Well, day four. What can I say? Things weren’t looking good yesterday, and I know now why. I’ve also made a plan of action to tackle the low profits. So, what was the cause of such a drop? Traffic – simply. There was just no more traffic coming into my site, but I was still paying Google. So what’s the problem ey? People stopped searching in Google.
The biggest mistake I made was making a site which revolved around news. Mine was a sports player, who was recently rejected an appeal. After the first day, he wasn’t convered in the news any more, so people stopped searching him. So long story short, I lost my audience. However, that is a valuable lesson to me. The test is still in profits overall, and the last few days have still been making profits.
For those of you who were interested in the original test, arbitrage – I will be starting it again. I will however incorporate it into this test. I have been reading around, and found some tips which I could implement to make it more profitable. It will be added within the next few days, and I will report back here!
Here is how I did with day for of the testing:
Well, as you can see above I spent $1.40 in AdWords. Paying roughly $0.20 a click. It was high because I thought if I increased the CPC I would get more clicks/traffic – wrong! Well a spending of $1.40 is pretty low.
Well, the earnings speakfor themselves. Poor! A mear profit of $0.15 which is not good at all. However, a profit is a profit. I’m still positive overall from day one so theres no loss.
Today (day 5) I added some new campaigns into the test. Hopefully this campaign will hit off. It’s using the same offer, same domain just a different landing page and different keywords. These should hopefully bring some stable traffic.
As for the arbitrage I’ll be doing some keyword research to find keywords that pay extremely high per click. I’ve found some templates (which I will share on here of course!) that are suppose to be known for having a high CTR.
That’s day four for ya, now stay tuned for day 5 and remember to subscribe to my feeds. Oh yeah, tell a friend to tell a friend 
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