More PPC Affiliate Experiments In The Pipe

Well, I think I almost gave up on this blog. But I’ve had so many emails from interested people that I will try and keep some experiments going.

To be honest, I’m kind of depressed about the whole travel affiliate thing. I’ve been doing it for a long time before I wrote this blog and these days it can be a lot of work with little return ( or the risk profile is to high ). My favorite traffic source ( PPC ), just doesn’t work like she used to in travel

But travel is not alone. PPC profit margins in many industries are becoming over saturated and unprofitable. I’ve recently done some major work for clients in the ‘make money’ and clickbank affiliate verticals and I can tell you, its a hard margin. Making a profit off Clickbank products with Thin PPC is pretty bloodie hard.

I know what some of you are going to say, making money with affiliate products and PPC is possible, I do it every day! Ok sure, you can make profits…  but if you want it to work you need to build sites, networks, seo, social. You need to capture and loop your leads through multiple cycles. My point is it’s a lot of labor, you accept all the risk, and the profits are still probably small. So if I just went and worked for clients and got paid $100 an hour, wouldnt I just be better off that way?

Probably… But thats not as fun

So, I should probably come up with some more experiments. I think i’ll run a $1k/1 month campaign on hotelscombined.com. I’ve been looking at this travel affiliate product for awhile and I think it’s unique pay on click/lead model may create a viable ppc arbitrage opportunity.