Open Q&A part 1

1:10 – I’m having trouble finding offers for woodworking, I’ve sent 100+ clicks to everything on Clickbank in the woodworking niche and I’m using the performers in my current email sequence. I’ve been looking through Share-A-Sale and CJ Affiliate and not coming across many offers specific to woodworking. What has been your experience with these?

16:11 – It’s time to start split-testing my sequence but AWeber doesn’t allow access to click data or email addresses in their feature for multiple sequences. What do you suggest?

19:55– One of the top guys on Facebook in woodworking has Facebook apps created for these two offers where it takes you to the offer page within the Facebook framework. Isn’t this a violation of FB ad policy?

26:00 – Is it as simple as testing every offer until I get a sale in 100 clicks? Found one that paid .55 per click but only had one sale with two upsells.

37:20 – How do I get ad cost down? Desktop ads between .03 and .05 link clicks and auto between .02 and .04. These are winning posts that John is running on other recipe sites getting sub penny clicks on auto and .02 on desktop.

45:40 – If a merchant isn’t set up with an affiliate network how would I track sales from traffic I’ve sent?

Open Q&A part 2

00:15 – I am still having trouble getting page “Likes” for under $0.30-$0.40 – which obviously doesn’t amount to much when your budget is limited. Any suggestions? Is there any specific wording we should try for the Like ads?

7:07 – I have started getting a lot of spam comments on my website. Normally I install a really helpful plugin for this, but since I can’t install new plugins, I’m not sure how to deal with this other than turning off all comments, which I don’t necessarily want to do… How can I get rid of the constant spam?

9:25 – What’s the easiest way to put an opt-in form on the top of the sidebar to my PP share hub?

12:30 – I have been building a Recipe site and only in the early stage of running ads. I’ve been running PPE (page post engagement) ads but with PPE I’m not optimized for click to the site – can you talk about how to transition (using PE) from PPE to optimizing for clicks?

15:33 – At this point I’m getting likes and shares plus a few comments but my CTR isn’t more than about 5% on most posts and there is quite a bit of curiousity built up in the headlines. Do I create duplicate targeting profiles in PE with the differentiated goal of clicks to website and at some point switch to running ads with this new ad profile (which has the same interests but different goal)?

21:34 – I’m trying to get my conversion pixel “matured” or whatever you want to call it so I can in the future optimize for subscribers.

24:31 – Can we use SPM method to promote affiliate programs and other stuff? Asking this because I have been following jobcrusher and ingeniosity, but you are not using SPM.

30:59 – How many days of running the ads initially do you wait before removing ads that are less than 5% CTR?

35:15 – Also with a newer site like I have where I’ve got tons of posts at this point which have very limited reach to my ~1500 fans until the ads kick in. I can’t quite afford to do $5/day on each post but how do I choose which posts to promote?

38:05 – Does the pixel fire for each visitor to the site no matter which page they visit? How is this differentiated from a visit to a conversion page such as a “thank you for subscribing” or a “thank you for buying”?