A New President & More
I have not posted in SO long but again, I have my reasons. Things have been really busy here with the house and all.
I ripped out our upstairs bathroom one day because it was really ugly. We were going to hire somebody to put wall tile into the bathtub/shower area but I decided to learn to do it myself. I replaced all of the drywall, added new copper piping for the faucets and installed all new tile. I got a lot of advice from my dad on how to do it and it came out looking GREAT.
The next step is to tile the flooring on the upstairs bathroom which will be much easier than the wall was. After that, a new vanity and sink and then we are going to remodel the guest bathroom and the kitchen and THEN put a new fence in around the house. SO I have been too busy to post.
I have been having great record months with my PPC campaigns. It is funny that there is a recession going on with our economy but I am still able to make money. Aside from my Copeac referral commissions I have been experimenting with other niches and have stepped aside from the myspace PPC for a little bit until they get themselves out of the horrible beta.
Jon and I are flying back to RI in a week and a half and I am very excited, I miss all of my friends and my family and it will be a nice breather for a week. Ami will be staying here with the dog and 4 cats.. yes we got 2 new kittens because some stray cat gave birth in our back yard! I named them FiddleStix and FuzzBall. I will post photos when I have time.
We are also looking forward to flying to Vegas for Affiliate Summit West convention. I had to cut ASE in Boston short because Jon and I had to move out here to MO. I have never been to Vegas but I am more excited about making some connections and seeing how all of my fellow friends in the industry are doing. Jon still has much to learn about what it is that I do but he has been such a great help and has some ideas that help me thing outside the box.
We registered our first LLC, called Hot Bod .. Yes Hot Bod. Haha. This is separate from my affiliate marketing business, but we are planning on opening a tanning salon here in University City, right on the Delmar Loop, massive spot. We plan on opening it up, getting it off the ground, advertising it and then expanding. It will give me a chance to work from somewhere outside of my house and the business will pretty much run itself. Ami will be doing most of the managing of it full time and now we just need to plan it all out… After that we have ideas for 2 other businesses in the area. It feels good to have so much ambition and drive AND it will give me something to do when Jon goes back to school.
ANYWAY, I am so happy that President Barack Obama has won. It has restored my faith in this country. I know that I have not always liked him but once I saw him speak and gave him a chance, it reassured me. I have never seen so many people come together in my life and it was worth waiting 3 hours to vote.. Plus Ami, Jon & I got on NBC news when we were waiting in line because Governor Jay Nixon came to shake our hands. Was pretty awesome!!
I will write again soon and post some photos once I have time to sit down. Happy Holiday’s everyone!
Affiliate Marketing – Google Adwords Quality Score SLAM
Its been about 2 years now since I began working with google adwords and pay per click.
I will not make this complex, I will just say it like i have experienced it. There have been many new campaigns that I have started and make HORRIBLE returns on right away. Usually it is because the CPC is too high at the beginning, but once you let the ad run for a few days, google will not think you are trying to make a quick buck and they will loosen up on slamming your site with a “we want more $$ so we are saying your quality score sucks because we think your trying to outwit us incident”.
Here is what used to happen to me. I would start new campaigns by first creating a pretty decent landing page. They have to be good if you want google to not boot you after a few hours of running your ads. (unless you are smart and know some great cloaking method to make google see something that is not really there).
I would start the new campaign with a daily budget of about $100 USD. I always start each campaign at $1 CPC. When i began with adwords, I would freak out because I would not make a good ROI with a CPC of $1 and my budget being $100 daily. Every beginner does this. You try to lower your CPC to something like .50 cents and then almost instantly, your keywords go from being rated either GREAT or GOOD by google to the POOR and low quality score.
Every affiliate marketer dreads this. What I have done to make sure this does not happen to me is:
1: Make sure the DOMAIN and URL matches the AD text in some form.
2: Have a DECENT landing page. Not 1 page with no outgoing links or text, it has to look like a real site.
3: If you do not make a good ROI (return on investment) your first day or 2, do not lower your CPC (cost per click) until you have let the ad run a bit. You need to lose $ to make money most of the time with adwords.
4: Once you are feeling good enough to start lowering your bids, lower them in small increments… DO not go from $1 to .50 at once. I say MILK it, a little at a time.
These few things have helped me. I hope they help you!
Get Approved With Myspace PPC – Even After The Crackdown
Any publisher that has been running on the new myspace advertising platform knows that now their TOS is tighter than even facebook.
When I first started, i was running a weight loss offer as you saw in my previous blog posts. I also was running some of the dating offers which snazzy banners that would be sure to make anybody click on them!
Then the moderators started cracking down and would not approve any of the ‘sexy and bold’ ads. SO, first I decided to change my banners so they are still bold but are not showing anything inappropriate… But the moderators will still see the landing page of the offer which has some of the models in the photos showing a little too much “chest”, regardless of if it is a guy or girl on the page.
All you need to do is find a dating offer that is innocent and decent, showing no skin. You use a simple html redirect, uploaded to your server. Once the ad is approved by the myspace moderators, you re-upload the redirect file to your server but change it to one of the more REVEALING landing pages.. Such as the sexy offer called Spicy & Sweet on COPEAC . This offer has to be the best dating offer on the internet from ANY of the networks, so if your not on COPEAC yet, sigh up and test this offer and sign up HERE
Barack Obama Rally – St Louis Arch
This had to have been one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. On Saturday, Obama spoke a few miles from our house at the gateway arch in St Louis. While his speech was pretty much the same as everything I have heard in his debates and commercials, it was a great feeling to see so many people show up to see somebody who really wants to change this country. I have never been into politics until this election and I was against Obama until I actually got a chance to hear him out. Over 150,000 people showed up to see his speech, it was a GREAT day. Only 2 more weeks until it is time to vote so PLEASE VOTE everyone!
Pix and video below!
Oh My Lord
My mom sent this photo to me, its me when I was a kid. HAHA. Sorry, had to post it
