Weekly Recap

Now at the end of the week I thought i’d round up how it went..

Info Millionaire/PPC – Tried another couple of PPC campaigns at the beginning of the week for my info millionaire course, this time I thought id mix it up a bit, I tried Yahoo and Msn PPC programs, MSN bombed like a B17 at the height of WWII!, don’t think ill be using that for a while, id probably have more successes building a boat out of my monitor and trying to paddle the Atlantic!?.

Yahoo was pretty good though, I used the same ads as Google PPC and the same keywords just to compare them to each other, I seemed to get more impressions from Yahoo, but more clicks from Google, my CTR(click through rate) was allot better in Google too, at one point my CTR in Yahoo was so low it hit a negative and started to freeze!, the only click I got after that happened was from a polar bear!.

I let all three Ads run most of the day turning off MSN half way through, then just concentrated on the others by changing ad copy to see what results I got, at the end of that day I did not make any sales but I learned a great deal about the different PPC programs, I even gave YouTube a try, but did not like that too much.

Good thing about PPC is it can be done on a budget, I don’t have tons of cash to just throw at it, only usually just $15 per day, but if you make your ads extremely targeted even by listing the actual price of the product in the ad copy, you know that at least the people that do click on that ad have an idea of the price before they even cost you a penny, so if they hit that page knowing the price already, its up to the landing page to hook em in, sure doing this reduces your clicks, but if they are not going to spend the money anyway you just wasted a click right.

Flop Idle – My goal for the last couple of weeks has been to really concentrate on increasing traffic to my blog, and its working pretty well, I’ve actually trained both my cats to socially bookmark my site for me, unfortunately one of the headlines was “gregij4032g2-3gm23gwg” so back to the drawing board with that one!, fired them both!.

But a visitor did Digg this blog in the week which brought in 188 visitors, I felt like Macys on black friday!, I remember checking my analytics that day to discover a huge spike in traffic!!, see not only are they great for tents but very good news for our blogs too;).

Videos videos videos, put up another three videos this week, I found some great sites and really couldn’t explain them with just text, so decided its better to actually show you how to use them, plus im trying to see if videos will bring any new visits to this blog, my first video a couple of weeks ago took forever, I must have spent about a week on edits alone, you would have thought the thing was about 3 hours long!!.

My last three videos took about 30 mins this time, and really they were live on YouTube in about an hour, which is a big improvement over the first one, goes to show that sometimes its just better not to over do things, and just get it out their.

My last goal of the week was to post on a more regular basis, this also helped with traffic too, people kept coming back on a more regular basis and I also got allot more comments than before, so this is working really well and something I shall keep up on over the next week also.

Oh one last thing before I end the weekly recap, I got one sale from Clickbank which was only $15 but still a nice sum, and also a purchase from one of my niche sites from commission junction, yep all that work done, someone buys something for $60 and I get under $5!, lousy commission!, I could probably make more rolling around in a park collecting pennies with my teeth!, but that’s why I love ClickBank!!.

Thanks for all the comments you have asked over the last week, please keep them coming and keep following along with me as I go through this week, any tips I have will be yours too, so keep checking back;)).

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