Hi my fellow readers. Again a long time without posts I know. I’m really sorry about that and I hope you don’t mind, but I was too busy with several projects that I’m currently involved with. But there’s also good news, the most recent money making opportunity I’m checking out right now will give me some good stuff to write about. So let’s go on!

Pay Per View Advertising

Some days ago I came across a fairly unknown advertising method called Pay Per View advertising or PPV in short. I stumbled across it through a WSO published on the Warriorforum. The sales letter looked quite interesting and I bought that short report about how to use PPV traffic to generate affiliate sales and leads. A nice read, but fairly expensive for the amount of information that was provided. But that’s another story.

Anyway, you may finally want to know what Pay Per View advertising? It’s Adware traffic. Simply as that. But wait, before I hear you say that Mr. Querblogger has gone wild and is now on the Blackhat side or something like that, be assured that PPV advertising has nothing to do with any illegal stuff! On the contrary, PPV is probably the most targeted and cheap advertising method out there.

PPV traffic is provided by big advertising networks like Media Traffic, Traffic Vance, Adonnetwork or Zango. These networks usually have huge databases of user who have WILLINGLY installed adware on their PCs, most times by installing a toolbar, free games or software for example. Such ad networks will publish your ads as Popups or Pop-unders to all these users whenever a certain search keyword or even URL is triggered.

Basically a PPV network works much like a PPC ad network like Google Adwords for example. Advertisers are able to bid on certain keywords and URLs. Whenever a user who has installed Adware on his PC does a search on a search engine or even directly types in a URL in his browser, a Popup or Pop-Under with your choosen ad will automatically appear. Each time this happens you get charged a certain fee, just like with PPC ads. The big difference is the cost of a single ad view.

Typically bidding on major search terms like “weight loss” or “credit cards” for example can easily cost you several Dollars per single click. PPV traffic, which is nearly as much targeted as PPC traffic, will cost only a small portion of that. Usually you’ll find click prices in the range of 2 or 3 Cents and that’s a BIG difference in my opinion. With PPV traffic you’ll get the benefits of targeted advertising to a much lower cost than other advertising methods. Another big plus is the option to advertise your referral links and CPA offers directly, you don’t need to mess around with Quality Scores and have to build a landing page for example! There’s just one question left, what about conversion rates?

And that’s probably(I don’t know yet) a major downside of Pay Per View advertising. Because the ads are provided in the form of a Popup or Pop-Under and the traffic has therefore less “quality” than PPC for example, many people will simply just click away your ad and forget about it. But since you can advertise for such cheap prices, it’s still a valuable method of promoting your products, CPA offers or whatever you feel like promoting.

During the next days I will start a case study (actually I’ve already started a first test) and give you a real example on how PPV advertsing works and what you might expect from it. It will be interesting to see how my ads will convert and if I’m able to make some profits or not.

Feel free to check back soon, you’ll save some good money while letting me test the whole PPV thing for you first (I’ve already spend nearly $300 for getting the rigth infos and funding my PPV account).

See you soon,
Querblogger

Long time ago since I’ve last written a post here on TMME. I must excuse for being late with my writings, but I’m still quite busy at the moment with my new projects. Anyway, let me give you a short update on my current progress.

You may now that I’m currently working on 3 new niche websites where I promote several products from the Clickbank affiliate network. Each product will bring me around $30 to $40 in commissions if someone is buying through one of my sites. I’ve personally proved that such websites are really working, my first niche site I created several months ago still brings me around $30 to $60 per months, without further working on it.

Right now I’m done with creating the niche sites and I’m in the progress of driving traffic to these sites. I’m using article marketing for the main portion of traffic. I’ve already written several articles and submitted them to Ezinearticles. I must say, it really works! Although I haven’t made any sales with these sites right now, I’m already receiving traffic, around 30 to 40 unique visitors per day for all 3 of my sites (yes I know, it isn’t really that much…). The best thing is, that I already got some clicks on my Clickbank affiliate links too!

I must definitely write many more articles in order to create sales from my sites. The more traffic I can drive to my niche sites via my articles, the more possible sales I’ll hopefully have! Maybe I will also hire a copywriter who will write those articles for me. I’ve seen people on the Warriorforum who are writing quality articles for $5 per 300 words. And since I’m making quite good money from NeoBux, I’m sure I can afford some bucks to help me getting my job done.

Ok, enough for now. I’ll keep you updated!

Bye,
Querblogger

Right after I arrived from my two week vacations I checked all my different money makers. And hey, I noticed that my simple niche site that I created several months ago had made me just another two sales. In just 14 days I earned $53.90, the first time that I made two sales in a single month!

Ok, but why am I telling you that? Well it’s because I finally made a descision on a new project that I’ll start soon. Since I’ve seen that niche marketing really works (even without having much worked for it), I’ll start some new niche sites over the course of the next weeks. Basically I will create 3 niche sites where I promote different Clickbank products, fill them with some content to pre-sell potential buyers and insert my CB affiliate links. So to say a landing page if you will.

Ok, but the hardest part will be to drive traffic to those sites. I will therefore use article marketing (also known as bum marketing, see my post about it), in other words writing and publishing articles on popular article directories that contain a backlink to my landing pages/niche sites. The hard part is to write articles on a daily basis for at least a month’s time. I’ve set me the goal to write 2 articles per niche site and day, so I’ll end up with 180 articles after one month. Those articles will hopefully bring in some nice traffic and sales, I only have to make sure to target the right  (long tail) keywords with enough search volume and less competition on the search engines.

The method I’ll use to make money is proven in the affiliate business, many people are making some nice cash with it. Two days ago I read an ebook from a guy that made $3000 from only 5 niche sites! He has only worked a single month to achieve these results and he’s still making cash from his sites (without writing any new articles).

Now you know what I’m about to achieve within the next weeks. I will therefore don’t have that much time to keep my blog updated as usual since I have to write 6 articles (250 to 500 words) per day. But I’ll do my best to keep you updated on what’s going on and if my new project is making me any money!

See you,
Querblogger

Some days ago I discovered that eToro, a relatively new Forex broker with some exciting and new ways to trade on the foreign exchange, has an extremely high paying affiliate program. Their program is listed via Commission Junction and they pay $100 per lead!

First of all, eToro is a platform that enables you to trade currency pairs on the Forex market. I’ve already written about the huge money making potential from doing Forex several months ago, take a look at my introduction to Forex and some helpful resources. What makes eToro so special is the way they deal with trading the market. Unlike many major brokers which provide full blown analysis and statistic tools that help you making a trade, eToro offers a dead simple software where everybody is able to trade the Forex in a funny, amusing and easy way, which doesn’t mean they are not professional! You may download their software and open a free demo account to see what it looks like, simply follow my link (no, I won’t get paid any money if you only use the free version) and try it out.

Really interesting is the fact that they pay you, as an affiliate, $100 for new users that fund their (real) account on eToro. Funding an account with real money is easy, the minimum you need is only $50 plus you’ll get a 50% bonus of up to $200 for your first deposit (e.g. if you fund it with $400). After you’ve added funds, you’re immediately able to trade the Forex market with real hard cash (but be careful that you’ll also face a high risk unless you don’t have any experience with it).

eToro looks like a good program to make some nice affiliate commissions from. Because you get paid for every new user that adds a minimum of only $50 in their accounts, chances are quit good to make some money with their affiliate program. There isn’t such a huge barrier for new users and it gets even better because of the 50% bonus, it’s likely that a person interested in Forex trading will effort that amount.

Right now I’ve place a banner in my blog’s header and so far I got only clicks but haven’t earned any commission. I have a CTR (Click Through Rate) of around 2% and that shows me that at least some people have an interest in eToro. Anyway, I will leave it their for some more time to see how it will perform or not (yes I know that I’m actually not exactly in the Forex niche with my blog…).

Should be all for now.

See you,
Querblogger

PS: I’ve just joined a nice webmaster forum called Qdoos. Feel free to head over there where you can also find me and my friend Tiberius a.k.a. Midwest, who’s already a Junior Admin. Congrats Tiberius!

It seems all the efforts in building my first affiliate niche site have really paid off so far. Today I made my third affiliate sale and another $37 arrived in my Clickbank account.

Although this may sound a bit like bigheadedness, I won’t boast about how a good affiliate marketer I am. On the contrary, I’m such a noob in the affiliate business and it’s maybe only luck that I make my first money from this site. I only want to show you that it IS possible to make money from it!

Now I’m at a point where I seriously think about starting some other niche sites in order to make some good money. Sure, not enough for quitting my dayjob right now, but enough to have some extra cash in the pocket. Well, I’ll work on it.

See you later,
Querblogger

PS: I’ll soon write the next update about my progress with “My Homepages Friends”, the site where you get paid to search the internet!