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4 Hours In My First Paid Traffic Experience - How to Best Use Data

by JamesMcCaferty
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Hello Warriors!

I've finally done it! My first paid traffic experience. Here is what I did:

  • Got Domain
  • Installed WP
  • Outsourced the writing of 10 health articles to populate the site
  • Wrote my own blog-style landing page for a CPA offer
  • Note: It's legitimately useful, gives great tips, as well as CPA offer
  • Used my free adwords coupon to get the ball rolling
  • Used the advice from Chad's Traffic Black Book
  • Bid on 600 Keywords with high price, Brute Force Method (to find the worthy KW's) (25 dollars a day, started at .80 cent bid, wasn't cutting it - jumped to 1.60 max CPC, ended up with average CPC=.78 cents)
  • Using Search and Content Network
  • Took 2 days for ads to get approved by Google
  • Testing 2 Different Ads
  • Grand total thus far: 7,000 impressions, 35 clicks - CTR .49%
I hit my daily budget in just a few hours. Of the 35 clicks, I got 20 to click on CPA offer, which is 57% CTR from landing page to CPA offer.



Of those 20 clicks from landing page to CPA offer, I got 0 conversions.


Grand total Day 1:

  • Spent: -25
  • Revenue: 0
  • Income: -25
The offer itself pays out 20 dollars.


Now: I'm going to continue to let it run for the rest of the week.
I'm not going to jump and change everything like crazy, because I think I need more data.


Just wanted to let everyone know, that IMO, the best way to learn CPA is to just f'ing get out there and do it.



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  • Profile picture of the author speedylikesKJ
    Congrats for taking action !
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  • Profile picture of the author smaxor
    Always the best way to learn anything is look at what's going on in the marketplace with live stuff being run and then get out there and start testing similar stuff.

    Congrats.
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  • Profile picture of the author silverace
    Best way with IM is to fail quick and learn from your mistakes fast as well! Great to see you take action, good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Omid
    Congrats on taking action. I always recommend people to find a respectful person and follow his/her advice. Traffic Black Book is definitely one of the best cpa courses out there.

    I'd drive more traffic to the landing page. only 35 clicks on your ads is not enough. You need more clicks on your ad (and also more click on your offer).

    One important question: do you track the keywords on your cpa offer. If you do not, then you're wasting your money. You should set your tracking system before start driving traffic to your lander. If you need help on this just shoot me a PM and I'll be glad to help you on this.

    ~ Omid
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  • Profile picture of the author bushidosurfer
    James,

    Congrates on your first PPC campaign and kudos to you for sharing! Keep us posted on your progress Will be watching this thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author williamrs
    Taking action is the most important thing. You can learn a lot from courses and reports, but there are things only experience can teach you.

    This was just your first shot and I'm sure there is still a lot to optimize in your campaign, so don't lose motivation because you didn't see conversions in the first day. It's 100% normal. Keep testing elements, optimize your campaign and eventually conversions will start coming.


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  • Profile picture of the author JamesMcCaferty
    Thanks guys - Much Positivity right back at ya!
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  • Profile picture of the author msu
    Good luck with the rest of your campaign, let us know how it goes.
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