Discouraged

Earnings: $0
Adwords Costs: $58.72

Cheap Traffic

In one of my earlier entries I said that "it's impossible to make money with this unless you're willing to pay a few dollars per click." I couldn't have been more wrong. I've been paying up to $0.38 for some of my clicks and getting no sales because the product stopped being profitable by about 40 clicks. The best way to get sales is to get a ton of people to visit your site at a very low CPC. I wanted to give up because I couldn't find a produt that was both high in demand and had cheap keywords, but last night I found such a product. :)

I've found some other ways to generate traffic (free) - will post more about this later.

Found My Campaign

I didn't have time to work on my special campaign last night, but this morning I plugged in a few keywords just to test, and every single one can be obtained for $0.08 CAD - some even as low as $0.03! At $0.08 per click, it is estimated that I will get over 1,000 clicks per day - and that's with only about 10 keywords. I am really excited about this & think this may be the campaign I've been looking for.

My campaign that was getting 2,000 impressions a few days ago is averaging around 6,000 right now. I was getting a lot of clicks but no sales, so I decided to include the price of my product in the ad. My CTR went way down, to about 0.4%, but by doing this I am able to weed out the people who are looking for free information.

No sales yet, but hopefully soon. :)

Testing for Impressions

I threw together a few campaigns last night. I'm just testing for impressions right now, so I put all my keywords into one ad group. One campaign is averaging about 2,000 impressions per day and another only 400. I'm looking for a product that can bring in at least 10,000 impressions every day, so I will probably scrap the second campaign. I have another campaign in mind - I did some searching around last night and found a Clickbank product that can possibly bring in over 1,000 clicks per day at only 5-10 cents per click. I don't have time to work on this one at the moment, but will hopefully have a few thousand keywords running by tonight.

Google Adsense

I have been jumping from program to program these past few weeks - never staying with one long enough to see any results. I lack patience, so when Google Adwords didn't give me immediate results I moved on to Google Adsense. Not sure if I will have any luck with this one, but it's definitely worth a try.