I have been working on affialiate marketing, not so much to blogging and adsense kind of combination for the last 2 months. I went around on the Internet searching for some free Google Adword credit and some Yahoo advertisement network credit. I found some coupon somewhere, but it was really semi working, I had to write to Google and Yahoo a few emails before they really credit the money to me. So I will not put that here because it’s not entirely a full working coupon.

After reading an ebook called Adword Arbitrage, I was inspired to get some affiliate products up as soon as possible. I went into ClickBank and randomly picked one two affiliate products from ClickBank. It seems to be a good deal as every sale I make , I could earn 50 dollars comission. I got myself a “hop” link. The products was on insurance and cars, and house from the USA. Something about state auction. I also signed up for the affiliate program by my web hosting company. They’ve got a pretty good commision level too. For every web hosting package I sell for them, they pay me USD 65, every reseller USD 40, and every Virtual Private Server, USD 80.

Now, I spent like 3 days or nights, searching for the right keywords for these items so that I could place Adword ads (which will translate into Adsense). The keyword being used however, was going to cost about USD 10 per click (example : web hosting) . I wasn’t sure what was going on my mind, but I surely didn’t weight the cost properly. After setting up the campaign, I let it start running.

Day 1 - I see that my Adsense was being served. But there was no clicks. I presume there would be no sale either.

Day 2- I had a few clicks. 10 dollars was no more. I was starting to worry because after this USD 50 is gone, they will start charging my credit card! Gosh….

Day 3- My Google Adword play money has only USD 25 left. I had impression, I had clicks, but I had no sale. ZERO CONVERSION…

I stopped the experiment and started thinking, what did I do wrong. The first thing would probably be being too greedy. Secondly I was aiming at all the popular and products which advertisers are willing to pay a lot for your clicks.

I give up… I told myself I would come back with a new strategy.

Today is the day of my come back. Because I was pleasently surprised again! USD 80 dollar in my email from my hosting company. Saying I made a SALE!!!! YAY!!! Wherever did that come from I don’t know. Maybe Google brought them to my affiliate link ? But whatever it is, let this be my wake up call, there is money to be made in Affliate Marketing and it is up to me to make it

Wish me luck!