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My Most Recent PPC Experiment

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by on 02-17-2010 at 04:01 PM (2089 Views)
Today I just got a new PPC campaign up, so I figured I'd share some details and report back my results.

Typically I am not into any type of MLM or crap like that with my PPC campaigns. However I picked a pretty good domain name up off expiration www.FreeSilverEagle.com that fits the type of sales scheme perfectly. Plus the reality is that there are still tons of people in the country that sign up for stuff like this. To be honest though I really hate the landing page.

So anyhow, I figured I'd throw some money at a campaign and see how it goes. I want the clicks to be pretty targeted versus just the random people searching for silver coins. etc. So my daily clicks may not be that high, but should be pretty targeted. I am targeting terms related to free silver eagle, free silver eagle coins, silversnowball, and similar terms.

Because my target is so narrow, I am only paying around .20 a click on Adwords and around .50 on facebook. For every 2 conversions I get, I earn a free silver eagle myself, which is essentially $20 or so, depending on the spot price of silver. For me this is great because I like turning my cash into metals anyways!

So basically to break even, through Google I need to get 1 conversion for every 50 clicks and 1 for every 20 on facebook <----This may be trickier.

We'll see how it goes but I figured I may as well share the results here, so stay tuned.

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  1. doovde's Avatar
    When was the last time you felt the weight of real money in your hand ay?
  2. Jeremy's Avatar
    Yep, it's pretty gay. But I have actually made some money on it since I started. It's amazing what people spend money on. At the end of the day, if it's profitable, I'm a happy camper. It would convert a lot better with a good sales copy though.
  3. doovde's Avatar
    So people pay the $36 subscription and for every 2 people who pay that montly you get a silver coin? Sorry if I'm being dumb just not sure I get it.
  4. DealerDan's Avatar
    Ouch, I really don't like that landing page. Are you able to change that at all or are you stuck with it?
  5. wjb316's Avatar
    I love when people show their new projects, no matter what they are. Thanks for the post.
  6. Jeremy's Avatar
    Yea the landing page sucks.....in fact it's awful. If I have even moderate success with this I will completely redo that page to my own and hit some of the other PPC search engines or try to organically rank for it on my own. I am building out a news site about silver and precious metals right now, so that has the precedence right now.

    I would just skip over this silver snowball thing and go to raw affiliate marketing for precious metals. However I am waiting on (and actually helping) the top online company get thier aff. program up and running.

    In regards to the actual system, you get auto-billed each month and receive 1 silver eagle, then if you can generate 2 new sales you get another coin and so on and so forth. It makes no sense to sign up unless you are actually going to send referrals. Like any MLM, most people don't make money, but if you can actually send sign-ups, you can make a lot of money.

    PPC is great though, because I can sell a corny MLM and not have to bug friends and family. LOL
  7. CK's Avatar
    Nice post J. I've never really tried PPC. Once when I just started. I thought I could buy traffic to my 1st website and learned the hard way that it was a money drainer when you dont know what your doing, so thanks for the post

    btw your header reminds me of the cash man.
  8. Matt Geer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by wjb316
    I love when people show their new projects, no matter what they are. Thanks for the post.
    Me too. I'm just nosy though (go ahead agree Kaus, I'm waiting )

    I would actually like to get into PPC soon myself. I'm a bit intimiated though to be honest. Similar to how I was getting into affiliating for the first time.

    I definitely look forward to an update Jeremy, be sure to keep us posted.
  9. DealerDan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy
    Yea the landing page sucks.....in fact it's awful. If I have even moderate success with this I will completely redo that page to my own and hit some of the other PPC search engines or try to organically rank for it on my own.
    Even better in terms of blogging. You know that actually getting people to the landing page is barely a quarter of the battle. It's more about converting them there. Would be great if you could keep current landing page for a bit, then change to a much better one. I think a lot of people could learn a lot from that, what differences you do, and why it works.
  10. Ridge's Avatar
    This is pretty neat in terms of the idea. I would try and do some type of free ebook like "secrets of collecting coins" or something and get a list going to market other coin products too.

    Edit: On second thought maybe the email thing is a shitty idea for this niche? I dunno, maybe a newsletter wouldn't do well. I'm just an email addict not lol
  11. Matt Geer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by DealerDan
    Even better in terms of blogging. You know that actually getting people to the landing page is barely a quarter of the battle. It's more about converting them there. Would be great if you could keep current landing page for a bit, then change to a much better one. I think a lot of people could learn a lot from that, what differences you do, and why it works.
    +1 - I would like to see this myself.
  12. Spry's Avatar
    very cool to share this Jeremy. I'm going to have to sign up through you so i can affiliate for this myself. Keep us in the loop as to the real affiliate program for precious metals when you get it worked out. I've been using ebay and is sucks ass.

    I'd love to see followup with results and insight from goog ppc and the facebook marketing.
  13. KevinMcC's Avatar
    Thanks for sharing man, looks interesting...I think there should almost be a separate forum here at PAL for this stuff
  14. MJ's Avatar
    Jeremy needs to start "AffiliateListings" imo - bring it on.

    Cool to watch this stuff, I love how you aren't afraid to gamble while I stick to "sure things" and don't take any risks.

    I can't wait until I'm financially secure enough to take shots at getting lucky, which was the reason I entered internet marketing in the first place!
  15. MPC's Avatar
    I've never done PPC, but was always curious about it. I received a $100 credit with google PPC and I'd like to try it out on my telescope site just for the hell of it. I assume $100 is like nothing when it comes to PPC, but if someone with PPC experience is willing to help me out, I'd throw poker link love their way. PM me and maybe we can schedule some time for a quick chat.
  16. Prenut's Avatar
    Any silver eagle updates?

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