That first post

So here we go. If you just somehow found this blog this is a quick recap of what I'm planning on doing. I'm not entirely sure at this point but I will give internet affiliate marketing a shot. Once again. I've done it before with some success in the past but now things on the Internet are upside down and I will see if I can squeeze a few dollars out of the net using my old methods and hopefully learning some new ones.

I have to confess I've head started a bit. I've created some PPC campaigns about a month ago until now and followed them closely to see what they can do. One thing that is obvious (and this is really why I got out of the business some 3 years ago) is that getting campaigns to work is often like banging your head against the wall. People seem to never do things on the net these days. Either that or my traffic is really really poor. Possibly both. Still though what is somewhat unexpected is that some of the traffic is cheaper than it used to be. Some that is, and some of course are much more expensive. But you'd think that by now many companies would have cut out the middle man (that is the affiiliate) and decided to take all profits for themselves. That is not the case though, but as you will see most traffic that come for pennies also do not come that often. Even if getting a campaign to profit is not super hard as long as you bid low enough, getting lots of visitors obviously fall at the same rate as your bid prices. ¨

A quick recap of my first month shows $405 spent and $615 in leads making a profit but at a measly turnover. I will have to find better traffic numbers if this is going to get off the ground.

As it is now I'm not doing google adwords and I'd love to get in that game but they are totally brutal on affiliates these days so to get in there I'd have to pretty much make a whole site promoting something that could work. So for now I'd rather not see them banning my precious idle adwords account until I create something that's not sure to be denied by their quality score horde.

More to come