Yes, I rave and update on NeverBlueAds all the time, but it works. I tell you how I am making money, so you can make more money! Once I started making money with NeverBlueAds, I decided to start letting everyone know about them. Just last month I talked about how I went from $0 to $10,000 in monthly earnings in just five months, then this month I followed up with a post on passing $50,000 in earnings with NeverBlueAds. There is not reason for me to brag about these numbers, I’m just stating that these figures are real and are attainable with just one ad network. Today’s post will focus on the all new user interface which NeverBlueAds just went live with.
New Main Page Login
Right when you login, you will see a completely new interface. Right off the bat, I really like the summary area and it gives your most recent stats, but now includes your growing totals and other figures. You’ll also see the "Featured Campaign" and can easily located the newest campaigns and news.
Pixel Tracking
I talked a lot about pixel tracking in my "Super Affiliate’s Guide to ppc Marketing", and I always get emails asking on how to set them up or which networks allow you to place pixels. Now NeverBlueAds has made it extremely easily to place your own pixels, in their "Global Tracking Code Placement" section, which is found in the "Tools" area. Inside the "Tools" area you can also setup "Ad Rotators", "API Data Statistics", "Postback URLs for Lead Tracking" and more.
Campaign Section
NeverBlueAds already has a ton of offers for you to choose from, but now they have made it even easier for you to find which best match your site. There are a few hundred offers spread across 20 different categories. You can also search by keywords, or even better Top EPC (earnings per click). The campaigns page is much cleaner now since it offers the option of multiple pages, instead of a long one with all offers.
Other New Features - Batch Creative Download Option- download multiple creatives for a campaign in one easy step. - Banner Creatives- easily add banners to your Banner Ad Rotator right from a campaign.
- .XLS Excel download option for reporting. - Network EPC- earnings per click stats now available on most campaigns. - Personalized Recommended Campaigns- customize your Home Page with the types of campaigns you’re interested in! Plus, Top Ten campaign lists are now personalized, based on your traffic. - Campaign-Specific Postback URL- you can now use Postback URLs for individual or specific campaigns! This is an improvement from the existing Global Postback URL feature, which allows for a Global Postback URL across all campaigns!.
If you are looking to make money off your current web site with some great CPA offers, or even dive into testing some pay per click campaigns, I highly recommend joining NeverBlueAds. They will keep you updated with fresh new offers, while offering payouts that beat any other network. If you signup and have any questions or comments, please let me know and I’ll see what I can do about getting your account quickly approved.
If you haven’t already, apply for NeverBlueAds through this blog and you’re application should be approved without a problem and very quickly. To entice the offer even more, send me your affiliate id and I’ll send you a free t-shirt when you earn your first $50 with NeverBlueAds. (This has nothing to do with NeverBlueAds, nor a paid promotion by them. I simply want to help others make more money!)
Money Making Blogs is a super fast growing niche area right now, and Mark from 45n4.com came up with the perfect opportunity to cash in on the situation. During early September, Mark wene live with his "Top 100 Money Making Blogs" list. When he first went live with the list he only had 73 blogs being tracked, as of now he has 262 on the list. It’s not Alexa and it’s not Technorati, but it’s still a pretty cool list of top money making blogs all in one spot. It’s also a lot of fun to see the fluctuations on the list and who’s moving up and down. A few weeks ago I was in the low 30s range, and I’m not happy to say I’m in the TOP 20, with the 19th position. (A cool feature I would like to see on Mark’s Top 100 Money Making Blogs list, would be something like "last month’s rankings" or a way to look back on past numbers.)
Heading into almost nine months of my new blog being live, I’m very happy with the growth I have seen in such a short period of time. Even more so than the numbers, the amount of people who have emailed me, thanking me for helping them and seeing ZacJohnson.com become a daily resource for so many, has just been awesome to say the least. I have every intention of making this blog so much bigger and so much more helpful, but let’s first take a look at where this blog currently stands "statistically" against other web sites and blog.
Alexa: 26,103
Compete: 39,251
Technorati: 8,776
Technorati Authority: 483
Google Page Rank: 4
Top 100 MM Blogs: 19
RSS Subscribers: 1113
More than anything else, these numbers are just fun to watch. The value being offered through the site and the user interaction is worth so much more. I can’t wait to look back on these numbers a few months from now and see what type of growth increase we see. I won’t be happy till I see 10s across the board… Top 10,000 Alexa / Compete, Top 10 on MM Blog List, 10k uniques daily and 10k RSS subscribers. It should be a fun ride for me and hopefully you’ll get some new profitable ideas along the way!
Over the past few days I had been working on a new site and marketing campaign, which I focused on promoting through PPC. Once I had my idea together I quickly got everything up and running and started testing. Initial numbers showed me that the volume was there, then the next day was the evidence that my idea could be quite profitable. My campaign results from the first five days are shown below.
These numbers were killer and got me super excited. All through Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the holiday weekend, I was psyched! I was pumping out new landing pages and ad groups to test all different measures. I was extremely excited because the past several months have been a bit slow. Not horribly slow, but more boring than anything else. I have a few big projects and ideas in the work, and I hate the setup or programming jobs… I really like to work on web sites and marketing new ideas I have. To see this one succeed so fast, it was pretty awesome!
It was finally Monday and I was anxiously awaiting to talk with my network ad reps so they could see the numbers. Everyone was thrilled and were so happy with the numbers. Unfortunately I then talked with them again later that night and they were just notified that the ad campaign was actually setup incorrectly on their end. The advertiser wasn’t too happy and they weren’t going to pay for the leads, but the network made good on all commissions owed to the affiliates. The problem was that the tracking pixel was placed on the confirmation page of the first page and not the second. The campaign was pulled and is coming back at the same rate, but with the pixel on the second page… meaning conversions this time around will be much lower. Since I already had my new sites and landing pages in place I was able to jump around and try a few different offers from other networks and see if they convert. Unfortunately none had the same results and were much lower.
Over the past ten years of online marketing I have seen a million different campaigns and tested and tried a million different methods. It’s ones like these that keep you up at night and make you just want to keep working all of your ideas. Then when your massive earnings come to an end, your heart sinks… but then you realize you made it work in the first place and can make it work again. Sure, I was extremely disappointed to hear my campaign wouldn’t be racking up 5,000+ clicks while I slept that night, but now I’m motivated now more than ever to make it work and earn even more!
Ever since I released my "Super Affiliate’s Guide to PPC Marketing" I get new emails daily from blog readers asking "what campaigns to run?", "how do i make this ad campaign profitable?" and so much more. The ones I really appreciate are the ones thanking me for introducing them to this new market and that they are now making money online. The point of this post is not to show you that I can earn upwards of $500 a day from a new ppc campaign, but how rapidly this industry changes, and to make the most of it with your creativity and dedication. PPC IS NOT EASY, DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED! PUT IN THE DEDICATION AND TIME AND YOU WILL MAKE MONEY!
Recently I’ve been spending a decent amount of time on setting up new landing pages and campaigns for Google Adwords and some ppc marketing. I get emails all time about what offers to promote and how it all works. One of the very important factors to successfull marketing on Google Adwords, is to know and manage your "Google Quality Score". I’ve been playing around with PPC for a while now and knew about "Quality Score", but for the longest time I was sure how to actually check it. Let’s make sure the same problem doesn’t happen to you!
First, let’s refresh our memory on what Google defines their "Quality Score" is:
Quality Score for Google and the search network is a dynamic metric assigned to each of your keywords. It’s calculated using a variety of factors and measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad group and to a user’s search query. The higher a keyword’s Quality Score, the lower its minimum bid and the better its ad position.
The components of Quality Score vary depending on whether it’s calculating minimum bid or ad position:
Quality Score for minimum bid is determined by a keyword’s clickthrough rate (CTR) on Google, the relevance of the keyword to its ad group, your landing page quality, your account’s historical performance, and other relevance factors.
Quality Score for ad position is determined by a keyword’s clickthrough rate (CTR) on Google, the relevance of the keyword and ad to the search term, your account’s historical performance, and other relevance factors.
Now that we know what components make up your quality score, it’s time to find out your grade.
1.) Login to your Google Adwords account and select one of your active campaign. Then navigate to the keywords tab in your AdGroup. Click on the ‘Customize columns’ option shown below.
2.) Once you click on the "customize columns" link, a pull down menu will appear. Scroll down and click on "Show Quality Score".
3.) With "Show Quality Score" now selected, your Google Adwords stats chart should look something like the following, with Quality Score now added.
Amazingly enough, this was a super simple walk through, but the knowledge of knowing your "Quality Score" is priceless. Please keep in mind, Quality Score rankings will only show for Adwords campaigns on the SEARCH network and will NOT appear on your campaigns on the CONTENT network.
For more information on setting up a campaign through Google AdWords and advertising with PPC marketing, please refer to my "Super Affiliate’s Guide to pay per click Marketing".
A while back I wrote a post on "Motivation for the New Guys", which focused back on when I used to promote Amazon.com’s Associate program many years ago. I went on to make over $100,000 in commissions, but the actual commission per sale was low, so I moved onto bigger markets. Amazon.com is still thriving and many affiliates are still making good money with their program, especially now that they sell almost everything.
I was just checking out a blog of someone I recently met at BlogWorld. In addition to them having a nice and helpful money making blog, I also noticed a new widget on their site. This was the Amazon.com Deal of the Day Widget. It’s been a while since I last checked out the Amazon.com Associates Program, so it was pretty cool to see they actually had a decent amount of widgets to choose from. An example of their 468×60 "Deal of the Day" widget is shown below.
If you already have an affiliate account with Amazon.com, you can login right from their Widgets area and it will create your selected widget, imbedded with your affiliate id of course. If you aren’t a member, simply signup to their Associate Program. Amazon.com offers linking and widget methods for many of their different categories and store sections, such as aStore Widget, Product Links, Product Previews, Text Links, Context Links, Omakase, Banners, Search Boxes and Recommended Product Links.
Amazon.com might not offer the best commission rates around, however they have a well branded name that almost everyone has already shopped at. You can also take advantage of their product database by using it for actual site content and being able to offer targeted ad/sales to customers actually looking to buy this product.
We are able to go full swing into Money Making Holidays season, so if you aren’t already testing out these widgets, give them a shot. If you don’t make any money, you might actually just come across a hot "Deal of the Day" which you can buy through your affiliate link!
There are a lot of ways you can start making money online. One of the quickest and most profitable methods is through Pay Per Click marketing. Please read my "Super Affiliate's Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing" to see if it's right for you. I recommend using the following ad networks to run offers from.
"With great power comes great responsibility".... my Uncle Ben told me that. Haha, just kidding! I'm Zac Johnson and I've been making money online for over 10 years now. In short, I started making money online while I was in high school... but my passion for marketing and making money goes back way earlier than that. I created ZacJohnson.com to help motivate you to start making money online, and live the life the you always dreamed of. [Read my full bio...]
If you haven’t already, apply for NeverBlueAds through this blog and you’re application should be approved without a problem and very quickly. To entice the offer even more, send me your affiliate id and I’ll send you a free t-shirt when you earn your first $50 with NeverBlueAds. (This has nothing to do with NeverBlueAds, nor a paid promotion by them. I simply want to help others make more money!)
Money Making Blogs is a super fast growing niche area right now, and Mark from 45n4.com came up with the perfect opportunity to cash in on the situation. During early September, Mark wene live with his "
A while back I wrote a post on "
"With great power comes great responsibility".... my Uncle Ben told me that. Haha, just kidding! I'm Zac Johnson and I've been making money online for over 10 years now. In short, I started making money online while I was in high school... but my passion for marketing and making money goes back way earlier than that. I created ZacJohnson.com to help motivate you to start making money online, and live the life the you always dreamed of.