Affiliate Odyssey

I decided to increase my AdWords budget to £15 for today as Google stated the site was missing 64% of the impressions it could have and suggested a budget of £27. I’m not prepared to go that far yet but £15 seemed reasonable.
One thing I did notice today is that my average CPC is down [...]

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I think I may have made a classic newbie mistake today - tweaking stuff I should have left alone.
I thought it might be interesting to try out the scheduling facility within AdWords so I set the ads to show in three blocks around the times I figured people would be skiving at work - I [...]

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It’s the end of Day 2 of the journey and I have my first commission!
It’s hard to describe how exciting this is, especially on just the second day - I’d fully expected to go the whole week without a single sale.
The split test on the ads is still inconclusive, with both of them producing a [...]

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So here we are at last.
After about a year of procrastination, two months of flat out research and three days of website construction, my first affiliate marketing site is up and running.
Received wisdom suggests that it’s not a great idea to let on exactly what the site is about so I’ll let it run awhile [...]

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