PPC Management Software Update – Keyword Calculator Added

Over the last few weeks I made several improvements to my PPC Management Software tool and I also added various new features. One of those additions is an application called “Keyword Calculator” that allows you to perform all kinds of manipulations on your keyword lists.

Click here to download the latest version of the PPC Management Software
 

The Keyword Calculator can be accessed by clicking the “KW Calc” button on the toolbar of the PPC Management Software tool.

 

Here is a screenshot of the Keyword Calculator application:

 

keyword rank checker 

 

Here are some of the operations that can be performed with this tool:

 

 

You can also create a file that contains a list of adgroups with various keyword permutations by dragging & dropping a special adgroups template file onto the button labeled as “Drop AG File Simple” or ” Drop AG File All”
 

A sample template file can be accessed by clicking the “*T*” button. The template file contains a list of words that will be added in front of your actual keywords (for example words like: buy, purchase, order…). You can also provide a list of words that will be added at the end of your actual keywords, like: review, manual, guide… or whatever you want.
 

This will automatically create an AdWords campaign file for you, which you can drag & drop into the “Many Keyword Campaign” section of the PPC Management Software in order to create a complete AdWords campaign.
 

For detailed step by step instructions with screenshots, please take a look at the user and instruction manual that comes with the PPC Management Software Tool.
 

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Google AdWords Tool Update – New Features Added

I just uploaded a new version of my Google AdWords Tool with several new features and improvements.

Click here to get the latest version of the new Google AdWords Tool
 

The new tool now allows to create so-called “Many Keyword Campaigns” which can be used for the Search Network and the Content Network.
 
 
Here is a screenshot of the “Many Keyword Campaigns” section:
 

keyword rank checker 

 

Here is how this works:

 

 

And that’s really all it takes to setup potentially huge PPC campaigns with thousands of keywords in only a few minutes.

For detailed step by step explanations with screenshots, please check out the user manual that comes with the Google AdWords Tool. You can also watch the short demo video to get a better idea on how to use this tool.

The old version of the Google AdWords Software Tool also allowed you to create campaign files, but instead of one .csv file you had to import 4 different text files into the AdWords Editor in order to setup your campaign. So, this makes it much easier and faster to setup your AdWords and/or MSN PPC campaigns.
 
 
As with the old version, I decided to keep the new and improved Google AdWords Tool completely free.

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How Tiny, Little Changes To Your AdWords Ads Can Boost Your Click Through- And Conversion Rates By 42% And More

Lets be honest, testing and tracking isn’t really the most exciting part of online marketing, however its absolutely crucial. Actually, a good testing and tracking strategy can make the difference between dominating a market and going bankrupt.

Testing new things doesn’t necessarily require a huge amount of creativity, time and effort. In fact, it’s often the simple things that can lead to the most amazing results. It’s the kind of things of which you might be tempted think that they aren’t even worth giving a try, because they won’t make any difference anyway.

Here are a few ideas of simple things you can test for your PPC ads, for your landing pages, sales pages…

That’s all simple stuff that can be implemented with a minimum amount of effort – you can even do this 5 minutes before going to bed when you are already half asleep.

Now you might think: “What’s the point of making these ridiculous changes – they surely won’t be able to increase my conversion- or click through rates”

But I tell you, it very well can! This actually could have a huge effect. I’m not saying, this will work for each and every little change you make, but it will work for quite a few of them. And believe me, in the long run this will make a huge difference to your bottom line.

Here is a very interesting example that shows what a tiny, little change in a Google AdWords ad can do:

AdWords Ad #1:

Spiritual Healing Guide
Learn To Control Your Mind, Body &
Intuition Through Spiritual Healing

CTR: 1.13% ; Conversion Rate: 16.4%

AdWords Ad #2:

Spiritual Healing Guide
Learn to Control Your Mind, Body &
Intuition Through Spiritual Healing

CTR: 1.61% ; Conversion Rate: 18%

Ad#2 shows a staggering 42% increase in CTR and a 12.5% increase in its Conversion Rate over Ad#1!

But, what’s the difference between these 2 ads? The “to” (in Learn to Control Your Mind…) in Ad#1 uses the letter “T” in uppercase, whereas Ad#2 uses a lowercase letter “t”. That’s all! A tiny little change that causes a huge effect.

Amazing isn’t it? I got this one from Roger Hall’s book 37 AdWords Secrets. And by the way, if you are already a somewhat advanced AdWords marketer I highly recommend you get a copy of this book – there is tons of great stuff in it.

It’s really simple:

Again, making these little changes takes only a few minutes a day, but in the long run it makes all the difference. These simple things allow you to increase your click through rates, to generate more traffic, to get cheaper traffic and to convert more visitors into leads and sales, with only a minimum amount of time and effort.





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A Simple Way To Increase Your Landing Page Conversion Rate Using A Free Video Player

Generating traffic to your web site is only one part of the equation. The other part is to convert that traffic into sales, leads, signups… In other words, if your traffic doesn’t convert it’s useless.

There are tons of techniques and strategies to increase your landing page conversion rate. In this post I would like to tackle on one of them: The use of short videos to increase the effectiveness of your landing pages.

And because there are already thousands of articles and blog posts on how videos can improve your landing pages and why this is so and what you should do… I will keep the generics short and focus mainly on the following parts:

I decided to write this blog post, because when I created my first video landing page, I had several problems that made me lose quite a bit of time and that caused me some headaches:

Ok, but before we jump in here are a few general tips:

Ok, now let’s have a look how you can get your video on your landing page. We’ll make this really quick, easy and painless.

So, here are the steps:

That’s all to get a nice, free and powerful video player on your landing page.

If you are having any problems getting the player to work, you can also check out the minimal installation instructions on the flowplayer site: http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/index.html
 

But there is actually lots of other cool stuff you can do with this video player. Here are some ideas:

You can find much more stuff on the flowplayer website, but I think this should be sufficient to help you increase the conversion rate of your landing pages.
 
 





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Clickbank Instant Notification Script: How To Greatly Reduce Your Refund Rates, Make More Sales And Save A Lot Of Time

I have quite a few PPC campaigns running and I set up new ones on a regular basis. With most of my campaigns I offer several freebies to incite visitors to buy from my affiliate link.

Now, it would be a bit cumbersome to check my sales stats every few hours and to send a thank-you email with download instructions to each customer who bought from my affiliate link.
 

To get around this, I use a simple notification script that does the following:

I also realized, sending a “nice” email with free bonus items to the customer greatly reduces the refund rate.

 
Now, here is how you can do the same:

Now you need to upload the notification script (clickbanknotification.php) to your web server.
Here is a simple script you can download and customize: Clickbank Instant Notification Script

The script mentioned above is a simple text file. So, in order to use it you need to rename it into a .php file. I decided to give you a .txt file, because some antivirus programs might complain if you try to download a .php script.

The script is fairly simple, but you still need to make some modifications: You need to provide your email address, your email messages and some other parameters you want to have customized.
 

Here are some indications, what needs to be modified:

ClickBank of course isn’t the only affiliate network that provides the ability to use notification scripts. The script I provided can be easily adapted to work with other affiliate programs. You will have to update the variable names at the top of the script (like: $_REQUEST['ccustname']…)
 

Here are again some of the advantages of this technique:

By the way, you can easily use the script above to automatically add all these highly valuable buying customers to your double opt-in email list. But that’s a subject for another blog post ;-)
 
 





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A Quick And Easy Way To Find Suitable Websites For Your Content Network Campaigns

I wouldn’t recommend Google’s content network for each and every AdWords campaign you launch, but for certain markets it works extremely well. I had cases, where I lost money o the search network with certain niches/products, whereas when I launched the campaign on the content network I was able to turn in profits in the order of ~60% – 120%.

One of the key-points of setting up a successful content network campaign is the compilation of a list of web sites that are capable of generating a high volume of targeted traffic to your landing page.
 

Usually this will take some time, because:

The Advanced Google Site Targeter makes the entire process of finding suitable sites for your content network very easy. You simply provide a few keywords that correspond with your niche, you click the “Start” button and the tool provides you with a list of suitable websites.
 

Below is a screenshot of a search I did for the keyword “learn guitar” (click on the image to zoom):
 

 

After only a few seconds of research, the tool returns for each keyword you provided a list of very useful parameters for each returned website, like:

The first thing I usually do is to sort the returned results on the “Found on URL” column. This column either specifies a specific URL or the mention: “No AdSense ads found”. You will focus only on those sites that display a URL in this column.

Next you will check the column labeled: “Alexa”, which indicates the amount of traffic a site receives. The lower this value, the more traffic the site receives. Additionally, you can also have a look at the “Domain PR” column. A high PR value indicates is most cases a high quality site with a higher probability to send you “profitable” traffic that is more likely to convert into sales.

Finally, I also recommend you click the URL in the ” Found on URL ” column and verify how AdSense ads are displayed on the site. Some of these pages might contain a lot of content and you will have only one or two AdSense ads somewhere hidden at the very bottom of the page.

This of course is not ideal, because these kind of sites will generate a large number of impressions, but only a few clicks.
 

All in all, this tool allows you to quickly research a list of high traffic websites that correspond with your niche and that display AdSense ads. Now all you need to do is to copy/paste these URL’s into your AdWords Content Network campaign.
 

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A Quick And Easy Way To Setup Adwords Conversion Tracking For Clickbank Products

One of the requirements of making a lot of money with your PPC campaigns is the ability to successfully track which keywords convert into sales and which don’t.

Certain keywords generate a lot of traffic, but don’t convert into any sales. You better delete those keywords from your campaign, because they only cost you money. On the other hand, there are also keywords that convert like crazy – they are called buyer keywords. I have keywords that show conversion rates of up to 15%!

These are the kind of keywords you want to pay special attention to. You put each of them into a dedicated adgroup, you constantly split test your ads, you create dedicated landing pages for them… In short, you do everything you can to further improve the conversion rates of these keywords.
 

Now, the big question is: How do you know which keywords convert into sales and which don’t?
 

In the past, you basically had 2 possibilities:

1: You setup conversion tracking in your AdWords account and you ask the product merchant to copy/paste the conversion tracking code on the products “Thank You” page. I didn’t always had the best experiences with this approach. Many merchants simply never reply to your request. Others say, they will paste the code on their website, but never do it… It can be quite annoying.

2: You use ClickBank tracking id’s (tid’s): This can work somewhat, but unfortunately the setup is a headache and also, it’s not very reliable. I often had conversions that weren’t counted using tid’s.
 

However, a while ago ClickBank implemented what they call: “Integrated Sales Reporting” and that’s absolutely fantastic. It allows you to setup conversion tracking for Google AdWords, Google Analytics and Yahoo Search Marketing in less than 5 minutes.

The setup is quick and easy, it works very well and it allows you to determine exactly which keywords generate conversions.
 

Here is a quick overview of the steps that need to be take to setup Google conversion tracking in your ClickBank account:

That’s all! Now you are ready to evaluate which of your keywords generate conversions and at what rate.
 

You can find a more detailed description of the setup process on ClickBank at: http://www.clickbank.com/help/account-help/account-tools/integrated-sales-reporting
 
 





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How To Save Time And Money With The AdWords Time Machine

Whenever you launch a new Google AdWords campaign, it’s likely that you lose some money at the beginning. This is absolutely normal, because the various elements (ads, landing pages and keywords) of your campaign are not optimized at this stage.
 

Here is what you would normally do:

Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach, the only problem is that at the beginning you will probably lose a few weeks of your time and some money – the time and money it takes to optimize your campaign.

But what if there would be a way to avoid losing time and money each time you launch a new AdWords campaign?

And there actually is a way: The AdWords Time Machine (which is part of Keyword Elite 2.0) allows you to spy on other advertisers who are already running successful campaigns for the product you are trying to promote.

Here is how it works: You simply provide a keyword that corresponds with your product, niche, solution… and the AdWords Time Machine provides you with a multitude of extremely useful and time saving information:

All in all, this tool allows you to have an optimized and profitable campaign up and running within 2-3 hours (writing the landing page is probably the most time consuming part here). The AdWords Time Machine takes out all the guesswork. It provides you right from the start with a list of profitable keywords and with optimized ads and landing pages.
 

Now, the big question is: How does this work and how do you find profitable ads, keyword lists and landing pages?
 

Take a look at the screenshot below (click on the image to zoom). This is the result of the research I did for the keyword “learn guitar”:
 


 You see the blue bars on the top right of the screen? Each bar indicates that the corresponding advertiser (represented by the URL on the left) was running ads on the keyword you provided initially for the indicated month (see header: April – September).

Now, for certain advertisers you will see only 1 or 2 blue bars. This might mean that the person tried to enter the market, lost some money (because of poor ads and landing pages…) and gave up.

For other advertisers you might see 4-6 blue bars. The more blue bars you see for a certain advertiser, the higher is the probability that he is running a profitable and highly optimized campaign.

I suggest you focus on those advertisers that show 4-6 blue bars. Copy their keyword lists and check out their ads (simply click the blue bar) and landing pages.

When you click the magnifying glass on the left, you get a list of all the keywords the corresponding advertiser is currently bidding on. The keywords are displayed at the bottom part of the screenshot.

In short, the AdWords Time Machine prevents you from losing money upfront and it allows you to skip weeks of testing and tracking – although I highly recommend you still do your testing and tracking – even great results can still be improved. And as a result you get a campaign that’s most probably profitable right from the beginning and that’s up and running within only a few hours.
 

The AdWords Time Machine is only one of eight different tools that are part of Keyword Elite 2.0. Click here to check out a complete review of Keyword Elite’s strengths and weaknesses
 

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Important Software Update for the PPC Campaign Builder Tool

If you are using the PPC Campaign Builder’s “Many Keyword Campaign” tool a lot, you might have probably thought that it’s a bit annoying to either write all the ads directly in the campaign builder tool or to copy them line by line from a text file.

I just added some new functionality to the PPC Campaign Builder that allows you to brainstorm, tweak, modify and finalize your ads in a word processor or text file editor and to simply drag & drop the final text file into the PPC Campaign Builder Tool. As a result, all adgroups with their associated keywords, 2 split tested ads and a list of negative keywords will automatically be created.

 
Below is a screenshot of the PPC Campaign Builder’s “Many Keyword Campaign” tool:
 

 
A new field with the label: “* DRAG/DROP AD FILE *” was added at the bottom. Simply drag/drop your ads text file into this field and all your adgroups (including keywords, 2 split tested ads and negative keywords) will be automatically setup.

Below is a screen shot of a sample ads text file that was used to create the 2 adgroups (Play Guitar & Learn Electric Guitar) shown in the screenshot above.
 

 

The file needs to follow a specific layout and contains the following information:


 
If you are subscribed to my list, you should have already received an email with the download instructions. Otherwise, you can get the tool from: http://www.ppc-maverick.com/free-ppc-tool/

With the PPC Campaign Builder you also get a detailed installation- and instruction manual that explains exactly how to create the ad text file (as mentioned above) and how to use the tool.
 
 





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Review of Keyword Elite 2.0 – Strengths and Weaknesses

As PPC marketer I guess you must have already heard about Keyword Elite 2.0 – a tool for SEO- and PPC marketers.

Now, there was (and still is) a lot of hype around this tool. On some review web sites I’ve even seen some really scary (and completely wrong) stuff like:

* This tool will make you money day and night.
* Forget about spending hours studying Google AdWords – Keyword Elite will handle everything for you.
* Click a few buttons, lean back and watch the $$$ rolling in.
* I’m a complete AdWords newbie, I tried Keyword Elite 2.0 for less than a week and it already made me over $1678…
 

I think, Keyword Elite 2.0 offers some really amazing market- and competitor insights, it makes lots of things much easier and it can save you a hell lot of time. But, the tool has also weaknesses and by no means is it a miracle machine that will allow you to make a lot of money merely by clicking a few buttons and without the need of making at least a minimum effort and understanding the basics of PPC marketing.

 
I just did a complete review of Keyword Elite 2.0. Find out:

* Who would benefit from this tool and who would not?
* What are the real strengths of Keyword Elite 2?
* What are the weaknesses – what doesn’t really work as announced?
* How should this tool be used to take maximum advantage of it?
* And much more…
 

Click here to check out the review. I explain all of the different tools that are part of Keyword Elite 2.0, with all their advantages and disadvantages, their suitability for PPC marketers, screenshots of actual data and search results…

I also put together a great bonus package consisting of 22 different products, showing you how to maximize your profits with Google AdWords, how to improve your conversion rate, how to get more traffic, how to optimize your tracking… and much more. Find out how you can get the entire package for free!

Click here to check out the Keyword Elite 2.0 Review
 
 





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