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21 Aug 2008

lessons learned so far in affiliate marketing

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I’ve only been running my affiliate marketing campaign for the past couple of days but already i’m learning valuable lessons.

Lesson #1 – you can’t predict what people will do…

Here’s stats for yesterday – not a single conversion from 17 clicks! WTF! The offers i’m running are simple – enter your email address and win a prize. Of the 17 people who landed on these offers, not a single one bothered to enter their email!

Check out today’s stats so far – 1 click, 1 conversion – that’s more like it :mrgreen:

Despite getting off to a good start, i finished up day 1 with a -15% ROI. Day 2 was a -100% ROI and day three so far is a -10% ROI.

Not a great start, but at least i’m earning something – it’s not a completely lost cause. *IF* i could manage to rank organically for my keywords, i could be taking in $1/2 per day, possibly more.

  • http://www.lordbloggit.com Lord Bloggit

    Were we able to see the site you’re referring to it would complete the lesson ….. :-)

  • http://www.smemon.com smemon

    true, but the ads are only available to the US, plus i’m paying for US traffic so revealing the domain wouldn’t benefit me in terms of SEO (as i’m paying for traffic anyway) or referrals (as a lot of my readers are irish / non american)…

    once i pull the plug on the campaign i may reveal the site. it’ll be the end of this month though at the earliest ;-)

  • http://www.lordbloggit.com Lord Bloggit

    good man smemon! :-)

  • http://www.lordbloggit.com Lord Bloggit

    on feed demon your posts arrive about 90 mins after the fact …. this one just arrived now …. and there is no sign of the YES NO Blog post ….

  • http://www.smemon.com smemon

    hmm.. that’s probably a cache problem with the blog – i’ll try messing about with wp-supercache (plugin i’m using)