Less restrictive alternative to Adsense is in the works

If you think that Adsense has become too restrictive for your online marketing campaign, chances are you’re going to love the new text advertising system that’s in the works by Super Affiliate Marketing Blog. Well, for starters, it allows a lot of what Google Adsense has cracked down over the past few months like arbitration. What’s more interesting is that they’ll allow you to format however you want the ads to look like as long as they can send traffic to the advertiser. I’m not sure whether it’s purely PPC but they claim to have the anti-fraud system in place.

Not convinced? Read the long list of features/benefits:

1. Arbitrage traffic (buy low and sell high!) is ALLOWED.
2. Get paid via PayPal, e-gold or ACH/Wire.
3. BH SEO traffic accepted! I know people treat you guys like dirt and give you a bad rep, but I also know there is nothing wrong with your traffic, so screw the other guys and stop having to explain yourself to everyone else (unlike in the US, everything banned there is legal in the UK/EU — more advertisers paying a hell of a lot more per click!).
4. Get paid per click. We only care about clean and real traffic, and you get paid in Euros, GBP or USD.
5. 100% customizable. Break out of the barrier of boxed in or bordered ads. Customizing no longer means just limited to changing the colors. You can change the shape of the text ads, put approved images next to them for higher CTR’s, put them inside videos, etc..
6. Webmasters and site owners from around the world are allowed to participate, but we ONLY want traffic from the UK, and Western European countries right now.
7. Bid price tools that tell you EXACTLY how much you get paid. So if the cpc says “$2.22″ per click, that’s what you get, $2.22, no more trying to factor in your percentages and our cut and blah blah.
8. Stats you can read and learn from. Hate using other add-on services like heatmaps or ROI converters, well now, you’re in luck, because those tools all come standard in our reporting module. Including automated tips on how to change around your content and templates so that you can increase your CTR’s.
9. Use XML feeds to display results, either in 1 or 2 click format, it’s your choice! Display search results for the advertisers inside text ads, instead of making people search first and then click, they can click straight away and you get credited right away.
10. Domainer traffic welcomed. Stop getting only $0.08 a click from all of the parking page services, come over to a place where you’re appreciated and respected.

That’s only 10 but they are good enough reason to try. However, only UK and EU are definite to be serviced when the system goes live.

 

Affiliate marketing is hard

Just started a couple of adwords campaigns. What seem to be too easy thing to do was in fact really hard. Creating ads in adwords is easy. Creating compelling ad is hard. My ads hardly get any clicks.

Other than badly written ad snippets, there’s also high bid price for niche keywords I was in. I don’t know how to steal other’s spot. It might be that they are actually earning so much from those they can afford to throw away money on clicks. It’s tempting to call their bluff. I still have my sanity on to not bite. I’m a complete newbie with adwords or PPC marketing. I’ll take the hard road if it means learning how to game adwords.

I also bought a couple of domains for the sole purpose of selling affiliate products. I could have pointed my ad’s destination url straight to my affiliate’s sales page but I read somewhere that sites that are not directly selling the stuff have higher quality score and as a result will have lower bid amount in adwords.

A couple more domains will be put up in the coming days after I finish my research on my target niche. I hope by that time there would be improvements on my current campaigns.