Hello guys!
I tried my first affiliate site when I was 16. Half a year after I created the page I gave up as I didn't see many results. I made no money. Over the last 11 years I have tried a few times again, without any luck. Once I created a page where I let the domain expire. After it had expired I happened to pass my affiliate network one day, where I discovered that the page had actually made money for me - not much, but something. I just discovered it too late.
All in all, I'm sure it can succeed if you are just focused and patient. However, I rarely hold these properties. But now I'm ready to try again - and turn my passion into profit!
I bought the domain woodworkcasestudies.com. For this I paid a freelancer $ 250 to set up an affiliate funnel via BuilderAll with a landing page and an email campaign with 7 emails promoting a Clickbank product. I’ll move in less than a few months, where I will have room to make case studies about woodworking, which I will add continuously to my email campaign in order to give a lot of delicious free information to my readers.
In my previous projects, it has always been to get more and more visitors to the site who have taken the air off the projects. I would like to have traffic fairly quickly and can find many “targeted traffic” providers online. However, these providers are often difficult to find reviews for, so now I will give them a shot myself. As a service they generally get badly mentioned, but I simply have to try them out, because there must be someone who can deliver since they can survive! Or there are just too many naive fools like me who just have to try them out.
MY PLAN IS:
- Test 6 different providers over the next 6 months
- Order a package from each provider for about 10,000 visitors over 30 days
- Find their package that promises the best quality (conversion / targeting)
MY BUDGET IS:
- Traffic packages: max. $ 100 per package ($ 600 total)
- Domain: $ 10 (already purchased)
- Setup: $ 250 (already purchased)
I have absolutely no ulterior motives on this case study - You will find no affiliate links in my upcoming posts. This listing is just for getting input and ideas for the project - but just as much to keep myself to the fire when I have warriors that come along.
I have not yet found an effective way to track the traffic properly from the various providers, so far they are tested monthly, so I can effectively keep track of the percentage of leads per visitor from the various sources. As some of the packages will vary (I may not be able to order 10,000 with a provider and have to order 15,000), the test result of each provider will be a direct result of the conversion rate (subscribed to the email list vs. number of visitors). However, it will also affect if the provider does not deliver the ordered number of visitors.
My hope is that after the next 6 months I have 2,000 registered for my email list with a average conversion rate of 3%. To put a few numbers on this:
- Total number of visitors: 60,000
- Of which enrolled for email list: 2,000
- Of which turn into a sale: 60
As I earn around $ 55 per sale with my affiliate link, it will be $ 3,300 in total and $ 2,440 in profit. A lead conversion of approx. 3% for both registration and then sale, I actually think is low compared to what I have read on many blogs - but since I have also read several places what to expect from this type of traffic, I think that maybe it is the most realistic goals to set.
When the test is over, I'll pick out a winner of these providers and, as a small extra test, order one of the biggest packages, which I will let run over a month to see how good conversions they can deliver in their small vs big packages.
FIRST OFFER
So my first provider, I've found is TrafficGiga.com where they promise 10,000 - 15,000 visitors for $ 67 "Unique and Targeted Visitors". The cool thing about TrafficGiga is that they can deliver directly to my specific subniche: woodworking plans.
Provider: trafficgiga.com
Package: Plus
Visitors: 10,000 - 15,000
Price: $ 67
Targeted Country: UK
Targeted URL: woodworkcasestudies.com
Keywords/niche: woodwork plans
Order date: 12 June 2019
I've placed the order yesterday and my case study has truly started. I will keep you updated weekly.
The very best regards
Matt
I tried my first affiliate site when I was 16. Half a year after I created the page I gave up as I didn't see many results. I made no money. Over the last 11 years I have tried a few times again, without any luck. Once I created a page where I let the domain expire. After it had expired I happened to pass my affiliate network one day, where I discovered that the page had actually made money for me - not much, but something. I just discovered it too late.
All in all, I'm sure it can succeed if you are just focused and patient. However, I rarely hold these properties. But now I'm ready to try again - and turn my passion into profit!
I bought the domain woodworkcasestudies.com. For this I paid a freelancer $ 250 to set up an affiliate funnel via BuilderAll with a landing page and an email campaign with 7 emails promoting a Clickbank product. I’ll move in less than a few months, where I will have room to make case studies about woodworking, which I will add continuously to my email campaign in order to give a lot of delicious free information to my readers.
In my previous projects, it has always been to get more and more visitors to the site who have taken the air off the projects. I would like to have traffic fairly quickly and can find many “targeted traffic” providers online. However, these providers are often difficult to find reviews for, so now I will give them a shot myself. As a service they generally get badly mentioned, but I simply have to try them out, because there must be someone who can deliver since they can survive! Or there are just too many naive fools like me who just have to try them out.
MY PLAN IS:
- Test 6 different providers over the next 6 months
- Order a package from each provider for about 10,000 visitors over 30 days
- Find their package that promises the best quality (conversion / targeting)
MY BUDGET IS:
- Traffic packages: max. $ 100 per package ($ 600 total)
- Domain: $ 10 (already purchased)
- Setup: $ 250 (already purchased)
I have absolutely no ulterior motives on this case study - You will find no affiliate links in my upcoming posts. This listing is just for getting input and ideas for the project - but just as much to keep myself to the fire when I have warriors that come along.
I have not yet found an effective way to track the traffic properly from the various providers, so far they are tested monthly, so I can effectively keep track of the percentage of leads per visitor from the various sources. As some of the packages will vary (I may not be able to order 10,000 with a provider and have to order 15,000), the test result of each provider will be a direct result of the conversion rate (subscribed to the email list vs. number of visitors). However, it will also affect if the provider does not deliver the ordered number of visitors.
My hope is that after the next 6 months I have 2,000 registered for my email list with a average conversion rate of 3%. To put a few numbers on this:
- Total number of visitors: 60,000
- Of which enrolled for email list: 2,000
- Of which turn into a sale: 60
As I earn around $ 55 per sale with my affiliate link, it will be $ 3,300 in total and $ 2,440 in profit. A lead conversion of approx. 3% for both registration and then sale, I actually think is low compared to what I have read on many blogs - but since I have also read several places what to expect from this type of traffic, I think that maybe it is the most realistic goals to set.
When the test is over, I'll pick out a winner of these providers and, as a small extra test, order one of the biggest packages, which I will let run over a month to see how good conversions they can deliver in their small vs big packages.
FIRST OFFER
So my first provider, I've found is TrafficGiga.com where they promise 10,000 - 15,000 visitors for $ 67 "Unique and Targeted Visitors". The cool thing about TrafficGiga is that they can deliver directly to my specific subniche: woodworking plans.
Provider: trafficgiga.com
Package: Plus
Visitors: 10,000 - 15,000
Price: $ 67
Targeted Country: UK
Targeted URL: woodworkcasestudies.com
Keywords/niche: woodwork plans
Order date: 12 June 2019
I've placed the order yesterday and my case study has truly started. I will keep you updated weekly.
The very best regards
Matt
