A potential customer would be typing in these keywords on a standard search engine, and their results would highlight your website and link when there was a match. PPC marketing is a competitive industry and in order to find profitable keywords you will have to test many. Out of the keywords tested, you will find a subset of those that are profitable.

Most of the information was basic SEO education. However, I was alarmed by a few things.

First,she was sending people to their website to pay $37. for submission services.  If you have ever attended one of my training classes or seminars, you know WHY I have a very strong opinion about website submission. (Hint: why would you pay for something Google tells you doesn't improve your chances or timing of being indexed?!?)

Second,She told her audience that they don't need keywords because Google doesn't read them. That may or may not be true at this very second in SEO history. However, given the ever-changing algorithms of Google, can she guarantee that they will never be weighed in search engine ranking?  I think not! This is a terribly temporary position, creating high likelihood to fail over time.

Last, but not least...i realize many SEO's practice in the same way. However I doubt the unsuspecting attendees and potential new clients in the room really didn't understand that  Google Adwords resellers will not have the same goals in mind as an organic SEO specialist, or the company itself. Keep in mind, the more  pay per click campaigns they sell, and the more of their client's money they spend, the more they make. So, by hiring an Adwords Reseller, you should be aware that you are hiring someone who has an alterior motive in the search engine and PPC recommendations they make to you....they have more to gain financially when they get you to spend more with Google.

For the record, neither I or Karner Blue Marketing have a financial interest in Google Adwords. We ALWAYS put the best interest of our clients FIRST, ALWAYS. We take pride in providing white hat, ethical SEO services to our clients of every size.

Anything here surprise you?   I'd love to hear from you!

Il y a quelques années, un soir d'été, je me baladais le long de la Promenade des Anglais, à Nice, quand j'ai été le témoin d'une scène assez étonnante.

C'était lors de la fameuse "Nuit des étoiles filantes" qui arrive en général tous les ans début août, et où, durant quelques jours, on peut observer dans le ciel une pluie incessante et pratiquement ininterrompue d'étoiles filantes.

Bien entendu, à l'occasion de cet évènement, fleurissent à tous les coins de rue les passionnés qui vous proposent, moyennant quelques euros, d'observer pendant cinq minutes quelques portions de ciel judicieusement choisies à travers leur télescope.

Je me promenais donc un de ces soirs particuliers et j'avais pu voir une bonne dizaine de télescopes le long de mon chemin, quand soudain, j'ai vu arriver vers moi une personne assez singulière.

Il s'agissait d'un petit homme assez âgé, avec une blouse blanche, des cheveux un peu hirsutes, et des yeux avec une telle malice que cela lui donnait une allure de savant fou.

Mais le plus extraordinaire, c'était sa voix ! Une petite voix légèrement criarde, très joviale, et qui détonnait franchement avec son côté "homme de science" d'âge mûr.

Il m'a fasciné !

Il s'est approché de moi, et il m'a dit un truc du genre "Voudriez-vous voir une étoile filante comme vous n'en verrez jamais plus de toute votre vie ?".

L'intonation de sa voix, ses yeux, la manière dont il m'a parlé, tout cela a fait que j'étais comme fasciné par cet homme !

Je me suis entendu lui dire "Bien sûr !".

Et nous avons donc fait une centaine de mètres à pied, pendant lesquelles il m'a raconté pourquoi certaines étoiles filantes étaient différentes des autres, pourquoi on les voyait plus longtemps, et pourquoi cela valait vraiment le coup de s'y intéresser...

Une fois arrivé à son télescope, un jeune homme m' a pris en charge, et il est vrai que le spectacle auquel j'ai assisté ce soir-là valait bien les 5 euros qu'ils m'avaient pris, lui et son "savant fou"...

Mais le plus extraordinaire, dans tout ça, c'est que je me suis aperçu par la suite que nous étions passés devant une bonne dizaine de personnes avec des télescopes, qui proposaient, pour certains, des tarifs bien moins élevés que ce que j'avais payé !

La réalité, c'est que ce personnage hors du commun, avec ses paroles, son apparence et sa voix si singulière, m'avait comme "hypnotisé" !

Il m'avait ni plus ni moins "attiré" vers son télescope, et je n'avais pas fait cas de tous ses concurrents qui étaient pourtant positionnés bien avant lui sur cette promenade !

Fascinant, n'est-ce pas ?

Fascinant de voir comme un peu de jugeotte, de mots choisis et d'enthousiasme peuvent arriver à faire tomber les barrières de la concurrence --et ce quel que soit leur nombre-- !

Mais attristant également pour ceux qui, dépités, ont vu passer devant eux ce savant fou avec un client qui leur filait encore sous le nez !

Ce qui m'amène une réflexion des plus importantes :

Il est vital, de nos jours, d'aller CHERCHER LE CLIENT
pour pouvoir s'en sortir !

Car si Internet est un média extraordinaire, il a aussi été l'occasion pour des milliers d'entreprises de se faire connaître, et vos concurrents ne sont plus dans votre rue, votre ville ou même dans votre département :

Ils sont partout ! Dans tous les pays et dans tous les domaines !

Quelle que soit l'idée que vous avez ou le type de produits que vous vendez, avec Internet, vous avez des centaines voire des milliers de personnes qui font comme vous !

Et vous ne pouvez plus vous contenter de mettre votre site en ligne et d'ATTENDRE que le client frappe à votre porte !

Car il y a des milliers d'autres portes AVANT la vôtre !

Par conséquent :

• Que vous soyez le meilleur vendeur de votre secteur...
• Que votre site Internet soit le plus beau de tout ce qui n'a jamais été créé en matière de design...
• Que vos produits soient les meilleurs du marché, les plus beaux, les moins chers, les plus performants, ou les 4 ensemble...

... si personne ne vient vous voir, alors vous ne vendrez hélas rien du tout.

Eh oui ! Vous pouvez retourner le problème dans tous les sens :

Si personne ne vient vous voir,
vous ne ferez pas un seul petit cent
de chiffres d'affaire !

Pour vendre, il faut des produits, certes, mais il faut aussi (et surtout) des clients !

Et avant de parler de clients, il faut d'abord parler de visiteurs !

Car si personne ne vient sur votre site, alors à qui diable allez vous proposer vos produits ?

A personne, on est bien d'accord !

"Mais, protesterez-vous, pourquoi est-ce que les clients ne viendraient pas chez moi ?"

La réponse à cette douloureuse question existe, et la voici :

Vous n'êtes pas seul !

Si vous débutez sur Internet, ou si vous y êtes depuis moins de 6 mois, vous le savez déjà !

Car pour aussi beau que soit votre site, soyez assuré qu'il y a également des milliers d'autres sites qui sont aussi beaux, aussi bien achalandés, et aussi optimisés que le vôtre --sinon mieux-- mais surtout plus anciens, et qui sont donc vu BIEN AVANT le vôtre par la masse toujours grandissante des internautes.

Comment puis-je affirmer une telle chose ?

Tout simple : Si vous naviguez sur Internet depuis quelques temps déjà, vous savez qu'il y a un outil que près de 85% des internautes utilisent pour trouver ce qu'ils cherchent, et que cet outil s'appelle "Google".

Vous l'avez sans le moindre doute utilisé vous-même pour faire vos recherches, et peut-être vous êtes vous déjà posé la question de savoir si vous alliez réellement chercher dans les 4.650.000 pages disponibles pour... trouver des "vacances pas chères", par exemple !

Bien sûr que non !

• What features would people like to have?
• What are people looking for?
• How much would they like to pay for all of this?
• What are missing features in competitors' products?
• …

After a lot of brainstorming sessions, we are landed to the final product draft. I want tell you something about Ads Machine features and pricing model, the two areas where we worked on more deeply.

Ads Machine features

It's not useful spend lots of words about what Ads Machine is or isn't, let's go to point. In only one software you can have:

• Built-in keyword lists.
• Misspellings generation using 3 different algorithms.
• Advertisements automatic generation starting from 3 different keyword lists.
• Generated advertisements ready for Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter.
• Landing Pages automatic generation using built-in or your own templates.

There are some other characteristics that we have "hard-coded" inside of Ads Machine:

• Simple and easy to use.
• Useful for newbie and experts.
• Multiplatform, it's able to be ran on Windows or Macintosh, thanks to Adobe® AIR™.

And now the most interesting thing: our freemium on-demand pricing model.

On demand, starting from free (I mean, 0.00 $)

In order to be able to provide this type of pricing model, we have chosen some point around which you tuned user profiles and plans.

Free

Nothing other has to be said, the name speaks clear. This plan allows you to taste the Ads Machine abilities, excluding the most wanted features, such as the Misspellings generator and the Landing Pages automatic generator. This is intended for large audiences of people who want try the experience to get money with Internet Marketing. The motto is "Get it and use it for free!"

Black & White

For a bunch of bucks, the Black & White plan let you generate advertisements and High Quality score landing pages starting from built-in or your own keyword lists. You can repeat the process 20 times, than you will be downgrade to the free plan. I think it's very useful for who want get experience into the Internet Marketing for 30 days. Perhaps during a challenge.

Technicolor

This plan is the evolution of the previous one and gives you the ability to get real money with the Internet Marketing. It allows 50 advertisements and landing pages generations, giving you the possibility to try and test your advertisements and re-generate them a lot more times.

High Definition

This is the Top edition of our software. For less than US $250 you will have a completely featured license with unlimited advertisements and landing pages generations. It's very useful for people with high experience and confidence with Internet Marketing, or for people want learn and test what they are able to do.

That's all. Ads Machine is waiting for you!

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Analytics are playing an increasingly greater role in running businesses both online and off. What started out as basic tools have emerged as strategic advantages in greasing the wheels of commerce. We've witnessed companies like Google and Ebay/PayPal introduce analytics almost as add-ons to their core businesses. Now, we're seeing that these analytics are the business -- both Google's and their clients'. If Google and Ebay make me more effective in building my business, they are going to see more incremental ad dollars from my wallet.

Brass Tacks: Analytics in the Small/Medium Content Business

While I'd like to say that my business (investment advice, premium investment newsletter) is driving by analytics, I think I am just at the beginning of using analytics to grow my business. This graphic shows how the evolution of advertising and analytics has occured.

I think analytics play a role in 3 distinct ways:

• Measuring: You gotta know what you have to know what to do with it. In a Sales 2.0 environment, there are a variety of things that beg to be measured. Before I launch into some of the analysis, I have to say that Google is by far the 800 lb gorilla in this space. Not wanting to sound like a Google pump-monkey, Google understands the need to measure and incrementally tinker to optimize. No one else even seems to be paying attention. There is a great article on analytics by Dave McClure on why Google is poised to own this space and what it means for publishers/advertisers using the Google Analytics platform.
  • Server logs: I'm using Google Analytics here. Why Google? Couple of reasons: it's free and as a good friend once told me, it's hard to beat free. The other, and more serious reason, is the ease and simplicity of Google products. It's a snap to set up and continue to use. What's more, though, is that because Google 'gets' what analytics are all about, the search behemoth is working hard at integrating its products. So I'm using analytics to decipher my web traffic, both in terms of organic search and paid-clicks from my Adwords account. Google has recently taken analytics a step further to capture the whole advertising-->sales funnel-->conversion cycle (see graphic). I'm also using Google Checkout as our payment platform and Google Analytics allows me to get an entire view of the efficacy of my ad campaigns, not only as it relates to bringing prospects to my site, but in actual sales terms. That's the holy grail.
  • Inbound links and page ranking: As I wrote about in my article about how Sales 2.0 is helping me grow my business, I'm marketing my business primarily through the content I produce. I have a couple of key partnerships with third-party sites who host my content in return for driving traffic back to my site. It's important for me to monitor who has my content on their site, who's picked up the content afresh, and how well these sites are driving traffic back to my site. I use a combination of Google Alerts and a combination of other sites to measure how well I show up in sites like StumbleUpon or digg.
  • conversion rates: As mentioned above, I'm using Google Checkout and Google Analytics and this allows me to optimize my SEM dollars and time to put my advertising dollars where they are most useful. I can tweak things on a daily basis if I want to blow something out.
  • email open rates: I'm using an email service provider like StreamSend to send daily/weekly/monthly emails to my premium and free subscribers. StreamSend takes care of sending these marketing emails and recently the firm has integrated Google Analytics into their reporting section. I get reporting down to which subscriber clicked on which link in which email I sent. Pretty powerful stuff.
  • I'm using a CRM platform that is somewhere between a Salesforce.com and 37 Signals' Highrise.

• Gauging: Given that I've now measured something, what does that mean for me and my business? Well, here we leave the output from the Sales 2.0 environment and the burden is shifted to the user of the systems, namely me. Given the output I get for my business from Google Analytics, I have a relatively easy-to-understand roadmap of what to do next. In terms of Search Engine Marketing, I swap dollars from underperforming ad copy and keywords to better performing ones.
  • That said, my business doesn't have the sophistication (yet) to handle a lot of A-B type testing to truly gauge how different inputs affect my business. Google's AdWords and AdSense, blogging platforms like Wordpress and Email Service Providers like StreamSend are all working to bring powerful tools down to the world of the small business owner -- all bundled seamlessly into existing platforms.
  • Also, given how Sales 2.0 has forced businesses to focus way upstream of the customer, tools need to be developed to explain to users not only what's happening on their own site but how activity on other sites throughout the Web affect my business.

• Reacting: I've measure and gauged and now I need to do something with the information I've gleaned. I think many businesses (including some I've worked for in the software and media space) measure effectively and even gauge effectively. We have metrics pouring out of our ears. What we missed was a clear methodology for implementing changes based on analytics. This has everybit as much to do with organization reactivity as it does to having good analytical tools.
  • We have regular meetings to review analytic output and make sure that we leave those meetings with clear objectives that require implementation. It's not easy, though. With how busy everyone is just doing his job, it's a growing challege to find easy and flexible ways to react to lessons learned from measuring effectively.
  • Responding to analytics output will be a formidible task as more and more firms realize the importance of not only measuring but finding the tools to realize what analytics does for a business. Some of these tools will be rolled out by providers elsewhere in the online chain (Google at SEM, EBay at selling community) while some tools will be introduced by 3rd parties who see an opportunity in the market. The key to making all of this work is the easier you help me make more money, the more money there is to share out to partners.

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Cost per action

Cost Per Action or CPA (sometimes known as Pay Per Action or PPA) is an online advertising pricing model, where the advertiser pays for each specified action (a purchase, a form submission, and so on) linked to the advertisement.

Direct response advertisers consider CPA the optimal way to buy online advertising, as an advertiser only pays for the ad when the desired action has occurred. An action can be a product being purchased, a form being filled, etc. (The desired action to be performed is determined by the advertiser.) Google has incorporated this model into their Google AdSense [1] offering while eBay has recently announced a similar pricing called AdContext.

The CPA can be determined by different factors, depending where the online advertising inventory is being purchased.

Cost per mille

Cost per mille (CPM), also called cost ‰ and cost per thousand (CPT), is a commonly used measurement in advertising. In Latin mille means thousand, therefore, CPM means cost per thousand. Radio, television, newspaper, magazine, Out-of-home advertising and online advertising can be purchased on the basis of what it costs to show the ad to one thousand viewers (CPM). It is used in marketing as a benchmark to calculate the relative cost of an advertising campaign or an ad message in a given medium. Rather than an absolute cost, CPM estimates the cost per 1000 views of the ad.

Ad serving

Ad serving describes the technology and service that places advertisements on web sites. Ad serving technology companies provide software to web sites and advertisers to serve ads, count them, choose the ads that will make the website or advertiser most money, and monitor progress of different advertising campaigns.

Although many pay per click providers exist, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the largest network operators as of 2007. Minimum prices per click, often referred to as costs per click (CPC), vary depending on the search engine and the level of competition for a particular phrase or keyword list — with some CPCs as low as US$0.01. Very popular search terms can cost much more on popular search engines. The PPC advertising model is open to abuse through click fraud, although Google and other search engines have implemented automated systems to guard against abusive clicks by competitors or corrupt webmasters.

Keyword-based PPC

Keyword pay per click advertisers bid on search terms — keywords consisting of words or phrases, and possibly product model numbers. When a user searches for a particular keyword, the list of advertiser links appears, where the ordering of those links is based on the amount bid for the given keyword. Keywords are the very heart of PPC advertising, and are guarded as highly-valued trade secrets by the advertisers. Many advertising firms offer software or services to help advertisers develop keyword strategies. Content Match, a service offered by Yahoo!, distributes the keyword ad to the search engine's partner sites and/or publishers that have distribution agreements with the search engine company.

The campaign’s success had lead Murad to restructure its approach to paid search, according to Katherine LaFranchise, senior director of online marketing for Murad. “”We used to think that content advertising was only useful for increasing search conversions, but we found you can achieve direct return on investment from content campaigns,” she says.

It's interesting that only one site from the network is mentioned as being the prime generator of traffic.

What's the smallest niche you can think of for your company? What website(s) do those people visit? Is there any way you can get involved?

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Those of you who have been following my blog or perhaps are using Google Adwords to make money may be amused to know that Google is also back with more of its antics and another law suit.

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This time it’s to do with ads being placed on parked domains, pages that are all ads and no content. And in true Google style, this is done without the client’s knowledge.

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Welcome back to my blog and, of course, to you Google.

Ecco quanto inviato agli "advertisers who have been with AdWords from the start":

Thank-you letter from David Fischer (VP Global Online Sales/Operations).

Booklet "Advanced Tips from AdWords Experts" from Fred Vallaeys, AdWords Product Evangelist.

Cookbook "Keyword: Delicious" from John Dickman, Global Food Manager.

Black Google Apron, with pockets

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Ads Machine is a desktop software for Mac & PC that aids in the automated generation of advertisement campaigns for Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter; in addition, it’s able to generate thousands of templated landing pages (using our pre-made templates or you own). It’s a must-have for people who want earn money with Internet Marketing in a simple and effective way.

In a couple of day (July 24th) we will officially launch the first version. Hope to see you!