We all have the proof right in front of us that you are not willing to make an honest buck sparky, but really why do you have to waste our time reposting shit that was posted only one page before? Keep ringin my cash register for me, maybe you can get some honest work after all.
Here is what I suggest you do sparky. Try to find the new website that I started two weeks ago. Its a financial site and I'm not promoting it on message boards or even to the active trading community. As such I'm a NOBODY to the people I'm selling too. They have no idea who I am and I am not using my creditials from Thestreet.com, LATimes, Tradingmarkets, Seekingalpha, Bloomberg etc YET. Still, in only two weeks I've collected 1200 names. So far already 130 of them have given me between $47 and $379. The truth is that if I had not been spending so much time GIVING SHIT AWAY FOR FREE over here I'd probably have about 1800-2000 names on the list. You can do it sparky, I know ya can. Honest work aint so hard if ya just dig in there and do it.
Google = 22 clicks $11.63 Yahoo = 46 clicks $26.81 Hops = 24 Sales = 0 Total cost including promotions = $0 (yahoo gave me $100 in ads) Some Notes: Google traffic really slowed down and yahoo really picked up, not sure what changed but I will review things more closely tomorrow. Thought I would have a sale by now but im not sure how many hops I should be looking for to get one. 24 might not be enough yet. A little over 1 in 3 go are converting to hops. Maybe the product page isn't doing its job? I am building my second site tomorrow to try a different product. I will keep them both running.
You really need to get at least 100 to know what your going to get. If you PM me the page your offering I'll have a look at it and tell you what I think. You can also send me the ads your using because if your ads are incongruent with your page then you are not going to have any success at all.
The ad click business appeals to me. So far I have enjoyed learning about this and it has been fun to give a try in my spare time. I'm only looking for $300-$500 profit a month. I live off my day job. I agree about the economy, I researched some forums and affiliates do seem to be feeling the heat. Some said sales have dropped as much as 1/3, others had no change. Obviously it depends on the product.
One thing I noticed, I have quite a few ads with no clicks, how many impressions should you give an ad before you try something else? I have 1 ad with over 7k impressions and no clicks.
I was sitting here and I had to kinda chuckle to myself. Since 2003 when I joined ET everyone has complained that I was using the board to sell my trading services. Several people have asked Baron to ban me because I did such a good job, at one time I had several hundred ET members paying me between $79 and $247 per month. So now sparky shows up and he complains that in the world of delussional flea brained thieves I ain't nuthin! I guess I just can't get a break anyplace I turn. LOL
Well obviously that ad is a POS. Kill it because google is gonna hit ya with the stupid tax (that comes straight from the mouth of a google rep, not me...they call it that..not me)
Your observation should not impact your business model because you pay for seacrh traffic, and a person who click is already a potential buyer. You would have had an impact if you had a huge budget, but with a small budget it should have not impact on you. As a matter of fact, it should help you because of less competition for clicks.