Actually some of the “esoteric” stuff is just as valuable if not more so than the traditional advice. For instance, I’ve read alot about visualization via personal development literature. I got a Copeac account on May 12th. I put up a “vision board” where I work saying “$100/day made online within the next 30-60 days).

Keep in mind, I know absolutely NOTHING about AM, I didn’t even know what a “landing page” was until April. Anyway thus far I have made $4,506 in commisions, the bulk of that happened in about 4 weeks — in other words I met my goals.

To be fair, I had launched about 15 campaigns (and I do this pretty much full time…yes to screw with my graduate school professors, lol)….but to be honest with you I don’t think the time was as much of a factor as my studying the best practices of people like you Amit and following the advice religiously.

I have not replaced my old goals with a new vision board that says “I make $500/day within the next 60-90 days). When I have met that goal for a continuous period of 30 days or more, I will move on to a more ambitious goal of $5,000.

Also to testify to what you said, I want to make a career out of this so I concentrate on one niche – a huge multi-milion dollar niche – and I planning to run multiple campaigns with different marketing angles.

OK, I know that post is long but I really wanted to give some newbie inspiration that if they stick to what you guys say and follow it and read it and ACT and test and fail and try again (15+ campaigns I failed out before I hit my first successful one….when I did I make like $200 my first day)…they will succeeed.

NOW FOR MY QUESTION!!!
I want to master the art of “learning while I learn” i.e. direct linking to affiliate landing pages. I work in online education and I have found that people pretty much already know what they want they just need to be guided to the sign up page (I only do leads no sales this is another “focus” I decided upon).

However my problem is that I don’t have any coding skills and if more than one person is displaying the same url there are problems in Google.

I really, really, really wish someone would provide a tutorial about how a non-techie can still pull off direct linking via Adwords.

For instance I have heard stuff like buying a new domain then using that as the display url, but what happens if Google goes to the url of the display and they don’t see anything.

I made most of my profits through blogging but with the merchant’s landing pages already good, it doesn’t make sense to make another landing page.

My strategy is that I really need to get good at 1)keyword research and 2)writing ads….when profits roll in I can pay for content. Actually I figure that 1) and 2) are my highest income producing activities and the 2 things I CAN’T hire out so it makes sense to focus on learning/doing these in the beginning.

And if the merchants already have good landing pages, why try to recreate something that is already working.

Any just to restate my question:
CAN YOU PLEASE DO A POST OF HOW TO GO ABOUT DOING DIRECT LINKING VIA ADWORDS?

If this post could address such issues as:
1) QS and quality score optimization
2) display url vs. destination url
3)how do do redirects if you are a non techie

Anyway Amit, thanks so much for your wisdom. I have my visualization board up and I can’t wait to write back with a “testimonial” as to how your advice really works!

When you give you truly do receive 10 fold…

Thanks!

I have a n00b question tha

I am a web developer of 10+ years and am finally coming out of “The Matrix”. In my real job I make over 10k/month but I realize that being tied to a desk for 40+ is not a fulfilling life.

I’m creating five websites but my sites are more services or application sites that solve a problem for people or provide quick look up services. I was going to count on monthly subscriptions and not PPC or affiliates but I’m rethinking this concept.

My apologies for the length but I wanted to make a proper introduction and it’s my hope to meet you one day and shake your hand as your site has already given me great hope.

My question to you is, in your opinion, is it worth my time to finish these sites and try to make money with subscriptions? or should I try to strictly go with a free service and utilize PPC or affiliate programs?

Please remember that no content will be written specifically for affiliate products but to give you an idea of what one of my sites is doing, it’s called whereskaraoke.com, the site will be a directory listing of karake bars around the world. Users will look up karaoke times, directions etc. for when they are looking to sing. Again, no real content but hopefully much traffic.

With Gratitude

Amit’s also flagged my post in his recent update (thanks Amit!)

This is Amit’s recent post:
http://www.superaffiliatemindset.com/andrew-wee-headhunting-for-writers-and-crowdsourcing/

Not to take away from the rest of what you’ve written, but that sentence (plus the lead up to it) is the best thing you’ve written on this blog. It’s a good thing for all of us to keep in mind.

Yes, $1k-$2k/month is fairly typical for the amount of revenue that I generate from my content sites just free traffic. Small compared to what I make from PPC from these site, but it’s a great source of long term revenues & profits, especially if you continue to add content and get backlinks to your site.

That $1k-$2k/month can grow to $1k/day, I know one affiliate who have done this in 6 months by ranking high in Yahoo and MSN.

Thanks for your insight!

Thanks for addressing the issue of content creation. I’m curious to know where you are finding writers who work for $5 a page. Most of the eLance article writers I have seen who actually have a good command of English and write well charge a lot more than $5 a page. Maybe I’m not negotiating enough.

It would be great if you could share your “insider strategies” on quality content control and selecting the right people to outsource to. I’ve found some great people on eLance, but they’re not insanely cheap not do I want to insult them by nickel-and-diming them down to nothing. I think what Amit has said is that if you find someone good, expect to pay them well because they’re in pretty high demand.