Becoming Who You Want To Be

Affiliate Marketing can be a great way to build wealth and capitalize on the traffic you are pushing to your site from PPC and SEO efforts. Basically you are letting Google put ads on your site via AdSense, and every time someone clicks on one of those ads, you get a commission. It isn’t much, can be pennies at a time, or sometimes dollars at a time (depending on the cost of click you’re sending to Google). But bottom line – as long as it costs you less to acquire those clicks than the commission you’re receiving, it will make you money.

With Google AdSense promotions, it’s all about paying less than what the clicks you’re delivering is paying you. There are ways to find long-tail search terms, pay at a low cost-per-click, to get traffic to your site. Say you are promoting a high-dollar click on your website like DUI Attorney. That click on Google costs around $30+ per click, so the commission you will earn from AdSense will be much higher than a click that would cost $3 per click.

So lets say you find some inexpensive long-tail keyword search terms like DUI Attorney Pasadena, CA. And since you’ll bid for a lower position (say at .25 per click), you hope to get the lower-cost clicks to get people to your site.

You also need to make sure that your site offers things relating to this click, like articles on DUI or traffic laws in Pasadena or anything of this nature, which will not only make people come to your site but be willing to click on the Adsense ad you are running, from which you are making $1 per click. You have to agree that this doesn’t sound like that bad of a deal; however, if nobody is clicking on your ads, then you are going to be losing the money you have invested — this really is a risky business. Not everyone has what it takes to make money through buying low cost clicks and then running them on their own websites. You are going to have to be willing to invest not only money, but the time and effort necessary to figure out exactly what is going to work the best to make a profit.

If you are going to put that much time into this effort, why not focus it on SEO for those same long-tail keywords? If you optimize your page right, you can still do the same work for less competitive words, and come up organically. Then it doesn’t matter as much what your CTR is, and will cost you a lot less $$. The only thing you are spending is your time. Once that initial time investment is over, then it cannot cost you any money out of your pocket – Whether it works or not!

Anthony M. Flores is an expert in PPC Management and specializes in SEO in Los Angeles.Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding your internet marketing!

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