First off my trip to Hawaii was AWESOME! I’ll be posting a video about it later this week so stay tuned! The Super affiliate lifestyle just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER! 
OK, a lot of affiliates have been seriously slapped around by Big G lately and some of you may be thinking “Amit, PPC is NOT what it’s used to be! I mean is it seriously on it way down as a source of getting traffic to your affiliate sites?”
Yeah PPC is certainly not what it was in 2005 when you could buy as much traffic as you wanted at 0.05 a click and didn’t have to worry about Google slaps.
However, I’m here to tell you that PPC is STILL King.
Here’s WHY:
1. PPC is still the fastest way to get traffic to your site. Let’s face it you’re gonna be facebooking and twittering till your blue in the face for MONTHS before you can get anywhere near the traffic you can get with PPC in 1 day.
2. PPC is the fastest and easiest way to split test and track your results. You can easily split test your ads, landing page copy and determine exactly which keywords get the most traffic and convert the best.
3. PPC allows you to quickly test the waters before you put too much time and effort into a dud affiliate offer.
4. PPC will FORCE you to learn the fundamentals of direct marketing (critical to your success) faster and more effectively than any other way of getting traffic since you’re paying for every click so you gotta HUGE incentive to make it WORK!
5. Here’s a bombshell : Following up on point #2, once you’ve tested and tracked your campaign and FULLY optimized it you can take your results (best landing page, ad copy, keywords) and use it to with other traffic sources and REALLY scale your results to the next level.
So my two cents is to START with PPC because it’s FAST, allows you to test and optimize so you have a surefire winner once you start buying other sources of traffic.
Oh yeah did I forget to mention you can make a crap load of money with PPC too?
Hi Amit,
Great post as always. I’m really enjoying your blog.
On another note, are you guys still looking for PPC Classroom coaches? I saw a post on the Affiliate Classroom blog that said to apply but when I did the email bounced back.
Hey Nava
We’ll be bringing on new coaches in a few months. Please send your resume to amit [at] superaffiliatemindset [dot] com
Hello Amit, my name is Milad and I am 19 years old. I first started an Ebay business when I was 18, became a powerseller and eventually everything went bad and the business went sour. I had been doing affiliate marketing on the side while I was on ebay, then I decided to pursue full time because I love it so much. I have been doing this for about 5-6 months. I started on ClickBank and I have lost over 5,000 dollars on Adwords but I have learned so much. I eventually found CPA networks and started to do that. I failed on my first campaign, I was 10,000 dollars in debt and was about to be kicked out of my house. I had 500 dollars left and I said one more chance, I have nothing to lose. I picked some random campaign and direct linked to it and I started making over 1,000 dollars in sales a day and about 700 in my pocket. It lasted 4 days and then the network pulled the campaign. I wasnt sad, I am all about positive thinking, I realized the potential there is on internet marketing and I know I can make it. My parents tell me every day to go to school and get a job that I am not going to be successful at this. I try my best to maintain a positive mentality, and the reason I am writing this is because the way you talk and think in your videos is the same way I think, you dont have cable because you dont want any negative thoughts to effect you. I have read so many books on becoming a millionaire or positive thinking just like yourself. I see your a big help to Josh Wexelbaum and I really need your help as well Amit. I am stuck, I dont know what to do now, I dont know what offer to pick or what to do. I have a lot of knowledge in Affiliate marketing and I know I can become a success. I have 2,000 left to spend. Please contact me via email if you have the chance. miladmoussavi@yahoo.com I hope you read this and I hope you can find the time to just shoot me any email.
Thank you so much for all the help you have on your website.
P.S. I contaced Isha on ppc classroom to contact you as well
Thank you
Hey Amit,
I’m so glad you’re bloggin’ again. I have always enjoyed your insights. You are definitely a living testament to the power of PPC but I often wonder if the future of affiliate domination lies in SEO. I mean, how easy is it for anyone to build a landing page singing the bogus praises of the acai berry as some kind of weight loss miracle? Ah, but try to build a full content site about acai and get it ranked on page 1. Not many people would know where to begin. Heck, by the time you got the site ranked, the offer would probably have expired.
I’m sure you have an account rep at Google. I am wondering if you ever ask them about why they go on slapping rampages? The most they ever tell me is that they want to weed out the thin landing pages. But I have run regular old merchant landing pages with zero content on them and have never had any problems. It just seems that the PPC affiliate game has become so difficult to play on Google especially as more and more people come into it trying to make a fast buck or two.
Hi Amit!
I’m PPC Classroom student since day 1 (when it was with Jeremy Palmer).
When you opened PPCC 2 you’ve made a real case study on promoting Earth4Energy product on CB. You showed how to pick keywords, how to biuld a campaign, your landing pages and even domain testing. But what happened with this campaign then???
Was it a dud? Why I’m asking that?
I was following the modules and put huge efforts into building a campaign after campaign. But I ALWAYS faced the situation of whether:
1. random sales/leads – no consistency)
2. For every 1$ I make I spend 5-6$, because I cannot find consistently converting keywords.
I asked coaches via VIP system, but still cannot find the root of my problems.
You’re helding QandA sessions and I cannot show you my campaigns.
Why not create another case study, maybe a CB offer, maybe some CPA promotion, and conduct it in a way you did with Earth4Energy, but not STOP the case study after the campaign is launched.
I think this will help many of us avoid the mistakes that cost us $$$$$$$.
I’m recently faced serious health problems and instead of reinvesting into PPC I need to spend 1000s$ for medical treatment. I simply DON’T have the right to lose money, this is the matter of SURVIVAL for me, seriously.
I’ve lost so much money, I’ve learned so much in PPC except 1 thing – how to create let it be small but consistently profitable campaign.
Google Adwords BANNED many affiliates – MUCH more than just a slapped. Our account was banned for life. How can you get around the ban?
You need to start another account under a different credit card – different name and address. First, you need to remotely login to a different server so google can’t track your IP.