I just got notification yesterday that I was selected as one of the 7 finalists for the PepperJam Storebuilder Contest and I’m really excited about this.  I entered the contest about a month ago with a site that I built off the Thesis Theme utilizing the Pepperjam Storebuilder application.

Now I need your help so please head over to their site and cast your vote for my site. 

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Thanks so much for your support!

Well my wife somehow got me to agree to getting another dog. I’ve already got one named Ernie, but she thought that he needed a friend. So after a few days of convincing she came home from the pet store with Gracee.

So far she’s been a lot of work but luckily per the agreement with my wife she is doing most of the work with her although I try and help out as much as I can. She is a really sweet dog so far and I’m sure that her and Ernie will be the best of friends when she gets a little older. Overall I think it’ll be good for him to have another dog to play with and I’m sure they’ll have a lot of fun and possibly get into some trouble as well.

PepperJamNetwork Launches
In other news I’m still working pretty hard at my affiliate marketing efforts and I just joined the pepperjamNETWORK affiliate program and I just got activated today. So far my early impressions of the program are extremely positive and they definitely put together a great site to cater to their affiliates. Overall they’ve got a nice selection of programs to promote starting out and their site is extremely well thought out and has a ton of great features for affiliates to use. Since I’m pretty new to the network so far, I don’t have an extensive review, but I’m looking forward to writing one a few weeks down the road when I’ve got a little more experience with the program. So if you haven’t head on over and check out the PepperJamNetwork.

Well it’s been awhile since I’ve been able to update this lately, sorry I’ve been busy with some other ventures including Daily Deals. Currently I’m sitting here writing this as a major ice storm is just getting going here in Kansas City. It looks to be a major event and I’m guessing that most likely I’ll probably be without power tomorrow so if that happens things will really suck.

I’ve been putting alot of effort into affiliate marketing lately and I’m seeing some nice results so far. If you’ve ever considered trying it out I highly recommend signing up with NeverBlueAds. They’ve got a ton of offers to choose from including some really good ones that can generate some nice cash. They’ve just redesigned their site and it’s laid out very well and I find it extremely easy to use. If you get a chance go ahead and sign up!

Okay Now Lets Get to the Point of This Post
Ever since I started pay per click marketing I constantly heard horror stories about the Google Content Network. I’ve read so many things recommending that you turn off the content network on your campaigns because it’s wasted traffic that doesn’t convert into sales or leads. Well I actually believed this myself for the longest time until I actually did some testing.

Over the last month I’ve been promoting some affiliate offers over the content network and the results have been outstanding so far. Currently I’m seeing about a 400% ROI on my ad spend and I really haven’t even begun to optimize these campaigns because they’re just something I threw out there to test. I think that if I take the time to really put some work into them then I’ll definitely be able to see even greater ROI on my ad spend.

Now don’t get me wrong this may not work for everyone on their campaigns, but I’ve got a point that I’m trying to get across here.  If you automatically shut off the content network without even testing it out then you might be missing out on some very good traffic that does convert and converts well at a low price.

If  you do decide to do some testing here is nice method that I’m going to start using to constantly test my traffic from the content network.

1. Turn on conversion tracking in your adwords account and make sure that you’ve had the proper tracking code inserted on whatever affiliate offer that you you’re promoting.
2. Once that you start seeing conversions in your adwords account then run a placement report  to see what sites on the content network are converting for you and which ones aren’t.
3. Now that you’ve got that data to go off of you can exclude your ads from showing up on sites that don’t convert.  In order to do this click on the campaign and then look for the Excluded Sites option and then click add.  Now just add the sites here that don’t convert for you and you’ve easily taken an additional step to increase your profits!

So just remember the next time you’re planning on turning the content network off from the start you should really test it out first.  You never know but it actually may convert better than the search network and at a lower cost.