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Hello,
I know what it’s like to be on a shoe string budget…$40 is insufficient funding to buy gambling traffic.
My little tip of the day: Don’t buy traffic. Period. Unless you have a lot of money to spend and know that the source is reliable. You’re facing a numbers game in this arena. IE. if conversion rate for a particular casino is 5%, you will have to buy 100 hits in order to get 5 players… and those 100 hits can be expensive and potentially wasteful if the 5 players don’t spend a lot of money.
Concentrate on promoting your site to the search engines. This is 100% free and worthwhile. And, give yourself about 5-6 months before you expect to get a paycheck.
Contrary to what affiliate programs advertize, profit will not come instantly: it takes steady work and constant refining of a portal before it “matures” into a money maker.
I’d save the $40 and use it for other types of promotions, or better yet, don’t spend it all! The casino industry is conservative and likewise so should your budget!
I basically agree with this.
There are two basic ways to get going in this business, one takes money, the other takes time.
Both take work.
This is quite different from the other affiliate industries – the rewards are a lot better. But the competition is also stiff, and it is not so easy, you can’t just slap a site up and expect it to make money. You have to keep tweaking it, getting it into the search engines, and eventually you will probably want to buy traffic anyway. But wait on that until you have some money saved up and concentrate on the search engines first.
I found a site offering targeted traffic for about $80 per 10,000 unique hits. They gurantee this to be casino targeted traffic. I could put up this much money if you think it would possible give me at least a break even result. I know it may be hard to answer this question without ever seeing my site so i am trying to get it up tonight.
Unfortunately this type of traffic is usually not good.
You may very well waste your money on it.
When it first became available it wasn’t so bad, but the origin of this traffic is highly questionable, and if the money is an issue, I would not spend it on this.
I guess i will just try to get as high as possible on the search engines for now.
you could try connectme.com. you can start with 25.00 & if you bid way low you would get some traffic. problem with that though is when i used them that way it sometimes took forever for the money to run out. which means no traffic was coming steady.
you could bid higher but the traffic would probably be better but your money would run out sooner anyway that is one way you could go on a cheap budget.
i also have a VERY LIMITED budget so i know how it is. i found getting on search engines is necessary cause its free. google & msn are the ones i focus on.
i don’t use connectme any more. but you might try them and see how they work for you. good luck. your gonna need it with the search engines ha ha. at least i’m finding them FUN!!!
Avoid these traffic offers like the plague, they are total garbage and are actually a scam that has been discussed here at length.
http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/bb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=281
I’ve got to disagree with those saying don’t spend something like $40 a month initially… 6 months is a long time to wait for free search engine traffic, you may as well try something to kick start you early – even if it is a bit of hit and miss (depends on your circumstances of course – if you can’t afford to invest $100 or so over a couple of months for possibly no return, then free traffic is all you’re going to try for anyway.)
I definitely agree though about not wasting your money on traffic merchants that offer x,000 hits for $x – that’s just a total waste as the traffic is highly untargeted (despite their claims – they obviously have a different definition for targeted traffic than I do) – just think about it like this… these sites give you traffic from pop-up (or pop-under) ads from other sites…. how many popups do you typically leave open and properly check out a site when you’re surfing? compare this to how many sites you properly check out when you click on a link from a search engine after you’ve done a search? absolutely no comparisson is there?
I launched my site two months ago (http://www.bonustracker.com), the first couple of weeks I stuffed around trying free traffic exchanges, things like that… next to useless unless you already have some decent traffic (and even then it’s debatable). Since then, I’ve spent about $150 on PPC advertising (and if I started over, I’d probably only spend about half of that for similar returns)
So what are the results? Yes, I only have a dozen or so real players, and I’ve been lucky enough to land a couple of whales in that bunch too, but $300 in commissions the first month, and just hit $1000 in commissions for the second… seems like a pretty good return – admitedly, the majority of those commissions appear to only be from 3 players – but any one of those three would have covered my advertising costs.
I guess it’s up to personal preference, I know I’ve been lucky – although I think you have to target the right keywords etc. to give yourself a chance, and for these first two months I feel as though I did that… this next month will be a bit of a test, as I’ve just started bidding on what I would class money drainers (no deposit type keywords), but I can’t resist – I want to see how that goes giving some NDB’s pretty good coverage. I’m not paying anywhere near as much per click on this traffic than for the better keywords – so it will be an interesting exercise I think, although I wouldn’t be suprised if I pull it after a couple of weeks
I think if I had to wait 6 months to get my first check, I’d probably give up on it before then… PPC really kickstarts things until your free SE traffic starts kicking in. I’ve been studying up on SEO for the last few weeks, and starting to implement those kind of things in my site, but high traffic keywords are pretty competitive and I think I’ll need every one of those first 6 months to start seeing decent results… until then, I’m very happy to keep going with PPC advertising.
Hope that gives some newbies some heart, you can get decent results pretty quickly, but like I said – if you can’t afford to invest $100 with possibly no return, you have very little option but to rely on free traffic measures, and I really can’t see that netting you too much for at least the first few months… if you can afford it, then it’s worth giving a go (IMHO).
