Internet Marketing Diary

All right, web hosting seems like a good affiliate way of making money. Many times you’ll get paid over and over again as long as the person you referred stays signed up. A percentage of their monthly fee. Unfortunately, this makes it very competitive as well.

So, I’m approaching it from the “consumer needs a problem solved” view. Consumer needs a website for their business, hobby, whatever. How does consumer do this? Consumer doesn’t know. Consumer types “build a website” or some such term into Google.  They see a link to my Ad on the side about free guide to building a free webpage.  In this link they’ll find a very quick guide to building a website, and after that, a suggestion for web hosting.

So no bidding on any terms to do with “web hosting.” We’ll see how this goes.

OK, this is a completely different nut to crack than SEO. And a pretty large learning curve as well. After spending months learning about directories, and articles, and backlinks, and anchor text, and H1 headers, I now turn my attention to ad groups, and gravity, and broad match, and of course, the daily budget.

Ug. I may be stupid for trying to get into this game when I have no money, but hell, even in the SEO world I spend lots on paid directories and article and link outsourcing, so in the short term this may actually be even cheaper. Too bad I still owe that Indian firm $250 for doing my recip. linking for me…

Anyway, I’ve finished reading Adwords Miracle and I’m getting closer to actually doing something. According to Chris McNeeney, the author of the book, soon-to-be-hot Clickbank products must be chosen. The book actually contains a pretty “scientific” way of finding Clickbank stuff that’s on the way up. Products that haven’t reached market saturation, but are becoming more and more popular. Already more than I ever learned in the past when I briefly played around with Adwords/Clickbank. Back then I just picked something at random.

The niche-picking is different too. In natural search content sites, you pick a good “interesting” niche where people are looking for information. Preferrably something somewhat interesting to you because you’re going to have to write a ridiculous amount of informational articles on the subject. You’re gonna be in it for the long haul, and you’re gonna become an “authority” on the subject.

In the Adwords/Clickbank game, it’s more: go where the money is. Period.

You have to cover and hopefully make more than your ad costs.

So, that said, I’m perusing Clickbank for “hot” markets to promote, following his guidelines on picking a good product. I’m using www.cbtrends.com to see which products are on the way up.