Adword campaign finished for Affiliate Elite

Well I finished my campaign for Affiliate Elite. It was a waste of time advertising and not to mention waste of $1.87.

I had 54,961 impressions and only 23 clicks. I am guessing either too much competition, or its just not as popular of a software as I first thought it would be. Still, would have been nice to make at least 1 sale. Would have put about $70 in my Clickbank account. Oh well live an learn.

My quest to make money still continues, and I better come up with a better product to advertise next time. Not to mention writing better sales letter, and doing some keyword research, product research. Guess this just proves that there is no such thing as easy money, except maybe for adsense. Thats an easy cash right there. But this is for another topic. Hopefully this taught someone something. Till next time, peace!

Working as a freelancer guide and tips

As I promised in my previous posts here is my guide to make money freelancing. You can read more about freelancing in this Wikipedia article, but the one I am going to write about is computer programming freelance work.

First of all, there are many companies on the net that provide leads for freelance work. I mean type in “freelance” or any form of the word in google search, you are going to get a lot of results, I mean over a million. As you can see, it is one way to make money on Internet.

My experience in freelancing

I have started freelancing two years ago, but only got seriously into it about 4 month ago. During that time frame, I managed to get about $200 which is pretty good in my opinion. The jobs that I did weren’t very hard, mostly data entry. The project that paid me the most was entering messages into auto-responder. I mean the job was easy, took me only about a week to complete. I managed to get $90 bucks from the project (well I had to pay 15% to the lead provider, but I think it was worth it).

The lead provider that I get my jobs at is http://www.rentacoder.com, they have pretty good customer database, and is easy to navigate the site. They do take 15% for each lead or $3 whichever is higher. But the good part is: no membership fee for coder or buyer. They only charge per completed work.

Tips for new freelancers

1. Whenever you place a bid, don’t just write, “I can do this job.” That line almost never works, especially if you are just starting out.

2. Be ready to back up your bid, perhaps have some examples of the previous work. The average amount of bids a buyer receives is about 50, so you really need to stand out.

3. Start out low, do couple of cheap jobs to get at least 10 ratings. Afterwards you can bid high.

4. Try to complete the jobs to the best of your ability, that way the customer might hire you for another job.

Well, hope this was informative. In the next post I will post a Paypal screenshot of my earnings (and yes, rentacoder has paypal payout option). Till then, see ya.

12 Days Since Creation and $1.07

Well, as of this writing, this blog is 12 days old, and has 8 posts. Not too bad if you ask me.

As for visitors, it had about 72 in the past 12 days. I managed to make $1.07 with this blog so far, so I think its not that bad, considering the lack of traffic. I will try to get more traffic to this blog, so hopefully when I do, I can make a decent amount of money from it.

My goal is to get at least $10/day with this blog. Think its possible? Check back to find out.

Adword campaign started: Update

Well, like I mentioned in the previous post, I started a campaign for one of my posts here, promoting Affiliate Elite.

So far it had ~40k impressions and only 22 clicks. I must say it sucks. Out of those 22 clicks, only 1 or 2 clickthroughs. Thats approximately 9% CTR, pathetic isn't it? I am willing to bet that if this post had 40k views, it would have at least 20% CTR. Even if no one bought that software, I would probably still make money from adsense. So all in all, adwords campaign for this product is going downhill.

My reasoning for the above

Perhaps there is too much competition for this software, or perhaps my description of the software sucks, or its just plain too expensive for people. Whatever the case is, I am running this campaign for couple more days just to see maybe, just maybe I will get a sale.

Well hopefully you enjoyed reading this post. My quest to try making money online continues.

PS: I know I have been promising to write an article on how to make money with freelancing, but I just can't find the time to write it. But it will be here one day, I promise you that.

Adword campaign started

In my quest to try to make money, I have started an adwords campaign to advertise one of my posts. Specifically, the Affiliate Elite one.

So far it is not doing so good, I mean as of this writing, I have 5,321 impressions and only 5 clicks. And the clicks came from content network rather then keywords. I am running 11 keywords for now, but will add more later.

Well this is it from me, keep on reading this blog you might learn something.

Making money with freelancing

This is just a mini article introducing my freelancing website. The site is My freelance advertising site and like the title suggests, its a site where I introduce freelancing, and where I advertise my freelance services.

So far the traffic to that site is how should I say it, low. I mean, type in "freelancing" in google search and you will get like 5,010,000 results. As you can imagine, the competition is fierce.

I did submit the site to couple of web directories, but so far its a very little response.

In the future I will write an article about me actually making the money with freelancing.
I will post proof of my earnings and other juicy details.

Well look forward to it.

Good seo tips for blogger

Well searching for tips on how to optimize my blog, I stumbled upon this little article:
Tips on Optimizing Blogger blogs

Its a good article to read for those who are just starting out with blogs. After all, good SEO means more traffic, and more traffic means more money in your pocket(well depending on your content of course)

Its just another one of my quests to make money on the net.

update 12/16/2007: the link no longer works. Sorry for the inconvenience.

LearnHowtoMakeMoney by Noii167 review

I was browsing eBay one day (actually this month) and I stumbled upon this listing:
LEARN HOW I MAKE MONEY $20,000/month within 4 MONTHS and I bought it. When I downloaded this item I found out couple things that are not pretty.

1. The ebook is only 25 pages long.
2. Poorly written. Absolutely no grammar skills whatsoever. I mean the book puts my poor grammar to shame.
3. The tools he mentions don't work anymore(at least couple of them don't)
4. The information he provides is common knowledge for any affiliate marketer.

So I did what anyone would do in this situation, I requested a refund. So far, I have yet to get it.

This money making experience was bad. It taught me two things.
1. If the ebook is cheap, its probably is bad.
2. Never buy ebooks from ebay sellers. At least when you buy from ClickBank, you can request your money back and know that you will get them.

Hope this was informative. My quest to make money on the net continues.

How to NOT make money with your blog

Third post, yay!

Ok, I was browsing through the list of blogs on blogspot, and I have noticed that every once in a while there comes along a blog that just screams "delete me". I am talking about the blog that has a hover type pop-up ad, a "nowstat" banner at the top, and bunch of adult related ads throughout the page. I am not saying its not ok to do that, but please keep the number of ads to a reasonable amounts. At least learn the proper placements for those ads.

I also noticed that there are at least five different variations of the type of blog mentioned above. And guess what, it doesn't have google adsense. There is a reason for that as well, and the reason is that google probably rejected him.

Then there are blogs that just flood their pages with adsense. I am talking about five or six adsense packages on one page. That is just plain wrong.

So here are some tips:

1. Keep the number of adsense packages to a minimum. Three variations is good enough amount.
2. Read google's ad placement tips, they are a big help. The tips show where adsense is more effective on the page.
3. If you are going to place another ad provider's advertisements, again learn proper placement, don't just stick them wherever you please. It not only looks bad, but it might get google to close your adsense account.

Hope this information was helpful.

Shameless plug #1 - Affiliate Elite.

Are you in the affiliate business and never manage to get any sales? Well, you are not the only one. Many affiliates struggle to make a decent sum of money, and mostly all of them fail. Only a few smart affiliates actually make a decent income. Yes, I hate to tell you this but its true. Affiliate market is a struggle to outwit your competitor and snare the customer for yourself. If you manage to outwit your competitor, then you can get by in this business.

Introducing Affiliate Elite. Created by the creator of Keyword Elite and SEO Elite Brad Callen, this software lets you
1. Find Profitable products to advertise - Does this by retrieving data from ClickBank's database and keeps track of this data for as many days as you like.

2. Reverse google search - Exactly as it sounds. Lets you visit the sites, and see what adwords they use to bring traffic to them. Also lets you see natural search phrases the sites use.

3. Analyze adwords competition - This lets you check the adwords ads your competitor uses, their landing pages and more.

4. Discover super affiliates - This feature lets you visit the merchant and see the affiliates that promote his product.

If you use all 4 features together, the possible income is limitless. So give yourself an unfair advantage for once, destroy your competition!

This tool costs a measly $176 + monthly fee of $39, but its nothing compared to the money you can make with this great tool. As the saying goes, "knowledge is power," and trust me Affiliate Elite will give you that knowledge and power.

For more information and videos, VISIT the site.

I haven't tried this software myself, but I do plan on using it once I get into affiliate marketing.
The demo videos that are located on the site are pretty informative, and if the software does what it says it does, its going to make someone a lot of money.

One other reason that I am am not buying this software yet is that I want to do more research on affiliate marketing and such first. Once I feel confident enough, I will give this software a try. Plus they give you a refund if you change your mind, so there is really nothing to lose here.

Update: I just learned that the price is going to increase, so hurry up before its too late!

About me and this blog.

Welcome to my Blog.

Now I am not going to give you my real name or anything personal. The reason behind this is that I don't want to let people know it. Its for my safety purpose, you guys understand, right?

This blog basically will be about making money on the net. I will prove to you that it is possible, with some knowledge. Now, I am not going to claim "become millionaire" or any bull dookie like that. Why? Cause I haven't become one yet. When, and if, I do become "internet millionaire" I will be sure to make a post about it.

As the title suggests, I will be posting various ways that I have found to actually make a spare change on the net. Depending on your knowledge and effort, I am sure you can make more then a mere change.

Well, keep on checking, as I will be updating this blog quite frequently, or rather "as I have free time" frequently.

Thanks for reading.