Make Money with HavAds - Review

Hi everyone, (Happy Mother's day all you Mom's out there - you really are our better halves - bless you all)

One of the things that has bugged me for a long time is that while Google makes a killing with adwords, those of us displaying the ads (the adsense side of the equation) on our sites are making pennies. A couple of years ago Google allowed advertisers to bid different amounts for content ads (the ads on your site) rather than paying the same price for search ads (these are the ads shown when doing a Google search). While the search ads still cost an advertiser big money (and it all goes to Google) the content ads can be had for just pennies and you only get 50% of this.

When you hear of advertisers paying $50 a click for a "consolidated student loan" ad don't be fooled - they only pay this on Google search. The same advertisers ad on your site will only cost them a fraction of the search price and you will only earn pennies. Nobody makes a decent per click amount with adsense anymore - and this sucks.

Last month I had 10,189 visitors to one of my best sites - this generated 507 clicks on adsense for a whopping $86.23 - basically it paid my phone bill and nothing more. If I work my ass off and create 100 sites with this much traffic then I might be making some decent cash. Thing is I have 100 sites but getting enough traffic to them all is the hard part - too much work and I have mentioned before that I am extremely lazy.

What's the solution?

A few months back I was posting articles to a blog of mine that had to do with a very popular search term on technorati - each post I made generated several thousand hits for about 30 minutes until my post was usurped by newer posts on technorati. By the way I call this the Blogarazzi method to making money online and I will be posting more on it soon. The point I want to make is that one day Google placed an ad on my site that converted like crazy - 3 of 4 people coming to my site clicked the damn thing - an unbelievable %75 click thru rate! What's more - the ad kept coming back day after day for about three weeks and averaged a click thru rate just over %50 for the whole run. This meant a couple of things - I made almost $3000 in adsense during this period and the advertiser spent a ton of money but they kept on spending so they obviously were making a profit.

This got me to thinking...

How come Google doesn't give me ads like this one all the time?

I knew what the ad was for and why it converted so well and I knew what the landing page was selling and why they were making money.

What if I could have put my own ad on my site instead of Google's and had people going to my own landing page selling the same thing?

Wait a sec... why couldn't I?

I could! And I did!

Even after the topic had died down to only a few hundred hits per blog post I put my own ad up sending people to my affiliate page where I sold the same product as the original advertiser. The difference was that they were now giving me %50 of the sales instead of paying me the adsense fee. Guess what...

My click thru rate on my ad was just slightly lower than the original ad (%47) and these clicks made me $2300 in sales in just over a week. Had I stuck with Google I would have earned about $180 for the same clicks and none of the sales. The topic's popularity on technorati then dried up to almost nothing by this point and I quit the campaign.

Long story short. Since this experiment I have been using Google to find out which ads have a decent click thru rate and then I dump adsense and put up my own ad that looks exactly the same (except there is no "Ads by Google" blurb on them). My ads then send people to my affiliate page and I make the commissions for finding the traffic that others were previously cashing in on without giving me a dime (ok - they paid me pennies for adsense).

I know what you are thinking - most of you don't know how to create your own ads and aren't in the mood to learn html,javascript etc. I admit I had to pay a programmer to do this for me and if it hadn't worked I would have spent a good sum of money for nothing. Fortunately it did work and I found out something after the fact that would have saved me some money - there already is a program available which lets any moron like me write their own ads - exactly like Google's! And it's cheap cheap cheap!

A couple of clever Aussies figured out this same system and took it a step farther by developing a software program that will create your own ads and they look just like Google's. (You want them to look like Google's because people are already trained to click on them.) The designers are Ian Richardson and Carl Bradbrook and the product is called HavAds

Before running off to get this product I have added a short blurb from the developers below for you to read. To make the most from this product do what I do. I copy the ads that perform well. How do you find these - simple. Let me show you.

Take a popular search term in Google. Let's try "Make Money Online". Check out the Sponsored Links on the right hand side and see if you recognize ads that you have seen before - to do this properly you should keep checking for a few weeks as the ads that make money will still be there and the duds will fall by the wayside. I picked this term as you are all familiar with this Niche and I know you will all recognize one ad in particular;


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Have you seen this one before? I bet you have because it is run day in - day out and costs the advertiser a small fortune. It must also bring in a small fortune or you wouldn't see it so often.

If you click on this ad you will be taken to a sales page that basically sells two affiliate products. Both products are available at clickbank and I'm sure you have heard of them - WWW.ULTIMATEWEALTHPACKAGE.COM and WWW.INSTANTMONEYVAULT.COM

What have we learned here? If you are selling to the "Make Money Online" crowd then you now know that this ad converts and the two affiliate products convert. I bet you have even seen the ad on your pages and been paid 6 cents everytime someone has clicked on it.

So... what would happen if you put the same ad on your page but sent the people to your own affiliate page selling the same products?

I suspect I have made my point.

Get smart folks and do what the winners are doing. No real trick here - just copy them!

OK here is the blurb from HavAds...