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Ok so still waiting for my articles to be approved with Ezine, it seems to be taking up to 7 days now which is a shame.

I am promoting 3 different products in 3 different niches, all gravity below 100 and targeting some low competition keywords with my PPC

As far as the PPC campaign had been going I’m getting some clicks but a shockingly low CTR of 0.21% across my 3 campaigns which is very worrying. I will give it a few more hours then change a few things.
I am turned off the content ads on my campaigns as i feel it is not targeted enough as i am looking for users to buy so i am trying to target buying keywords such as “cheap” and “buy xxx”

I have used the targeted ad placements on a few sites so my ads only show up on the sites i choose which hasn’t really had many clicks yet so il keep tracking that closely

Stats so far across 3 campaings for 3 seperate products
Clicks-48 CTR-0.28%  Ave CPC-£.11 OR $.21

So not the greatest stats but only just started.

I am using a landing page for 1 of my campaings and redirecting through my hop link on 2 others, mainly because im not to good with graphics and secondly because i think it takes to many clicks for the user to buy.
I read somewhere that users will only click on average 3 times before they move on and getting rid of 1 extra click may help me.

NO SALES! As yet and a total 54 hops, would love a ale before 100 hops.

Ok so im still waiting for Ezine to approve my articles but hopefully that should be within the next 24 hours, i have decided that whilst i am waiting i will run a small PPC Campaign with Google adwords, My niche is very small and so im not expecting to many clicks.

UPDATE
The campaign has been running a few hours now and here are the first stats
Clicks-3  Impressions-809
so as you can see not much activity there

On a more positive note i used a Craigslist posting service and got over 100 uniques to my page aswell as 22 hops, Still no sales to report though.
Today i hope to complete my squidoo lens and spending some time blog commenting and possible going to look at some forum marketing

Only a quick update a full update to come a little later tonight, thought id go into a little more detail into how and what im promoting.

Im going to be targeting 2 low gravity products which i think i should be able to rank well on some key phrases and 3 very popular products and target long tail keywords with low Google competition

I wont reveal exactly what products just yet, ideally im looking for at least 30 daily searches in Google, i use the seobook keyword tool, Google’s keyword tool and a site called Wordpot to find my longtail keywords.

Also important is the amount of results Google shows, im looking for anything under around 400k results depending on the niche.

Another update to come later, i dont think Ezine approve articles over the weekend but i will be building a squidoo lens to promote my first product.

Part1 of this journey can be found here

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I have been a webmaster for a few years now and have mainly used adsense as my main source of income, recently i have started using Clickbank and really enjoy the challenge it brings. So i have decided to start a journal of my Clickbank progress.

I wont go into specific details of sites and products i am promoting but i will be documenting everything else.

The plan
Create 5 landing pages to promote 5 different products in 5 weeks
For each site i will submit 10 articles to Ezine and my own personal niche blogs

I already have my first site and i have submitted 3 articles related to this product to Ezine and hopefully should be approved within 48 hours.
I hope by next Saturday to have made 1 sale and then move onto my next site

The journey will be updated daily along with some screenshots and any useful tips i learn

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