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.
Will you post a detailed case study of one of your huge campaigns that died out? Thanks.
Patrick
August 12, 2008
How did you manage to get into affiliate summit east when it is clearly 21+ only and everyone knows you are only 19?
John
August 12, 2008
Do affiliate marketers get a lot of puzzy?
ian
August 12, 2008
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.
Newbie
August 12, 2008
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?
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?
Could you email me your instant messaging contact?
I promise not to bug you with questions every single hour… =)
ben
August 12, 2008
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?
dominic
August 12, 2008
Do you think you’d do as well if you promoted pay-per-sale affiliate programs like those found in Clickbank and Commission Junction?
Curiosity
August 12, 2008
What was the ONE action you took that blasted you from barely-making-it to several millions dollars in affiliate marketing income?
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.
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
yeikow
August 13, 2008
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?
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.
Frank
August 13, 2008
How much text is on your Landing Pages? Tons of bla bla or just a few word like “Buy this crap now!”
Frank
August 13, 2008
What do you think of PartnerWithPaul.com? Another scam?
Maximum Rare
August 13, 2008
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?
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.
Kevin
August 13, 2008
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?
what’s up uber? it was good meeting you at ASE. how was poker?
good times. say whats up if your at ASW.
– Wes
Dan the Man
August 13, 2008
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!
Are you having an up trend or a down trend with your revenue over the last 3 months?
Do you like chocolate?
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?
Do you try and tailor your landing pages to resemble the merchants landing page?
Did CX Digital create your landing pages and KW lists for you?
1. what niche are you targetting?
2. what is your landing page url?
3. what are you keywords?
i second that. ;)
Has anybody told you you look like Michael Phelps?
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
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
What blogs, newspapers and magazines do you read regularly? Would you recommend them to someone just getting started in affiliate marketing?
WHat do you think about those AM that say that crappy/cheap looking landing pages convert better than proffesional looking?
Very true.
….or he could just hand you $200K.
good try.
Will you post a detailed case study of one of your huge campaigns that died out? Thanks.
How did you manage to get into affiliate summit east when it is clearly 21+ only and everyone knows you are only 19?
Do affiliate marketers get a lot of puzzy?
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.
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?
You ever had sex with your girl friend ??
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?
How does it feel to be a home owner?
Did you lose your blog content writer?
Could you email me your instant messaging contact?
I promise not to bug you with questions every single hour… =)
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?
Do you think you’d do as well if you promoted pay-per-sale affiliate programs like those found in Clickbank and Commission Junction?
What was the ONE action you took that blasted you from barely-making-it to several millions dollars in affiliate marketing income?
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.
What tools do you use to build your keyword lists?
Is there a way to do direct linking? Do you still do it?
Could you be my mentor?
Hi, what niche do you target?
Who the fuck are you that you are the go to guy for questions about ANYTHING?
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
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!
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.
How much text is on your Landing Pages? Tons of bla bla or just a few word like “Buy this crap now!”
What do you think of PartnerWithPaul.com? Another scam?
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?
Do horses wear socks?
He’s 20 now. And he’s a major revenue producer.
What ever happened to you teaching your Dad affiliate marketing? Did that ever happen and if it did how did it go?
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.
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?
What’s with these wierd small posts?
Maybe because he makes more than you do? Who the fuck are you?
How many split-tests do you conduct to get your campaign’s ads CTR up to a decent level?
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?
What qualities or advantages do you think you possess make you successful, and moreso than the average joe aff marketer?
what’s up uber? it was good meeting you at ASE. how was poker?
good times. say whats up if your at ASW.
– Wes
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!