Emvee
Active Member
I recently joined the PPC bandwagon and decided to go with 7Search first with their 50:50 match offer where I put in $50 and they contributed $50. Btw they have the offer until Jan 2 so if anyone's interested they can quickly avail of the offer. A lot of people say that 7Search does not get good traffic but look, you can't compare it with Adwords which is at top spot. There are several people who reported good conversions so I decided to take the plunge and start my first campaign with 7Search.
The offer I chose was an email submit from Maxbounty. It has one of the highest EPCs in the email submit section and seemed to be a popular offer. I used the keyword suggestion tool found at http://conversion.7search.com and chose about 75 targetted keywords. I also used the cf(click free) feature of 7Search which also gave me some good keywords. There is a tool for LSI keywords at http://lsikeywords.com which also gave me relevant keywords before I serahced on the 7Search tool. Initially there were more than a 100 keywords but I pruned the list down to 75 keywords to make them as targetted as possible.
I had contacted Support and they had enabled my sub-id blocking facility so that I could block the traffic that was not converting. I created the campaign and followed these steps:
1. Campaign Name - The name of the offer - Email Submit - 1. So that I could launch variations with 2,3 ,4 etc.
2. Default Ad Title - I made used of the fact that this is year-end and based my Title with Dec 31 as a part of the line
3. Default Ad Description - 2 sentence description with a call for action before Dec 31.
4. Display URL - I went backto the offer and picked up the offer page URL before the first slash
5. Default Destination - URL - My Maxbounty affiliate code url. I also added &s1=7search###KEYWORD######AFFID###-###RID### to the url for tracking.
I set the daily budget for $5 for a start.
Geo Location - US
Keywords:
I went to the next section where I uploaded my Excel sheet with my keywords in the given format. I edited the keywords and made most of them Exact matches and fine tuned the bids for each of them. I was pleasantly surprised to see most of the bids were at 1-2 cents for top to no 3 rankings. The keywords for the most relevant keywords were slightly higher at 4-5 cents per keyword.
At the end of the first day I got figures as follows:
Impressions - 10279
Clicks - 90
Cost - 3.60
Avg CPC - $0.04
Avg Rank 1.2
I opended my Maxbounty report and saw that I had 6 conversions and earned about $8.60 with a spend of $4.50 which I think is a good start
I pulled up a Sub-ID report and copied a Sub ID which had given 20 clicks but no conversions and added it to the Sub-ID Block. I also noticed that I have i sub-ID which at 40 clicks have me 4 conversions out of the total of 6.
My next steps will be to step up my daily limit to $10.
Use a URL rotator for using the same offer from Maxbounty and Peerfly to see which one yields better results. I am not sure how to add a url rotator so if anyone knows a good one let me know.
Also test another version of the same campaign with a different headline.
I have also enabled the scheduler through 7Search Support. Any suggestions which timings I should try?
Awaiting inputs and shall be back soon.
The offer I chose was an email submit from Maxbounty. It has one of the highest EPCs in the email submit section and seemed to be a popular offer. I used the keyword suggestion tool found at http://conversion.7search.com and chose about 75 targetted keywords. I also used the cf(click free) feature of 7Search which also gave me some good keywords. There is a tool for LSI keywords at http://lsikeywords.com which also gave me relevant keywords before I serahced on the 7Search tool. Initially there were more than a 100 keywords but I pruned the list down to 75 keywords to make them as targetted as possible.
I had contacted Support and they had enabled my sub-id blocking facility so that I could block the traffic that was not converting. I created the campaign and followed these steps:
1. Campaign Name - The name of the offer - Email Submit - 1. So that I could launch variations with 2,3 ,4 etc.
2. Default Ad Title - I made used of the fact that this is year-end and based my Title with Dec 31 as a part of the line
3. Default Ad Description - 2 sentence description with a call for action before Dec 31.
4. Display URL - I went backto the offer and picked up the offer page URL before the first slash
5. Default Destination - URL - My Maxbounty affiliate code url. I also added &s1=7search###KEYWORD######AFFID###-###RID### to the url for tracking.
I set the daily budget for $5 for a start.
Geo Location - US
Keywords:
I went to the next section where I uploaded my Excel sheet with my keywords in the given format. I edited the keywords and made most of them Exact matches and fine tuned the bids for each of them. I was pleasantly surprised to see most of the bids were at 1-2 cents for top to no 3 rankings. The keywords for the most relevant keywords were slightly higher at 4-5 cents per keyword.
At the end of the first day I got figures as follows:
Impressions - 10279
Clicks - 90
Cost - 3.60
Avg CPC - $0.04
Avg Rank 1.2
I opended my Maxbounty report and saw that I had 6 conversions and earned about $8.60 with a spend of $4.50 which I think is a good start
I pulled up a Sub-ID report and copied a Sub ID which had given 20 clicks but no conversions and added it to the Sub-ID Block. I also noticed that I have i sub-ID which at 40 clicks have me 4 conversions out of the total of 6.
My next steps will be to step up my daily limit to $10.
Use a URL rotator for using the same offer from Maxbounty and Peerfly to see which one yields better results. I am not sure how to add a url rotator so if anyone knows a good one let me know.
Also test another version of the same campaign with a different headline.
I have also enabled the scheduler through 7Search Support. Any suggestions which timings I should try?
Awaiting inputs and shall be back soon.
