Yep, I didn’t forget about them!
Dragos asks…
Do you know any self hosted analytics package that can track outgoing links and outgoing ppc links like adsense and other ?
Something that tracks Adsense too? Nope not really sure, sorry mate.
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Keep asking questions on the questions post, since there’s usually a ton I’m just going to start answering them now.
NOTE : DON’T ASK QUESTIONS ON THIS POST, ASK THEM ON THE ORIGINAL. IF THEY’RE ASKED HERE THEY WON’T BE ANSWERED. I LINKED TO IT FOR A REASON.
Gary asks…
How much capital did you have to play with when launching your first ever campaign?
These are always fun, easy to do, and helpful to everybody out there because I’m directly answering their questions. Ask me anything related to affiliate marketing, life, anything you want. I won’t answer retarded questions either.
Just post a comment on this with the question you have. Let’s do it up.
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Ask Me Questions
yeikow asks…
1 How do structure your testing landing pages? Do you just name them index1.htm index2.htm etc? Same for internal non-index pages? Seems clumsy but it’s how I do it…
2 Do you use drupal or other CMS for most of your sites? If not, what do you usually use?
3 Do you still design many of your sites? (ie. is it a key skill to learn and apply)
4 Do you pay to have your content written, and then just add all the articles to the site?
1) I usually just put them in different folders…similar to what you’re doing.
2) I usually use Wordpress to host all of the content.
3) Yup it’s maybe 75/25, I design a lot of my landing pages but if there’s something I can’t handle, I’ll use one of my designers.
4) Yup I go to DP and outsource 100 articles or so.
papaman asks…
I wonder were you get traffic from except from PPC. Do you use any traffic from Image hosting sites or Web proxies? Do you think traffic from those sources might be useful and “monetizable” and if yes what would you try to market on sites like that?
thanks in advance.
There’s definitely other sources of traffic to monetize, but everything I do is PPC. Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Facebook pretty much.
Frank asks…
How much text is on your Landing Pages? Tons of bla bla or just a few word like “Buy this crap now!”
Depends on if it’s a regular page or a review-style. Review pages have more text on them because you want people to review the products. General pages are more the hit them with bullet points and make a nice call to action button.
Maximum Rare
How do you prevent your landing pages from getting slapped in Google? Do you just do landing pages, or do you do full content sites that you have to update regularly?
Eh it’s pretty easy to get around slaps, just make a new site, new domain, new account and start all over. You’ll have a little ground to make up but it’s not too bad. I haven’t been slapped in a while actually knock on wood.
Billy asks…
Do horses wear socks?
No, but sometimes they wear shoes.
nick asks…
What ever happened to you teaching your Dad affiliate marketing? Did that ever happen and if it did how did it go?
Meh that kind of fizzled out like I had expected. He came to accept the fact that he’s not part of the computer generation, he knows how to check his mail and play Euchre on Pogo, but for cryin out loud he still uses AOL.
Brandon K asks…
Do you tend to build micro-sites or just landing pages for your campaigns?
I have shifted towards mirco-sites, in an attempt to incorporate SEO into my site design. I am not sure if it’s worth the extra effort.
I’m just sticking with landing pages for now with the extra content via a blog.
Kevin asks…
Is it important to cloak our referrers so the networks don’t see our landing pages or is just cloaking our keywords good enough. I’ve heard of people’s conversions going up after they allowed networks to see their landing pages. But I also heard networks will give out your LP to other affiliates if they see it is working and they also might use it for their own in house PPC team.
Also with the current state of our financial system with some banks failing. Do you need to open up multiple business bank accounts and just put $100K in each? FDIC only insures up to $100K per bank…or is there something else you can do since you are running a business?
1) It depends on if you want the networks to know what you’re doing 
. I usually cloak everything but if I have to be ultra-transparent with them in exchange for them being just as transparent with me, I’ll refrain from cloaking.
2) Yeah I have my money in a few different bank accounts.
Urban Wear Lookout asks…
What’s with these wierd small posts?
Life dude. I’m trying to blog as much as I can and work on UberCamp as much as I can, but I have a baziliion projects going on, a house, and now a puppy. It’s not like I work on my campaigns for an hour and then go watch movies all day . Boy I wish…
tim asks…
How many split-tests do you conduct to get your campaign’s ads CTR up to a decent level?
I probably split test for around 2 weeks to a month, testing 2-3 ads at a time.
Johnson asks…
Could you email me your instant messaging contact?
I promise not to bug you with questions every single hour… =)
It’s already on my about page.
ben asks…
From what I understand, the huge leap in your income was the result of meeting the right people. Obviously, the guys you met wouldn’t guide you in the right direction if they didn’t expect something from you in return. So what kind of approach did you use to get what you wanted out of them? What did they expect from you?
I set up a partnership…we both do the work together and split the cash. Then once you start making good money, things become a lot easier. Then the connections came to me, as affiliate networks and other guys knew I made money.
dominic asks…
Do you think you’d do as well if you promoted pay-per-sale affiliate programs like those found in Clickbank and Commission Junction?
No idea, to be honest I’ve never really messed with anything like that. I tend to stay mostly in saturated CPA offers/niches.
Curiosity asks…
What was the ONE action you took that blasted you from barely-making-it to several millions dollars in affiliate marketing income?
There wasn’t really ONE action…a question like that is way too broad and simply can’t be summed up with 1 thing. I guess it was just taking the plunge and risking the loss of a few thousand dollars to make much more.
Amir Meta asks…
Do you think PPC Affiliate Marketing is *largely* a “find a needle in a haystack” kind of game? Meaning you’ve to throw up 50 campaigns to find 1 profitable one.
Through experience, certainly not. Ringtones are profitable. Dating is profitable. Credit reports are profitable. Diet products are profitable. I know because I’ve made a profit on each one, and they’re the most saturated ones out there. They’re the boulder in the haystack that everybody sees but many people are too afraid to go try and pick up.
nate asks…
What tools do you use to build your keyword lists?
Google suggest, SEO book, and my brain. Sometimes Wordze if I want to compile a huge list.
Sandro asks…
Is there a way to do direct linking? Do you still do it?
Yeah there’s a way, you make an ad and directly link to the offer. If you get slapped for it or w/e, just set up a domain and redirect or set up an iFrame of the offer on it.
magnesium asks…
Hi, what niche do you target?
Saturated ones.
lolwtfd asks…
Who the fuck are you that you are the go to guy for questions about ANYTHING?
I made a thread asking for questions…if you want to ask something I’ll answer it. I’m not saying I’m right about anything, but I’ll answer from my knowledge and/or experience.
Get a life.
Frank Abagnale asks…
Can you describe how you start an affiliate offer in 10 steps or less?
Like:
1. Choosing niche
2. Building/buying landing page
3. Research on ppc
4 etc etc
w00t.
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Ask Teh Uber – Round 3
Ricardo asks…
What do you think about those AM that say that crappy/cheap looking landing pages convert better than professional looking?
Depending on the niche and page, yeah sometimes that’s the case. Brutally simple and somewhat crappy looking landing pages can convert. They look extremely outdated but that’s what some people are used to that only use a computer when they need something. They also most likely load very fast.
Dan asks…
Will you post a detailed case study of one of your huge campaigns that died out? Thanks.
Probably not, because there’s always potential to get back into it in the future if things go right. The only case studies I’ll do are the live ones done in UberCamp.
Patrick asks…
How did you manage to get into affiliate summit east when it is clearly 21+ only and everyone knows you are only 19?
No comment.
John asks…
Do affiliate marketers get a lot of puzzy?
Hellz ya.
ian asks…
I have mainly used affiliate programs which pay a percentage of the sale. I get the impression a lot of the top affiliate marketers make most of their money from cost per action programs. Can you please advise what percentage of your total income comes from cost per action as opposed to cost per sale. Thank you.
100% of it comes from CPA, I don’t really like sale stuff.
Newbie asks…
When you first start your campaign, you mentioned you want to bid “high” to get the good CTR and collect good stats as soon as possible, but how do you determine what is the high bid for that particular niche you are targeting?
I usually just go balls out when I very first start and bid like $10 just to see what my average CPC will look like (in most cases it ends up around $3-4). Then I’ll cut it to $5 the next day and re-evaluate, then cut down to $2-3, and then collect data.
Lorozzo asks…
You ever had sex with your girl friend ??
wtf kind of creep are you.
Robert asks…
What would you do if your campaign was doing great, then one day, the CTR stayed roughly the same, but the conversion rates dropped by 5% or more? You try switching networks with the same offer, you find out that other affiliates are not having a severe drop in conversion rates, you even try changing out your landing page, and ad copy. Your average position is the same, but the dam campaign is converting like crap. What would you suggest?
Does it have to do with a seasonal change? A change in the news related to the offer/niche you’re promoting? A new flood of affiliate bidding around you and checking out more ads? It’s hard to determine the problem with no information. But I’d keep testing different landing pages, direct linking maybe, and trying to get a higher payout to make up for the loss you’re taking.
Jonathan Radande asks…
How does it feel to be a home owner?
Man the work never ends haha. It feels pretty cool though, there’s ALWAYS something to do, something to fix, something to buy, etc. Having my own place to work and relax is super nice though, I have a lot more time to work…or slack.
Heman asks…
Did you lose your blog content writer?
Yea he actually lost focus on the blog a little and started working more and making more money and building his businesses. Poor guy I’ll try and get him back.
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Questions – Round 2
Made a post saying to ask me questions, so if you have one get to it and I’ll answer it here.
Ahmed Kassem asks…
Are you having an up trend or a down trend with your revenue over the last 3 months?
It’s definitely been dipping around here and there. Niches do great, then they die and force me to work on something new that will replace the revenue I just lost. Overall though, everything has remained fairly constant. Revenue is down overall just because of the season though, so I’m not too worried and it should be getting very good soon.
Eric asks…
Do you like chocolate?
Yea dood chocolate is pretty good, although if I had to pick between that and vanilla, I’d pick vanilla.
Verb asks…
Can you talk a bit about PartnerWithPaul.com? What kind of affiliate training is it and how much involvement do you have in the program?
Haha everybody thinks that site is me because it has my name in it and has an Azoogle screenshot. If you notice, the guy “hides his identity”, and I’m pretty sure if I went to that length to keep my identity hidden, I wouldn’t call it Partner with PAUL. His house also looks nothing like mine.
I have heard of that guy though and he used to do some pretty big numbers I guess with Azoogle. Funny part? He just incentivizes an Azoogle work at home offer and says to start making money, sign up for this program or something. So the revenue screenshot from Azoogle in the video is most likely from the scammy bizopp stuff he’s selling. Haha pretty funny but hey he’s bankin.
Keith asks…
Do you try and tailor your landing pages to resemble the merchants landing page?
If I had to give a general trend with my landing page style, yeah it would be blending with the offer page. Simply increases conversions and you can modify it to get a really good CTR too.
Dood asks…
Did CX Digital create your landing pages and KW lists for you?
No, I wouldn’t trust anybody to do that but myself.
Think Like An SOB asks…
1. what niche are you targetting?
2. what is your landing page url?
3. what are you keywords?
1. Fat ones.
2. Yourmom.com.
3. [Think Like An SOB's Mom]
IamJustinM asks…
Has anybody told you you look like Michael Phelps?
Yeah, I can’t swim to safe my life though. I try and lose energy after about 20 seconds then just start to sink.
Justin Dupre asks…
Does CX Digital really make your landing pages and keyword lists so you don’t have to?
Where are people getting this from? lol
Maurizio asks…
Hi there, and thanks 4 the opportunity.
I’ve been long time lurking, first time posting (Congrats 4 blog QUALITY anyway!)
I’m good in SEO, and I”m already doing well with Adsense & my own seo consulting biz.
Should I invest time in learning the Affiliate Marketing basics? And Why?
P.s. English is not my motherlanguage, my online assets and experience are targeted mainly to italian people.I’d like very much to hear your take.
It’s up to you man. You know there’s money in affiliate marketing, and if you’re already doing well in SEO then you can either just expand what you’ve got going and make more money, or just start something new for the fun of it. Affiliate marketing definitely isn’t easy though, so I’d wait until you have realllly good cash flow and can set aside $5k or so to give affiliate marketing a whirl.
Dallin Harris asks…
What blogs, newspapers and magazines do you read regularly? Would you recommend them to someone just getting started in affiliate marketing?
Haha going to sound stupid but none really. I’m so out of the loop when it comes to news and new stuff, I kind of got immersed in my own world and have just been expanding that and networking with other people. As far as blogs for educational value, I don’t read any really…I find just working is a better use of my time. Newspapers and magazines, none of that really either besides Golf Digest when I’m on the pooper.
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Ask Teh Uber – Round 1
I did an interview today for the Can’t Get Rich Podcast. You can check it out here.
I talk about a few things so it might be interesting for some of you. Lord Brar (domainer from Wickedfire) is before me, so if you want to skip to me I’m like 23 minutes into it.
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I’m interested to know something. If you could, would you pay $500 to get on the phone with me for 3 hours. Basically you get on the phone with me and tell me what you’re doing (you can be as specific as you want). I’ll give you new ideas and help you improve what you’re already doing. What I will do? Give you all the advice I can on how your campaign is going. I’ll help get it off the ground and optimize it so it’s achieving the maximum ROI. What I won’t do? I won’t tell you my campaigns, landing pages, or answer the question “Can I have all your secrets?”
I always talk about how you can’t be afraid to invest a little money for the sake of making 100x more in the long-run. Would you pay $500 for my direct and private advice? I’m interested to see what you guys would do. Note that I’m not starting any phone consultations, really. Take the poll though and answer honestly.
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Would You Pay for 3 Hours With Me?
A little over a month ago, I made a post and told people to comment and ask me anything. I would answer every affiliate marketing or off-topic post that was commented in that thread. Just the other day I finished off every question in that post (minus a few because some people asked 20 questions each and I wanted to answer everybody), and this is a recap for those of you who may missed some of the posts. I ended up answering 163 questions. Enjoy, share, and spread the knowledge. It was a good time and some time in the future I’ll do something similar.
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 1
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 2
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 3
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 4
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 5
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 6
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 7
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 8
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 9
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 10
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 11
Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 12
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I Answered 163 Affiliate Marketing Questions
Wow, so this is the end of the list. I didn’t get to 100% of the questions in the Ask Me thread (which is now closed to comments ) because a lot of you guys asked like 10 questions each lol. There’s probably another 100+ questions in each individual Q&A post, but I stated numerous times to ask all questions in the original thread. So sorry if you can’t pay attention. I got to almost all of them though, here’s the last batch. It’s been fun.
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