Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 11

simon asks…

what are the main factors to keep in mind before select an offer to promote????

a) Saturation.
b) Conversion rates.
c) Bid prices.
d) Can you sell it?

Marko Nikolic asks…

Do you or have you used LPGen or Extreme Conversion? Am I better off creating my own landing pages and putting them on a blog or frame offers with LPgen? What about framing an offer to test it and if that works then create a landing page on a blog?

I just straight up make my pages like regular websites in Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Some of the pages have a blog attached, but the main page is just a site/landing page hybrid.

Matt Marcin asks…

Have you ever considered trying Incentive Affiliate Marketing? If not, why?

I’ve considered it, yeah. But it’s a different game just like anything else, and right now I’m putting 100% into what works, and that’s straight up lead gen PPC.

Steve asks…

Say I’m starting my campaign with a budget of 100 dollars a week. What’s the best strategy in terms of what Google views as best practices if you know what I mean? Like should I bid high and set it to use my weekly budget in a day or bid low and have like a 10-15 dollar daily budget? Or am I just better off saving the 100 bucks a week and wait to launch my campaign?
Ultimately I would prefer to begin sooner but I dont want it to hurt my campaign in the long run.

$100 bucks really isn’t much to test with. If you want to run some serious tests, I’d save up some more money and then maybe start with Yahoo, clicks will be a little cheaper there. Once you do some testing and find out what keywords work in Yahoo, move them over to Google. Adwords isn’t for the faint of heart or budget.

Alex asks…

How would you go about trying to get an offer white labeled? It doesn’t seem like the network you’re with would appreciate it (since they’ll lose their cut), and a lot of networks (such as Azoogle), don’t have the option of even contacting a merchant directly.

If they won’t contact the merchant directly, do it yourself. Of course they don’t want you going direct, they’re going to lose all of your commissions. Tell them that you still want to work with them but only if they can get you what you need, if not you’ll go direct. You need to have some revenue force behind this so your words actually count for something though.

Rob asks…

Question about long tail keywords. I have a campaign that has several ad groups, using the common keyword technique, all with about 40-100 keywords in them, all exact match. The QS is “ok” but they still show up on like page 10 or 11, even if I bid $2.00. The root of my keyword is highly competitive but not the long tail versions. Should I give up and try to find something with less competition, or is having all of your keywords appear on page 10+ still going to pull in leads/sales, if you have enough keywords?

It sounds like your account history may be horrible, because page 10 for $2.00 on longtail keywords is pretty bad. It’s really bad actually there’s no way your ad should be that far down. Try making a new Adwords account with those keywords and bid $2.00 and see how it goes.

DutchRiven asks…

How does your exact workout routine look? Not necessarily the weights but what exercises, reps/sets etc.? And if you do cardio, what and how long?

Three phases :

Phase 1 – Bodyparts hit once a week, 6-10 reps moderate intensity.
Phase 2 – Bodyparts hit twice a week (Upper/Lower), progressively 8 rep max, 6RM, 4RM, 2RM…full intensity.
Phase 3 – Bodyparts hit three times a week (Full Body), 6-12 reps depending on the day moderate intensity.

Each phase is 4 weeks long. 20 minutes low intensity cardio done right after each workout.

Webmogul asks…

From the time you decide to run a new affiliate, how much time to do devote to research for the program, PPC, keywords, etc. before taking the plunge?

I’d say it’s about a week before I actually start sending traffic to the offer.

Adrian asks…

how do you go about analyzing niches? I mean, there’s so many, how do you decide to pick one over another? Do you have some sort of criteria that you use?

I talk around with networks, see what’s been performing well. Check out conversion rates, other affiliates promoting these offers, search volume, etc. If it all looks appealing to me, I’ll whip up a LP and research keywords to begin a test.

y-eikow asks…

a) Do your affiliate links open a new window or stay in the same one?

b) What software do you use to A/B test landing pages? I can’t find any mention in your UberGuide.

a) Same window.

b) In-house software I had built to do that.