Ok, so this is just going to be a short post about the results from my last attempt at MySpace Advertising.  The site was for iron man collectibles and the targeting information can be found here.

In my opinion, this was bad for the $75 that I spent to gain traffic to my site.  I really am not sure how to track what clicks came from Myspace through my site to ebay, but on the days the campaign ran, I got a total of 49 clicks to ebay.

At this time, my monthly balance is nothing stellar, but I see almost no return on my investment in Myspace advertising.  I really didn’t know what to expect, but I really thought I was targeting users very well and those that clicked through would have bid for sure.  I really can’t expect that every single click will WIN a bid, it’s not like just clicking through and BUYING.  The user still have to WIN the auction.

With this bad news I wasn’t even going to post screenshots, but I think that before I advertise my own site on Myspace again, I am going to have to find a better way to track the clicks.  This would be just so that I feel comfortable reporting the results.

Myspace advertising is still plenty worth it and the one thing that I would announce to those that follow this blog for advise, make sure you realize what audience you are trying to reach and how LARGE that audience is.  If you are going to get views up the ass, make sure it’s worth what you are paying for clicks.

I am not giving up, I have a couple of other sites AND affiliate offers that I know will still work on Myspace, so stay tuned.  If you have had success with Myspace, why not leave a comment here and let us all know how it went!

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A couple of months ago I posted about how easy it was to set up an ad on Myspace.  Since then, I have also attempted to two campaigns and posted about them here and here.  The first was an attempt at promoting a dating site that wasn’t really done all that well.  The second was for a niche site that I created and seemed to go much better once I had the targeting feature all figured out.

So now, I attempted my 3rd go around with Myspace Advertising and again, I chose the niche site as the landing page.  This site is making me about $200 a month now, I thought I would see if I could increase that with Myspace.

Ad Information

Since I am promoting Iron Man Collectibles, I knew I had to target an audience that was into things like the movie, action figures and comic, for sure.  These types of people love to shop, collect and spend big $$$ on ebay.  Below I listed who I targeted for this campaign.

Demographics

• Males only
• 18-30
• Education - all
• Relationship - all
• Perental Status - no preference

Geographics

• National - US

Interests

• Comics, Batman, X-men, Iron Man

I thought about it for only 10 minutes or so before I started the campaign and Myspace only gives you a few options when it comes to targeting interests.  I really like Facebook better for this, but I felt that promoting this site would be better on Myspace.

My PPC was set at .50 (about half way between recommended), I set my budget to $25 per day for a total campaign budget of $75.  That means I will spend $25 per day, but never more than $75 total.  In this case, it only took 3 days to reach my maximum.

As you can see, my CTR was .20% which I guess isn’t all that bad.  I did like to see the 74,432 ad views though.  I targeted a larger group than I thought and maybe could have narrowed that down a bit, on the other hand, I did go through all my clicks in under 3 days!  That is nice to see as well.  If my clicks would have taken 2 weeks, I would have had to look at who I was targeting and maybe clean that up a bit.  It looks like I targeted the right group fo clickers, that’s a plus!

Where Did All The Clickers Go?

Since we know that I am promoting a niche site hooked up through ebay, I also checked the stats available from the EPN.  Right now, it is showing about 49 clicks through to ebay on these 3 days.  I checked my EPN stats and I can see the clicks through to ebay.  Since the cookies are good for 7 days, I will have to update you on the actual amount of $$$ the clicks made.

Stay tuned!

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I have had a couple introductions so far for JWRMedia and AverageGal, welcoming them to Affiliate Obsession.  Today I would like to introduce our newest commenter, Daniel at WPThemeKid.com.

First Impression

At first glance I see a wordpress theme designer giving away simple free themes to help boost his presence on the net.  There are a few photoshop tutorials (helpful to me) and it seems the blog was just started last month.  Since it’s so new, we can’t really give any indication on how well he is doing.  Maybe he’ll stop back and let us know.

Photoshop

PS tutorials are always a help and the ones I read through on WPThemekid.com are very easy to follow.  Step by step instructions for some basic things you probably didn’t know you could do in photoshop.

Themes

The themes seem to be created by Daniel and are quite fresh from what I normally see when people are giving away themes.  I am sure, as a designer, we will see more complex themes to come.

Summary

Thanks Daniel for coming to comment and I hope that you will stick around to learn a few things about affiliate marketing.  Pass this post along to friends and let them know they can be introduced as well.  I urge all of my readers to visit WPThemekid.com and say hi to Daniel.

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