My first profit as a affiliate with a PPC campaign.
How I broke in my first sale ever online with my affiliate marketing plan took these steps:
From me getting my first hosting provider with Host Gator with what was called the baby plan that came out to be about $7.95 a whole month where I also bought my first domain name and the domain itself was $15.00 and this covered me for the whole year.
After setting everything up with my hosting providers, this was the time where I had just bought a subscription that I got in my email in-box and what this was, I was able to download already made niche made websites which led me to some of my first niches I jump into.
One of these niche websites templates was RevPhone and it's a ClickBank product. Along with the RevPhone which is like finding someones phone or cell number who may be prank calling you are maybe a lost number you want to find or anything up there with phone numbers and finding out who owns the number. It was a pretty decent niche plus I had the website already made :).
Good thing too about this subscription is that these were ready made hot niche website templates that were currently hot and these niches are actually still hot and can find yourself making good amounts of money from these niches. This was all from the single subscription that I bought and bottom line, really all I had to do was plug everything right into place and this would allow me to quickly get all this up fast. So this was a really easy going flow, save some extra time and had a good excited momentum kinda say to get these up already.
The next set of websites I received with the RevPhone were in another folder named April09. This folder had 2 different types of websites in 4 different folders. Okay I had folders like muti-page wow folder, a single template-wow folder, content-wow, and bonus-headers-wow.
This second niche made template was an xbox 360 red light fix guide and along with this was the same deal. Came with the muti-page xbox, single template-xbox, content-xbox, and bonus-headers xbox.
Here are some sample pics of these templates and what were in these folders.
muti-page wow:
This one was the single-template WoW
For the content-wow. This folder contained four more folders inside with all the content that I threw onto my site. Each of these folders were
-Articles. These were the 10 articles that I used on my website.
-Reviews. Total 3 reviews of the 3 products that I was promoting on the site.
-Auto-responder. This was a full week free newsletter that was being offered on the site that people can opt-in and get.
-Video-review. Mp4 format and I didn't end up using the video at the time.
As for the bonus-headers-wow folder, were 3 more folders header 1, header 2, and header 3. Each of these headers had a extra 3 more folders within them that contained 3 different headers in 3 different colors. So I was able to change the image at the very top with either of them.
Here is the muti-xbox:
muti-page xbox
Single-template xbox
This was pretty much everything I got which was all worth. Another feature about this purchased subscription is that these templates were professional written, with the pro graphics to match it all up. What I thought in the long run I knew would only just help me out more.
So what ended up being worse case scenario, all that was needed to be done on my part was plug and play everything in and edit some of the headings and word text throughout the web-page, and that's exactly what ended up being so.
All the files came in zip format so after extracting them onto my desktop, I needed a way to upload them onto my hosting provider servers. One of the fastest and easiest ways to do this is to get a ftp client - which is a program that's used to send or retrieve files from an FTP server. Their are free downloads that you can download right away online. Two of these free sites are FileZilla, this is the one I like to use, and Coffee Cup would be another good one that is free too.
After you download this you still need your login info to your ftp and you can get this from the cpanel or if not just ask your hosting providers. The info you will need will be something like your host, the user name, a password, and port number. After signing in all you need to do is gather all folders and files that involves your site and building it.
So for me this would be the files that I zipped onto my desktop. Now, I dragged them into the ftp client (FileZilla) in the folder which will be name public_html are something alike, I know public should be in there because this is one of the root folders of your domain that will allow you do display your site to everyone around the web. So now I uploaded all the folders, files it came with and named the files correctly so they correspond with each other property to prevent any future errors or problems that can happen while browsing and clicking throughout the website.
(If you need a little more help about FTP Clients and how to upload everything, I've posted a video on my blog so feel free just to check it out)
Okay, now I had a good feeling everything was pretty much done and so I wanted to give it a peak. I open up a new tab typed in my domain name that I was using for the site and at the time wasn't a full domain it was a sub-domain, pressed enter and the website ended up popping up exactly how I thought it would have.
Now from their the website is looking pretty, I got that there, now really left to do was just edit some of the text that was displaying on the site like the headings, tittles, subtitles, changed some of the text paragraphs mixed up the words to give not such the same look because there were other people who were going to use these same sites so changing up some of the text is a good idea.
One big thing that can help you out is your own unique content that can easily be created re-wording off valuable content that is already out there. Everything you write about needs to wrap around the niche you are in and can find yourself creating some good content easily, Google really does love unique content. I Then added my affiliate links throughout the site to make sure that if they clicked on it they were getting there from me and hopefully they were to buy or download the offer.
Another big tip to remember too which is something I wasn't even doing at the time along with not even creating my own unique content, TRACK everything with (Google Analytics), and to cloak your links! What cloaking your link would do for you is prevent and protect you from any sneaky people trying to get a little chunk of your revenue and will hide your affiliate link with another link it generates for it.
Okay now everything was pretty much all set and done that had to do with my website. At this point all I was doing was I kept browsing throughout the whole site, clicking everything making sure nothing was creating any type of errors and that my affiliate links were my own actual affiliate link. Then from here on out it was time to create a PPC campaign with Google AdWords that this single campaign led me to my first sale with affiliate marketing.
This came after I had to make my own PPC campaign which at the time was the first set of marketing that I learned online along with affiliate marketing. So when I finished up my website it ended up being a late night that I wasn't going to let myself not finish up the site. Once everything was done properly in place I was now finished for the night and really all I wanted to do is launch this before I went to bed to let the campaign run for the whole night and the whole next day. Ended up being a little bit on a late night, but I managed to get everything done and set before it got to late.
All on my part that was left to do is stack up the stats and see where this may take me and I wanted to let this night end already so that maybe I might have just 1 click are something the following day.
The next morning came, I was still pretty excited and so I jumped right on the computer when getting up. I open up ClickBank along with Google Analytics and wow their it was shown right there up on the daily sales snapshot right when I logged into ClickBank. It had the day, month, date and BAM $24.92 from a WoW guide :)
This sale came to me the same day I launched my website. Literally was in like less than 11 hours right after setting up the PPC campaign. From this point on, I figure it was smooth enough to let it ride on it's own.
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