What if one person clicks multiple products? If you did not account for this, then I would say that your current rate is at most 36%. What do you think? PS: Send me your keywords, and I might send you send low cost keywords for Google (keywords that work).
I am only promoting one product on this page. And I'd rather not get into specifics about the product or web site. Obviously keywords would give that away. Appreciate the offer though. Google Keyword tool has given me more than enough options.
That is fine and understandable. In google, are you using the network or the search? What max price did you use, and what is your average cost?
In google right now average is .53 set for $450 a month. Using search and just turned network back on tonight. Yahoo is a little cheaper because I can set individual bids for each word.
Witih Google check out how you do in the contenet network vs the search network. I've actually totally removed myself from the search network and focus on the content network. Here is something you can do to bring your traffic costs WAY down. The 80/20 rule applies to almost everything in life, and it will apply to your traffic too. Find the four or five sites that give you the vast majority of your traffic. Maybe your are spending $100/$200 per day or per week or whatever on that site. Now what you do is get ahold of the owner directly and work out a deal with them to put your ad up, but go around google. The thing is that Google is nothing but a middle man taking a cut. The site owner usually sees a about 40% of what you are paying..so if you say look I'm paying Google about say $200 per week for the traffic I get from you, would you be willing to take $125 per week and keep me up all the time? I have found that about half of them are very agreeable to this, and when they are you often end up getting a shit load more traffic since your ad is now up all the time, and you are also getting all that traffic for a reduced (nearly wholesale really) price. Your happy coz you just reduced your costs by a ton, and the site owner is happy coz he went from making $80 a week to making $125. Google is happy coz they are still batrillionares anyway. Finally with regard to Yahoo, I would suggest you check out MSN as well. Both are good and both offer a very nice ROI. I have found that neither of them scale to anything close to the level that Google can, but up to say $150/$200 a day they are both awesome. You think $150/$200 per day is a lot. HA! I say. Go check out spyfu. Spyfu has a script and they figure out exactly how much someone is spending per day on Adwords. I've looked at my sites and find they are accurate to with in about 20% +/-. There are FOUR sites in the daytrading stocks niche, not brokers but course and newsletter writers, that I have come across who each spend over $100,000 PER WEEK on adwords. I talked to one of the guys about it and he confirmed to me that between Ask, Google, Facebook, Youtube, MSN and Yahoo they spend nearly $150,000 per week on PPC. That's on top of what they spend in places like Tradingmarkets, The Street, Market Watch etc etc etc.
Here is something I have tried twice, once it was amazingly successful, the other time it lost a little bit of money. That was simply renting a physical mailing list of very targeted leads who have bought a product similar to your product in the last X number of weeks or months. Then what you do is you just put a small postcard together and you start sending out two seperate ads at a time to 1000 each. You track which one does the best and it becomes your new contorl. You do 1000 mailings again with which ever of those two was the winner, and then 1000 with the new post card. Now, it's going to cost you a pretty penny to work with a good copywriter -but if you nail it your gonna do great. People don't even think about "junk mail" anymore, but the thing is in a lot of places you can get your name and product in front of an amazingly qualified list and in many cases it's cheaper then using Google or Yahoo PPC.
Any new updates? Also when you stated that cost at Google was rising up quickly, what does this mean in numbers? Also updates on clicks, visits, sales, etc will be useful.
Making money on the internet (and in any other area) is about designing and implementing an effective strategy/tools. It is not about throwing at the problem a new tool, whenever the previous tool did not work at first attempt. You will be running in circles, spending time and money, and getting little/nothing in return (if it is not a loss of money as well). You come across as someone who regurgitate what others have regurgitated at you or what you read on the web or in a write up from an idiot who overnight called themself a guru because a bench of idiots are buying his junk that was never tested and does not work. The latters are just scammers, who never tested what they tell others to do, beyond selling their tools/systems/ideas, sometimes writing at as new when in fact it is only new to them. There is a guy on clickbank who people view as an example of success in internet money particularly the use of google adwords. I checked how much he spends and how much traffic he gets from adwords, and it is like 2 visitors a day, and a couple dollars. In people's mind the guy would be getting a million visitors a day or ever a larger number. So he sells to them his untrue image. They even refer to him as an authority in the field. These people are stupid. When people write there are a lot of scammers on the internet, I think it is true.
This is true. If you just want it as a hobby, because the ad click business appeals to you, it's fine. If you plan to earn real money, you're very late to the party. Really, in this economy, are enough people left to buy crappy rip-off products over the internet? Obvious answer is no.