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Q&A posts are the easiest for a blogger to write (because your topics are predetermined), and sometimes the best for readers (because real common questions get answered. I’ll start by answering a bunch with text, and then if there’s too many questions to type, I’ll do some with video also.
Fire away!
March 20th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
How many times do you…masticate before swallowing? :D
In all seriousness…how many campaigns do you have running at any given time, what percentage of them produce a ROI, and what percentage of what you make from those that produce ROI do you lose on those that don’t?
Jason
March 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
How does the ppc landscape change in terms of video in the next 18 months?
Also Paul PM’d you no response what gives?
March 20th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Which industry is producing most of your money in the past months for affiliate marketing?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Sweet :) – Same question
March 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
i asked him this b4. he never answered
March 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
well i said what was a successful campaign int he past for you that you no longer do?
March 20th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Next car purchase?
Going back to college?
Other sources of income aside from AM?
D
March 20th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
How much more difficult do you think PPC based affiliate marketing has gotten since you got started a year ago?
March 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
you still do facebook ppc? any tips/suggestions on this?
March 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
How do you hide the affiliate links?
lke http://www.uveraffiliate.com/recommend/azoogle.php
Do you have skype?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hey Mr. Uber Affiliate,
I would like to know “your’ process from start to finish on creating a profitable ppc campaign. From keyword research to getting paid. :) All done with video!
LOL
Actually my question would be, what is your process for doing keyword research for creating ppc campains? what tools do you use…etc.
Thanks
March 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
What software is crucial to success in your business? Particular in PPC …
Word.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Hi.
How do you create initial cash for yourself? I mean, I would refer to your low budget guide, but $50-100 is all I could spare a month.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Do you use software like SpeedPPC or Xtreme conversions or do you have your own exclusive systems?
What is the ROI per campaign you’re targeting?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
why do you always brag about your “earnings” but refuse to ever post how much of it is actually profit.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
He has posted his profit. In one post he said of the $120,000 revenue in one campaign, $50,000 of that was profit.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Do you ever use the content network? If so, any tips on how to get better CTR and/or conversions?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
How many keywords do you typically have in a campaign? How many keywords are in your largest campaign?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hi,
I just put a lot of aff links using openads(openx) on a site I help maintain. The site is at http://www.sourcelight.com/discover/new_releases.php. What should be our next steps and what do you think of our implementation? Any other pointers?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Almost all the affiliate sites you recommend to join ask for my website, but I don’t have a website yet, what am I supposed to do?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
At your age and ability to obviously network with some damn smart people, what other business models outside of pay per click have you thought about pursuing or are pursuing? Obviously specifics will be omitted but in what areas have you thought about going into or scaling to secure other business ventures?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
How do you deal with the unknown factor of what percentage of your leads of sales is going to be rejected? I find it very frustrating to wait for a month to see the approval percentage and by this the actual eCPC.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Do you think affiliate marketing is a long term, sustainable business model?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I’m liking the questions so far…keep em coming I’ll probably answer a bunch of them tonight/tomorrow morning.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Have you ever used offline marketing tactics to market online offers? Such as, classified ads, commercials, magazine ads, etc.
Have you ever bought pop up or pop under traffic?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
How much does this blog make you?
How much a month do you save up in your bank account?
Do you have any long term investments such as stocks, CD’s, etc? Care to share?
Thanks,
Jonathan
March 20th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Do you do anything apart from PPC? Do any of your sites rank organically? Can you program in a lang like PHP and SQL and do you use this for your campaigns, so are you technical basically? Do you use the adwords API much?
If all the answers to these questions is no…. kudos :-)
March 20th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hi,
I’m about to launch an affiliate at my company and I’m responsible for us not getting sued. What’s the best advice you can give me to avoid the end all?
Rog
March 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Does the Google Adwords keyword tool give you search volume for US only or entire world? Is there a tool that shows what people in other countries are searching that doesn’t mix in results from North America?
March 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Do you play Smash Bros? Who’s your main?
On a more serious note, what would you recommend to someone who has read every guide he can find on PPC and landing pages, and still can’t do much more than breaking even?
March 20th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Asked these in the last post on Aweber, hoping you answer ‘em now..
How do you measure the value of a subscriber?
And what’s an acceptable CPA to you for getting a new subscriber?
Also, do you start pitching subscribers right away?
March 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Two Part Question :
1. Your girlfriend is pretty hot…. How did you meet such a hot chick if you are always busy working on your campaigns in your basement?
2. Does your girlfriend know the extent of your revenue from your online businesses?
March 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Saw this topic, KNEW there would be something about the girlfriend. hahaha
March 20th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Is Aweber really worth it?
March 20th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
How many different verticals are you in right now?
What percentage of your revenue does your top vertical bring in?
March 20th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
What’s best for you, landing page or actual website?
I’ve read articles where google is taking down (slapping down) affiliate sites. I’ve always been more on the website side anyways, I like to do it right but the time and work that goes into it is no joke.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
You mention that you create your own landing pages. I notice most networks that run search offers have their own LP that you need to hit (via jumplink) to get the cookie set.
Do you set your LP to go to the affiliate one (essentially 2 LPs before signup) or do you set the cookie yourself and figure out a way straight to the signup/action page? How do you bypass the affiliate page?
March 20th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Also, what changes do you expect to see in the future as a result of the increasing popularity of mobile devices used to access the internet? How is that going to effect affiliate marketers in your opinion?
March 20th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
you mentioned the one of the best things that you’ve done growthwise is attend conferences. What’s the next conference you’re going to so I can book a tix ….
March 20th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
March 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Describe a perfect mini-site landing page to get a good QS. Privacy policy, About us etc. is understandable, but what kind of content and how much content would you put on the site? I am not sure how you can incorporate a LP with a content site.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Ever ask yourself — why such a big suit?
March 20th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I also run a 7 figure affiliate business. I am a one man show. I think I had read that you have affiliate managers. How do you trust your campaigns/keywords/methods, etc to them without thinking they will just take them for themselves?
March 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
We can make money from adsense with low budget ($10).
Do you have a case studies make money with $10 selling affiliate product using adwords?
I wonder you make an experiment in this blog and share with your readers.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
How much do you bench press?
March 20th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
What do you consider the most important above the fold factor for a landing page?
March 20th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Hi Paul,
I have this little questions:
1. What is a SuperAffiliate? How do you define it? When do you know that you are one?
2. What Networks do you use? Do you go only for Leads? Sales? Do you do ClickBank?
Thanks.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
What computer setup do you run?
Looking at buying a new PC, looking for some insight as to what you think the minimum specs should be.
Thanks!
March 20th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Are you as concerned as I am with the new Yahoo pricing?
March 20th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Is it better to have a blog where you blog about the market as your full name or as another name? Along with that, is one’s name a good thing to brand?
March 20th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
When you initially put out money to start your own affiliate site, did you worry about losing your money? or were you sure that you would be successful and were confident in putting your money on the line? In other words, do you think affiliates have to be natural risk takers?
March 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Who in this industry impressed you the most in the last 3 months?
March 20th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
#1: How do you scale your offers?
#2: Where do you think you will be in 2 yearS?
#3: Where do you think will the affiliate business be in 2 years?
March 20th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
1. How tall are you?
2. Why don’t you write a step by step guide of the process that you follow from the research stage until making a campaign profitable, along with the tools (i.e: software) that you use and how you use them? No need to share confidential details……..just enough to help newbies start earning decent income so they can reinvest it back. Pretend we are your dentist dad, and write the steps as if you were to explain affiliate marketing to your dad until he gets it profitable. (by the way has he sold his dental practice yet?)
I think a system is necessary :).
March 20th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
-Whats your cut off on a Campaign like clicks to leads ratio before its gone?
-What do you do with your profits?
March 20th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
You had a guest post on shoemoney when facebook ads first came out. Are you still using them and have you had any luck with them?
March 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
How do you choose your niches/products and how many campaigns would you recommend running at once? thanks, keep up the good content!
Carl
March 20th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
How many ad copies and landing pages do you split test with when creating a new campaign?
March 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I watched this video on a strategy for breaking into tough ppc markets using a strategy of high bids low budget and keep on making new campaigns unitl you can consistently do over 2.5% ctr. I tried this strategy on a market I would like to break into and got hammerd – I was paying $10 a click for position 6 when I know the top 3 places would only be able to afford $1.5 per click max. I lost about $400 testing this offer.
You can watch the video at http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=29 and there is also a free report that summarises the video whcih you can download from http://www.creativedigitalmedia.com/dominate/
Is this a strategy you employ?
March 20th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Which market in the PPC arena do you consider (1 “hot” at the moment, (2 a long-term sustainable business model, and (3 the easiest and safest to promote
March 20th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
1. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
2. Do you like Pizza or Hamburgers?
3. How tall are you?
4. How long do you take to brush your teeth?
5. Do you prefer paper or plastic?
He. He. Just kidding… Love your blog! Keep up the great work!
March 20th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
What percentage of these questions have you been asked a million times before?
March 21st, 2008 at 12:05 am
Which affiliate network do you currently think is the best?
March 21st, 2008 at 1:19 am
I am only experienced in SEO marketing and know how long it could take trying to get top ten listings in google for a competitive keyword. But trying to learn more about PPC.
Would you rather work on a long process of SEO affiliate markerting trying to get top ten rankings in the search engine for your profitable keywords? or would you stick to PPC because of the “quick” money that you could make?
March 21st, 2008 at 1:32 am
I would really like to see a “best practices” (according to you) on building a landing page.
tis would be awesome. :)
Thanks,
Jordan
March 21st, 2008 at 2:08 am
How did you turn from a failing-to ordenery affilate to a super affilate?
what would you say was the action that sets super affiliates from the rest?
March 21st, 2008 at 3:40 am
1) What percentage of you traffic comes from the content network vs the search network?
2) What is your average CPC?
3) Have you looked into banner ads etc
4) In your landing pages do you normally promote 1 product or do you do the comparison style ones more?
5) Any thoughts on PPV?
Cheers
March 21st, 2008 at 3:51 am
1) What proportion do you use with content or search networks on your campaigns?
2) What is your average CPC on your big campaigns?
3) Do you do any media buys/banner ads?
March 21st, 2008 at 5:17 am
[...] Ever want to ask a top affiliate marketer anything? [...]
March 21st, 2008 at 5:25 am
What software do most affiliate marketers use to create their landing pages from your experience? What software do you use to create your landing pages?
March 21st, 2008 at 7:16 am
How did you do your tuning process in YSM more efficient?
I have hundreds of adgroups on each of my campaign, most of it have more than 500 adgroups.
Their interface is very slow for us to do tuning through their website interface.
In Google Adwords, we can use adwords editor to do the tuning process and it’s really fast.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:47 am
What made you go into affiliate marketing?
You sold your directory site for $8,000, and you thought, let’s go into affiliate marketing? Where did you first read that it was profitable?
And did you just thought: Let’s try Rintones, and like, hey I’m earning $xx,xxx?
March 21st, 2008 at 9:29 am
How many keywords do you have for your big campaigns? 100? – 10,000?
March 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
When you first started, how did you go about settling on ringtones as an item that you could sell? Where did you literally begin in terms of finding an item to sell?
Do you design your own websites?
March 21st, 2008 at 10:05 am
I’m curious about avg conversion rates for offers using Google Adwords Search Marketing.
I did belong to a highly expensive undercover profits coaching program and they told be that…
Physical products averaged usually around a 4-5% conversion rate through there own experiences.
CPA offers (with No credit card required) usually 10 – 15% conversion.
Clickbank products usually 1% – .05% conversion.
What has been your experience with conversion rates (using Adwords) with ANY of the ones listed above?
What are your thoughts on the learning curve to using Googles placement targeting to drive traffic to CPA offers? (ex… Easier than search? More profitable than search? More difficult to track conversions?)
Thanks,
Jason
March 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
[...] Still keep asking away here. [...]
March 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Have you done much site targeting in google? What were/are the results?
Thanks.
March 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
How long does it take you on average to find a successful campaign? And if it’s not successful right away, do you try other angles? Or do you move on right away?
Do you prefer direct linking or making your own landing pages?
You say, you are only running a few campaigns that you try to dominate. How do you go about dominating them? And what is the factor that helps you the most to dominate a nice?
In todays competitive landscape, what is the most important factor to be a successful search affiliate? I already learned that tracking is very important and took care of that, and obviously copy writing is very helpful, but still I’m curious. Besides those skills, what skill do you value the most?
March 21st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
You mentioned a mega slap on your accounts with the latest Quality Score update. What did you do to fix it ?
March 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
You mentioned the importance of finding a business partner to grow your affiliate revenue. I chat up established affiliates all the time but they never give me the time of day, because I have nothing to offer them that they dont already have. I even met a few in person at ad-tech NY, but still no luck in any partnerships.
So how does a new affiliate go about finding a business partner?
March 21st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
^^ Nice
March 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Hello Paul, just wanted to say thanks for your site and openness in sharing.
I know there are many variables involved but out of your experience what seems to be the most important strategy or step to bring an unprofitable campaign to profitability? and if you don’t mind going into a little detail.
Thanks,
Andrew
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:54 am
When testing a new offer…
-> do you use direct linking or put together a simple 1 landing page website? you use Yahoo for that initial testing?
Your most profitable campaigns…
-> tend to be comparative landing pages or specific offers?
-> Are mostly available through affiliate networks or personal connections?
To maintain good Quality Score in having info in your websites…
-> Do you have someone else always write you the articles? If so how many on average and is it using a blog?
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
what host would you recommend to host landing pages? Where do you get your images from? Do you scrape them from flickr or buy royalty free pics?
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Great blog.
1. Which method of advertising through PPC do you find more profitable – Adwords or YSM?
2. Do you like to promote high volume/low commission items, or do you look for high commission items that may not have as much volume (but with the goal to move a lot of volume)?
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Can you show us at least one of your profitable landing pages?
Or, if not, can you explain how you take a campaign to the next level/scale it out?
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
I can’t find the post now, but I read either on diorex or CDF blogs that for campaign testing purposes you could :
(1) put the url of a relevant content site in your adwords ads and have adwords give you a good quality score on that.
(2) Then immediately after that you go in and change the urls in the ads to the actual landing page that you want (that you know wouldn’t quality score well) so you could start off with reasonable click costs.
Is this true? can this be done ? I think google would catch on too soon before you got enough clicks to establish profitability.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
what are the best ways to monetize my site?
I’m trying aff links but so far the income is ZERO from them. any suggestions or resources?
thanks
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
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March 24th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Hi, Your are my idol lol :)
I am doing PPC since a few months but I find it difficult to scale. Most of my campaigns make me some profit but I have no idea how to expand them. My eCPC is pretty low so I cant afford to bid higher.
How do you tweak for higher eCPC ?
March 24th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Have you tried http://www.ppc-coach.com/ ?
What do you think about it ? Would you recommend it to PPC newbies?
Thanks!
March 24th, 2008 at 3:28 am
1. Do you run your business as a company or individual?
2. What percentage of your profit do keep and what percentage do you reinvest?
3. What’s your ultimate income goal? How much money do you want to be making?
4. When you started out, where the banks confused as to why your credit card bill was so high and how did you manage to get such a large limit as you don’t have a long history?
5. If you were limited to 3 affiliate networks, which ones would you choose to use?
6. What would you advise someone if they wanted to scale their revenue from $20K a month to $200K?
March 24th, 2008 at 3:36 am
What would you do differently to get where you are today faster? What things you would avoid doing and so on.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:15 am
how do you go about tracking each campaign profit / losses? do you have some kind of automated system, or update it all by hand?
atm im doing it all manually. takes forever every day or so to check everything is still making profits.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Paul, what’s the best way to approach a super affiliate like yourself if I wanted you to promote a product or service and have you say yes? What sort of things do you look for that will help seal the deal?
March 24th, 2008 at 6:05 am
How much do you make total a month after expenses? What is you average profit margin percentage per campaign? Thanks!
March 24th, 2008 at 6:06 am
How much do you make total a month after expenses? What is you average profit margin percentage per campaign?
March 24th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Hi Paul,
Do you use any sort of website builder to crank out your landing pages/hybrid sites? Or do you have your programmer do everything?
What do you think of using WordPress blogs as landing pages?
Do you test campaings initially on Content and then move to Search?
thanks,
March 24th, 2008 at 6:30 am
I have been told to only focus on aff programs with at least $15 / transaction comp. Do you have criteria on min comp, or is anything open? Hi vol, low comp, low vol, hi comp? does it matter to you?
March 24th, 2008 at 6:57 am
What kind of offers do you recommend for newbies?
What do you think are the big changes coming in Affiliate Marketing this year?
Name the #1 you do that enables you to run a successful affiliate operation, vs someone who fails at affiliate marketing?
March 24th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Why does nickycakes hate you? Even tho he comes to your blog everyday?
March 24th, 2008 at 9:55 am
“First time commenter, long time reader”
Paul, I love the site and all the info you put up.
OK, enough gassin’ your head, my question is simple,
Of the 3 major campaigns, or more general, of your style,
Do you deal with PPL exclusively or do you run specific product campaigns or a combination of the two?
If only one, do you feel that there isn’t enough money in the other or is the ROI not as good?
March 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
As my email isn’t working at the moment (gaah!) I’ll ask here – would you do paid reviews, and if so, how much?
More on topic, which PPC would you recommend most apart from Adwords? :)
March 24th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I didn’t have a questions, but i sure enjoyed reading the others, Keep it up!
March 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
do you create your own landing pages or you outsource it?
March 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
if you outsource, you have any recommendations for good designers?
March 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Oh and.. another question…
It seems like you’re not cloacking your affiliate links on the right sidebar of your blog, why?
Did you ever split test it and found it was better this way? Or you just didn’t want to bother cloaking the links?
March 24th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Do you use an individual programmer or a company? Where did you find?
Are your landing pages, the simple ringtone type landing pages, or are they more complex in design, with multiple pages?
Do you think direct linking is worth it?
March 24th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
How are you affected by the new Adwords slap that involves display urls?
March 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Which tools do you use to build your websites?
Do you build a frame around the affiliates landing page or create new landing page?
Which affiliate programs do you work with..cj, clickbank, etc.
Do you focus on new products or traditional products?
March 25th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Do you send PPC traffic directly to the merchant’s website or to your own landing pages? If both could you define what percentages of direct traffic are?
Have you ever tested multiple merchants on one landing page and if yes, did it increase your benefits?
March 25th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] Keeeeep on askin’. [...]
March 26th, 2008 at 4:35 am
Do you think you would be willing to give suggestions to other affiliates out there, such as me, on their landing pages and how to improve certain aspects of their sites – taking into consideration what they’re to achieve with them, like more sales/leads etc…
Heck, I’d pay you if you want! Just not too much now, we’re not all super affiliates ya know.
If yes, I’d like to be first in line please! Thank you!
March 26th, 2008 at 6:36 am
That would be awesome! I’m right after you in the line.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Could you show us one of your expired old landing pages?
The directory site you sold, what was the URL? and why was it worth 8,000$?
Best tip for a proxy network owner? (I have a few, but making low revenue each day)
March 26th, 2008 at 6:35 am
You say you create hybrids. What are hybrids, can you give us a clear example? Perhaps an URL to such a business model?
March 26th, 2008 at 8:23 am
what are the main factors to keep in mind before select an offer to promote????
March 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am
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?
March 26th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Have you ever considered trying Incentive Affiliate Marketing? If not, why?
I have been doing it for about 2 months now and it has been working very well for me.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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.
Thanks
March 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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?
March 27th, 2008 at 6:47 am
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?
March 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
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?
March 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hi Paul,
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?
Thanks,
Adrian
P.S. If you want a REALLY good workout, checkout “New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle” by Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove. I’ve got it…its good :)
March 28th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
[...] Keeeeep on askin’. [...]
March 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I wasn’t lucky with my first questions, but some were answered through others.
Second try:
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.
Thanks!!
March 29th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I know that its probably a numbers game where 70% of you income comes from one website while the other 30% may spread across your other sites.
But how many websites do you have active now for you to be able to make that money? 10,20,100?
March 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Hi Paul,
1. Do you use Google’s conversion tracking on your own site or the merchant’s sites?
2. How do you handle a situation where the merchant already has Google’s conversion tracking code installed (as they run their PPC in house) but you also want them to place your own Google tracking code because you also promote through PPC?
Thanks.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
1 can you comment on other people’s landing pages?
2 will show us how you go about how you pick a product to promote? in other words, what do you look for in a program prior to spending time in testing it?
April 1st, 2008 at 12:14 am
I read a post you made about hiring a team.
What was a sample of your work order when trying to find a programmer? Because finding a writer can be easy.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:18 pm
How do you track the conversion per keyword or even per ad when you’re sending traffic to cpa or other offers? With the inability to place conversion tracking on the page where the conversion takes place, how can you measure this? How can you even measure which keywords lead visitors to click from your landing page to the offer page? (assuming you use landing page)
Everyone is always talking about the importance of tracking, so some insight to this would be of great help!
April 1st, 2008 at 9:47 pm
If you had a programmer build you a keyword conversion tracking software what were the writer specifications you gave your programmer? What would you say So us newbs can get help at elance :)
April 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
The interview you had with Wes Mahler you mentioned you had an “in house built software” used for tracking and CTR and stuff? What did you mean by that? Did you hire a programmer to build this for you, if so what were the writer specifications you gave your programmer to build you this?(I understand if you do not want to answer this)
Keep up the blog.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
What is the most important technical skill you consider yourself having that has helped you become successful? Is it your ability to find unexploited campaigns, find unexploited keywords in popular campaigns, discover creative ways to market a campaign, create effective landing pages, or create effective ad copies?
Thanks.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:56 am
What was the time effort you put in from the beginning? People still have 9-5’s with kids… what would you tell them on how to start with hardly no time, which you had plenty of?
Did you ever buy any info products to teach you how to do anything of the things you are doing now?
I am getting flack from people that I tell about how I want to get into this, they tell me to steer away because to play the ppc game i need a ton of money and time. What advice would you give me about that issue?
April 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
In the beginning,before you sent off your w-9 form to the various networks, were you already an s-corp or did you put individual/sole prop. first?
April 24th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Hey Paul,
Do you do any personal mentoring or coaching?
Thanks,
Toki
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