yeikow
11-10-2007, 11:22 AM
Hello all,
I'm new to Affiliate Marketing and I'm reading everything I can get my hands on.
I asked this in another forum but didn't get much of an answer.
One thing I want to get right (or as close to it as possible) from the start, is the logic by which you choose to market a product, or a handful of products from a merchant: what makes it worth marketing?
As I see it right now, I'm going to build a website that will show about 5 different types of products (menu) in a niche and review about 3-5 products in each of the types. When the user clicks on one of the products I'm reviewing and recommending he is led to the merchant's website. If he buys something, I get my commission.
So far so good?
Now, correct me if I'm mistaken, but in order to find profitable products to market I should look at:
a) Demand for the product:
Do keyword search with overture or keyword tracker and find our if there's a lot of people looking for it.
How many searches makes it worth pursuing? is 1000 (combining diferent keywords) ok? (I don't want to have a zillion campaigns earning me just 50$)
b) Offer of the product:
How many people is already serving those customers. There is an R/S ratio that divides number of searches by number of websites with the keyword in its header, this seems bogus to me, is it reliable?
If there's already many advertisers (say like 7with adwords)offering this service, it means there is demand but also offer. Is it worth pursuing?
c) Merchants:
I have an account at CJ and some of the statistics shown are:
3month EPC (earnings per 100 clicks):
7day EPC:
% commission:
Conversion Rate:
Average order size: (with this and CR you can calculate general EPC I think)
Network Earnings:how the advertiser rates with other advertisers in the network based on the volume of commissions paid.
Creatives: banners,links.
Referal period:
Locking Period - Standard -> What is this??
What are the indications I have to base my decisition on when choosing a merchant/product?
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I think I'm going to go more the CPC way than SERP because I don't like how Google can change his algorythm and have your earnings go ashtray in a hardbeat. Also, it doesn't require you to write hundreds of articles but a just a few high quality reviews.
I'm approaching this very seriously(it's fun though! ), I want to be a super affiliate, not a dabler.
Any help you can share is very appreciated!
I'm new to Affiliate Marketing and I'm reading everything I can get my hands on.
I asked this in another forum but didn't get much of an answer.
One thing I want to get right (or as close to it as possible) from the start, is the logic by which you choose to market a product, or a handful of products from a merchant: what makes it worth marketing?
As I see it right now, I'm going to build a website that will show about 5 different types of products (menu) in a niche and review about 3-5 products in each of the types. When the user clicks on one of the products I'm reviewing and recommending he is led to the merchant's website. If he buys something, I get my commission.
So far so good?
Now, correct me if I'm mistaken, but in order to find profitable products to market I should look at:
a) Demand for the product:
Do keyword search with overture or keyword tracker and find our if there's a lot of people looking for it.
How many searches makes it worth pursuing? is 1000 (combining diferent keywords) ok? (I don't want to have a zillion campaigns earning me just 50$)
b) Offer of the product:
How many people is already serving those customers. There is an R/S ratio that divides number of searches by number of websites with the keyword in its header, this seems bogus to me, is it reliable?
If there's already many advertisers (say like 7with adwords)offering this service, it means there is demand but also offer. Is it worth pursuing?
c) Merchants:
I have an account at CJ and some of the statistics shown are:
3month EPC (earnings per 100 clicks):
7day EPC:
% commission:
Conversion Rate:
Average order size: (with this and CR you can calculate general EPC I think)
Network Earnings:how the advertiser rates with other advertisers in the network based on the volume of commissions paid.
Creatives: banners,links.
Referal period:
Locking Period - Standard -> What is this??
What are the indications I have to base my decisition on when choosing a merchant/product?
---
I think I'm going to go more the CPC way than SERP because I don't like how Google can change his algorythm and have your earnings go ashtray in a hardbeat. Also, it doesn't require you to write hundreds of articles but a just a few high quality reviews.
I'm approaching this very seriously(it's fun though! ), I want to be a super affiliate, not a dabler.
Any help you can share is very appreciated!