How I Made $2,336.90 in One Day with One Article using Amazon Associates | Ridiculous.

Hey Guys,

Happy Fridays everyone, we can all start listening to Rebbecca Black. I haven't posted something that constructive in a while so I figured I'd talk about my last campaign that I did three days ago that produced exactly:

$2,336.90

So lets get at it:

First off, I generated about 115,000 uniques and I had around 4,370 clicks, so about a 3.8% CTR on my Amazon Ads, banners, and cookies.

From that conversion I received $2,336.90 at Amazon's top performance rate.

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Generating the Traffic
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The traffic was generated through:

• Front Page of Digg
• Stumbleupon
• 20 Twitter accounts (distribution of 40,000 followers)
• 2 emails (distribution of 6,000)

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The Money Making Content
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I produced a classic top ten list on my niche, mixing in personal touch and humor all to the mix. The article was entertaining and written for viral explosion.

I paid $100 for this ONE article.

Products and links were inside the article. Cookies were inside the images, so upon clicking they went to amazon.

The writer understood Digg which was my main focus. The article was setup for easy Diggs, ReTweets, and Stumbles.

- I dropped $100 into StumbleUpon Advertising

- I paid a guy $100 to submit my article into Digg, which included 100 Diggs. If those 100 diggs reached front page (which it did), I owed him another $100.

- I paid $5 a piece for the Twitter accounts via Fiverr. These didn't result in much traffic, but the traffic that came in, did ReTweet and Digg helping the entire system.

so total investment was $500.

Was i crazy... all for the promotion of just ONE article.

It acts just as like a product launch. I launched everything exactly at the same time. Because with Amazon I have a 24 hr window. I wanted as much as possible in regards to traffic as quickly as possible, creating as much viral potential that there can be.

Point being... article went semi viral, 115,000 uniques and $2,336.90 later I can say that this was a good investment.

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Obviously nothing that you can do every single day, however, the whole point of this story is to show that A LOT of money can be made when you make the right investments.

This one was a bit more of a gamble and i understand no one is going to take these type of risks, but think a bit smaller.

I would highly recommend looking into some StumbleUpon advertising, now called Paid Discovery.

I would highly recommend you look at your content and think to yourself if it is actually good, and if it in fact could go viral. '

If you are using Digg for traffic, you want Top Ten lists, targeting the more tech savy reader (doesn't mean electronics), just means:

Top 10 ways a teenager can be cool when _____________
Top 10 scariest restaurants of all time
Top 5 most ridiculous _____ stories

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The Biggest Viral Tip
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Keep your site simple. Or at least the page in which this traffic is going to land on. No pop ups, no exit scripts, you want them on the site, don't deter them from exploring otherwise they won't re-Digg or Tweet.

No Auto Play videos, no peel away ads, no Content gateways.

Let them actually read your $hit.

I hope this helps/inspires/makes someone happy.

Post with questions... I'm not going to give my Digg resource out, don't ask.