Anyone Need Help with PPC?

[Jason_prz]

Hi Mary,

I would love some help with my Google Ad words campaigns could you please tell me what information I would need to give you to get started?

[webmatic]

Let me know the real good meaning of PPC. I obviously know about it but i want to know it deeply and this will help some newbies too and also how you target it and everything related to PPC?
Thanks
Webmatic

[Mary Green]

Jason, if you have a campaign, export the campaign and send it to me and I can help you. If you dont want to do that, or you need help setting up a campaign. Here is what I would do:

Take the landing page you are targetting over to the google keyword tool, to see what keywords google thinks your site is about.

Once you know use those keywords to plug back into the tool and see what else you can come up with, I love the second part of the list that shows other related searches. Get your list between 50-100 different keywords long.

Take those keywords and set up a campaign, phrase match, 2 ads each keyword. 1 keyword per ad group.

Now watch and tweak. I would do at least $10 a day in budget. Now depending on the niche you might need to increase that, do more creative keyword research, or
use fewer keywords. Really depends on the CPC you are trying for.

You want to get a good CTR to start with, then start tweaking from there. Do NOT choose keywords that are too basic or broad, narrow it down to get better results.

I obviously cant teach everything there is to know about PPC in this post, but, this should get you started without losing your shirt.

Mary

[RobinX]

okay I did not actually started with PPC. But I heard that LPGen would be good for increasing quality score as it will put the required keywords on the landing page. Is it worth the investment ?

[Mary Green]

I dont use LPGen because I was told that Google was catching on to this sort of thing (inputting the keyword with script). So no, I wouldn't do the investment. I do websites based on keyword themes, but that is only after I do enough testing to know what keywords convert.

Mary

[Jason_prz]

Hi Mary,

I actually had three campaigns going but i want to work on a particular one, I have never exported my campaign before but I'll Google it and get that sent off to you ASAP. If I run into any trouble I'll let you know.

[chukwuma]

Can you manage my ppc campaign?

[dzoaffiliate]

Mary nice t see a fellow member helping. Good stuff.
I have finished helping 50 members and hopefully they are on there way.

Nitin

[Jason_prz]

I think I found out how to do export my campaign, the results I brought up indicate that it should be done from the Report center section of Google ad words right? and I should do placement/keyword report?

[Mary Green]

you can either do that, or you can download adwords editor and export from there. the latter works best as it will be easier to import after i help you fix it.

Mary

[Jason_prz]

I was having trouble with installing the Ad word editor but I realized that the download got messed up with my Firefox browser i tried it with Internet explorer and it worked. I exported it to my desktop how should I get this too you?

[Mary Green]

Hi Jason, just send as attachment to my email address marywgreen gmail.com

[scorpio7]

I will take you up on your offer because I set up a campaign on the 12th for my niche. I decided to ask a question about my campaign on the 16th because my ads weren't showing. Someone in support got back to me and it turned out one word had all caps. So, I corrected that and resubmitted it. I don't know why it takes so long to get approved. I asked if it had been disapproved but got back a message to correct the one word with caps. So, don't really know if you can shine any light on how long it takes for them to approve and start my ads? Any insight will be helpful. I am disappointed with how long it's taking.

[Mary Green]

On the search network you should have yoru ads approved almost immediately. If you want to send me a copy of the campaign, by first getting adwords editor, then exporting the campaign and attaching it to an email to my address in this thread, I can tell you what I think.

Something must be wrong with the site, the ads, or the keywords, or even the niche. Hit me on email or im to tell me more specifics.

[Marc Rodill]

Mary,

I am curious what kind of keywords you are bidding on when it comes to Clickbank products... just the product name + review if you're trying to sell the product directly, I assume. What is your recommendation for trying to sell a Clickbank product on search... a 3-product review page or just focused around 1 product, bidding on the review keywords, at least a gravity of 30+?

Also, whats your fav. keyword tool? I like Google's KW tool and SEOBook's, but they have completely different numbers...

Thank you,
Marc

[Mary Green]

Before I build a landing page I usually send them direct first, with just an ad. I use Google Keyword tool and freekeywords.wordtracker.com for me it isnt so much about the number of searches. i try to find a balance between words that are too broad and words that are too specific. Too broad and you get way more clicks than conversions and too specific, too little clicks, but a higher percent of conversion.

Once i know the product converts i check to see what my competitors are doing (review or presell) and then I decide what I think will be best with my keywords.

Does that cover it? Oh, and dont bid on broad keywords for a match type, keep it to phrase and exact.

[Gambbit]

Hi Mary,

I was doing very well with Niche Marketing until recently I tried to get into PPC marketing. I ran my first campaign, targeted a keyword with VERY high search count and competition ('fat loss'). Put the max CPC at $0.40, daily budget at $10. First day, I got a sale promoting Fatloss4idiots, $26.30 in my CB. Good.

Next day, I tried to scale the thing up, and put the daily budget at $50, got 114 clicks, no sales. BTW, I was using direct linking and no landing page. Any suggestions?

[Mary Green]

My suggestion would be go back down to the $10 a day, and leave it for a week. You need more data than 1 day to scale a campaign. After the week figure out where you got the sales, what keywords, what time, what days, then you can start to tweak.

Mary

[Gambbit]

Originally Posted by Mary Green

My suggestion would be go back down to the $10 a day, and leave it for a week. You need more data than 1 day to scale a campaign. After the week figure out where you got the sales, what keywords, what time, what days, then you can start to tweak.

Mary

Thanks! Point noted and I'll let the campaign stay at $10 a day for now.

I wanted to ask this: You suggested I should track which keywords drove sales, my question is How? I'm quite new to PPC so not sure if this is a dumb question.

[Mary Green]

For starters I would give each keyword its own subid, I believe, if you go to my ppcmom site you will see a link to a video that shows you how to set up the campaign very easily and add subids in a spreadsheet. If you dont see the link, lmk, and I will find it for you.

[randypowers]

Hi Mary,

I'm a noob who is just starting to look at IM.
I'd like to know, with direct linking, do I have to have a website/landing page or can I directly link an Adwords advertisement straight to the vendors page?
Is PPC still a viable way to make money?
Are there any essential skills I should have to be sucessful(HTML, etc.) or can anyone do it by learning online?
Is there any essential software I should have?


Thanks very much for any help!

[AbdulAzim]

Hi Mary,

Thanks for opening this thread.
I would love to ask you about adwords.
I try to run a campaign using exact match [] for my keywords but
google don't want to show my ads. My keyword quality score is
around 4/10 to 6/10. Google don't want to show my ads even though
I left this campaign for couple of days.

What is the problem actually?

Thanks

Azim

[Mary Green]

Randy, hi, I hope I can help. Yes you can direct link. I usually do to start with to test. Ppc is still viable, most definitely. You don't really need any skills, you can outsource everything, you just have to know what you need to outsource. You can learn everything online, and I can recommend some great books if you like.

Azim, I wish it were that easy. The QS is not good at all. I would think you need to get more keywords on your landing page. Take the link to the landing page over to Googles Keyword Tool and see what they think the site is about. Then pack your landing site with those keywords.

Mary Green

[keivn2]

Mary Green,

Is there any good way to estimate the cost of the keyword that I want to bid on? I found that Google Keyword tools isn't that accurate...in fact, sometime, it is way way off from the estimation cost.

and for a starter, what is the recommended ads spot? I know getting on No.1 spot is kinda ridiculous for a limited budget people.

and for ads writing, is there any tips or strategy to write a so-called killer ads?

[Mary Green]

Did you try the google traffic estimator? Usually I put the campaign together and throw 50 cents on every word, then after a few days i adjust. For starters, I would try for the top 3 spots.

Include numbers in the ad, and try to have a great headline, either the keyword or numbers in the headline. Make sure you pack it with benefits.

[pcpupil]

I just started with Im and am trying adwords.
So far it is taking a week for my ads to become active[for search only].Could it be that i am new to google?[3 ads so far].Just sighned up 3 weeks ago.
3 Ads,3 weeks,no sales,maybe ill do the adwords editor.
I have Brad Cs. ebook[adwords made easy]im trying.[learning from].Any thoughts on this book?

[Mary Green]

pcpupil, hi, I havent read that book, do you have a link? I dont know why it would take that long, feel free to send me the campaign and I can check it out.

Amanti, thanks for the link.

[pcpupil]

Thanks Mary.Im downloading the editor right now,im on a dial up so it will be a few minutes.Then ill email the file.

Im also ziping the ebook and sending it to ya.Its free anyway,i dont have a link.

All 3 of my campaighns are taking a week to start.I asked google and they said all ads have to be reviewed first.

[Mary Green]

Ok, looking forward to the email. Thank you.

[pcpupil]

Could it be that im direct linking to the advertisers page?This is for the adalert website.
I started it this way just to test my ketwords and to test this adwords out.
I have at least 12 keywords from the g tool.First place for all words.[by price so far].
Ill send the file over.Im still compressing the ebook.I thought my new PC with vista was suppose to be faster.
What a joke.

[pcpupil]

Well,im trying to download the editor.But when i get halfway through the download at about 5-6MB,it stops and says download succesful.Then i try and install and it says some cabinets arnt working and the file is corrupt.
Im really beginning to hate Vista.
Still trying to compress the ebook also.
This is just terrible.Ill be on Soc. Security before i make my first money on the internet.

[Mary Green]

Um... I dont know why it would be giving you that trouble, do you have any spyware or viruses on the computer?

[Mary Green]

Young Jedi (lol, my kids are in love with star wars right now, gosh that makes me feel old) anyway, what kind of videos you looking for? be specific and ill help you out.

[pcpupil]

Mary.Iwent to google and theres a help file that says if i cant run the editor i have to take a bunch of steps to make it work in vista.
Ill see if i can download it again.Ill also run AVG and see if it picks anything up.
I sent the ebook already to your gmail.
I may have to ask google to help download it.Or its with my firewall.
I can try the report center also thing.

[Mary Green]

pcpupil, have you had any luck getting the campaign, if not, contact me off board and you can give me access to the account if you like and I can check it out.

[indexphp]

Anyone also having trouble direct-linking to CPA offers on the Google Content Network. Have 0 impressions / 0 clicks after 4 days. If Goog is manually reviewing, how long has it been taking you guys?

[Intrepreneur]

I need help.

I'm tired of getting very targeted clicks but no conversion.

This makes me think how wide is click fraud on Google.. is it really bad?

I'm certainly starting to think so.

[Mary Green]

It is taking about a week or so, for new accounts to get manual reviews. Intrepreneur, if you would like I can look at the campaigns for you, is the merchant page just not converting?

[vuedoolor]

When first starting out with ppc promoting clickbank offers how much can we expect to invest daily? Let's just pretend im promoting fat loss 4 idiots, do we need thousands of dollars to start? Is it possible to break even or profit a little if doing things right in the beginning? Lots of people would tell you to track, track, track, but they never show, show, show you how. So what ppc tracking tool can i use that can show me where my money is coming from and where I'm losing money so i'll know where to add more and what to eliminate. When tracking what are the most important things to look at to ensure a good ROI?

[indexphp]

Originally Posted by vuedoolor

When first starting out with ppc promoting clickbank offers how much can we expect to invest daily? Let's just pretend im promoting fat loss 4 idiots, do we need thousands of dollars to start? Is it possible to break even or profit a little if doing things right in the beginning? Lots of people would tell you to track, track, track, but they never show, show, show you how. So what ppc tracking tool can i use that can show me where my money is coming from and where I'm losing money so i'll know where to add more and what to eliminate. When tracking what are the most important things to look at to ensure a good ROI?

Prosper202 - It is not perfect, but it is open source and free PPC Tracking.

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by Mary Green

It is taking about a week or so, for new accounts to get manual reviews. Intrepreneur, if you would like I can look at the campaigns for you, is the merchant page just not converting?

It's a highly respected merchant, my ad copy has the word "Buy Product Name Here" but I'm finding that a lot of those clicks Im getting are very suspicous, as the keywords I use are now narrowed down to almost no negtaives, they only appear on Googles search page, not search partners, yet still a very low conversion rate.

It spells out click fraud, but I'm not getting any credits for them.

[Mary Green]

Intrepreneur I would contact google about your suspicion, definitely.

for tracking I use a different subid for each keyword and I do that in spreadsheet, after that though I use either ppc coach tracker or prosper 202. today though i bought ppc bully for 9.97 and got a ton of bonuses and one of them is 6 free months pro tracking through tracking202.

[pcpupil]

Mary,i clicked on the reports tab and generated a report but it only shows [Os] for the categorys,nothing else.
How do i make it show the whole ad or doesnt it.Still cant download the editor.
ill go ask google why.

[pcpupil]

Mary,did you recieve the ebook i sent to your gmail addy?

[Bakai]

Hi Mary,

Great post with tons of good info. I have a couple of questions:

1. Can you get away with direct linking with the content network?

2. What about banners using placement? Can you direct link with those?

[Dennis Miedema]

Dear Mary,

Although I'm kicking more and more *ss on Microsoft Adcenter with the techniques I learned (I started a week ago and my first "real" ad group has a CTR of 14.29 WITHOUT any tweeking!)..Google is posing a bit of a problem. I tried to expand to Google yesterday and, as a test, launch only a very, very tight ad group that basically contains a keyword, the plural version of that keywords, and misspelled versions..which should give me a pretty good CTR

But here's the deal: my ads aren't shown because my Quality Score is a dramatic 1/10 according to Google :S which means that even when I want impressions, I'll need to start paying wayyyy more..or improve my QS. Can you please help me with some fault finding?

Because I've included the keyword of my campaign in both the ad title AND the display url, which makes me believe that I should look for QS optimization in my website itself. Can you give me a top 5 or so list of the best things to do to improve my Quality Score?

Thank you for your time in advance..you seem to be an expert in this field, and I don't know if you consider me rude for saying this..but if you can help me get going with Google then well, are you for hire to KEEP my google going? lol!

[Mary Green]

Bakai, you can still direct link on the content network, why not, give it a shot. The banners I would think would let you, on the content network. I have tried those with direct linking and havent had any problems myself.

Dennis, you have to improve the QS for that campaign, try putting the keyword in the ad, url, landing page, etc.. if that doesn't work (though it should) are you bidding on something completely unrelated? The landing page needs to be very related and have some LSI keywords as well. Some niches will automatically be low QS based on the history of the keyword with Google. (I can have a look if you would like though).

Hope this helps.

[pcpupil]

Mary,still no clicks or anything on my campaighn.
It must be because im direct linking and theres other affiliates doing the same with the same keywords.
Ill try a few other CB products.
But,if i cant make any sales,could i say buy some cheap traffic,.05 cents.Then send them to a download page on my ebook website in my sig.
It would be like the download page for my ebook say[google slap software].
Then my ad would be [buy google slap software]
Then my display would be[www.7doXXXXXXXXshop dot com/]
Then my url would be[7dollarXXXXXXXXXXX/product.php?/_productsID=osCid11ae465ifh36585jidgd53745hdft4764 .]

[WarrenW]

Hi Mary,

Thanks for offering help.

I just about to release my first PPC ad with direct linking. I've been trying to get specific answers about URL hiding to no avail. My question is first, how do I do it especially URL masking; secondly, is it against Google's policy?

Thanks,

Warren

[riverchase]

About landing page, any tool out there that can be used to create a landing page by utilizing a new page of an existing WP blog? I am not referring to affiliate theme type.
A tool that will, in this case, create landing page (static html or Review page style) within an existing blog.