JJaouli1

Hey guys,

I'm new here but a relatively experienced marketer with little success under my belt unfortunately. I spent a couple years chasing biz-opps and shit until I realized that all they were doing is regurgitating direct response marketing and Dan Kennedy's ideas under different brands. Finally I figured out affiliate marketing is what I want to do.

A couple of questions, and I've read through all the threads recommending various things, I have purchased Perry Marshall's book on Adwords since it seems to be the bible for it and so far I've gotten accepted to Copeac and MaxBounty and spoken with my affiliate managers.

Just a couple of questions-

1. When I'm tracking clicks to my landing page, I understand that I have my designer or whoever enter in the tracking code for Google Analytics, or I can use Prosper202 or whatever. What do I use for tracking from the landing page to the offer and from the offer page to the conversion page? Is there a comprehensive solution that can be end to end?

2. I've been constantly clicking banners and bookmarking landing pages for weight loss, acai, car insurance, biz-opps, etc and all these landing pages seem to be lacking good copy, or any real copy for that matter. I know they're supposed to be advertorials but on landing pages, as opposed to sales letters, can the copy be weaker since it's just supposed to entice someone to click ahead as opposed to buying?

3. When I use the Google Website optimizer and I enter in the control landing page and its variations, does the website optimizer literally create on the fly a different version each time to test all the variations, or is it that lets say I have two different headlines and two different pictures, I upload 4 variations of my landing page and it simply rotates among them?

4. I've heard and read from alot of advertisers that PPC is too expensive for a small time guy with a small budget to get started with, and often that PPV can be cheaper to test. Is that true?

5. And this is a newbie question but I really need someone to explain this to me. Are the image ads on Facebook the kind of ads that run on the Google Content Network, and are there any resources you guys would recommend for learning the Content Network?

JJaouli1

Seriously guys I can't get any help?

D.T.F.

Stop clicking on mah adz fool.

JJaouli1

Thanks for that, any real advice?

maketoo

That's a lot of questions, far more than a couple.
I can answer point 4 - PPC works very well for me with small budgets (under $1000 per month)

Hav3n

First re-read Newbie Guide | NickyCakes.com

1) All depends.... loads of guides out there on tracking. You could do GA for your website and then prosper for outbound links.... or any combination.

Whatever works for you.

2) Testing. They (should) have tested the copy to see what converts best. What you think it good isn't always good.

3) I don't use GWO so i upload 4 versions... not saying this is the best its just what i do.

4) Do what works for you and your budget. Nothing says you can't make a profit off a $100 freeby card from Google Adwords. Testing is what makes you successful, unfortunately testing cost money.

5) Facebook and Google are separate... sounds like you need to do more googling I am not going to go into the difference here.

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pandaexpress

got tired of reading after the 1st question, but 202 can do all the tracking. be sure to pass subids

Jabberwokky

A noob learning curve: don't post 5 questions in 1 thread. We're not teachers. We don't like marking homework.

Sorry for the lack of responses, but that's your reason why, my attention span is that of a goldfish.

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