Thursday, November 26, 2015

How To Bid Lower But Get Higher Ranking With Google Adwords

Nowadays google’s adwords has become the main contender for pay-per-click industry leader, Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions.

If you can afford use both of them. Especially with recent changes made by Yahoo, small business owners with limited budget should have no problem to jump into the ships.

Out of that, today we’re going to discuss about google’s adwords.

Google has extended networks that match Overture, and requiring relatively small amount of money and time to start it’s obviously not something you can miss out in your marketing campaign.

We’ll begin at:


Find Exact Keywords That People Is Searching For Buying


According to Planet Ocean, people who actually willing to purchase will type in 3 or more word-phrases. For example, “stock trading book”. This is where you’re going to start.

Go to http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

And type in the common term of your business, which in this case is investment. Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions’ suggestion tool above then will give you a list of exact and related keywords had been searching during the previous month.

In this way, you’ll have rough prediction which one you should bid for.

After that your ad copy too should be enticing people to click through.


The Secrets To Bid Lower But Get Higher Ranking


Google’s adwords considering your placement of the search pages based on 2 factors:

- How much you bid and
- How much your ad get click through

Google’s adwords will give you better placement even though you pay for less than your competitors, if and only you get the highest click through rate of all your competitors’ ads.


How to get the highest click through?


Contrary with what people believe, I would say bid more at the beginning. From my personal experience, at first, I bid as lower as I can. But nobody will see you if your ads bury in third pages, especially for competitive terms.

So bid more to get on the first page. You don’t have to be on the first rank, just make sure people can see you.

On this early stage don’t choose contextual targeting option. Contextual targeting option is google adword’s feature that makes your ads displayed on related google’s partners’ content site.

Keep tracking your campaign, right after you get higher click through rate drop your bid lower. This way, you can get higher placement but bid for lower without losing your spot.


How To Write Compelling Ad Copy That Make People Buy


Here’re 3 clues to help you:

> Basically, all about writing ad is all about writing benefit.

For instance, you sell digital product through PDF (you can learn more about this by going to www.adobe.com).

In this case you can state about “instant delivery” to your customers’ computer as benefit. Meanwhile ‘PDF distribution’ that made instant delivery possible is feature.

> Your ad’s headline should be the most compelling benefit you can offer. For example, “Instant Way To Learn Japanese Language”

> Put the price tag in the end of ad. In this way you can make sure that customers that click through your ad is the ones that ready to buy.


Where to Go Now?


After you pass this stage, then you can choose to display your ads through contextual targeting option or not.

Also you can test various different ads on same keyword to find out which one gets the highest click through.

However, be careful to set up your budget wisely. Un-proper planning could drain your pocket off in a minute.

The simple way to determine your advertising budget is by asking this question,

how much you can afford to loss?


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How to Advertise with Pay Per Click Search Engines

Both pay-per-click and SEO are targeted to get your website placed as close to the top of search engine results as possible. One of the differences is that it takes minutes to set up a pay-per-click campaign versus months for a good SEO campaign.

Pay-Per-Click is a simple type of paid advertising that most search engines, including some of the largest ones, now offer. It requires a bid for a "per-click" basis, which translates to your company paying the bid amount every time the search engine directs a visitor to your site. There is the added bonus that when a per-click site sends your website traffic, your site often appears in the results of other prevalent search engines.

As with all marketing campaigns, there are advantages and disadvantages. If you understand the process and monitor your pay-per-click campaign frequently, it can be very effective. One of the greatest advantages is that you never have to tweak your web pages to change your position in search engine results, as you must do in a typical SEO campaign. What you do have to do in a pay-per-click campaign is pay a fee.

Another advantage is the simplicity of the pay-per-click process. You just bid and you're up and running. It doesn't demand any specific technical knowledge, though the more you know about search engines and keywords, the easier - and more effective - the process will be.

The downside is that pay-per-click is essentially a bidding war. A higher bid than yours will lower your position on search engine results. This means that you will have to raise your bid to regain your position - which can obviously become quite  expensive, especially if you are bidding on a popular keyword.

In order to determine if pay-per-click is a cost effective form of marketing for your business, you must do some computing to figure out how much each visitor to your site is worth. You can compute this value by dividing the profit you make on your website over a given period of time by the total number of visitors for that same time period. For example, if your site made $5,000 in profits and there were 2,5000 hits, each visitor would be theoretically worth 50 cents. The basic formula is profits divided by visitors.

The figure of 50 cents per visitor is the point at which your business breaks even. The idea, of course, is to show a profit, not to merely cover your costs. Therefore, you are aiming at a figure less than 50 cents per click.

Be aware that the most popular keywords often cost considerably more than 50 cents a click. The only way around this is to bid less for these phrases or you will be paying too much for each individual hit.

The key (pun intended) to success is to learn everything you can about search engine keyword research. The good news is there isn't a limit to the amount of keywords you can add to your bid because additional keywords do not add additional cost. This translates into a lot less hassle for you because there is no need to optimize your site to index a particular set of keywords.

Obviously, some keywords are much more effective than others are, but they will not cost you anything except time to set-up your account in your pay-per-click bid. Of the popular search engines that offer pay-per-click, one called Overture provides an online tool that will give you the data on how often particular keywords are entered into their search engine. They also offer suggestions for keywords after you enter a description of your site.

In pay-per-click, this written description is crucial. You must understand that the object of your description is not to generally attract visitors, but to be as specific as possible so that only those visitors who are likely to buy your service or product go to your site. You must use expert marketing copy to guarantee that your description is
both precise and enticing to attract the most ideal candidates to your site. This description is your most powerful tool to insure that your bid is profitable.

Another essential element of pay-per-click advertising is that you constantly monitor your bid. It is very important that you bear in mind that the results of the top search engines providing pay-per-click advertising, which are Overture and Adwords Select, usually appear on other popular search engines. Because of this, the competition for top ranking is intense, and very often you will find that the bidding price balloons too high for pay-per-click to yield a profit.

If this happens, it is advisable to withdraw your bid on that particular keyword and try another one. Remember: when you pay too much per click to make a profit, you are in essence losing the bidding war.

Since losing is not acceptable, you must have a plan in place to closely track the effectiveness of your keyword. It is advisable to monitor your keywords on at least a monthly basis.

Not only is careful monitoring important, but the analysis of visitor behavior can produce invaluable knowledge about consumer motivation, habits, and trends. Expert monitoring and consumer analysis is essential to your overall business needs, and will also insure that your pay-per-click campaign is a success.

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How NOT to Make Money with Google Adsense

If you’re like me and have been scouring the internet for a sure fire way of making some extra income from your content rich website then you have no doubt come across and have probably joined the Google Adsense program and placed Google ads on your website, and have also had the frustration of not getting enough visitors to your site and again have been scouring the internet for information on combining Google Adsense and Google Adwords to get targeted visitors to your site.

You no doubt like me have come across the so called “Get Rich Quick With Google Adsense” e-books, which offer a sure fire system to use the Google Adwords feature to unlock those Google Adsense riches on your website and have probably handed over the $30 to $60 to find out the secret system. Well this article has been written to expose the myths behind these so called systems and to warn people that the results will be very disappointing.

Google Adsense Fact

The major problem with these systems is they try to blind you with a massive list of high paying keywords which Google Adword bidders supposedly pay for certain keywords and your focus is to try and concentrate your efforts on including these keywords on your website page, so the Google Adsense can put these high paying Google ads on your site, therefore increase your click through payments.

Fact is Google ads rarely payout over $2 per click for Google Adsense, I have run sites myself with the supposed top keyword "yahoo domains” and the most I earned was about 50 cents per click which seems to be the Google Adsense average.

All this high paying keyword information is not going to make the so called $50 per click that some of these e-books claim, the best paying keyword out there at the moment is to do with “asbestos cancer” and this will only give you between $3 and $5 per click and is such a niche keyword, that not everyone is interested in reading about the subject or going to click on the Google ads on your website.

Google Adwords Fact

The Google Adwords part of the systems require you to find a high paying niche keyword, get over 200 related keywords list, create a one page website with a single article leeched from one of the free article sites surrounded by three Google ad blocks, then effectively write a Google ad with the chosen keywords as the title (via a special Google tag) and set a campaign budget of $10 a day with a maximum of 7 cents per click bid.

Fact is setting a bid of 7 cents per click will place your ad that low on the search engine that you will only get a small amount of page impressions therefore decreasing the chance of anyone clicking on your Google ad and registering a possible visitor, plus most keywords will not successfully activate Google Ads at such a low bid price.

Conclusion

Though these e-books seem to offer a system, I would have to say it is not an air-tight sure fire way of making a decent income from Google Adsense, there are just too many flaws which cannot be explained away.

My advice would be to stick to building your webpage content daily with no more than two or three Google Ads on each page, in 12 months all the search engines will have no doubt crawled and indexed your web pages hopefully bringing in a steady stream of targeted visitors who will hopefully click your Google Ads and make you a small fortune. GOOD LUCK!!

Simon Ecclestone

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How much money can I earn with Google Adsense?

That is a question that you might be asking soon after you sign up for the Google Adsense program.  So often people are disappointed that they are only making around $1/day several months after signing up and creating their own website.

Yet you've probably heard of people who earn <I>good money</I> from Adsense,  for example, John Reese earned over £500,000 in the past year and Michael Cheney regularly makes over $19000 per month (and that's not including affiliate sales!).  You may not wish to be in the big league with them, but it certainly gives you the idea that there's big money to be made if you just know what to do.  

Basically, if you're not hitting at least $1/day after six months, you urgently need to take some advice about getting more traffic to your site and also your use and placement of Google Ads.  

I think that it's important to remember that it takes time to build up your income, but that it does gradually build as the search engines find your site, as you build more pages and as you build more links to your site.

The key to Adsense is to create content - you can do this by creating more pages or by creating more sites.  For example, if you have one site that is earning just $1/day, that's $30/month.  Ten sites like that will give you an income of $300/month, fifty sites will give you an income of $1500/month and so on.  You get the idea!   
Obviously you'll want to set up, build and test one website to start off with and then add other sites later on.

However, do be very careful if you are considering buying an Adsense Ready website - some of these may contain duplicate content which the search engines can spot a mile away.  You could end up with plenty of content that you've paid good money for but very few visitors.  Creating your own content is the key - either by writing it yourself , by using free articles from Article Directories such as Ezine Articles and then adding your own introduction to make them unique or you can even pay someone to create content for you via Elance.  If you haven't got the time or patience to set up your own website, then you can buy existing websites for sale at places like Sedo and simply add your Adsense code to them.

Once you've started to build up an income, then you can start to experiment with placing and colour of your ads.  If you can improve your click through rate (CTR) on your ads, then you can make more money from the same level of traffic.  This is somewhere it can really pay to listen to the experts, just one eBook that I downloaded more than tripled the income from my own sites.  Also, read up as much free information as you can, sign up for courses from the experts and try out new ideas.  If you can get your CTR into double figures you'll be doing OK, although rumour has it that some of the experts have much higher click through's than that.  Because it's against Googles terms and conditions to share this information, comparative figures are not readily available, however, by testing out ideas on your own site you'll be able to find out what works for you and your sites.


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How I discovered an amazing amount of high quality Google Adsense Alternatives.

Author: Bert Colijn

A 52 year old webmaster from the Netherlands got banned from the Google 
Adsense program in just a few clicks. He went looking around for alternatives
and found a lot of very creative brand new advertising solutions. That webmaster was me. Do as I did and you will get a message like: 

• Your account is disabled because of invalid clicks.

What was all the fuzz about? The adsense account was set up for my website
www.wereldwijdbellen.nl , wich I started one year earlier as an affiliate for a
German / American Voip company (voice over IP, internettelephony). At that time Adsense was new for me and I decided to give it a try. Doing some cutting, copying and pasting with the codes and voila, I was advertising competing Voip companies on my website.

Spyware was already a big nuisance on the internet at that time. In my battle against it I experimented with anonymous surfing via so called anonymizers and proxyservers with the purpose of hiding my IP address. Simply just out of curiosity, whether or not the number of clicks on my ads could be influenced, I produced them and guess what happened? They were interpreted as invalid clicks. Adsense disabled my account and I have to admit it : they had a good reason to do so (stupid me, what a shame). However It was never my intention to harm the advertisers nor anyone else.

• I realised that the possibility to earn money with these ads had gone forever.

For hardworking affiliate webmasters, generating 100% of their multiple website income through Adsense, this must be a nightmare. Google has no obligation to explain its decision in detail.

So I begged to Google: Here are my sincere apologies. I’ll never do it again please let me in again !!!

No way, don’t waste your time, forget about it, don’t pull on a dead horse.
Google won’t unlock your account again. Remember we live in the internet age  and everything is automated. Google’s answers to my sincere and arguing emails were no exception. They were completely robotized. So would this be the end of a dream earning an income with my website? Answer: NO. As the famous Dutch football player Johan Cruyff ones stated:

• Every disadvantage has its advantage.

I decided that I had to forget about Adsense forever being an internet advertising possibility for me and guess what I found out ? I was not the only one and this nightmare of the possibility of getting banned is discussed in forums all over the internet now. You want proof? Just google (yes this is a new verb) with “banned from adsense” and you will see. But what is more important is that the alternatives are given in these forums and on individual sites as well. Here I’am going to  share with you what I discovered.

Clickbank-ad-sense-script, a new program that serves Clickbank based affiliate products in your website. These ads resemble adsense ads but a lot of webmasters are preferring them. Unlike pay per click this program pays for every sale you make in over 11,000 Clickbank products. The yield is higher than adsense because it pays you between 50 and 75% of product cost, wich can mean $ 100 in your pocket from only one click. Clickbank-ad-sense lets you make a selection of your favorite products that you believe are not competing with your own product. Similar programs are: AffiliateSensor and CBPlugin.

• You want more money making advertising solutions? Just read on.

Another creative way of adding something new is done by Chitika. Their 
eMiniMall is a CPC-based intelligent product merchandising service. Alternative to static web banner ads it combines product merchandising, a recommandation engine and comparative shopping. Go to chitika.com and have a look for yourself. One picture says more then a thousand words.

• There are pros and cons and every rose has its thorn but what do you 
  think of this one?

Adbrite sells ad space on thousands of websites. There are two things you can do with Adbrite– buy and sell ad space. If you are an advertiser they provide you with all sorts of websites. When you find the site you want to advertise on, you write your ad and pay. If approved by the webmaster your ad will appear on that site at the scheduled time. If you are a publisher you can set your own rates and approve or reject every ad that’s purchased for your site. The revenue is split 75/25 in your favour. Adbrite provides publishers with more revenue and better  ads by selling the ads directly to your visitors – this is something the other ad systems don’t do. 

• The pay-per-click contextual advertising has grown into a $ 3 billion 
  business.

Thanks to Google’s Adsense network contextual advertising, with the short text based links that appear next to a website’s content, is a very hot item on the internet now. Steve Balmer recently introduced Microsoft’s version called 
Adcenter and Yahoo unveiled a pay-per-click beta program called Yahoo 
Publisher Network (YPN). 

Let me give you my impressive “competitors” list that I have found in my 
search to survive my ban from Adsense :

adbrite, adcenter (beta), adengage, adgenta, adhearus, adsclick, ffiliateseansor, allfeeds, bannerbxes, bidclix, bidvertiser, cbadwords, cbplugin, chitika, clicksaddirect, clicksor, contextweb, expoactive, fastclick, infograbber, intellitxt, kanoodle, mirago , miva, nixxie, quigo, revenuepilot, targetpoint, yahoo ypn (coming soon...).

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How Does Google Adsense Program Work For Webmasters Wanting to Earn Income?

The following article presents the very latest information on Google Adsense. If you have a particular interest in Google Adsense, then this informative article is required reading. 

Advertisers pay Google when someone clicks on their ads which are placed on pages that contain text.  For example, if you write content about lawn mowers, you will likely see ads from lawn mower manufacturers and/or retailers on that page.  When someone clicks on those ads, the advertiser pays Google and Google pays you.  Of course, the advertiser is hoping the person that clicked on the add will actually purchase the lawn mower or whatever they’re offering.

In fact, Google is very strict about the integrity of this process.  You are forbidden to click on your own ads.  If you do, your Adsense account will be terminated and you might never get it back.  You are also prohibited from asking others to click on “your ads”.  It makes sense.  Why would advertisers want to pay just so your friends and family could click on your ads when no one is really interested in purchasing the lawn mower or subject of the ad.

The good news is that it’s not necessary to “cheat.”  Google Adsense is so easy you’ll make more money just going by the rules.  Have or write interesting content that will turn up in search engines and you have “targeted” the right people to read those ads.  Just think, somebody in Indiana buys a lawn mower and you get a commission!

What Not to Tell Others About the Google Adsense Program – The Most Important Rule 

The more authentic information about Google Adsense you know, the more likely people are to consider you a Google Adsense expert. Read on for even more Google Adsense facts that you can share. 

Sympathy only goes so far.  Not only is it against the Google Adsense Program Policies but if you rely on friends and family members to click on your ads instead of diligently working the program, you’re cheating yourself – and the Google Adsense Program.

The “help me out” wail may work when your kid is selling outrageously expensive candles for the end of the year school party but it has no place in the Google Adsense Program.

Besides, if you’re asking people to click on your ads, that means you’re not optimizing your site for valid clicks as well as referrals.  Use that same energy to polish your content and your site.  When family and friends ask what you’ve been up to, you can proudly show them your hard work.  When they see how excited you are, you’ll see your referral revenue go up.


Don't limit yourself by refusing to learn the details about Google Adsense. The more you know, the easier it will be to focus on what's important.

The good news is that it’s not necessary to “cheat.”  Google Adsense is so easy you’ll make more money just going by the rules.  Have or write interesting content that will turn up in search engines and you have “targeted” the right people to read those ads.  Just think, somebody in Indiana buys a lawn mower and you get a commission!

What Not to Tell Others About the Google Adsense Program – The Most Important Rule

Sympathy only goes so far.  Not only is it against the Google Adsense Program Policies but if you rely on friends and family members to click on your ads instead of diligently working the program, you’re cheating yourself – and the Google Adsense Program.

The “help me out” wail may work when your kid is selling outrageously expensive candles for the end of the year school party but it has no place in the Google Adsense Program.

Besides, if you’re asking people to click on your ads, that means you’re not optimizing your site for valid clicks as well as referrals.  Use that same energy to polish your content and your site.  When family and friends ask what you’ve been up to, you can proudly show them your hard work.  When they see how excited you are, you’ll see your referral revenue go up.

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Here’s Why You Need To Use Landing Pages Online

All the products that you want to sell online are ready. You have already signed up with the Google Adsense program or with other affiliate marketing programs and you have already prepared the ad you want to post on your affiliate’s site. Your mind is now set to being the next most successful online businessman. But is there anything else that you might have forgotten to prepare? Maybe none. But how about your landing pages? Are they all set for your business? Landing pages are simply web pages where visitors are directed to whenever they click a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad. For affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your potential customer to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliate’s website. Landing pages are, at most times, nothing really different from other web pages in a particular website, especially if the said website is an e-commerce site. Some online businessmen would even use the homepage of their websites as the landing page for their ads. Are these businessmen making a big mistake? Or should you follow their method in creating landing pages for their ads? Well, you can always follow what most online retailers do, directing their potential customers to the homepages of their websites. But if you want to achieve something more from your online business, and if you want to earn a lot of profits, you better create a special landing page for your web ads. Why? Here are a few reasons why you need to use landing pages for your web ads. And take note, it would do you a lot better if you create a great landing page than a so-so one. Reason no. 1: It is the only way you earn conversions in an affiliate marketing program. There are a variety of affiliate marketing programs today, but most of these programs let the merchant pay the affiliate in a pay per click basis. Basically, all you have to do is sign up with the program and submit your ad. The program owner would then distribute your ad to various affiliates who would then place your ad on their websites. Whenever your ad is clicked, a visitor would be directed to your landing page and you would have to pay the affiliate for his service. As a merchant, you earn in an affiliate program through conversions—that is whenever a visitor that is directed to your site actually buys a product on your site. Without these conversions, you actually earn nothing from the program. Also, the more visitors that your affiliates have directed to your site, the larger would your expense be. And the only way that you can recover from these expenses is through conversions. Now, you sure won't get any conversion if you have posted an ad on your affiliate's site without an actual landing page for the potential customer to be redirected into. It's just like advertising a product without actually having a store to sell your product. Your advertisement may be enticing enough to encourage people to purchase a product, but without the landing page, how will they know how to purchase the product It is therefore important to have landing pages for your ads because it is the only way for you to earn something in an affiliate program. Without landing pages, all you do is spend money paying your affiliates without actually getting anything in return. Reason no. 2: Other web pages may just not be enough. Many people make the mistake of making their website's homepage as the landing page for their ads. The same is true for those who make use of other pages like a "contact us" page or a product page. Homepages are often designed to serve multiple users and contains a lot of links to other pages or to other websites. The same is with the other two pages mentioned. If you want to be successful in an affiliate program, we're sure that you don't want your landing page to cater to the needs of various people, most of which may not be really interested with your product. When choosing a landing page, you must always have the customer directed into that page in mind. Therefore, your landing page must be relevant to the keywords and the contents you placed on your ad. It is also important that the landing page can induce your visitor to take action—that is to purchase your product or at least provide leads for potential customers. Final Word You probably entered into an affiliate marketing program with these things in mind: to save on advertising expenses and to gain more profit. But if you get into an affiliate marketing program without actually having a landing page, you'll end up paying too much without getting anything in return. So if you still don't have a landing page for your ads, you better start creating one now. And don't get us wrong; it isn't enough for you to have just a landing page—it should be a great landing page!
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