Internet Marketing Journal
It’s only 2 days left to Christmas Day and the online shopping season for most of us doing business online effectively ended a week ago. It really is pretty amazing how short this online shopping season is. This is now the third time I’ve been through the cycle since I first got started in affiliate marketing.
I learn a little bit more each time through.
Below are a few of the things that have become a bit clearer about doing affiliate marketing during the holiday season:
In a previous post I mentioned the noticeable drop in revenue I’ve been experiencing from Adsense on my pages. There has also been some discussion in IM circles about this and the alternatives to Adsense. Of course, like many discussions traveling around the IM community, there is usually a product lurking in the wings to solve the problem at hand.
This is no exception.
Let’s just say that I have looked at some of the contextual advertising alternatives and I’ve also not bothered to check out others. This is due to a combination of both my ingrained laziness and my suspicion that they probably aren’t worth the effort expended to check them out in the first place.
There’s been a lot of buzz recently about Adwords Placement Targeting and the impressive results that many are experiencing with it. Ever since the release of “Adwords180“, interest in what was until recently called “Site Targeting” by Google, has only gained in attention.
The latest version of this Adwords Content Network advertising model now supports both CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) and CPC (cost per click) bidding models. In effect, you can specify the sites where you Content Network ads will be shown. Even right down to a specific page on a particular site. Of course these sites and pages need to have Adsense on them.
I recently took advantage of the free offer to download a non-demo version of Techsmith’s Camtasia Studio 3 and decided to start learning how to make screen capture videos with it. I believe the offer is still up, so you may want to get in on it. I don’t have a link handy for it, but a quick search will turn it up for you. Seems everyone has blogged about it. It is a great deal.
I decided to do my first Camtasia video on how I use Micro Niche Finder to produce low-competition keywords that I can target in both articles that I submit to article directories and for themed pages on my websites as well as on my blog sometimes.