Affiliate Marketing: Let’s Get This Party Started

I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for quite some time now, but not on a full fledged scale as I’ve kept myself busy with a lot of other internet related activities. So I figured it’s time to get serious and do something about it! After all, I won’t live forever. If you remember I wrote this post about promoting home grown offers to try to get the gist of things before moving on to catch bigger fish.

Since I already have a product, i.e WP Auctions, I’m going to be using that as a case study. I know that most people will not have something like this to promote but I hope that it will provide you, and me, a ton of information as I learn everything I can about keywords, PPC and landing pages along the way. Most of it is already available from other affiliates who have written extensively about this way of making money online.

I’m just finally going to use their advice. The case study will last one month.

Last month the plugin generated over $500 in sales. Which is not that great and not that bad either, considering I’ve spent $0 in marketing. It was also featured on dealdotcom, it might be featured again this month.

I’ve already bookmarked a ton of information from around the web and I’m also taking part in The Black Ink Project from Jeremy Palmer. It should be a fun month overall.

Right, lets get on with it.

WP Auctions already has a landing page, linked above, and to me it looks good enough. But that doesn’t mean it’s the best. The conversions have been satisfactory in relation to the amount of traffic I’ve been getting on the site. Again, I’ve spent $0 in marketing.

You can sign up for the affiliate program here if you would like to promote the plugin on your blog.

Choosing a platform to market from

For this case study I’m going to be using Google Adwords as I’m most comfortable with them, even though I know almost everyone says to start on Yahoo and MSN first. I just feel like I know Adwords better, even though I’ve barely scratched the surface.

That, and MSN and Yahoo don’t give free credits to non-U.S advertisers. Boo!

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