 2011, 10:12 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 2,162
Posted By williamstraus
Re: Delivering Video Content - Membership Software Recommendations

I really dig Profits Theme. Great setup and it's a decent theme. The membership stuff integrates beautifully with ClickBank, Paypal and Aweber too.

I don't think it's as advanced as Wishlist or...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th December 2011, 09:10 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 2,660
Posted By williamstraus
Re: HostGator is going Down Again and Again.. Need some serious help!

Hmm...if you're growing that fast then first off let's all congratulate you. Because the truth is it really is hard to get that much traffic so fast.

Are these downloads and media files? If it's...
Forum: Mind Warriors 5th January 2011, 09:02 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 9,096
Posted By williamstraus
Re: making quality subliminal and hypnotic videos

Subliminal Recorder - it does have a lot of negative reviews on the other forums too FWIW.
Forum: Mind Warriors 31st December 2010, 08:48 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 9,096
Posted By williamstraus
making quality subliminal and hypnotic videos

Hey Warriors,

Can anyone recommend some good (and easy to use) software that creates high quality subliminal audios and hypnosis videos?

I have been searching online and came across a free one...
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