I got an email from Google Adsense team with the following site on how to optimize your google adsense and your website.

http://www.santassearchtips.co.nz/

It is a xmas game and has santa in it. Fun xmas times from google team. By the way this is the official site from google as I got the email from them.

Check it out yourself.

Ok this is starting to piss me off (kinda). As most people would have read that I lost 50K but the good news is that I was able to recover almost the full amount now I need just wait to be paid as the problem is that with alot of times there are high % returns during xmas and this could set me back few k’s.

Generally I find 15-25% return rate but during xmas it goes up to around 35% and this can stuff up things alot.

In any case I m seeing a lower conversion rate on general things like, dating has dropped off for me, teeth whitening (don’t even go there), Diet offers have also taken a plunge, Home Biz conversions are all over the place.

I not complaining about this but is it just me or is there a general drop in conversion with these things around Christmas period. I know this much a lot of offers tend to pick up around Jan-Feb but I am kinda breaking even in most campaigns now ( in past 2 weeks) except with merchandise like electronics, shoes, ipods, lingerie etc which have picked up in last 2 weeks.

Any thoughts on this?

While doing some research on some “proper” muscle building supplements and fat burners online I stumbled upon BodyBuilding.com. When I got onto the site I had my “normal internet consumer hat on” (by this I mean I wasn’t researching for my sites or projects but as a normal searcher and buyer). (continue your reading )

hey guys you can learn from my mistakes.

So 2 weeks ago I set up this campaign for Christmas offers and it should have gone live 2 days ago. (While I have done this before for last Xmas and it worked really well.)

So I got few thousand high volume keywords in a lot of niches and had $10,000 budget altogether for all the campaigns. ( I took lot a loan for this lol)

Anyhow I had a game plan which always works and would have worked this time as well if I didn’t make the biggest mistake. I forgot to set the right date for the campaigns to begin. Now this started on the day of creating the campaign and I didnt take note of it til a week ago. By this time my account had used up $50,000 all up and we barely made any commission from it around that period.

Positive side : We are seeing some conversions now but can’t track the keywords etc. I will know much we have recovered in the few weeks though and will update here as we see more conversions. BTW all the campaigns are linked to one network.