The past couple of days I have been reading the thread "Diary of a rookie affiliate (the road to $1000 a day)" on this forum and was inspired by cashmoneyaffiliate to try my hand, once again, with affiliate marketing.
Before 2012, I created a website for a friend and ranked it on page one of Google which brought a significant amount of traffic and new business. My friend was so appreciative that he referred other local businesses to me and so that started a part-time SEO and web creation business. I made a decent income but eventually the businesses felt they didn't need me any longer once their site's reached Google page one and after they were bombarded by scammers promising the same service for a one time fee of $99.00 instead of the monthly fee that I was charging.
After losing most of my customers, I learned how to rank YouTube videos on Google page one and was able to provide this service to a few local businesses as well, but as we all know, Google came out with a number of updates and ranking web sites and videos "using white hat techniques" became increasingly more difficult and time consuming.
At this point, I decided to sign up at CJ and was approved by an Advertiser on a Pay Per Lead basis. I drove traffic to the offer using 7Search and grossed over $700 or less than $100 spend. I was stoked and then the Advertiser decided to leave CJ and dropped their offer.
I was then approved for another Pay Per Lead offer in a totally different vertical, using 7Search traffic and it totally bombed and so I got discouraged and basically stopped.
I've come to realize, in my opinion, that driving traffic organically is going to be too time consuming and a lot of hard work can be shot straight down the drain when Google decides to change their algorithm again and so after lurking here on this forum for quite some time, I have decided to get back into driving traffic to affiliate offers through paid traffic.
Before 2012, I created a website for a friend and ranked it on page one of Google which brought a significant amount of traffic and new business. My friend was so appreciative that he referred other local businesses to me and so that started a part-time SEO and web creation business. I made a decent income but eventually the businesses felt they didn't need me any longer once their site's reached Google page one and after they were bombarded by scammers promising the same service for a one time fee of $99.00 instead of the monthly fee that I was charging.
After losing most of my customers, I learned how to rank YouTube videos on Google page one and was able to provide this service to a few local businesses as well, but as we all know, Google came out with a number of updates and ranking web sites and videos "using white hat techniques" became increasingly more difficult and time consuming.
At this point, I decided to sign up at CJ and was approved by an Advertiser on a Pay Per Lead basis. I drove traffic to the offer using 7Search and grossed over $700 or less than $100 spend. I was stoked and then the Advertiser decided to leave CJ and dropped their offer.
I was then approved for another Pay Per Lead offer in a totally different vertical, using 7Search traffic and it totally bombed and so I got discouraged and basically stopped.
I've come to realize, in my opinion, that driving traffic organically is going to be too time consuming and a lot of hard work can be shot straight down the drain when Google decides to change their algorithm again and so after lurking here on this forum for quite some time, I have decided to get back into driving traffic to affiliate offers through paid traffic.
