My PPC and Commision Junction Success Story

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First off, I want to thank all of you guys on these forums for freely providing so much information over the past years. I eff'ing love this community and will always be a part of it. I have been spending hours on hours per week reading multiple threads on how to become successful in this business. 1 week ago I decided to take the lunge into uncharted waters and pick a affiliate on CJ and start promoting it with Bing Ads. Keep in mind I still have A LOT to know and I'm just using basics I have picked up here. I chose an offer on CJ that had a 25$ payout for a subscription and put 50$ in my Bing Ads account. I used google keyword tool and compile a list of about 100 keywords that pertained to my offer. (The trick is to think outside the box here, and put yourself in the consumer shoes) I set a .09 bid to all my keywords because of my budget and waited.... After 3 days and checking my accounts every 10 minutes, lol call me compulsive. I now have 300$ in my CJ account and a have used up my $50 bing ads budget. I am VERY satisfied from my results and this should be PROOF that anyone can do this if you put your time and money into it. Here is a screenshot of my account after 3 days




That being said If anyone can help me on how I can refine this such as tracking my keywords and seeing ones that do convert so I can weed out the non-producing ones that input would be amazing also!

Well I hope you enjoyed this thread and just remember...

YOU CAN DO THIS

**Since I have posted CJ has reversed all of my earnings because I was direct linking to the company's web page. I was making 100$ a day. This is a very sad day for me They also expired my affiliate program with the company.
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  • Profile picture of the author K Mec
    Congrates! Richeyjr , I have not used the adwords since long. I would also like to know the same. So awaiting response from other members.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinDupre
    You def. want to set up tracking. Should have been the first thing you did. Use Prosper202 free or CPVLab if you want something that I think is much better.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richeyjr
      How would I go about tracking my keywords with my conversions, I am direct linking my commision junction affiliate link into my text ad using non landing page first.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Excellent work! In order to track conversions you'll need to add an SID that indicates what ad sent the traffic.

    Once you do that you can eliminate the bad ones and double down on the good ones.

    That is a really great effort. How did you decide on what offers to use?
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    • Profile picture of the author Richeyjr
      Originally Posted by PerformanceMan View Post

      Excellent work! In order to track conversions you'll need to add an SID that indicates what ad sent the traffic.

      Once you do that you can eliminate the bad ones and double down on the good ones.

      That is a really great effort. How did you decide on what offers to use?
      Thanks! Although to put an SID don't you have to add code to your landing page? I don't have a landing page I'm linking directly to the company's page. And tbh I just randomly picked an offer with a high payout and something I could see a lot of people could or would be interested in
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      • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
        Originally Posted by Richeyjr View Post

        Thanks! Although to put an SID don't you have to add code to your landing page? I don't have a landing page I'm linking directly to the company's page. And tbh I just randomly picked an offer with a high payout and something I could see a lot of people could or would be interested in
        I don't use CJ but with ClickBank all you do is this:

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        http://yourhop.clickbank.com/?SID=BING10
        Then when the orders come in you can see the SID. CJ should work in a similar fashion.
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  • Profile picture of the author Richeyjr
    All my earnings have been reversed because of direct linking 100 dollars a day thrown out. I should have known better. You live and learn. CJ also expired my affiliate relationship with the company I was promoting.
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    • Profile picture of the author Saintsfan40
      Originally Posted by Richeyjr View Post

      All my earnings have been reversed because of direct linking 100 dollars a day thrown out. I should have known better. You live and learn. CJ also expired my affiliate relationship with the company I was promoting.
      That really sucks man. That was crappy that they banned you for direct linking. Even though you lost money, at least now you got PPC down pat. Move onto another affiliate network or CPA network and go from there.
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    • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
      Originally Posted by Richeyjr View Post

      All my earnings have been reversed because of direct linking 100 dollars a day thrown out. I should have known better. You live and learn. CJ also expired my affiliate relationship with the company I was promoting.
      I guess that you used the trademark in url for the merchant (company) which you promoted. Or input the merchant url in the destination url field.

      Before you promote anything, make sure to read TOS of each merchant.
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    • Profile picture of the author arojilla
      Originally Posted by Richeyjr View Post

      All my earnings have been reversed because of direct linking 100 dollars a day thrown out. I should have known better. You live and learn. CJ also expired my affiliate relationship with the company I was promoting.
      Ouch! I feel your pain! It was nice to read your success until that part... Well, at least you and me and I'm sure others have learned about not linking directly... Have a big thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author Lanx
    not to burst your bubble, but you probably only did well cuz no one else was direct linking, cuz they knew the rules. only 2% of cj's programs allow direct linking the rest of program managers monitor adwords to make sure you don't "steal" their sales.

    and it wasn't cj that reversed your commissions it was the affiliate programs manager that wanted the commissions reversed.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richeyjr
      Originally Posted by Lanx View Post

      not to burst your bubble, but you probably only did well cuz no one else was direct linking, cuz they knew the rules. only 2% of cj's programs allow direct linking the rest of program managers monitor adwords to make sure you don't "steal" their sales.

      and it wasn't cj that reversed your commissions it was the affiliate programs manager that wanted the commissions reversed.
      Yea, I was thinking the same thing. You're probably right. I started promote another program and its not converting half as well. ugh I wish I had a mentor so badly in this. I know the potential to be made on the internet just cant implement it (
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  • Profile picture of the author Lanx
    well it's not going to be direct linking from cj or sas, they are just too monitored. (i mean there are really blackhat tricks to bypass this, but that'll be going about it the wrong way, you'll eventually get caught)
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  • Profile picture of the author admaserusa
    i am also looking for something that i can use for adwords to make good $$.
    anyone can suggest me what to use on adwords search network to get result? Which offer or niches should i use on adwords to get paid from sales/leads etc.

    thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author tristatemedia
    that sucks, reversed your commissions. bing always allowed direct linking....i guess they are growing up and want to act like daddy google.
    ok, back to fb and 7search.
    my advise, invest in gurella squeeze page software ($47) and do a squeeze page to everything. that way you can build a lista s well.
    good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    At the very least, you've learned a few things.

    1 - Never direct link.

    2 - That PPC can be pretty profitable if done correctly. Set up a nice landing page on a blog with some decent content, a contact page, privacy policy, etc. A good landing page can actually increase your conversions anyway. So it's worth the effort.

    Just keep plugging away.
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  • Profile picture of the author ayoubcocoo
    Congrats Richeyjr for your success and don't worry
    i wish you all the best
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  • Profile picture of the author doriono
    Congrats Richeyjr for your nice efforts and beautiful results
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  • Profile picture of the author Dead Body
    Congrates!
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    • Profile picture of the author tech84
      Originally Posted by Dead Body View Post

      Congrates!
      what a total troll! did not even read the first post, you just came here and post junk so you can put up that sig of yours!
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      • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
        Originally Posted by tech84 View Post

        what a total troll! did not even read the first post, you just came here and post junk so you can put up that sig of yours!
        Unfortunately this is pretty common. Random bumps that have nothing to do with the original post and / or show that they didn't even bother to read it.
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        • Profile picture of the author arojilla
          Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

          Unfortunately this is pretty common. Random bumps that have nothing to do with the original post and / or show that they didn't even bother to read it.
          Well, I'm new here and this is the second time that it happened to me, but the first was even worst because I replied to a post from 2010! I don't know why but I expected old threads to be "archived", but from now on I will sure check a post's date before I reply to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author svetod
    Congratulations! If you are good in this, you should try lead generation! In financial sectors payouts are very high and you'll be making much more than this!
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