How to use HavAds - Part 2

You can read the first article in this series here HavAds - Review

Do to the overwhelming amount of emails since Sunday I am revisiting Havads to answer a number of questions you have.

As you scrolled down this page you passed 4 ads at the top. You probably thought they were the usual Google ads. Nope. They were created using HavAds and I put them on this site yesterday. I was planning on giving them a week and then telling you of the results. I've changed my mind as it has become obvious as to how well they work after just the first day. Let me explain...

For the past six months I have placed Google adsense ads on the top of this page. As my site traffic has increased I have come to expect $5 to $10 a day from people clicking on these ads. Not bad but not the stuff of "Living the life" either. I know the amount of clicks these ads averaged but I have not known how many of those clicks resulted in sales for the advertisers - sales that didn't pay me commissions even though I was the one that sent them the customer.

Yesterday I put my own ads on this site and here are the results.

23 clicks

6 sales ( 25% click thru rate)

Income = $382.26

Lost Adsense revenue = about $6.90

Net gain = $375.36

Oh in case you were wondering - all the sales were for the same product.

You can see why I don't need to wait till next week to share the results.

If you read my review I explained that I have started doing this on my high traffic sites - none of which have anything to do with internet marketing - and the results are just about as good. ( I have not had a 25% click thru on any other site - 10% is about average )

I have one site that sells Dog Calendars - don't laugh as I have found that pet owners like to spend money on their pets. I should say my site doesn't sell calendars - it just has a few articles and lots of dog pictures on it. The Google ads were for "Dog Calendars", "Dog Toys", "Dog Houses" and the like. I replaced these ads with mine and quickly found out that "Dog Calendars" sell like hotcakes. Each sale is small but they are adding up fast - and I haven't touched the site in months other than changing the ads.

So... your questions.

Thanks for the info Grizzly but this only works if I have traffic to my site. I only get a few people a day to my site. I need to know how to get traffic.

Susan G.

I could post about 30 more emails but they all come down to the same thing. Traffic!

Unfortunately there is no easy answer to this problem. We are all in the same boat and driving traffic is a continuous exercise in trial and error.

Here is a brief list of the things I do but keep in mind that "time" and "patience" seem to be your biggest allies.

The first thing I do is post a few articles which gets my site picked up by other sites. I like GoArticles.com for a few reasons but mostly because I have a system that gets my articles downloaded the most in most 30 day periods. Being the top downloaded article brings me decent traffic and lots of backlinks. The backlinks in turn vault my page up the Google search results. This of course brings in more traffic.

I won't tell you my system as it will lose its effectiveness but I will prove it to you. After publishing this post today - the 15th of May, 2007 I will post an article about HavAds on GoArticles.com and if you check the top downloads section at GoArticles.com tomorrow you should see my article at or near the top. The link is (no longer current)

When you have verified my claim shoot me a comment with the title of an Article you want posted (So others can see this is legit)and then email me the article. I will do the same for your article on GoArticles. The first 5 people will get my help. You will have to give me a Name and valid email address in order to set up a GoArticles account for each of you. You can pick any niche you like for your article. My system works for anything as far as getting top downloads but if you want to sell something on your site you should pick something popular.

Other methods that work for driving traffic in order of effectiveness are;

Forums - get your signature on them and use the forums frequently. If your site gets recommended by someone on the forums you might be surprised at the traffic you get. This site receives a ton of traffic from whydowork.com because someone mentioned my review about project payday.

Speaking of Forums there is an interesting thread related to these HavAds posts on the Warrior Forum - Here Warrior Forum


Write review articles on your site. - people Google for reviews on everything before they buy. I get a lot of traffic from Google because of all the reviews I write here. Be sure to include the word "review" in your post heading. My HavAds review is only a few days old and I am already getting Google traffic for it.

Use traffic exchanges but be warned that Google doesn't like them. The traffic is mostly useless but your alexa ranking will go up.

Use Link Exchanges - I will post a full article on this soon. I have a really sleazy way to use them for my own ends. For now just wait till I post my system.

Get a site with decent traffic to put your link on it. Ha. This of course is the easiest way to get traffic and of course it's the hardest to accomplish. You can pay high ranking sites to do this but make sure your link is on the main page in a good location.

or

I will help some of you out and put your link on this page for a week at a time just to see what happens and because I'm such a swell guy.

There are some conditions;

I have to approve of your site - no porn or garbage.

I will only do 3 sites per week.

You must let me know how many visitors you got. (Use Stat Counter - it's free)

It would help if your site is related to this site.

That's it. Just email me and I will start a list and begin tomorrow.

Keep in mind that this blog only gets 200 - 300 visits a day so I am not a high traffic site. It has a page rank of 2 at the moment so this might help those of you with a lesser rank.

Anyway let's see if it helps some of you to get going.

Oh... I get way to much mail (I'm sorry if I haven't answered you) and I can't physically get through it all much less answer everyone individually. I tend to browse it looking for people I already know first and then dive into the rest. I will try to answer everybody in future posts so keep reading. For those who want to take me up on these offers make sure to write "Grizzly Link" in the subject of your email if you want your link on here or "GoArticles" in the subject line if you want your article posted by me.

Ok that's it for now. Good luck folks.