This is the fourth in a series of articles I want to share with you about my experiences in making money on the web with Internet Marketing. For the other articles, see:
My online internet marketing experiences Part 1
My online internet marketing experiences Part 2
My online internet marketing experiences Part 3

In the third part I told you about my experiences with Project Quick Cash and phpBay Pro. In this part I will tell you about my experiences with TrafficSwarm.

My experiences with TrafficSwarm
TrafficSwarm promises live, targeted traffic. Basically this is how it works: You make an advertisement that is shown a specified number of times to other members of TrafficSwarm. The number of times it is shown depends on how much credits you put into it, and how many people you have in your downline. If you become a pro member, you get a certain number of credits per month included in the membership. You can buy credits for money. You, can also stay a free member, in which case your advertisements are shown less.

At first I tried to make an advertisement for Project Quick Cash. But it was refused, because the website of Project Quick Cash uses 1 popup…  Major setback… I was not aware of this when I started, so I found out the hard way.

Anyway, I decided to persist. I ran a few other ads for a couple of affiliate programs, but removed them later.

At 30-03-2009 I bought 5000 credits for $75, and because I became a pro member ($30 / month), I got 5000 free. I set up 9 advertisements, all for Wealthy Affiliate. Results so far?
 

 
Pretty depressing, right? I still can’t figure out why the sales are 0. Maybe the traffic isn’t "targeted" enough? Maybe people see that they’re sent by an affiliate link, and delete the id part of the url? I don’t know.

This is the third in a series of articles I want to share with you about my experiences in making money on the web with Internet Marketing. For the other articles, see:
My online internet marketing experiences Part 1
My online internet marketing experiences Part 2
My online internet marketing experiences Part 4

In the second part I told you about my decision to become an affiliate marketer. In this part I will tell you more about my life as an internet marketer / affiliate marketer so far.

My experiences with Project Quick Cash
A couple of months ago I bought this product. It was not expensive at the time ($27), right now it’s sells for $77.. So that was an important reason to buy at the time. Another reason was that it was from a famous internet marketer (Alok Jain), and the idea "Quick Cash" sounded good.. I set up the website http://hotnewsaroundtheworld.com/ , in which I planned to incorporate news-items that are searched for using Google. I did a couple of newsitems, and I even got some traffic and comments. So the idea of Project Quick Cash basically worked. I know I can make this work, but at the moment I’m not working actively on this. Then I tried to automate the process of looking at Google Hot Trends, but didn’t succeed, it was too hard even for a programmer like me.

My experiences with phpBay Pro
I bought the product phpBay Pro because I wanted to make niche sites (product specific websites) to offer products that people are interested in. After I bought phpBay Pro, I wanted to register with the Ebay affiliate network. So I tried, but boy, boy was that hard. My application for becoming an eBay affiliate was refused. They didn’t give me a reason. After searching the internet to find out what I had to do, I found out many more people had this problem, it was very hard to get accepted. Basically what I found out was that eBay was written off by lots of people as an easy entry into affiliate marketing.

If you want to read more, look at this link: http://www.affiliateconfession.com/2009/01/27/cant-get-into-the-ebay-affiliate-program-try-this/

So I got a little discouraged, and my phpBay product is now gathering dust on my computer… Maybe I will wipe the dust off of it soon, and choose another affiliate network instead of eBay.