Double Google Page 1 Ranking With Keyword Stuffing?

Remember my post I did about Google being some how the worst search engine in the world? Well, guess what, it still has not changed. And, the funny part of this all is that the person I mentioned in my previous post, Hans, has again reported the site to be robbing others from their clicks and visitors several times up until today. I did the post on March 8, 2009 and, today September 25th 2009 the problem STILL exists.

My friend Hans does not see the funny part of things since he used to advertise on keywords like ‘private jets for sale’ ( So it seems Up to $8.60 per click). Until he found out what was going on. Hans has a private jet related business and for his hobby he started to look into search engine marketing and optimization.

He also learned that using blackhat techniques to rank on Google may work for a short period of time but that to use them is kind of unethical but even more important: They are against Google TOS and that should mean that once the site is caught by Google the site will then disappear from Google.

After Hans did some research to find out what his competitors did to get on Google he found out that one site in particular was giving him, Google and all Adwords advertisers the big finger.

He reported the site and, the site was indeed ‘punished’ for its bad boy behavior and was de-indexed. Hans was reassured that while he did not find out how to rank organically for the keywords, he was convinced that paying Up to $8.60 per click was a wise decision since he was dealing with a company which clearly had its dignity.

However, it was not long, and you can check this to see yourself, and the big bad blackhat culprits reappeared and this time on the 2nd and 3rd place on the first page of Google…

This pissed Hans off and he has given me the last spam report he has send to Google:

(Please take note, this is are the words from Hans, not from me… lol, just to make sure we do not get de listed by posting this stuff) But, I thought it to be entertaining enough to publish:

Dear Google,
Keyword stuffing. I can not believe my eyes to see it work so well.
I have now reported this site SEVERAL times and have not seen any result come out of this.

Omnijet is still #2 and #3 on private jets for sale when I do a search via the several data servers of Google. Most of them show omnijet to be #2 and #3.

I also count around 79 Adwords advertisers who pay money for the same clicks as omnijet steals and therefor gets for free.

This is allowing Omnijet to screw them. Since I have already reported them way before now, this is what it starts to look like.

Take note: The first time after I reported them for their ways of business you did the right thing and removed them from your first page rankings.

It earned some real trust and faith in Google on my personal part. However, it was not long and they re appeared on the #2 and #3 spot.

Now, it seems not to work so well at all, this spam and abuse report module.

I reported twice more in a space of several weeks to months with NO result. Very frustrating since what they are doing IS against your own TOS and therefor crapping on all of the Adwords advertisers.

Perhaps I should ask all other advertisers how they feel about this? When I found out, I stopped advertising, you know…

Once more, they pay good money for a keyword like private jets for sale. Up to $8.60 per click.

How would they feel, knowing that there is a double listing on the same page they pay for to advertise on, but these people cheat and do not pay hundreds if not thousands per month?

AND, that Google has been warned it to be happening and Google does nothing?

I feel it is only fair to give you guys another chance here.

However, should nothing change, I will take it upon me to contact EVERY single advertiser who is advertising on Adwords for ‘private jets for sale’ and I will provide them with details on what I have found is going on.

Sites with keyword stuffing should NOT be ranked first page #2 and #3.

It is against your TOS. Whether or not they are selling the jets and relative to the search phrase, they are now also people who have the attitude to screw not only all other paying advertisers, they tend to screw your organization AND laugh you all in the face too.

The worst thing is, you allow them day in and day out. As long as they are on those rankings…

If anyone is as passionate about Google as that I am about my business, they will most certainly be taken off as soon as you read zap.

zap…

Thanks for your cooperation,

Hans

Spam report successfully submitted

Thank you for submitting this information. Your report has been received and will be investigated.

We appreciate your diligence in reporting this problem; you’re helping produce a better online experience for everyone.

The Google Team

… Is what he got back from them. As a matter of fact, that is what he got back every time he reported the site. Not once have they tried to contact him and it does make you think just how approachable Google really is…

I have spoken to Hans about this and he is serious about it too. Me personally, I could not be bothered so much to actually take all the necessary action to contact all of these people but,  then again, I do not own and sell private jet planes and he does… So, I do think that he has a point.

Google must have gotten the reports by now and nothing seems to happen. That is more than 6 months. There are thousands of people worldwide looking for this phrase… The top price is over $8 per click…

So, I can understand where Hans is coming from so to speak.

In my opinion, and knowing Hans a bit, this can turn in to a nice little story right there.

I’ll keep you up to date on this one…

What do you think about this? Is Hans in his rights? Should he warn other Adwords advertisers? Or, do you think he is big mouthing? Should Google not have looked in to his reports more seriously and should they have taken out the culprit site again?

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Google: The world’s number 1 (sucking) Search Engine?

It’s Sunday and it is time to Kick Google a bit. Take note, this post is not to whine about Google but just to show you what can be done and how easy these things are. So, don’t misinterpret this post. I love Google cause they bring in dollars for free. But, that is besides the actual point of this post.

You know, people say, Google is the world’s number one and best search engine due to its perfect ways to give the searcher what he or she wants. Sure… It gives a certain group of people what they want, but, mainly, they are NOT the searcher crowd. The people who think Google is the greatest are indeed us, the internet marketers… (And, the Big G’s group of stock holders of course)

Google states: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We work hard to return the most relevant results for every search we conduct. To that end, we encourage site managers to make their content straightforward and easily understood by users and search engines alike.

(Every time I feel sad, I log on to the page where I can read that. Moments later I am laughing. It IS the biggest joke…) Then, they claim this:

Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to decide which among the billions of pages on the web to show them — and in what order. Lately, we have been doing other things as well. But more on that later.

For something that is used so often by so many people, surprisingly little is known about ranking at Google. This is entirely our fault, and it is by design. We are, to be honest, quite secretive about what we do. There are two reasons for it: competition and abuse. Competition is pretty straightforward. No company wants to share its secret recipes with its competitors. As for abuse, if we make our ranking formulas too accessible, we make it easier for people to game the system. Security by obscurity is never the strongest measure, and we do not rely on it exclusively, but it does prevent a lot of abuse.

The details of the ranking algorithms are in many ways Google’s crown jewels. We are very proud of them and very protective of them. By some estimate, more than one thousand programmer/scientist years have gone directly into their development, and the rate of innovation has not slowed down. (source Official Google Blog)

What crap is this?

Ready to go down the rabbit hole just a tiny bit?

Google is the easiest search engine to manipulate. Seriously. And, if they claim to be, they ought to do something about that to actually be, or, stop claiming to be.  That would be false advertising and we can not have any of that.  And, then I do not mean what they are already doing: Just saying they do something and ARE the best…

To be honest, they have been hiding LONG enough behind their impeccable imago.

Google is a cash machine. Especially for internet marketers like myself. Sure, I will not state otherwise. Once you know how, Google is the place to cash in. But, saying that Google is the best search engine providing the searcher with only the best results related to the searcher’s inquiry  is to be called utter bull shit.

Let me give you two examples:

First, looking at the keywords ‘private jet for sale‘ (Results 1 – 10 of about 317,000 for Private jets for sale)

To give you an idea: This is what other companies pay per click on Adwords: (And, obviously, the number one on this result page is NOT paying)

Around 3-4000 people searching. So, let’s say 1,000 click. That is more than $8k p/month on advertising costs that the Adwords advertisers need to pay, and that Omnijet in this case is saving. They get the traffic for free.

Sure, the results are targeted precisely to the keyword. Yet, my point in this part of the post is showing you how easy it is to manipulate going AGAINST Google’s TOS)

And, before I will show you the way the first page (with red circle) is build, I will show you part of Google’s TOS on for instance Keyword Stuffing:

Keyword stuffing

“Keyword stuffing” refers to the practice of loading a webpage with keywords in an attempt to manipulate a site’s ranking in Google’s search results. Filling pages with keywords results in a negative user experience, and can harm your site’s ranking. Focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context.

To fix this problem, review your site for misused keywords. Typically, these will be lists or paragraphs of keywords, often randomly repeated. Check carefully, because keywords can often be in the form of hidden text, or they can be hidden in title tags or alt attributes.

Once you’ve made your changes and are confident that your site no longer violates our webmaster guidelines, submit your site for reconsideration.

Not familiar with keyword stuffing?

Simple, you basically make a html document, lash in as many on topic keywords as possible, hence ‘keyword stuffing’ and your page.

I know, I am not such a writer, so, to make it more clear to you, here is what Wikipedia says:

Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical search engine optimization (SEO) technique. Keyword stuffing occurs when a web page is loaded with keywords in the meta tags or in content. The repetition of words in meta tags may explain why many search engines no longer use these tags.

Keyword stuffing had been used in the past to obtain maximum search engine ranking and visibility for particular phrases. This method is completely outdated and adds no value to rankings today. In particular, Google no longer gives good rankings to pages employing this technique.

Hiding text from the visitor is done in many different ways. Text colored to blend with the background, CSS “Z” positioning to place text “behind” an image — and therefore out of view of the visitor — and CSS absolute positioning to have the text positioned far from the page center are all common techniques. By 2005, many invisible text techniques were easily detected by major search engines.

Ask nearly any black hat SEO marketer about keyword stuffing and they say it is passe and not effective anymore. But, is it?

So, based upon the above, Google does not allow, nor will it rank high, pages that practice keyword stuffing.

Have a look at the source code of the page and try to see, whether or not it is hard to determine if this page is using ‘keyword stuffing’ or not: (sorry for the huuuuge image… )

What? Me? Keyword stuffing? Noooooh, not me…

What do you think?

Well, I think this can be defined as ‘keyword stuffing alright. So, if we were to follow Google’s TOS, we should, once we find this out, report this to Google so that they can take these nincompoops out of the index.

Ha, guess what? I know someone who did report this site. Many times. Google does nothing. Google states that keyword stuffing can ‘ can harm your site’s ranking’ Then, how about the above results? How is that harming the site? If at all, it is harming other parties (stupid enough) to follow the Google TOS. It harms sites that pay $8k per month on Adwords for sure. (should it rank confirm Google’s TOS then ok. But, is it?)

Fair? Nope. Therefore, I think it is time Google stops hiding behind their so called imago.

Want another typical case? Why not, it involves a site of mine which does not participate in black hat techniques and is filled with relative (quality) content.

Sure, the site was made to rank high in order to make sales on the Howies Apprentice 3 launch coming Monday.

I watched this page as a hawk and saw it land on the #1 spot on the keywords ‘howies apprentice 3′ amongst others. I managed to do this following Google’s TOS at all times. Yes, it can be done.

Thing is, today I noticed my site was overtaken by someone else:

Hold on a minute. The second ranking is the basic ‘about’ wordpress page. How can THAT rank based on being quality and relative content?

Please… Have a look at the perfect on topic and high quality relevant posts that are to be seen: (PS: I could have copied the text, but I refuse to have such textual crap on my blog, therefore the pic:

What on earth is this? Sure, it is English… but.. wtf are they writing about?

Is this nice related and quality content that deserves to rank #1?

In my opinion, if we have to believe Google it shouldn’t. Unless there is some kind of secret message embedded that only customers who use Google and want to buy Howies Apprentice program 3 understand.

I certainly don’t understand it.

Of course I know how this page has been made. It took the owner less than 2 clicks to do. She, since I know her, then fires up software to get back links pointing to this crap site. She does this with submitting screen savers to software download sites and she does this buy firing this kind of content to massive blog networks all with references made to her site.

That my friends is the key to success it seems

Where there are black hat marketers who say keyword stuffing and screen saver submissions to rank are not effective anymore, Google seems to think different.

What do other bloggers say?

Just read on Shoemoney.com that not only the organic search results are attracted to spam and scraped sites. Ranking on Google has become a business as you can see on Problogger.

So, conclusion is this:

If you want to rank highly on Google following their TOS you can. You need not to worry taking over HIGH competitive keywords as easy as you may hope but doing it right you can beat millions of other competitors to it with the greatest ease. This is what I do and have made thousands of dollars with personally. My shit works. Period.

However,

The black hat techniques ‘she’ uses work as well and I have to say, even better.

The funny  thing is this though.

I make way more sales then she does. She may rank well but her conversions stink. Trust me, I know.

So, another conclusion is that if you do not know the whole package on how it is done, you may rank well but won’t convert your visitors in to buyers. They simply go back to Google to find my site lol.

If you know how to convert but don’t know how to rank then you are still lost. Find the key to both of them and you’re smiling.

Anyone interested to know how this is done? I might just tell you how you can.

PS: I know there will be people saying that the keywords in the above examples are piss easy. to rank for …

Sure, I will be the first to agree. Yet, I have seen sites (I made) beating tens of millions of other sites in a matter of a day’s work. Once you know how, yes: too easy.

But, do you know how to convert those visitors too?

Another question I have is this:

What do you think of Google?

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Search Engine Optimization

Somebody just send me this article about Search Engine Optimization which I wanted to share with you. There are some pretty interesting points mentioned in it. More important is that it gives perfect way to introduce to you a program (or two rather) that will make it so you never need to be worrying about SEO EVER again. Let’s read the article first and at the end I will sort of shortly let you in on what I know will happen pretty soon from now…

Do SEO right and get free traffic from the Search Engines. Sounds too good to be true? Trust me, do  this part correct and you will get free traffic from the search engines.

Today it seems as though most webmasters know quite a bit about search engine optimization. Here is a list in the order from most important to least important of tips I have found to work the best.

1) Google PageRank (PR), which I have discussed at lengths earlier in this book. This is the single most important thing for any site (especially those which have a lot of pages).

2) Title of your page. This goes in the <title> </title> tags of your webpage. This should include approximately 50-80 characters/7 words max (usually a lot less) and should not simply be keywords listed. Many search engines view that as spam. Sometimes what I feel works the best is making short titles for each page with a direct keyword in each one. This is not only what shows up when someone searches in search engines, but it is also believed to be the single heaviest item that most search engines consider when performing a search.

3) Content is king, especially original content. Slapping a picture up on a page and writing a sentence about it will not get you the search engine placement that a page with 400-1000 words of rich content will. Title images with keywords, while also using alt tags for images, and don’t overdo the content optimization. It is good to include your keywords in your content, however, if you overdo the keyword insertion, you will do more harm than good.

This is called ‘keyword stuffing”. A good guideline for the frequency that your keyword should appear in a content page is about 4%. Anything over 8% would most likely get you penalized, while anything under 1% may not even be picked up on the Search engines’ radar. Also what is strongly suggested is that you include your keywords in your heading on the top of your site. You should use either <h1>, <h2>, or <h3> tags for the heading.

4) Your Domain. Try to make your Domain contain keywords for the market you are targeting. If you are creating a website about “dog food”, then choose a domain name with at least one of those 2 words in it. Examples would be Mut-food.com, dog-muchies.com or even better yummydogfood.com. Remember though that you have to balance search engine optimization with the ability of members to remember the domain name and come back. Even though something like dogfood-dogfood.com may be good for SEO, it isn’t something people will quickly remember. Also, Search engines usually don’t discriminate between .com, .net, .biz, .info, etc, but people do. Choose a .com domain unless it is absolutely necessary to choose one of the others.

5) Be Smart – Don’t just use the most popular keyword phrases. The market is so competitive that you should be sure to include some niche keywords too.

Another thing that I have found to be true is that most search engines including Google do not like PHP scripted pages very much. If your site is PHP based, you want to have it scripted to appear as .html extensions to visitors and search engines.

Most programmers should understand this request, if you tell them you need “mod rewrite done to make php appear as html”. I have found this to help significantly with Google results.

Meta Tags are also very important to help your site get indexed better in search engines.

You could always choose to skip the line and learn from the best. Personal coaching for instance. Where some gurus will charge your credit cards with $1000,00′s per hour there is one course about to be opened to the public from Howie Schwartz. It is called the Howies Apprentice 3 membership.

Howies Apprentice 3 will teach you the whole concept of getting a site on the first page of Google and you will be taken by the hand by Howie Schwartz himself and his team of internet marketing specialists assuring you that you WILL make your own fortune online. There are some very impressive testimonial videos out there. But, more on Howies Apprentice 3 on a different post in the near future.

Think Search Engine Optimization is too hard? And that it never brings you any result? Think again.

I recommend using WordPress Blogs from now on. This will save you all of the hassle since everything is pre installed and with the help of some pretty amazing plugins your site becomes a SEO MONSTER!

Never worked with Word Press before? Don’t worry! Not so long from now, Blog Crusher will launch. This is a membership for maximum 250 people teaching you everything you need to know PLUS handing you all of the tools you need to truly become successful.

So, if you never had any results before with SEO, paid too much for it or simply do not want to learn how to do it properly then just have a little patience.

So far not much is known to other people. I can tell you, since I have seen it work that it is something you want to get on the inside on.

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So, does Google Adsense Really Suck This Much?

First of all, I am by far a big Adsense earner. I have several Adsense sites but the money I make with them is nothing to write home about. Yet, after a recent article I wrote on one of my sites apparently describing what happened to become the next sort of mini internet craze I came to the conclusion that landed me in to a situation where I had to ask myself whether or not Adsense had to suck. And, more importantly, if it was costing me FAR more than that it was bringing in…

Wait…

Adsense is something you make money with…

But, what if it is costing you? And, all the time you are so happy that you earn a few hundred dollar per month. But, could you not be earning thousands of dollars instead?

WITHOUT Adsense?

Don’t get me wrong. It is a great way for many people to simply earn some money online.

Some money…

But hey, it doesn’t take much effort! You sign up for Adsense, you pick your ad color matching your site(s) and you copy and paste their ad code into your sites with indeed the greatest ease.

Google then published content related ads right on your site. Once a person clicks on your ad you make cash. I am sure it is a great solution but recently I was forced to feel a bit different about it all… And, looking at it now, maybe for the better!

What it is that happened just didn’t feel good and made me doubt about Adsense and its possible successes normal people can have with it. And, whether or not there are better opportunities with which normal people can make a lot more money with…

I am sure there are those of you who still earn their full time income and a bit (thousands upon thousands so to speak) per month but I got quite disappointed in the whole Adsense program and am getting close to undertaking action in removing Adsense from all of my sites.

Let me explain what I mean with them and a bit more about how I came to this all:

As said, I wrote an article on one of my sites (news related) about something that became a little bit of an internet craze.

The article was one of the first articles to be mentioning about the possible UFO at the inauguration of President Obama. I had made print screens from the CNN video with the flying object clearly visible, adding to the post’s value. Considering the fact my site was a ‘newspaper themed site’ many people saw it as actual news I am sure.

At first, I did not do this out of commercial reasons but just to get my point of view out over something I had seen on the CNN camera. Something I felt could be news. You never know, you might hit something big…

I bookmarked the post on some sites and it sort of hit the main stream for a good few days resulting in more than 66,000 visitors in less than 3 weeks or so. Lots of sites decided to link to my article, certain news papers did and it was bingo. Traffic, traffic and traffic. It was craaazy.

Besides the fact that my site went offline for a while due to its bandwidth exceeding (which I never had before and luckily only lasted for 4 hours) I noticed something else what was rather disappointing.

Since the site initially did not have a commercial value to me as in such I was still curious to see what this traffic would bring in clicks and of course revenue.

The site in question is monetized with Adsense but has more of a different kind of purpose as to why I own it. It provides news and that is it for now. But, since none of my sites go un-monetized so to speak I placed Adsense. Some money is always better than none.

While I checked my Adsense stats daily a certain drop in income per click was clearly noticeably. This was about half way into the certain traffic spurt this site had received.

Where the site had one top day of $75 income out of Adsense clicks (With thousands of visitors per day, which is not much, I know… Actually pathetically low if you ask me…) the other days it would come to $50 or a bit less.

Until the day that brought the certain drop of income per click.

Not just some little drop, no… The traffic remained the same as in thousands per day , I received about the same amount of clicks yet, the daily income went to $12 or even less! That is not just sad, it is silly too. I mean, who possibly wants to earn that per click.

How close to insult can you get?

So, as this is now an ongoing incident while we speak… In my opinion Adsense Really sucks.

The site still gets only a much smaller percentage of income per click as compared to what it used to do in the beginning and nothing on site has changed during the whole time. I also know that the UFO niche most probably is not the best paying one either yet a ‘certain drop’ of income from what it was making during those days is unexplainable to me.

It is not clear to me how that could have happened all of a sudden. Anyone here an idea that you would like to share about this?

Then of course, I know if you target the higher paid keywords you can make some serious money. And, in all fairness, I have sites totally targeted and niche related which bring in several dollars per click. But, it is in these segments that it is harder to compete. So, not always reachable for the starting marketer.

For instance, I own a site which is highly ranked on ‘private jet’ related keywords with surpluses of $4 per click. Since I have no jets this might as well be the only site I could imagine having Adsense on. Simply cause there is no affiliate program for private jets. (Well, there is eBay and some charter companies with affiliate programs but unfortunately in the private jet market they do not convert that good)

But, on these sites I do own with higher earning clicks it is also in these segments that I have noticed a drop of income per click. Anyone who has noticed the same?

Basically it can possibly become much worse…

Adsense does not only possibly suck, it potentially robs you from a lot of money as well. Imagine owning a site promoting online surveys. (You are welcome Elise ) They pay something like $34 per sale and are popular by many people so I have heard. (I’ve used the example of Online surveys for no other reason than to be able to plant a link to Elise since she is such a nice person )

But anyways…

Eager as you are wanting to make money you start building your website or blog and since you have heard of the BIG Google and the Adsense (With which you can make milllllllllions of dollars) you of course go ahead and sign up for an Adsense account.

You then spend time to actually get targeted traffic from the search engines and are welcoming people to your online survey site who are indeed looking for an online survey program with their credit card in their hand, ready to buy.

Great! The hardest part done, you have landed a visitor interested to buy!

Then they see your clever positioned ad (Since Google even tells you where to put it) and…

Click …

Your visitor just clicked on your Google Adsense ad.

Congratulations my friend! You just earned yourself around $0.85.

But, he clicked AWAY from your site and you have earned Google around $1.50 on the go and even worse, most possible, you have earned the person who was using Adwords to advertise on your Adsense ad a nice commission of about $34 or so. Minus his cost per click of $2.35 is a net profit of $31.65

So, basically, you have been robbed $33.15 by making the click yes, but not making the sale.

So, my question is (and it is one I am seriously asking myself AND testing out):

Am I better off without Adsense?

If you look at the above image, hmm.. maybe we are! These are two screen shots taken from Adsense and a clickbank account over the same period of time. Where Adsense recorded 45 page views this resulted in 3 clicks. Within these same 45 page views Google saw 26 hops where made. (Hops are clicks to the vendor site recorded by Clickbank)

Clearly, the $0.60 is less exiting to welcome in to your bank account than its counterpart income, the $22.84 that was made while making the sale yourself, resulting in a lot more profit!

I think the question you need to ask if you have as well Adsense as your own promotions going on what it is that makes your visitor click on the Adsense ad INSTEAD of your promo.

And, why he or she does not click on your promotion making you $34 per sale? Instead it is a meagerly $0.85 you gain with Adsense.

Ok, cool once you get thousands of clicks.

But, what if  you could make hundreds of sales out of those thousands of clicks instead?

Sure, easy to solve this, we remove Adsense. From now on it won’t happen again! No more deceiving click away from Google.

But, if you still don’t know why visitors do not click your promotions on your site to buy the products and simply close your site to go back on Google for another search; you have yet another problem.
Because now you earn nothing.

I decided to go and do some testing with sites that get the same kind of traffic in niche and amount and have one site with and one site without Adsense. I used to earn money with Adsense and product sales on those sites so I can compare it after a while. Does the income without Adsense drop or will it generate more sales simply because the visitor has no other choice than to open up one of the offers.

Does a site without Adsense earn more than a site with Adsense?

It may be simple for some, but if you are unable to make your site’s own advertisements and promotions (read affiliate programs) convert better (with or) without Adsense you get a lot of site closers.

They will not click and buy.

Once again, if you would have had Adsense on there they might have clicked that earning you some cents.

However, how do we make our sites so that we do not need Adsense but that it will look after the $34 or more per sale commissions that are coming in from the sales that the site directly is making?

So…

Does Adsense suck THAT much that it in fact costs you money? The more I look at it, the more I think it does.

Although I come to the conclusion that this does not entirely depend on Adsense. Once you are able to make your site convert better with direct offer promotions instead of Adsense, you WILL be better off. This also means that if you are not able to do so you will lose money.

There are people who will argue that it is all in the numbers of traffic (targeted) and the higher paid niche markets. However, in most cases, even if you had thousands of visitors to your sites, if you could divert them directly to an offer YOU promote, you do not only cut out the middle man (men) you also make hordes of more money, so that one does not go up.

So, what is it that I still have Adsense on my sites for?

I don’t know. It does look good. Kind of gives trusted look. Will that be it?

I just do not know… (yet)

I said you will lose money if you are not able to make your site convert better but, this count as well for not trying to improve and answering the question.

If you do not try it for your own sites and you would be able to improve conversion then you too lose out on more money as well. Or?

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Getting started with PPC & Adwords

PPC and Adwords are not an easy game to play in. So, there you have it. Anybody who told you that Adwords is easy should be prosecuted. Seriously. There are simply too many people (newbies) who tend to think or have heard of the gurus that Adwords is an easy game to play.  Sign up for an Adwords account, deposit some money, slap up an ad and just make insane amounts of money. Get rich while you sleep…

Sorry folks, while it does happen lots of people as we speak, it is NOT easy.

If you were wanting to start with marketing on Adwords, allow us to warn you to be carefull and to make sure you know what you are doing. While it all seems to be very easy, you got to remember one thing: Out of the two parties here (You and Google) one is 100% certain to make money and we can tell you it aint you! If you do not know what you are doing we dare to say you are the one who is 100% certain to lose all of his money. In a matter of minutes…

There are however some very good Adwords courses around out of which you will be able to learn everything you need to know to become successful with marketing on Google Adwords. PPC And Adwords are THE number one traffic generating tool for successful and wealthy internet marketers. The difference they have compared to you is that they know how to do it. For you as a beginning PPC marketer your first job is therefore: STUDY!

Some great Adwords courses are:

Adwords Made Easy by Brad Callen (FREE)

The first one is free and is called Google Adwords made easy and is authored by Brad Callen who has been an Adwords specialist for years. Adwords made Easy by Brad Callen teaches you simple, fool proof strategies you can use straight away for your own Adwords success. As said, this Adwords eBook is free and there is no reason why you should not download it. PPC advertising is very competitive for a reason for any high-value product/service, PPC is a cheap and effective way to get your name in front of the people looking for products just like yours. With all the competition there’s just one big problem: If you jump in blind, the sharks will eat you alive.

Download Adwords made easy for free. (Right Click and save target as)

Google Massacre by Steven Lee Jones and Andrew X

Ok, ok, while their sales page may look a little odd and scary to say the least, their product is as much as a killer. The Google Massacre Adwords course is jam packed with everything and more you need to know to play the Adwords game profitable. Google Massacre has already changed the lives of thousands of people worldwide who learned the tips and tricks from Steven Lee Jones and Andrew X who are the authors of Google Massacre. Affiliate marketing isn’t a game. If you just play around with it, you’ll get hurt. You need to know what you’re doing. Google Massacre showed over thousands of people, and results speak for themselves.

Download Google Massacre.

The Shortest Route To Adwords Success … Adword Mentor

Testimonial: “This site is for anyone that is serious about making Money with Adwords. I have learned more about Adwords in my first week of becoming a member than I have for the last 6 Months! I finally have a place where I can ask questions and get a fast response. “

“The Google Adwords Success Guide”… This guide provides an overview of the Google Adwords system to make sure that you are familiar with the basics of using the tools provided. You’ll also get “Online Coaching And Consulting” You’ll have access to this private, members-only forum where you can ask questions and get answers to your most pressing problems.

Click Here If You Want To Drastically Reduce Your Learning Curve and Avoid the Mistakes of Most Adwords Marketers.

In Adwords Targeting is essential

Without a doubt, Pay-Per-Click advertising (or PPC) is the quickest and most effective way of driving traffic to your website. It may therefore surprise you just how many people get it completely wrong, and how much of their advertising budget they waste as a result. The reason that this happens is a stunningly simple one. Targeting, or more accurately a total lack of it, is the number one reason why people fail when using PPC advertising.

Especially when using AdWords, that can be a very expensive mistake. Using PPC (whether it is AdWords or one of the less expensive alternatives), you pay every time someone clicks on your ad. If therefore, the people who click are not at least interested in the product or service that your site promotes, then you have wasted money.

Looked at the other way around, when you draw visitors to your site, you must have at least some chance of making money from them or you have no chance of being a success in your online business.

The first step towards mounting a successful PPC campaign therefore lies with targeting, and the secret of targeting is doing keyword research correctly and thoroughly.  Using keywords is what drives traffic to any website, and so it follows that if you are using the wrong keywords, then the traffic that you drive to your site will not be focused or targeted, causing you to lose money.

Therefore, good keyword research is vital for any kind of internet marketing activity.

Free Keyword Research:
Visit the free WordTracker keyword research tool, and type in your main keyword phrase.

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Make Money With Google

Google Almighty. Did you know that on Google only 91,000,000 searches are performed…. per day? That’s quite some group of people looking for stuff. Did you ever wonder how much money can be made out of those 91 million people on Google every day? This is why the Internet (and Google) is a multi billion business platform.

Just imagine, being able to get a slice of that traffic. And, even better, how to do that completely for free. If that sounds good to you, then this section will become your favorite. Not only will we update you on the latest available on making money with Google, we will also post about real working techniques that will allow you to go and take a slice and make some money.

We are aware there are thousands if not millions of people worldwide who are tryign to figure it out just how to make money with Google and preferably for free. The thing is, they are looking for solutions that are hard and are overlooking the simple ways. The easy ways…

There are several very potent (More importantly: Ridiculously simple) and successful ways of how to get a new website on Google’s first page results and we will discuss most of them here for free.

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PPC advertising has transformed advertising on the Internet.

Pay per click (PPC) advertising has transformed advertising on the Internet. This allows for laser targeted advertising to Internet users who are searching for the particular item that is being advertised. Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing are the two major PPC programs on the Internet today. Microsoft has been set up later than those two PPC programs.

Pay per click (PPC) advertising has revolutionized advertising on the Internet. In order to identify with PPC advertising, let’s talk about PPC, its history, and some background information.

Let’s start our discussion with a definition of pay per click advertising from Wikipedia.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:-

Pay per click (PPC) is an advertising technique used on websites, advertising networks, and search engines.

With search engines, pay per click advertisements are usually text ads placed near search results; when a site visitor clicks on the advertisement, the advertiser is charged a small amount. Variants include pay for placement and pay for ranking. Pay per click is also sometimes known as Cost Per Click (CPC).

While many companies exist in this space, Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing, which was formerly Overture, are the largest network operators as of 2006. MSN has started beta testing with their own PPC services MSN adCenter. Depending on the search engine, minimum prices per click start at US$0.01 (up to US$0.50). Very popular search terms can cost much more on popular engines. Abuse of the pay per click model can result in click fraud.

Pay per click advertising covers the three main search engines, but let’s concentrate on Google since it has the largest market share of searches on the Net.

Pay per click advertising is where an advertiser creates an ad for a product or service that will be presented to a search engine (“SE”) user when the user searches on a specific key word or key word phrase. When you use an SE, you see the ads when you receive the results of the search. You have noticed that the ads are about the same information that you entered into the search. This is based on the keywords for which the ads are targeted.

The advertiser that puts the ad in the SE agrees that it will pay a certain amount to the SE each time the ad is clicked by a user. The order of presentation of the ads on the search engine results page depends on the price that the advertiser agrees to pay and the historical click-through rates of all ads shown for a given search.

This advertising concept has revolutionized Internet advertising and has created Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft Adcenter. In 2000 Google was the first to start a program of this type and it has developed into Google’s flagship product from which it derives the majority of its revenue.

Originally, Google permitted the Adwords ad to send the user directly to the advertiser’s site. Early in 2005, the policy changed and now you must link from the Google ad to a “landing page” (page where the searcher will be directed when the ad is clicked). The landing page is used to presell the readers and then send them on to the sales page of the company selling the service or product.

PPC advertising is a great way to make money as an affiliate. You identify a company that you want to promote, identify the keywords that searchers will use when searching for the company’s products, and set up a landing web page to receive the click from the SE. On the landing page, you place ad copy to sell the reader on clicking to the company’s site that you are representing. If the user clicks to the company site and takes the desired action (purchasing a product or completing a lead form), you are paid for the completion of the action. This will be a percent of the sale of a product or a flat payment for a sales lead.

Anyone can sign up for these programs and it is quite easy to do so. You can make money using this technique. However, before you think this will make you rich overnight, let’s get a little education on how it works.

When an SE presents your ad to a user, it is called an “impression”. When a user clicks on the ad, it is called a “click”. The SE develops a ratio called the click through rate (CTR) by dividing the clicks by the impressions. If your CTR remains high enough (this varies by SE’s, but usually above one percent is sufficient), your ad will continue to run. If it does not perform well, the SE will inactivate it until you change something about the ad to make it perform better.

Your account with the PPC program will have reports that show you the impressions, the clicks, the CTR. It will also show you your average cost per click, the total cost for the keyword (clicks time average cost), and the average position of the ad in the times it was displayed (first, second, third, etc.).

This is an exciting business model for creating supplemental income. If you want to learn more about Google Adwords, buy the “Adwords Bible” by Chris Chandler called Google Cash.

The best way to learn about PPC advertising is to set up an account on Google Adwords and experiment with a campaign. You can set a budget to prevent the campaign from costing you too much if your campaign results in your paying more for clicks than you make from your sales. Be cautious on your first few campaigns and limit your potential exposure.

Good luck with your PPC campaigns.

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Free Traffic

Who doesn’t like to get free traffic to their websites? It is a common fact and a wellknown one too. Every webmaster who is looking to make money online is going to need traffic. The more traffic he or she can get to their websites, the more the chance of earning money from it grows.

Now, there are practically two ways to get targeted traffic to a web site. One is PPC (Pay Per Click) Advertising on platforms like Google Adwords and Yahoo Search. While the effect can be enourmous, the risks always are. If you do not know what you are doing in PPC marketing you could end up losing a lot of money. Bottomline is with PPC Advertising, even if you become successful, you will need to pay for your traffic.

Are there ways to get free traffic? You bet there are! And, in this section of our new internet marketing busines blog you will read all about them. We will post the most effective ways to get traffic to your sites and keep you updated on new developed techniques as they come available.

If you want traffic, Google page #1 rankings and more, then this section is for you.

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Welcome to the money-spinning world of Internet Marketing

Welcome to the money-spinning world of Internet Marketing. In Affiliate Marketing a company pays an affiliate (you) to create sales from a button, banner, or link placed on your website, newsletter, e-mail or pay per click advertising. You make sure you get targeted visitors to those links and believe it or not, you will start to make money.

Making money online with affiliate marketing for instance can be very rewarding and money can be made practically instantly. As a matter of fact, the fastest money I have ever made online was around $800 in less than 2 minutes work. You can read more about that here.

There are huge amounts of companies in hundreds of industries that will pay money to you for giving those leads, registrations or sales. It is tremendously easy to become an affiliate. There are several large Affiliate Program Network Providers. They serve as go-between for companies and affiliates. For you as an affiliate, these online companies provide a very important and precious service.

They collect payment from the merchants and combine affiliate reporting and payments. An Affiliate Program Network Providers brings companies and affiliates together to form profitable partnerships. A partnership works like this: the affiliate advertises for the merchant and places links to the merchant on their website, newsletter, emails, or Pay per Click ads such as Google AdWords.

When a potential customer clicks through the link they are sent to a specified page of the merchant’s site. When they complete the action desired by the merchant (fill out a form, buy something, etc.) the affiliate is then compensated. The Affiliate Program Network Providers makes possible all aspects of the partnership and tracks all elements of the transactions.

Joining an Affiliate Program Network Provider is totally free and there are no personal purchase requirements. You just fill out a form. It can happen that while applying, affiliates must wait a few days for their approval into the program, but usually acceptance is automatic.

The top five Affiliate Program Network Providers are: Commission Junction (CJ), Clickbank, Linkshare, BeFree, and Performics. CJ is the largest of these Providers and manages the network, tracking and reporting on activity in real time, as well as handling monthly commission payments.

CJ tracks billions of affiliate link impressions each month. CJ’s clients include leading online marketers:  Capital One, NextCard, and The New York Times Home Delivery. Every month Commission Junction either sends you a check or deposits your commission directly into your bank account according to your preference.

Because affiliates are so beneficial to merchants many new merchants join CJ and other Affiliate Program Providers every week. Affiliate Programs are the ideal way to make money quickly and easily online. (No need to come up with your own product or concern yourself with any of the hassles or headaches involved in actually stocking, selling or distributing a product). Just figure out a clever way to promote the product or service effectively and then sit back and collect your monthly commission checks.

Or, better yet, have them deposited directly into your bank account. Internet Marketing can truly make your wildest dreams come true.

Don’t be fooled however thinking Internet Marketing is easy and needs only a few hours of work per week. The build up and maintenance of the foundation upon which you will build your own internet business needs devotion, knowledge, care and a lot of hard work in order for it to become (very) profitable.

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