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May 29, 2008
David Ledoux

3 Ways To Waste Money With PPC

A successful Pay-Per-Click campaign is an Internet marketer's dream. I know people who swear by Pay Per Click and others who have horror stories to tell, like the marketer who was charged more than $7600 on his credit card for his Pay-Per-Click marketing... and he didn't make a single sale! I'm not going to tell you his name because I don't want to embarrass him, but it was a colossal disaster.

That's why a lot of marketers are scared. They've heard the stories about high click-through rates with very low conversions. Pay-Per-Click works if you know what you're doing. You must have copy that attracts your target market, but you need more than that..

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May 25, 2008
Karen Scharf

12 Tips To Get The Best ROI From Your PPC Campaign

Pay Per Click campaigns are not set it and forget projects. Without advanced planning and continued monitoring, they can become extremely unprofitable. Use these proven techniques to squeeze the most ROI out of your PPC..

May 25, 2008
Derek Rogers

10 Reasons to Use PPC Advertising

When you are debating with yourself (or your accountant!) as to why pay per click is a necessary part of your online marketing scheme, you'll find that there are plenty of reasons to use this type of advertising to promote your website! Take some time to think about what pay per click advertising can do for you..

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Apr 9, 2008
Wesley Gorton

Relevancy Is the Key to Success With Google AdWords

It has become common knowledge in today's society that the fastest way to source information is on the internet. Google is at the forefront of this industry with its capacity to find what you want in two clicks.

The key ingredient in any successful Google AdWords campaign rests primarily in the way the advertisement is structured. This is determined by how highly targeted and relevant your keywords are, in relation to the surrounding ads displayed on Google AdWords. The major reason Google is the largest search engine in the world, is because its ability to locate and target highly relevant material with little effort is unparalleled. In my opinion relevancy is the key determining factor. Google not only rewards customers whose ads specifically pertain to the terms being searched for, it also penalizes for gratuitous use of search terms and for irrelevant keyword listings..

Mar 14, 2008
B. Lakatos

AdWords Ad Ranking System and AdWords Discounter explained

Rating: 3.3 stars

During a discussion about the ad ranking system of the Google AdWords advertising program and the associated AdWords Discounter feature, a friend of mine has happened to tell me the other day that according to Google you will pay only a bit more for a particular ad position on the user's search result page than the "owner" of the ad position that is below you. (If anyone of you accrues a clickthrough.) He concluded that it would make an actual CPC column like this one for example..

Mar 13, 2008
Claire Blinman

An Introduction to Google AdWords

Rating: 4 stars

If you don't reach page 1 of Google - your product or service is not going to get sold to internet searchers. It's as simple as that.

Google allows you to target 10 million people within 10 minutes of setting up a campaign. How much more impressive a form of advertising can there be?..

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Feb 17, 2008
Kale McClelland

Exploring Secondary PPC Engines

As you enter the world of pay per click (PPC) marketing, you may find yourself juggling between bidding for a higher positioning, choosing appropriate keywords and phrases, and exploring the many different search engines that your PPC ads will appear on..

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Feb 7, 2008
Jay Michael

Is Yahoo Search Marketing so bad?

Everyone likes to say Yahoo is horrible for PPC marketing. The point here is that it is very easy to say something without knowing what you are talking about! I have conducted Search Marketing Campaigns for dozens of businesses and also dozens of affiliate programs, and have found that Yahoo Search Marketing, many times can be as profitable although they have the shorter reach than Google AdWords, and actually many times more profitable than Google in many cases. This is not always the case, but many times it is..

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Dec 23, 2007
Rudy Dhondt

How to Not Get Banned for Adsense Arbitrage

Rating: 3.1 stars

Would you believe a rumour that tells you that Google is going to ban the publishers that practice Adsense Arbitrage? Well, then I suppose you don't agree with me that Google would commit suicide. After all, the Adword/Adsense system that Google uses is arbitrage...

Dec 23, 2007
Scott J Adams

AdSense Arbitrage is Dead?

Rating: 3 stars

It appears from a series of posts in the forum at WebmasterWorld indicates that Google could finally be cracking down on AdSense arbitrage. Some owners of AdSense accounts involved in arbitrage claim to have received emails from Google advising them that they have an unsuitable business model for AdSense and that their accounts will be disabled within a few weeks...

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