Stone the Crows! Another £50 day!
The month has ended nicely for me with another £50 day. Well there was £65.61 worth of sales recorded through Affiliate Window and I spent £19.81 on clicks via Adwords. This leaves £45.80 profit but I am still waiting for Amazon to update which is taking ages, I guess there must be lots of sales to add up for the Christmas perio but I am confident I have recorded at least £5 worth of commission for yesterday.
Update: Amazon has now updated and about £662 worth of sales were made of which 6% is £39 making the total profit for November 30 £85.52!
The day before I had paused about three of my PPC campaigns which were the ones that lost me the most money but today I’ve still managed to rack up £20 worth of clicks.
It is getting increasingly difficult to work out which campaigns are the most profitable and which are costing me the most money but I seem to be making money overall so its not too much of a problem yet.
I am definitely converted to the ways of PPC now and, if all goes well over the next few weeks, will definitely be using it long-term alongside SEO.
I know most of this traffic is Christmas traffic but hopefully I can diversify into non-seasonal niches and see similar results throughout the year. As I’ve said before £50 a day would be amazing and would really change my life for the better.
November looks to have been a good month with a new personal best relating to sales and commission. I’ll do a post tomorrow once Amazon has updated but for now its fingers crossed for December!
Congratulations Again Joe
Are the items you are promoting selling well or are you finding people buying lots of unrelated items?
Got lots of PPC ads running now, found one that’s converting well but only works out around £1 commison
Had a mini disaster promoting a PS3 Console which got loads of clicks but only one sale so that’s on pause for now.
My target for Dec is £2000
Sounds like you are doing well – Congratulations
Maybe worth looking at your tracking in more detail to help work out where your sales are coming from. Depending on network and your techy skills you may be able to put something place to identify your PPC visitors and tag them differently. i.e. on Affiliate Window using the clickref parameter which picks up a parameter from your adwords URL
I suppose it all depends on your sites and your methods etc but just a thought.
£2,000 revenue or profit?
Wow, thats really good. I guess you weren’t really late with your niche christmas websites. Are you doing PPC for just one website or more than one? And how is it performing organically?
I am also sure that you aren’t tracking the keywords. Are you?
I’m totally new to this but came across your blog as your also from the UK.
Any advise you can give me so that I can earn my first £1 !
Thanks
Steve
I don’t think you can see what people are actuallly buying with Awin so I am guessing they are buying what I’m promoting.
Anything less than £1 commission is going to be a tight squeeze when it comes to staying profitable.
Good luck with your target!
Thanks Fraser, I have thought about doing that, in Awin you can see whether the user came from PPC or other from the refering url but not which add they clicked so if you wanted that you would have to do some tweaking yourself. Amazon seems to be a lot harder to know what is going on with.
There are about four websites but most of them have multiple campaigns running for different items on different pages.
No organic traffic as of yet. I think the niches are too small that even if I got to number one in Google they’d hardly get any clicks. This means its PPC or nothing.
If you are only after £1 build a landing page about one product. Stick a price comparison feature on there then send the traffic via PPC bidding only on the exact match of the product title as your keyword. Should have a sale by the end of the week. Good luck.
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but thought got to start somewhere!
Well i’m after £100,000 at least
PPC bidding ??? (told you totally new)
I had already set up a web page -wordpress put some google adscense on it and earned £0.01 ! Think i’m just being impatient but looking for some good advise everywhere as don’t want to waste time doing the wrong thing.
regards., Steve.