I wanted to let you all know that I continue to be going in the right direction. Since my last post, everyday has been in the green. My margins have also been increasing. Yesterday I actually finished the day up $19.50. Here’s a look at my growth this past week with Azoogle (where I have been doing almost all of my business).
As you can see, that eCPC has been going up everyday. I can thank my affiliate manager for giving me a pay increase on one of the offers for that.
In my last post I noted that I got some traffic for the search query “facebook azoogle” via Google. At the time of the posting, I was ranked ninth for that query. Now I am number one!
So how did I become number one for this term?
I checked my Google Analytics and I noticed I was getting organic traffic from Google from the search “facebook azoogle.” Once I had those keywords identified, I included them in my next post. This was the bump I needed to get above the fold and into the number one spot.
Now this query is probably not searched very often, but I will continue this technique and see what results it brings. This technique also gives you some material to write about if you don’t have any ideas.
I was glancing through my analytics today, and I noticed that the largest contributor to my traffic is from search engines. 45% of traffic is now organic.
One of the more peculiar search terms is “facebook azoogle.” I am actually ranked 9th on Google for the term from my post on Too Many Projects where I talked about Facebook’s creator Mark Zuckerberg turning down $1 billion from Yahoo! after the site was just a few years old. Interesting that Azoogle is not mentioned once in that post though! It must be coming from my Suggested Affiliates on the right.
Does anyone else find that they get traffic from strange search engine queries?
Well after deciding to invest some money into affiliate marketing last week, I am a bit disappointed.
To my surprise, the day after I raised my daily budget, I got a lead and had about a 200% profit margin. Not bad. But the following days have made me think that was just a fluke.
These last few days, I have been getting massive amounts of clicks compared to any PPC campaigns I have done in the past. In theory, this is a good thing… traffic = money, right?
For me, NONE of that traffic converted. Not one! I am definitely shaking my head over this one. Could I be a victim of click fraud? Anyone have similar experiences.
An interesting note, a friend of mine is doing similar promotion in the same niche, and he experienced the same jump in traffic and no conversions.
I have been testing out affiliate marketing with Azoogle (aff) lately and my results have not been too spectacular.
I made a landing page (the fact that I made one and did not go out to have one professionally done may have something to do with my poor results thus far. I of course am too prideful to go buy a landing page for $50+ without first giving it my best shot.) and have been using mostly Adwords to advertise the page through CPC. I have tried raising my quality score by adding some relevant content to the keywords I’m bidding on, which has helped a little, but there is still plenty of room for improvement in that department.
Because I hate losing money, I have only been doing a max budget of a couple dollars a day. Lowering my budget so much means I probably have not been getting enough traffic on the landing page.
As I was looking at some stats this morning, I noticed the conversions have come from days with peak traffic. Using this knowledge, I have decided to raise my max budget about 400%.
In theory, I should start getting conversions again. If I don’t, I think I will have to bite the bullet and fork out the extra cash for a landing page.
Wish me luck today! 
I will be sure to let you all know how it works out for me.
