RORY HANSEN

Just a quick update on my Firefox + Yahoo! Marketting experiment.

When I first started using Yahoo! Marketting 10 days ago, I was only getting a few Mozilla Firefox conversions per day. Adding the revenue from those referrals up, we were looking at just a couple dollars per day– maybe more if I was having a good day.

Now, Yahoo! Marketting is sending about 100 visitors per day my way, at about a dime a visitor. Plus, some of my pages have started to get listed in the various search engines, leading to another 50 or so visitors per day from natural search placement. Total, about 150 page views per day.

With that traffic, I’m getting nearly 1000% more signups than when I first set up the website. Even with the Yahoo! Marketting costs, my figures show that I reap more from those visitors than it costs to get them to my site in the first place. So, although my $50 credit from Yahoo! Marketting is going to expire soon, I’m going to continue with the service.

Wanna start making some money through Firefox referrals on your own homepage? Click on the Google Adsense referral image on the top-right corner of the page. Not only will it take you to the Adsense sign-up page to get started, but you’ll also be helping me earn a few extra bucks through the referral to their service.

A few days ago I saw an offer on Red Flag Deals offering a $50 credit to sign up for Yahoo! Search Marketing, so I decided to take the bait and see how it compared to Google Adwords. The only condition to the deal was that I had to deposit a minimum of $5 to get the account going, but I figured that it was well worth it, since I’d be getting basically $50 for free.

I’ve been using the credit towards advertising my Firefox / Google Toolbar conversion site, using keywords like “download firefox” and “free firefox” and, so far, I’m pretty happy with the results. The ads are currently bringing in between 10 and 15 visitors per day, with about 20% to 25% of those visitors eventually downloading Mozilla Firefox from Google. With those types of click-thru counts, the $50 credit should last more than a month, at which time I should have enough data gathered to see if I’d actually be making money by continuing to pay for the service.

So far it looks like it would be worth it, as over the course of 3 days, I’ve used up approximately $3 of my credit, but have seen increases in Firefox conversions by nearly 300%. Overall, my daily Google Adsense revenue has increased to between $5 and $6 per day from about $2 per day, largely due to the Firefox conversions, so I’m pretty excited about that, too.