Thursday

Server Woes With CPC Affiliate Marketing

Like a lot of affiliate marketers I follow a very basic and simplified plan. I build a website, add content, some affiliate links, and then for immediate traffic create an Adwords campaign to start bringing in the buying customers. Obviously this is oversimplified but is extremely effective when everything jives. This week is not one of those weeks.

My dedicated host at ManageMyBox has decided to take a dump and be down about 50% of the time. This means that I'm constantly in monitoring mode to jump over to my Adwords account and shut down campaigns as to not waste any money. Obviously sending clicks to a dead server only wastes money, thus killing any kind of ROI I was working with.

Furthermore without a reliable server that visitors can be sent to means testing is null and void. You really don't know how many times they were greeted with a time-out or 404 error. It's impossible to be successful without a constant connection, playing field, reliable, garrrrrr

Yes, I'm frustrated, but I'm also taking action. Yesterday afternoon I signed up with a VPS hosting company called WiredTree. I'm currently waiting in que for their migration services, which will hopefully be completed by the end of the day. That is if they are able to access my current dedicated host to get the files they need.