Confessions Of A Super Duper AffiliateAffiliate marketing information, help, reviews, and tips.

August 12th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

Are you having an up trend or a down trend with your revenue over the last 3 months?

August 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Do you like chocolate?

August 12th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Can you talk a bit about PartnerWithPaul.com? What kind of affiliate training is it and how much involvement do you have in the program?

August 12th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Do you try and tailor your landing pages to resemble the merchants landing page?

August 12th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Did CX Digital create your landing pages and KW lists for you?

August 12th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

1. what niche are you targetting?
2. what is your landing page url?
3. what are you keywords?

August 12th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Has anybody told you you look like Michael Phelps?

August 12th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

Does CX Digital really make your landing pages and keyword lists so you don’t have to?

Justin Dupre
http://justindupre.com
Affiliate Marketing with an Attitude

August 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Hi there, and thanks 4 the opportunity.

I’ve been long time lurking, first time posting (Congrats 4 blog QUALITY anyway!)

I’m good in SEO, and I”m already doing well with Adsense & my own seo consulting biz.
Should I invest time in learning the Affiliate Marketing basics? And Why?
P.s. English is not my motherlanguage, my online assets and experience are targeted mainly to italian people.

I’d like very much to hear your take.

Best,
Maurizio

August 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

What blogs, newspapers and magazines do you read regularly? Would you recommend them to someone just getting started in affiliate marketing?

August 12th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

WHat do you think about those AM that say that crappy/cheap looking landing pages convert better than proffesional looking?

August 12th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Will you post a detailed case study of one of your huge campaigns that died out? Thanks.

August 12th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

How did you manage to get into affiliate summit east when it is clearly 21+ only and everyone knows you are only 19?

August 12th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

Do affiliate marketers get a lot of puzzy?

August 12th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

I have mainly used affiliate programs which pay a percentage of the sale. I get the impression a lot of the top affiliate marketers make most of their money from cost per action programs. Can you please advise what percentage of your total income comes from cost per action as opposed to cost per sale. Thank you.

August 12th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

When you first start your campaign, you mentioned you want to bid “high” to get the good CTR and collect good stats as soon as possible, but how do you determine what is the high bid for that particular niche you are targeting?

August 12th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

You ever had sex with your girl friend ??

August 12th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

Paul,

What would you do if your campaign was doing great, then one day, the CTR stayed roughly the same, but the conversion rates dropped by 5% or more? You try switching networks with the same offer, you find out that other affiliates are not having a severe drop in conversion rates, you even try changing out your landing page, and ad copy. Your average position is the same, but the dam campaign is converting like crap. What would you suggest?

August 12th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

How does it feel to be a home owner?

August 12th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Did you lose your blog content writer?

August 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Could you email me your instant messaging contact?

I promise not to bug you with questions every single hour… =)

August 12th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

From what I understand, the huge leap in your income was the result of meeting the right people. Obviously, the guys you met wouldn’t guide you in the right direction if they didn’t expect something from you in return. So what kind of approach did you use to get what you wanted out of them? What did they expect from you?

August 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

Do you think you’d do as well if you promoted pay-per-sale affiliate programs like those found in Clickbank and Commission Junction?

August 12th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

What was the ONE action you took that blasted you from barely-making-it to several millions dollars in affiliate marketing income?

August 12th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

Do you think PPC Affiliate Marketing is *largely* a “find a needle in a haystack” kind of game? Meaning you’ve to throw up 50 campaigns to find 1 profitable one.

August 12th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

What tools do you use to build your keyword lists?

August 13th, 2008 at 12:00 am

Is there a way to do direct linking? Do you still do it?
Could you be my mentor?

August 13th, 2008 at 12:59 am

Hi, what niche do you target?

August 13th, 2008 at 1:34 am

Who the fuck are you that you are the go to guy for questions about ANYTHING?

August 13th, 2008 at 1:38 am

Can you describe how you start an affiliate offer in 10 steps or less?

Like:
1. Choosing niche
2. Building/buying landing page
3. Research on ppc
4 etc etc

August 13th, 2008 at 1:50 am

Hi Paul,

Great to be open to questions again:

1 How do structure your testing landing pages? Do you just name them index1.htm index2.htm etc? Same for internal non-index pages? Seems clumsy but it’s how I do it…

2 Do you use drupal or other CMS for most of your sites? If not, what do you usually use?

3 Do you still design many of your sites? (ie. is it a key skill to learn and apply)

4 Do you pay to have your content written, and then just add all the articles to the site?

Thanks!

August 13th, 2008 at 3:55 am

Paul,

I wonder were you get traffic from except from PPC. Do you use any traffic from Image hosting sites or Web proxies? Do you think traffic from those sources might be useful and “monetizable” and if yes what would you try to market on sites like that?

thanks in advance.

August 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am

How much text is on your Landing Pages? Tons of bla bla or just a few word like “Buy this crap now!”

August 13th, 2008 at 5:22 am

What do you think of PartnerWithPaul.com? Another scam?

August 13th, 2008 at 5:27 am

How do you prevent your landing pages from getting slapped in Google? Do you just do landing pages, or do you do full content sites that you have to update regularly?

August 13th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Do horses wear socks?

August 13th, 2008 at 6:59 am

What ever happened to you teaching your Dad affiliate marketing? Did that ever happen and if it did how did it go?

August 13th, 2008 at 7:01 am

Do you tend to build micro-sites or just landing pages for your campaigns?

I have shifted towards mirco-sites, in an attempt to incorporate SEO into my site design. I am not sure if it’s worth the extra effort.

August 13th, 2008 at 7:42 am

Is it important to cloak our referrers so the networks don’t see our landing pages or is just cloaking our keywords good enough. I’ve heard of people’s conversions going up after they allowed networks to see their landing pages. But I also heard networks will give out your LP to other affiliates if they see it is working and they also might use it for their own in house PPC team.

Also with the current state of our financial system with some banks failing. Do you need to open up multiple business bank accounts and just put $100K in each? FDIC only insures up to $100K per bank…or is there something else you can do since you are running a business?

August 13th, 2008 at 7:47 am

What’s with these wierd small posts?

August 13th, 2008 at 8:02 am

How many split-tests do you conduct to get your campaign’s ads CTR up to a decent level?

August 13th, 2008 at 8:07 am

hmmm Paul, it’s hard to come up with a question that hasn’t already been answered by you….but…

Have you ever used Wordze as a keyword tool and did you like it if you did?

How do you think affiliate marketing will change in the next year or so?

Could you give an in-depth guide on how to build a landing page…maybe even show us a case study?

August 13th, 2008 at 8:48 am

What qualities or advantages do you think you possess make you successful, and moreso than the average joe aff marketer?

August 13th, 2008 at 9:23 am

what’s up uber? it was good meeting you at ASE. how was poker?

good times. say whats up if your at ASW.

- Wes

August 13th, 2008 at 10:19 am

Do you still do direct linking for PPC currently? Is it still doable to make good income from doing that with Neverblue on non-Google search engines? Thanks!

August 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am

Paul,

When you decide to move into a new niche, how do you decide how much to start bidding? What ad positions do you aim for?

August 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

How do you choose an offer for new campaigns?
Do you do more lead or sale offers with PPC?
Which affiliate networks do you use?

August 13th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

i want to interview you for a german blog, interested?

August 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

I would like to learn more about google adwords and affiliate marketing. Anymore details on that subject? How to get the right keywords at the right price etc

August 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Is Jonathan Volk Really A hacker?!?!! Hahahaha. J/k

August 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

did you grad highschool or are you in college ?

August 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Is Jonathan Volk your gay partner?

August 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

I find it hard to articulate what Affiliate Marketing is to people that have never heard of it. And I feel that it is up to me to make what I do for a living sound at least somewhat ‘cool’. How do you explain what Affiliate Marketing is to people and make it sound cool?

August 13th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

Hey Paul I like your blog man I really do, but lately your post are sucking up.

August 14th, 2008 at 12:04 am

What do you think of Amit Mehta?

August 14th, 2008 at 12:25 am

What car do you drive?

August 14th, 2008 at 3:51 am

Why do you even bother blogging anymore? It’s quite evident that you do not want to write content anymore, and even numerous reviews from UberCamp state that you really did not provide them anything.

August 14th, 2008 at 4:35 am

Are you really gay?