Reading something a while back on another affiliate marketing blog (I forgot which one) got me thinking about my keyword research, I mean the majority of people tell you to gather 10,000+ keywords and fine tune them over the early stages to find out what converts and delete the rest. This overall message in the post I read was that you don’t need tens of thousands of keywords for it to succeed – this is what I plan on testing.

In my other 2 campaigns I used the approach of gathering mass keywords lists along with constant tuning and so far, it has definitely paid off because they have been in profit since day one. Obviously the success of those campaigns could be down to a 101 other factors which I’m not taking into consideration.

What am I babbling on about?

My first ever campaign I attempted failed miserably because it lacked a decent amount of keywords from the beginning, you can see the original post here. I wasn’t 100% sure what I was doing and just basically threw it up to see what happened.

Since then I’ve come on leaps and bounds and believe I understand the basics of a successful campaign and just need to practice tuning and tweaking in order to scale them in the right direction and rinse and repeat in a number of niches. That’s the plan anyway .

Why would I want to test this if I failed before?

Just because I failed before doesn’t mean it won’t work – I’ve got much more experience in affiliate marketing than I did which is why I want to test this method again and integrate what I now know to see if I can make it work.

I’ve been trying to get my next campaign up and running and had trouble finding any more keywords, at present I have about 1,000 in total but in my opinion I think they are well targeted and broad enough to actually allow me to gather data and expand on what works.

I don’t want to spend a couple more days brainstorming more phrases which will more than likely be deleted in a few weeks due to not having any impressions or clicks when I can launch the campaign in the next day or two and take it from there.

The results will be posted on here after the first whole day, if it doesn’t work I will have to go back to the keyword stage and start it again – if it does it just proves that you cannot give up after your first failure.

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