Shoemoney System Review & Overview

Tuesday 9th February, 2010

YAY!! I got my AzoogleAds account so I’ve been spending time having a look around my account dashboard for the past couple of hours or so — with some mixed results I should add.

I was having some real troubles in trying to get the code for various ad campaigns for one or two of my sites. Now at one stage I wasn’t sure if it was a browser incompatibility problem (I use Safari), my operating system (Macintosh), gremlins at work or whether it was just me. As it turns out I’m still not sure but, by the end of the session, I was starting to finally see, copy and paste things properly.

It was all a bit weird though, so I’ve put it down to Gremlins in the works. At one stage something wasn’t working properly and the affiliate code just wasn’t generating. Five minutes later it was all fine and dandy.

But then when I pasted the code on one of my sites, the page I should have seen when I clicked on the link wasn’t the page I expected to see. Instead I was redirected to a page about smileys and emoticons.

Then it dawned on me that it was all probably down to geo-targeting. I wasn’t seeing the right page because, put simply, I wasn’t the right type of guy to see it! I’m only assuming this of course, but it makes sense. Not that it’s a problem. Most of my site visitors are in the right geo-zone so the campaign should work fine. The only reason why it might not work is because the site I placed the ad on doesn’t get a lot of traffic in the first place. Plus the ad is below the fold, which doesn’t help.

I may try to post the code on one of my more popular sites to test out whether the system is working or not. At this stage I would be satisfied with just the clickthroughs, regardless of whether they convert at all. After all I’m just testing things out. If they do happen to convert then that’s just a bonus.

I’ve also been having a look at what’s on offer at Clickbank and I’ve managed to set up a few things there. What I need to do though is write some copy — a short article or three promoting the items in question, rather than just have an image or a link to the affiliate’s landing page. I haven’t quite got around to doing that just yet as I’m too busy writing articles for a couple of my other sites. It’s a never-ending process!!

I know, I know. I need to outsource more, that’s for sure. Only trouble is on some of my micro-niche sites there would be very few people in the world capable of writing an article for them. That’s the trouble with being a “world authority” on such an obscure and niche market — there’s no-one else to write articles on the topic except for you!

For instance, and this is not my field of expertise by the way but rather just an obscure niche for which to demonstrate, how could you expect a paid article writer to write an article on, say, the complexities of the tuning pin system on a 1920′s Pleyel harpsichord? That’s just way too obscure a topic for a paid article writer. If you’re talking about life insurance or home renovation or tax law though then you’re all set! Most article writers would be able to knock out a decent article on those subjects, no problem.

So yeah, I have some issues with writing articles on some of my micro-niche sites but I’ll work it out eventually. It’s just another reason why I’ll probably have to do some more mainstream sites — just so I can outsource more with the content and concentrate on other things.

Speaking of Pleyel tuning pin systems (for which a friend of mine who IS an authority on that sort of thing explained to me the other day), I just did a Google search — in part to find out how to spell Pleyel — and if you do want to know something about them then you’re probably out of luck as there’s basically nothing on the internet about them. However the internet being the internet the only sound advice I can give you is “Check back next year”. There might be something then.

As always, until tomorrow…