Nerdy Affiliate Adventures In Affiliate Marketing Land

James Seligman Interviewed by Clickbooth

Posted by JasperP on August 3rd, 2009

James Seligman is an affiliate marketer doing big things in the industry.  He’s been in the industry for 3 years, so he definitely has some experience in affiliate marketing.

I think I first met him at Affiliate Summit West (I forgot.. lol).  But we definitely partied it up in Ad:Tech San Francisco 2009.  He’s a real chill dude, if you ask me.

Anyway, he has an interview on clickbooth about how he first got started in the industry.  Check it out:

http://blog.clickbooth.com/2009/07/meet-an-affiliate-james-seligman/

Check out his blog too at:

http://jamesseligman.net

Interview for RohailRizvi.com – Entrepreneur in the Making

Posted by JasperP on March 10th, 2009

I just got interviewed for RohailRizvi.com.  He’s another Affiliate Marketer that working to become successful entrepreneur.  

Check it out:

http://www.rohailrizvi.com/interview-with-jasper.htm

Advertiser vs Publisher: What Am I?

Posted by JasperP on January 17th, 2009

“What’s the difference between an advertiser and a publisher?”

This was a question that my brother asked after the trip to ASW.  I remembered when I first got started in affiliate marketing with CPA networks, I was kind of confused which one was which. Thinking about it now, I realize that I am both a publisher and advertiser at the same time.  It just depends what type of network I’m  working with.

Most of the time, CPA Networks are going to refer to affiliate marketers as a publishers.  So if you apply to a CPA network like Convert2Media, then you need to apply as a publisher.  As an affiliate marketer, you are taking the offers and you are publishing them for visitors. Therefore, to the CPA network, you are a publisher.

However, as an affiliate marketer, you may publish the offer in an Ad Network such as Google Adwords or Adbrite. In this case, you are an advertiser since you are utilizing the impressions and views from a web site. Google Adwords has web site owners (in the content network) that are publishers because they provide ad space for you as the advertiser.

So, to recap, if you’re an affiliate marketer and…

• … you’re applying to a CPA network such as Convert2Media, then you’re a PUBLISHER
• … you’re applying to an ad network such as AdBrite or Adwords then you’re an ADVERTISER.

Make sense?

Cool. 

How To Study Your Competition With Compete.com

Posted by JasperP on June 18th, 2008

Studying your competition is a skill you should master if you want to make more money as an affiliate marketer. By understanding your competition, you can create better sites, and better copywriting to outwit your competition.

The immediate benefits are:

• It’s easier to understand the visitor since some else has already done the research.
• Headlines and other web copy has already been tested for sites with months of history.
• Web sites has already been laid out for you, just take the elements from various sources and put it all together for a highly converting site.

Now here’s a tip I use pretty much all the time when I study new niches… I hope this doesn’t bite me in the end… but I study my competitors VERY CLOSELY with compete.com…

Why do I do that? Well if a competitor has been advertising in a niche for awhile, then he’s probably profitable right?

So how do I do that? Well… let’s take a popular clickbank product like Fat Loss 4 Idiots.. I think everyone is familiar with this product right? (A VERY expensive niche by the way, which I don’t recommend for any beginner/newbie)

And I use the product name “Fat Loss 4 Idiots” as the keywords:

Now here’s my little secret… I use Compete.com to determine their history!

In the screenshot above, you can see that FatLoss4IdiotsFlaw.com has been advertising since December 2007! If you are advertising for that long and getting traffic, then he must be getting something back. It would be a waste of time to just continue trying to create more traffic for the site.

Now he might be getting traffic from other sources, but from the screenshots above, you can see that he was advertising in the #2 spot for the product keyword name! I’m guessing to be in that #2 spot, that keyword must be REALLY expensive, but at the same time it MUST be converting into sales!

At that point, I would study all the different landing pages to determine what marketing angles they are using. You can then make it better than the original sites and add your own elements make it your own. Or you can even take the best elements into one awesome landing page site!