Within a couple of days of each other, I have got money from both adsense and Adwords!

One person clicked on one of the ads on this blog, and somebody purchased one of the items I have marketed via adwords, for a commission of $48.80, so now I have made a small profit from the adwords promotion  (I have spent a grand total of approx R320 on adsense before this sale, so my overall profit is about R30)… The profit on this particular product is pretty good, since I spent less than $7 driving the traffic to the merchant.

The low overall profit is due to a single camapaign which had cost me R222 (Approx. $30), without a single sale. I stopped it within the first two days, when it became apparent that it will not perform.

Of the other two campaigns, one is reaching the 100 clicks mark, and if it does not get some sales soon, I will cancel it as well.

The third one is getting a very low CTR and number of searches. I am not sure if I will abandon it, or try to make it work.

At the moment I am looking into expanding my campaign to other PPC engines (specifically Yahoo and MSN). Since I want to see if I can generate mor emoney from the succesful campaign I already have. I will also soon start split testing on it, to see if I can get a higher CTR.

It is incredibly motivating to actually see a little bit of money coming in… Just when I was thinking if its worth it.

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