I’m coming off another week of affiliate marketing, with another failed campaign. I ended up losing money again. Now I know a lot of people will say to be prepared to lose money in the beginning, and I am to an extent, but at some point you have to pull the plug. I probably spent about $20-30 this week in Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. Ya that’s not a lot of money, but for someone who is just testing things out, you can get a good number of clicks for $25 and at least get an idea if your campaign will work. With that $25 I got probably about 50-60 or so clicks (this niche was more expensive then the previous zip submit ones I did). Out of those 55 clicks, only 1 freaking person converted to a lead. DAMN that sucks.

So when people aren’t converting there could be several things wrong.

  • Your landing page sucks
  • Your ads suck
  • The offer sucks
  • Your keywords suck

Now, I put quite a bit of time into this campaign. I designed a badass (in my opinion) landing page that was almost identical to the offer’s landing page. If made awesome ads and picked really targeted keywords (Google even gave a lot of my keywords Great and Good quality score… something I didn’t get on my last campaigns). The only thing this leaves is the offer sucking. But really I don’t think the offer sucks either. So I’m at a complete loss as to why I can’t make money from this campaign.

Why Affiliate Marketing Sucks

Because no one will freaking tell you anything! Affiliate marketing is so different then any other make money online method. It is very secretive, if someone finds a good campaign they’ll never tell you and will do everything in their power to throw you off track. People on Wicked Fire forums aren’t helpful either. If you ask for help, half the people call you a newb and just say that you suck to bad.

So why am I still trying? Because Making money from Adsense SUCKS! I’m so sick of watching my earnings drop every single day and I’m sick of getting like 2 cents a click. It’s not worth it. If I had sites that I could line up private advertisers, I would… but I don’t so I’m stuck with the shitty alternative. I’ve got to keep trying though, and keep failing or else I’ll never get anywhere. Like I said, people in affiliate marketing aren’t helpful and won’t show you step by step how to succeed. The only way to succeed is to do it on your own.