Comments on: Patience is a Super Affiliate Virtue…Part II

By: Simonne

Simonne — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:41:31 +0000

I suppose that having patience when you are a newbie to affiliate business is almost impossible. When I see that I’ve set up a campaign with about 1000 keywords (which until reading your posts, I imagined are enough), and all I get are 2-300 impressions per day, and barely 3-4 clicks per week, it is very hard to wait. Testing is also out of the question, since I don’t have data to measure anything. I’m sure I’m doing something awfully wrong, and my bids are already too high to get any profit out of the campaign, but my biggest wish is to see that at least one person buys the damn thing I’m trying to sell.
Seeing that it doesn’t happen, I’m very tempted to set up another campaign, in another niche… and I get the same results over and over…

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:06:03 +0000

Amit, what is your experience with commissions in response with initial clicks. I have found on a few campaigns that visitors wont buy for several days after initially viewing the landing page.

What average times have you seen?

Is it really possible to tell how successful a campaign is without running it for a week or so?

By: Mike 11|15 Media

Mike 11|15 Media — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:29:22 +0000

Wow good post. Can you tell us more about the teams you use? Are you outsourcing all to one company or do you use freelancers for certain tasks?

By: smaxor

smaxor — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:25:09 +0000

Hey amit I hear you talk about easier niches a lot. However I see affiliates at the top for mortgage, payday and insurance and they must be making money some how. Or they wouldn’t be running for months on end. So my question for you is how do they make this work. I’ve had a lot of up’s and down’s promoting payday loans but definately see the potential as I can break even with campaigns for a little more longtail terms but how are affiliates having success with the main words like [payday loans] and [cash advance] at 4-5 bux a click for position 6-7?

By: AJS

AJS — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:38:24 +0000

Quick Question: When launching 3-5 campaigns every 2 weeks, would they be direct linking campaigns (using 301 redirects or frame forwards)? Or would you build 3 to 5 small sites in 2 weeks? Great post BTW.

By: Skip

Skip — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:19:19 +0000

Amit – A little off topic but how do you keep your team of people intact once they learn your business model for affilliate marketing?

Thanks,
Skip

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:48:26 +0000

Amit i’m curious about one thing, your bidding strategy.

How would you start bidding? Would you start by bidding a 1% breakeven point? ( meaning if your commission is $30 you only bid 0.30 cent per click )

Or do you add 200% on top of that 0.30 cent?

Or you push for top 3 spots?

Thanks for the effort you put into this blog, appreciate it.

By: AnotherAmit

AnotherAmit — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:12:13 +0000

Perfect timing with this post Amit. I was trying to figure this out my self.

I was curious about one thing when you say “Also, as a rule I will not pause a adGroup unless it has AT LEAST 300 clicks and no sales.”. What do you do if one month passes and you have only 200 impressions and no clicks. Do you keep that adwords group or do you pause it?

Similarly does having adGroups with low CTR in a campaign OK or not OK for other adgroups in the campaign? does it have any negative impact?

cheers
AnotherAmit