Mar 24
Helloo….wow its been awhile. Can’t believe my last post was 6 months ago. Thats how long I’ve been in my hole. I just can’t seem to find the time to blog these days. A couple of weeks ago I purchased a time management course by Jimmy Brown. I thoroughly enjoyed it and implemented some of the time managements techniques. Now I just gotta try and stick to it. I’ve actually gone and designed my weekly activity chart which based on the plan requires only 4 hours of work/day. Can’t quite seem to stick to that though….
Well anyway. Here’s what I’ve been up to. I can’t remember if I mentioned this in one of my earlier posts but I’ve now moved over to Yahoo and thru blood sweat and tears I’ve actually managed to rebuild my campaigns and achieve almost the same profits I was generating on Google Adwords. At one point I was getting slapped at least once a month. It was real hindrance to my productivity cuz every month instead of working on new campaigns I spent my time rebuilding the ones that got slapped. Now that I’m 80% on Yahoo life is just sooo much easier. Took a lot of hard work getting there tho.
The Secret To Making It Work on Yahoo
I can’t speak for everyone else but this is how I got my campaigns to work on Yahoo. Nothing is more important then Testing & Tracking and I mean REAL testing and tracking. Often times people (even myself till about 2 months ago) thought that I was doing enough testing and tracking by just split testing ads and tracking keyword conversions which resulted in my just pausing or deleting the non converting keywords. Now…my whole view of testing and tracking has changed.
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Sep 14
Its freeeeeezing here in Star Bucks and for a Sunday the Mid Valley traffic seems to be unusually clear. These days I try to fit in a reading day where I spend a couple of hours once a week just reading and going through my book list. I’ve found that I tend to spend too much time on my business that I hardly ever have any fun anymore. Mind you I do consider sitting in front of my pc and developing campaigns or reading blogs fun (minus the wrist blisters and the blurring images due to eye fatigue). Gosh I sound like such a geek…but then again who cares 
as long as I enjoy it.
Anyway….that brings me to the topic of todays post. I wrote a post last year about the purchase of my new iMac and how I couldn’t quite get the hang of it especially since a lot of the software I used ran only on Windows. Well…I’ve somehow gone back to using my Mac and parallels desktop (after getting extremely frustrated with my Windows Vista) and I feel like I’m on a highway as opposed to a dirt path. Things just work so much smoother on the Mac and I don’t get the sudden freezes or lag that I experienced with Vista. I’ve now decided to go Mac all the way. I currently have a 20″ iMac, a Vista laptop and desktop. I spend most of my time working on my Vista desktop (with a HP 22inch screen) and am now going to indulge in a Mac Pro. Imagine a Mac Pro with dual 30inch Apple Cinema Displays — sweet! Unfortunately the Mac Pro isn’t cheap and the 30 inchers are just pure indulgence so I’ll stick to using my HP 22inch for now….one step at a step i guess!
I’ve also just downloaded the new Google Chrome browser and am still playing around with it so can’t quite comment on anything yet but I must say it looks good and is quite speedy as well. I know some people who have actually ditched Firefox in favor of Google Chrome. Can’t say if I’m one of them but will keep you posted. Sigh* yet another browser platform to test my landing pages for…….
CPA Offers - yup its CPA all the way for me now. The only CPS offer I’m managing now are the ones that I built much earlier and were all Clickbank products. I’ve signed up to quite a few CPA networks and CPA conversions just rock! I go for the super high traffic niches. Since I’m gonna be spending time on a campaign it might as well have the potential to be really big.
Aug 28
Over the past few days I purchased a couple of Adwords courses. I havent quite finished going through all of them but I just thought I’d share my findings. If you’ve signed up to Adwords specific mailing lists then you would have received promotional emails promoting Commission Blueprint. I received about 4 emails from different people promoting it and I’m a big fan of videos so I checked out the video link. I was kinda drawn into it and was curious about what it could offer so I signed up. It was a one off $77 cost.
The course basically consists of a pdf manual, landing page templates and 14 or so videos. I’ve bought my fair share of Adwords courses over the past 2 years and am aware of the quality of a lot of them. Some very good…most just rehashed basic material. I’m not going to provide links as I wanted my review of these courses to be as unbiased as possible. Courses are not cheap and especially to us Malaysians so I wanted to provide you with a list of courses that were really worth the money.\ Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 20
We’ve all heard about Google’s duplicate content penalty but how does this affect PPC affiliate marketers?
I bought an adwords course and the expert on the call talked about a little about this so am just going to share what I learnt. Don’t want to get into trouble with the owner of the course so am not going to disclose it here..anyway here’s what I learnt from the course.
‘If you have multiple landing pages with only slight differences between them then just select one as your control page and insert a no crawl code into the rest of the similar landing pages so they don’t get crawled by the Google bot’
I haven’t done this yet but in my experience (can’t say for sure but…) most of my landing pages were hit either because the design was similar to another advertiser or it focused primarily on making a sale. Anyway most of my landing pages are unique and use PHP code to dynamically insert the new keyword into the landing page instead of creating 100s of landing page. Its easier maintenance with PHP. This way when I need to make a change to a link or image etc I just need to change one page instead of all of em….
Aug 20
I’ve just gone through some of the comments and since I haven’t been updating my blog some of the comments are from way back. Sorry about that. I’ve just been so busy
Instead of answering each of them separately…since some of the questions are fairly similar I’ll try and answer them here. If you have anymore questions just send me more comments and I’ll reply accordingly. Now that I have improved on my time management I’ll have more time to work on my blog. Here goes…
1) Do I direct linking to the merchant or use landing pages?
I tend to use landing pages a lot more. There was a time when I was doing really well with direct linking but the problem is Google’s one URL policy. A new advertiser came along and bid through the roof. My ad was then shoved off in favour of the better performing ad. An alternative is to cloak your URL using an iframe but its against Google’s policy and after reading in forums about the masses who’ve been banned or suspended from Adwords I just don’t want to take the chance.
2) How do I get content for my landing pages?
I hire a ghost writer to write a whole bunch of articles related to the niche I’m promoting. These are mostly short 500 word articles.
3) How many pages of content do I have on my landing pages?
It varies from 5-20 pages and they consists of Privacy Policy, Contact Us and some related articles.
4) How to contact me personally?
I’ll put a contact me form ony my blog so you can email me directly.
5) Hows my Adsense project doing?
Well…I’ve found that traffic to my blog seems to be directly related to updating of content. I haven’t updated my Adsense site in awhile and my traffic has dropped to about 300 uniques a day from 1000. I’ve noticed before that when I update the content, the traffic seems to increased probably due to the increase in rankings of my site on search engines. I haven’t quite monitored it (and i know i should) but am pretty much focused on my CPA offers instead. My Adsense earnings are now about $0.4 a day.
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