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Here are some questions I have recently been asked on Warrior Forum, I hope they are helpful.

Longtail Keywords:
Sometimes long tail keywords don’t get a lot of traffic. They are more specific, but get a lot less searches. If you find a keyword with few competitors it might be that the search term is just searched too little to make it effective.

Doing Polls for CPA offers:
I have done great with polls for CPA offers and I definitely recommend ppc coach, check out my PPC Journey link to read a review. The scripts and the forum there are the best for the poll method.

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I just posted a wso on Warrior Forum about CPA strategies I use to make money. Check it Out!

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/92236-explosive-cpa-secrets-revealed-updated-w-bonus-videos.html

I know I’m in a series of posts, but I wanted to put this post together to give people a little more information about PPV. To get started each of the advertising companies requires a deposit. Here are the requirements:

Zango- $200

Media Traffic $100

Traffic Vance $500

Clicksor $300

I couldnt find the cost to start AdOn Network, but here is a great post from InsideAffiliate.net about the different PPV engines.

I have done PPV, I was a member at PPV Coach for two months, and it just didn’t work for me. The profits were so small, and it was so hit or miss I couldn’t make it worth my time. I should have stuck with it though, because people are doing great with PPV now and its becoming a favorite for a lot of super affiliates. I think it has to do with the volume of domains you are bidding on.

I went with Media Traffic and Traffic Vance when I started, and I do recommend them because the interface was easy to use and the customer service at Traffic Vance was awesome. Have you got any PPV experience?

Once I have all my keywords I bring up excel. Any spreadsheet program will work though. I grab my affiliate link and add a subid so I can do some tracking. This, of course, is if I dont have google conversion tracking on. Most links look like this: http://domain.com/subid=77889

Let’s assume I am also doing a direct link campaign. In the new spreadsheet the first column is Campaign, the second is Adgroup, third is Keyword, fourth is Destination URL.

In the campaign column, put the name of the campaign, I fill it to go all the way down. Next put in the keywords, I put the keywords in the adgroup column and the keyword column. Yes, each keyword has its own adgroup. The Destination URL is where I put the affiliate link.

Check this video to see how I give each keyword a different link

http://www.clickconsultants.com/track-which-keywords-convert-while-direct-linking

After that I import the keywords into Adwords Editor. Go into editor, and under the keywords select add multiple. Make sure you select that your columns already have the campaign info. Copy the spreadsheet and paste into the big white box, hit next.

Now I go under adgroups, select all and put a price on each adgroup (or keyword).

You have to add ads next… I will post that in a couple days.

I am assuming you have a product, and or site in mind. To get started you need some keyword research. Head over to the google keyword tool and put the link to your product or site in, then click to see what Google thinks of your site keyword wise.

What you have now is a good starter list of keywords, export this whole list. Now take the top keywords that Google thinks your site is about and put them back in the tool. You will get two lists, the bottom list is the one I am most concerned with. It gives you ideas of other words people use to search for the same thing when they are looking for your product/service/site. Usually you can find lower cpc keywords here. Add them to your list as well. Keep doing this with all of the main keywords from when you first put the link to your site in. Once you have a list of 50-100 keywords you can start your campaign.

I don’t use too many keywords when you first start the campaign, unless you have a lot of money to burn to find every conceivably converting keyword possible. My way of doing it allows you to get started with general keywords in your niche, but cheap ones as well. I generally do $5 a day for every 50 keywords I am bidding on.

I asked this question on warrior forum about a week ago and have been bombarded with posts on the thread as well as pm’s asking for help. There are so many people out there that want to learn PPC, or have trouble getting it to work for them.

I’ve actually had a lot of fun helping people learn this week and want to share the link to the thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/83631-anyone-need-help-pay-per-click.html#post806710

I have a request on the thread on a walkthrough to set up a campaign so I am going to do series of posts starting monday on how I would go about doing a campaign. I will be sharing everything I have learned from all of the training I have gone through.

As for today if you have any questions feel free to post them in comments and I will reply. If you are interested in writing a guest blog post here, please contact me through the comments and I wont make it public.

Have a great weekend.

My site is pretty boring right now with the current theme. This is a commonly used theme and I want something a bit different. I keep playing with different themes, trying to find something I like, but there is not as of yet.

If you know of a good place to get themes, please let me know, so I can find something I love.

One of most common questions I see and get is what is the best keyword tool? While everyone has their own opinion. My favorite ones are all free!

You have probably heard of all of these but here goes:

Google Keyword Tool- Why do I love it?

I really like this tool because it works great for ppc. You can select the keyword match type you want (phrase, broad, exact). You can select how many columns you want to see (ex: CPC), you can even get estimates on the position you will get for your keyword based on what you bid.

On top of that I love that in the second part of each keyword list you can get more ideas of what the searcher will look for. For example if you put in dog training, on the second list you would see dog obedience, puppy training, and obedience training. Now it does show other results that the searcher might also look for but I really feel like this list of additional and sometimes wide keywords is a great way to add to your successful campaigns.

As for the search amounts shown on Google Keyword Tool they are all monthly.

My next favorite is the Free Wordtracker Tool

I love putting this is because it is the most helpful tool in finding a long tail keyword that has several searches, all of the results you see are the searches per day.  Just playing with this tool and searching on google.com you should be able to find all sorts of niches you can easily enter into with little to no competition.

What Else Have I Tried:

When it comes to keyword research I have tried many:

Nichebot- you have to watch the videos first, but even after that, it is more complicated than I would like.

Wordtracker- I think this is a must for people who do article marketing or maybe SEO?

Wordze- I used this the longest of all of these, I paid for about 6 months with this one. If it were free I would still use it, but it was more useful for other internet marketing ventures than I found it for ppc.

Keyword Spy- I think once you get successful campaigns this is a great tool to help you expand your campaigns. However, the information isn’t always up to date, and it is easier for me to go through my own keyword research instead of reading through someone else’s. Maybe I will use again in the future.

WordButler- This was a bonus for signing up for ppc classroom, I got it free for a year. After awhile it stopped working when I would put my lists of keywords in, so I deleted it from my hard drive. When it did work, it was helpful to put a full list of keywords in and see how much the cpc was and how many clicks a day I might get.

MarketSamurai- I still use this, it is free for the keyword research. I import all my keywords, find out how much they cpc is, how many clicks per day, and you can even check out the different match types. The problem is, you can’t do too much playing with this, when you are just looking around for niches, you can’t add to your keyword list, or search google to add more, each one has to be on a new page, and that makes it difficult to combine the whole project.

WordPot- This was a useful free tool, but too many restrictions for the free version and not enough covered in the paid version to make it worth paying for, in my opinion. It was months ago though, so things may have changed.

Keyword Elite- I still have this and like it a lot, but Im impatient, it takes awhile to make a list sometimes. Other than that, its great at making long lists, and getting keywords from lots of places.

and probably more that I can’t think of right now…

Either way, What is your favorite keyword tool?

Its amazing how quickly the days can go by without realizing I need to post again. But here I am.

Lately I have been working on facebook ads, and the month 1 from PPC Coach. I have to say it is going very well and I am happy to see the results I am getting. I just know things are going to break through soon and my campaign results and ROI will go through the roof.

I learned about facebook ads by checking out the Facebook folder on PPC Coach, there are some very knowledgable guys on there, so if you are a member check it out.

On just about every super affiliate blog there is a post about taking action! So, I want to share my personal experience with this.

Very often I get nervous that I am going to spend our last dime on ppc. Now we have another income, and I have several Internet marketing skills I can easily put to use, I just LOVE PPC. So what do I do when this happens? I don’t launch. I don’t take action. I close campaigns before I can be successful with them. It’s crazy.

But I am not the only person who goes through this by far. It seems like half of all the people I meet are going through, or have. Take for instance my two friends in PPC.

One hasn’t launched anything in weeks but has some of the most desired connections in PPC. He isn’t making money. He knows more about PPC than I could ever imagine, but he isn’t taking action. Hopefully that will change today, as we talked about it this morning.

My other friend is a very nice woman who knows very little about PPC and just happens to be making upto $300 a day with it. She is learing on the job and is doing a fantastic job.

What is the difference? Taking Action!

There is nothing you are going to learn in your stuck state of paralysis of analysis that you can’t over come by just taking action.

So please, where you know a lot about PPC or not, if you are at all interested in making money with PPC, sign up for PPC coach and stop coming up with excuses not to make money. There are tons of strategies you can use, so get started, no one can do it for you. And when you think you have nothing to do but to wait in PPC for some results, launch more campaigns. You can do this, we all can, if we just get out of our own way!

Here are some of the PPC super affiliate blog posts on Taking Action:

Zac Johnson- I Wish I Was Rich, Like You

Jonathan Volk- Success!

Amit Mehta- Are You Hitting Your Affiliate Pain Threshold?

Tyler Cruz- Affiliate Thermometer (one of my fav’s)

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