Comments on: Why you should not use PPC with your phpBay Pro sites

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:28:46 +0000

I tried to click through to your golf ball site but the link is missing an l, it should be http://buydiscountgolfballs.com/

By: mrguyhp

mrguyhp — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:00:27 +0000

I liked you blog up to reading this post.

Are you kidding me.

I know server people making over a 1000 a day using PPC with PHP sites. Granted, a newbie will not be able to pull that off but with some custom tweaking for tracking, you can do it.

I’m pulling in 3k and 4k profit from ppc all the while building up the organic traffic.

Why would you not want to make as much money as possible? As an affialite marketer, that just boggles my mind.

Anyway, I’m going to try pulling the bids on a few sites as I read about in your earlier post and see what happens.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:04:55 +0000

@Dave,
That is a fair point. When you target leads you can make bank, but your page may need to be set up to target those people. You really need to sell ebay as “hey, sign up to eBay b/c you wont find a better deal on product X, plus it’s safer than you think”. Obviously not in those exact words. But the point is your page may act more as a landing page that shows some sick deals and pushes the user to a sign-up…

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:55:44 +0000

It is absolutely possible to track to a keyword what’s converting and what’s not.

Joe: You can assign a custom ID to track these.

I think when using PPC with EPN, it is important to focus on ACRUs and leave commissions completely out of it. This way, you have a set number to work with ($25 CPA) and with custom IDs, you can track down to the keyword/product level what is working.

Another thing to consider is that people who click on PPC ads are not as “internet savvy” as others so they are also less likely to have an eBay account already.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:41:57 +0000

I was disappointed when I signed up to eBays own affiliate program to find out they didn’t allow keyword level tracking. Unless I am mistaken so far they only let you track by manually creating campaigns.

With CJ you could pass a sub id for each visitor through phpBay which let you track back to the source of the click and measure PPC performance down to the keyword.