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!

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!

Campaign Details

For this campaign I wanted to try a dating website for married couples.  I know it’s not something I like to promote either, but with over 50% of marriages in disrepair, I thought it might be a niche to make money in.  So I chose an offer through Neverblue from the Ashley Madison Agency.  They have a 100% affair guarantee and the payout is a whopping $37.50 per sale for males AND females.  With a secondary payout of $2.25 just for a female sign up.  With two ways to make some money, I thought it was a good offer to try.

Myspace Targeting and PPC

What I did for this ad was put it out there for everyone from 18-65+ from the west coast only.  With a higher concentration of population and, of course, Hollywood, in the West Coast, I figured it was worth a try.  I left everything else open, including interests, education, relationship and parental status.

I went with the max recommended cost per click at .75.  This would ensure that I get max impressions and possible more conversions.  Of course that only leaves me with 34 clicks.  Not many, but I wanted to add to be shown as much as possible.

Overall Stats and Profit

The ad ran for 2 days with the majority of the clicks coming the second day.  With a total impressions of over 90,000 for that day alone, you would think that you could get a couple conversions.  Well, I didn’t.

• Over 90,000 impressions
• 34 clicks to be exact
• Total cost of $25.00
• Total revenue of $4.50 (for two female sign ups)
• Profit of -$20.50

I did take a couple of notes this time around and am hopefully will be making a tad bit more on my next campaign coming up after the Thanksgiving holidays.

Do you have any thoughts on ways to make an ad like this work better on Myspace?

The ad was approved on the 29th and I have all the results from that $25 campaign.  It only took me 5 minutes to throw together a simple ad with my domain name as the text and a picture of Iron Man as the background.  I loaded my account with the minimum $25 and let the ad rip at a recommended bid of .36/click (at .36, myspace estimated 70 clicks).

A Little Background

I used the fantastic “Facebook-like” targeting features to get my ad shown to males, ages 14-30, that live the US only.  I just figured that was the group most likely to click.  I didn’t want to blow my CTR on tens of thousands of views that didn’t get me clicks.  The group included interests in Comic Books & Superheroes, X-Men, Comics, naturally.

The Results

I wanted max exposure since the Iron Man DVD release was going to be talked about a lot.  The very next day my ad was shown over 28,000times and yielded me 40 clicks.  I was pretty impressed with the results.  After the entire $25 campaign was over, which lasted only 4 days, the money earned was a grand total of $35.58from 100 clicks to ebay. 

The Myspace ad only shows 90 clicks to my ad, so the other 10 would have been clicks from search engine traffic, most likely.  Of those 4 days you can see the clicks were the best the day AFTER the DVD release.  I am not saying that had 100% to do with the clicks, but I am sure that it helped.

Summary

• Money Spent:  $25
• Money Earned:  $35.58
• Total Profit:  $10.58
• Total Views:  43,430
• Total Clicks: 90
• Ending CTR:  .21%

I can happily say that my $25 spent on my first Myspace advertising campaign was well worth it.  Will it work for everyone?  I don’t think so, but if you play around with your ads and adjust your targeting correctly, you just might find the sweet spot.  I think it works better than Facebook, but they might not really even be comparable at this point. 

Granted I only made $10, but more importantly, this is the FIRST time I generated a profit in any type of PPC, so that is well worth it to a beginner!

Have you seen any results via Myspace Advertising?

September Results

As you can see, the income from September is lower, but it’s still income.  I also tried a couple of PPC campaigns that weren’t too successful, but I did learn a thing or two.  I would say, that after all is said and done, this last month was close to a wash.

What did I do

I purchased a couple more domain names to setup with BANS or re-sell, so that put a small dent in those earnings as well.  I think that I am on the right track.  My network of websites/blogs has started to show some search rankings in the “big 3″ and I can see the earnings show from it.  The traffic is also starting to come up, as well.  I haven’t been able to hit the nail on the head with all of my affiliate offers this last month, but I did some testing and still had a bunch of them on Sukosaki.info work to my advantage.

I also started a graphics website setup with an e-junkie shopping cart so that I could sell my headers, advertising banners and logos.  That one is going to take a while to get going because I want to make enough content to sell before doing any promotion.  There is one banner on there now, but it’s really just setup as a test.

And that’s that

As you can see I have been quite busy this past month.  I try to add content to my BANS sites and keep my blog updated so that you guys are bored without any posts to read.  Eventually the websites/blogs will be on auto pilot, but in the meantime, it’s going to be month after month of being busy like this.  See you at next months earnings summary.

This is just a quick snapshot for the last year of impressions, clicks, conversions and $$ made with Neverblueads.  All of this money was made with content and affiliate offers found through search engines.  I use many different tactics, but the one that has worked the best is simply using a web address in the title of my post.

Sound kind of weird?   Well, it’s true.  By using the web address of a sweepstakes site, I was able to pull in over $380 with ONE post in just about 3 months.  It doesn’t sound, or even look like a lot, but it was ONE post and I am sure my profit per hour was around $1,000 for that 20 minute post.

If you want to check out the post that I made the most money on, you can click here.  I have also, since that post, created a couple more “search bar traps” for people surfing the web that have made me money as well.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am still making money with Neverblueads and for this month, both Neverblueads AND Rocketprofit.com are still my top earners.  I will be posting my earning totals and how I got them within a couple weeks of months end.

I wanted to update on how well the site was doing with a quick post about the traffic and $$.  Let’s start with the advertising part first.

Bidvertiser Ads

My bidvertiser text ad was simple and I paid only $8.82 in July for clicks to my site.

ProjectWonderful Ads

For my 300×250 ad campaign was placed on about 25 sites at a total cost to me of $4.40 for ONE week clicks.

That is the only advertising that I did for my CollectIronman website.  I don’t think it was all that much considering I made a total of $78.54!  Minus the $10 domain name, advertising and I have a profit of $55.32 for my first month.  It is a step in the right direction.

Traffic Stats from July 11th (start of website)

According to Google Analytics, my IronMan website was visited 638 times for 1,223 pageviews with an average bounce rate of 68.97%.

I noticed the traffic pick up right at the end of the month, so I checked my site index on Google and noticed the placement at #6 for IronMan Collectibles!  That was nice!  I am not sure how long the site will stay there since I no that Google is not a fan of these types of sites, but we’ll ride it out however long we can.

Search engine traffic accounted for just under 500 visits, which is nice, because they are picking my site up.  The referral traffic was small and should be for such a new site.  Only 85 visits from 39 sources and most of those are via ads placed for the site.  And of course the smallest, direct traffic, was only 64 visits. 

I suspect all of those stats to go up in time, the site is only one month old right now.  In the meantime, I have purchased BANS and will be implementing the system into other domains that I own. 

If you want to keep updated on the results of my projects and experiments, make sure you subscribe to my feed so you don’t miss any exciting information.

In a two day campaign I was able to generate over $57 with the clicks that I received in that campaign.  The total cost per click was only about $0.11!  My total 2 day ad campaign cost me $3.28, giving me a profit of $53.72!  Not bad for the first time advertising my BANS-like websites.

I have completly relied on search traffic up to this point, but since I have found a cheap way to get clicks to the websites, I think I will have to try out another campaign.  The one starting today and going on all week, will hopefully have the same results.  Low CPC and higher profit per day.  My goal is to make at least $100 per month with my BANS-like sites, at least in the beginning and I think that I could be on my way to that goal.

Have you had any success advertising your BANS sites?

It’s real nice to see results and this one was a nice addition to my Paypal.com account.  Since my PPC campaigns aren’t doing too well, this type of thing is keeping the money flowing in at least.

If you haven’t seen the posts, on my old blog, about how I made money from one post, I can summarize here again.  Basically, all I did was put up a post about the new Pepsi sweepstakes with Pepsistuff.com in the title.  Why does this matter?  Well, there are plenty of people that search the internet  by typing the actual web address in search boxes.  That means my post, with address in the title, will be picked up very quickly by SE and rank higher each day.

Once the traffic, or actually before the traffic, comes in I find an CPA ad that is relavent to the post and put a text link to it on top of my post.  I choose an offer that asks you to “choose your favorite Coke or Pepsi”.  When the user clicks, they pick and then submit email.  If they enter their email $1.80 came my way!

Since the traffic is only coming to my blog to click through to the Pepsi website, the ad is just another place to click.  None of the information I have in the post is all that valuable.  If the user clicks on my CPA offer, the odds go up that I will make some money and they still have to find their way to the actual sweeps website.

All the traffic came from Google and Yahoo.  If you typed in, and maybe still, CallYourPlay.com or Pepsistuff.com, my blog should be on the first page and if I am still lucky, right under the actual game website.  I really never could figure out why someone would click my link than the one they needed, but I guess you never know.

That payment was via paypal.com and came in today.  If I had to use one word to describe the WPAuctions plugin, it would be: awesome.  The whole system, from entering an auction to getting payment worked seamlessly!

If you haven’t checked out this plugin yet, you can find it at www.wpauctions.com and one of the best features on the site is the LIVE auctions area.  All auctions that you have running are featured there for everyone to see.