Danger Brown

I’ve been pretty unavailable and inactive these last two weeks. But now I’m back from hiatus.

I’m constantly torn between work and family, and family has been winning out lately. I pretty much took the last two weeks off, but work has been nagging at me. So watch out! I’ll be making things happen now.

This sort of work/relax cycle is normal for me. Maybe I’m a little manic depressive. In any case, I gotta get back to work to pay the mortgage. You’ll be hearing more from me in the near future.

Do you find your own productivity level cycles? Got any good tricks for me to maintain high levels of productivity? I’d love to hear them. Please comment.

This is exactly how I took a single campaign from making me $200/day net to $500/day net almost instantly.

First, you must be tracking your conversions. It can be with Google Conversion Tracking or something else. I use Adwords Conversion Tracking or I use reports in Prosper 202 (free). Prosper or Tracking202 will work for the big 3 search engines so you can do this with Yahoo Search Marketing or MSN Adcenter too. But if you aren’t already tracking which keywords are converting, that needs to be your priority.

Here it is, the big secret to finding super profitable keywords that maybe nobody else has…..

Part 1 – search PPC campaigns

You have probably been running some broad or phrase match keywords in your campaigns. In Yahoo, there is no such thing as exact match, so if you have a campaign there, this will always work.

In Adwords:

1. Run a Search Query Report for the campaign or adgroup you want to improve. This will tell you exactly what people actually searched for.

2. Sort out the column for keywords which actually converted for you.

3. Take these keywords and make them into phrase and/or exact match keywords to add to your campaign. You can also see how many times it was searched for and may be able to get an idea of what to bid on these words. Hint, you can usually bid more for these words safely. Remember, these keywords are all proven winners.

4. You owe me a beer. Or sign up under one of my referral links.

If you are doing this with YSM or Adcenter, they probably have similar tools for reporting on the websites. I never use them because I do it using Prosper202 on my own server.

In Prosper, you may need to import your subids. They have excellent tutorials on this. Then:

1 Go to Analyze

2 Select Keywords

3 Select your date range, “show converted clicks” and hit “set preferences

4 Download to excel if you have enough to warrant it, sort and add these keywords as phrase and/or exact match keywords to your adgroup.

Now, you may see some keywords that are so ridiculously long tail that they may never come back again. It won’t hurt to add them to your campaigns, but you may want to look for a phrase match term you can take out of there. Example:

If you see that you got a conversion from “super awesome michael jackson ringtones that my mom won’t hate”

shorten it to “super awesome michael jackson ringtones” and/or  “super awesome ringtones” or “awesome michael jackson ringtones”. You get the idea right?

Part 2 – Content network campaigns

OK, now we’re only talking adwords, but you can do things like this with lots of other platforms. I don’t have time to get into it all because I should be working instead of telling you how to compete with me. By now, you’re getting the idea anyway.

1. Run a Placement Performance Report

2. Add the converting websites as placements within a content network adgroup.

3. Some websites won’t be available for placement targeting. You could contact them directly to place an ad on their site. Or contact them directly to suggest they ad their site for placement targeting. You may have to tell them how to do this.

4. You will be able to modify your bids for each placement according to it’s value.

5. Now you really owe me a shot of cheap whiskey or maybe a whole case of Black Velvet, you decide.

There is a lot of buzz about Revolution202.  They are calling themselves a ‘Partner Network’ with good reason. Their mission is basically to provide value to affiliates and let their own profitability take care of itself. They like to think of themselves as your partner rather than your network. I know Wes and Roland personally and can vouch for their integrity.

I knew they were planning on eventually merging Tracking202 and Tracking202 Pro with a network, but had no idea it would be so soon.

I am a big supporter of everything 202. I use Prosper202 myself and I promise you it’s worth any learning curve involved in getting things set up right. They provide all sorts of features but my favorite two are:

1. I can see every search keyword which has ever converted for my offers.
2. I can see what times of day my conversions occur which assists me in adjusting my bids throughout the day.

If you don’t know how to host things on your own server and stuff like that, just use Tracking202 free or paid Tracking202Pro. Prosper202 was released as open source software to quell any concerns that the 202 guys might be interested in peaking at your data.

Some nervous types were concerned about it, so 202 put their money where their mouth was and gave it away for free. It worked. Prosper and Tracking202 are wildly popular among successful affiliates.  Their users are a virtual who’s who of affiliate marketing. Is’nt that a club you want to be part of?

What is your favorite feature in any of the 202 products?

Things are changing here. It is July 5th, 2009. From the 1st to the 3rd I made $999.90 net. Saturday the 4th I made $527 net and today, Sunday at 6pm I have $430 in net profits.

This represents marked growth in my campaigns’ performance. It’s very exciting and a little unnerving. I am nervous about the rug being pulled out from under me. Google represents a large majority of the traffic and conversions I’m getting.

At Affiliate Convention, I told people that I was making $3K net monthly and that “Within two months I’ll be making $10K monthly net.” It’s only been two weeks, but I’m already there. Of course it needs to hold for a month for me to brag, but I’m really quite pleased.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be secure with this affiliate marketing income. Laws are changing. If you depend on Google for SEO or PPC, they can change their algorithms at any time and hurt your income badly. My basic plan is to make as much money as possible as fast as possible and sink it into offline investments such as real estate and brick and mortar businesses.

I want to have a totally stable and secure passive income which far exceeds my needs and only grows over time. In other words, I want to be wealthy in every way. Time, money, family, health. I want every type  of wealth there is and I’m on my way. Thanks for coming along for the ride.

Have any of you gone through issues when it comes to adjusting to financial wealth? I’m having to work to push past the limits of my comfort zone. Please comment about your own experiences with income growth and it’s effects on your life.

This is a follow up post to My First Ad Buy just began.

It ain’t real pretty. I ran it for two weeks and now it’s over.

Money spent:       $320

Money earned:     $145

Net loss:              $175

It made sense on paper anyway. I had received some conversions from Adwords placements on this site. On paper I thought I might make a killing….like $4K/month net from this little ad.

It was worth a shot. In hindsight, I could have done a better job at rotating ads and offers to find a sweet spot. I changed the ad out once and switched to direct linking and rotating offers, but this thing was pretty much a dud. My landing page is doing well. There just wasn’t as much traffic as I thought.

Um, I guess that’s about it. Title covers it all. Unless you don’t know what that means…..

For me it means that aps like Tweetdeck and Seesmic will perform better. Things like Twitter Karma will perform much better. Twitter Karma will now be able to work for accounts up to 15000 followers instead of just 10000.

If you use the web interface only. It means nothing to you. Don’t worry about it.

I just bought this software. Now I expect a couple of you to do the same thing. They have an excellent affiliate program, so I’ll get 50% of your purchase fee. I have 4 kids with no college funds so at least half your money will go to a good place.

Seriously though. I really did just pay $188 for the unlimited version. I plan to take over the Twitter universe in a truly nefarious and megalomaniacal way. I don’t want some cracked version which won’t be updated.

If you are thinking Hummingbird is the way, today it is broken. Check it out in the forums. Humming bird is fine for a few accounts (assuming they fix it) but not for buying Ferraris.

This thing has the power to kill. Along with an account creator tool and  a few good proxies, it could be really, really dangerous.  I may be ‘pleading the 5th’ and not confessing all I plan to do with the thing. You may also need some e-mail accounts. Think 1000 Twitter accounts each following 400 per day all with links back to your affiliate stuff. Make sure you send a few referral commissions my way. C’mon, you know you weren’t going to actually do this until I inspired you.

Note that Twitter is getting smarter. You should not create more than 5 accounts per IP per day. Follow no more than say 400 per day per account. Create tweet logs that will not just spam affiliate links, but will provide some value just like a real person. Keep your link tweets below 1 in 5 at least. If most of your tweets are ‘real’. You’ll be much better off.

Um……did I just post all this? Disclaimer: This is all a big joke. You should only use this tool in a way which is fully compliant with Twitter’s terms of service. You should never buy e-mail accounts, use proxies or make $10,000′s by spamming social networks.

Here is a list of features from the website:

This is the follow up to the Challenge to make $15,000.00 net in June.

Well, I only made $2761.50 net this month. I squeaked by my competition with a slightly higher net income for the month. I enjoyed the challenge of it, but hitting $15K net was pretty much a cash flow impossibility by the 22nd or so.

Still, I’m happy to take on all comers. Eventually ALL internet traffic will pass through my servers. Mooowhaaahaaaaa! That’s what makes me ‘Dangerous’. You’ll be allowed to stay in business, but your traffic will have to flow through me.