Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

Hey all, its been a long time since I posted here and I apologize for that, I’ve been reminding myself this past week to post a blog update and just got around doing it.

As I’ve mentioned in my last blog post, I have started with CPA offers, I got accepted into AzoogleAds (non aff. link) around 10 days ago, AzoogleAds for those who dont know them are one of the biggest and best CPA (Cost Per Action) networks out there, and getting accepted usually takes sometime, however I talked with on of their Account Managers on MSN and he expedited the process and got me accepted in the same day!

I’ve also had a CJ account for a while now but never really used it or promoted some of the offers they have (besides placing a small banner for Godaddy on p4h) CJ has a great collection of web hosting offers which I also have started promoting.

There is just so much going on right now, CPA marketing has taken over my mind, I am trying a bunch of new stuff right now, mostly with landing pages and PPC, Azoogle has a bunch of great ringtone and dating offers that work well with PPC, however competition is fierce in those 2 niches and you gotta find a way to break into it, good keyword research is a must with PPC marketing as bidding on keywords like ring tones will probably get you no where, especially that your promoting a CPA offer, in this case ringtones which means people need to signup (paid) in order for you to get paid, which is way harder than getting clicks on your Adsense ads IMHO.

I will try my best and post a full update regarding how I am doing with CPA offers and I do plan on posting what steps anyone planning to get into CPA marketing should take to get him off the ground quickly.

Back to my other sites, www.wallpaperfreedom.com is finished at last, the coder I hired to integrate the skin and do some custom coding to add some features to the script was 2 weeks late, but its not up at last and I’ve started doing some link building for it, if you have a related website please do email me. I still have to load it with new wallpapers which I also have started doing.

My 1st humor website is also now up and running, free funny videos was only done yesterday, I am going to load it with a bunch of new videos and images before I start any marketing for the website, plans are to start a bunch of these humor websites, I’ll probably do that with a partner to share the workload and marketing costs.

Pagerankincrease.com is also now up with a new skin, the previous I had didn’t look that good although its been online for about 2 months only, well anyways here is a preview of the skin:

I grabbed uploadq.com the other day, I think its a great name, planning to setup an image host for now there and probably move it to a file/image host at a later stage.

That’s all for now, take care all and good luck with your sites!

Its official, I am getting into affiliate marketing, I haven’t been doing any affiliate marketing although my roots (when I 1st started on the internet) was based around affiliate marketing, I’ve been spending loads of time lately researching and getting a grip of the latest trends in this industry, what are the popular programs everyone is using, what kind of marketing tactics are used to drive traffic to your affiliate based web pages.

I now have a very good idea of how it all works, since as I said I started out on the internet as an affiliate marketer, but things have changed, well probably things haven’t changed much, but I didn’t know 3 years ago what I know now.

Azoogle and CJ (commission junction) seem to be two of the widest used programs, although there are a number of programs that I am looking into, allot of people are making huge $$ out of affiliate marketing, its mainly based around setting up a webpage or a website the promotes a certain affiliate product, and you drive traffic to this page/site through PPC or any other form of online advertising, I can say that this is the main idea of the whole thing, of course, this can be done in so many ways and its not as simple as it sounds, so many factors get into the success of such a system, such as:

• Your AD copy and how well written it is.

• Correcrt research of the industry keywords, bidding on the wrong keywords can be a total waste of cash.

• A good landing page is vital for making sales. Which reminds me of a book I need to read!

• Selecting the right time to start an advertising campaign might also be important.

There seems to be allot of potential in affiliate marketing and it would be stupid not to try it out, I’ll keep you all updated on how things go.

That‘s its for now, take care all.

Been sometime since my last update, I’ve been saving up to post one big update but it seems that will take some time, so here is a quick update.

I’ve finally done it and sold talkhomebusiness.com at DP, I sold it for my BIN price and I am quite happy about it, I actually posted it on DP to test the waters and see what kind of bids will I get, and before I knew it someone was offering the BIN, main reason why I sold the website was the fact I had no time to work on it and give the site what it deserves, it was just sitting there and dying! new owner is planning a big marketing campaign for the website and I’ll be more than happy to see it grow in his hands.

Nothing else major happened on my other sites, wallpaperfreedom coding should be done anytime now, actually it was supposed to be done yesterday, so I am expecting it to be finished and online by the end of today.

I have also received my new skin for funnyvideohub yesterday, it looks great and I am currently looking for a coder to integrate the skin with humorsoftware, if your coder, shoot me an email! past experience in coding humorsoftware sites is a plus.

SMSit.org

New skin is up and running on that website, what do you think? I just love this skin

Here is a preview:

I’ll do my best and post and post another update ASAP, ah, just remembered I found out the other day that yourjobconnection.com domain expired and someone else registered it! lol, this usually doesn’t happen as I always get email notification of soon to expire domain names, it happened this time because I bought the domain around a year ago from WHT and it was placed in my Enom account, they don’t seem to send email alerts do they? I am just glad this didn’t happen to one of my main domains! one lesson to be learned here, always move your bought domains to a registrar your used to and always check.