Gimme some Hope please!

Why did you post this again in the main section after posting it in the correct section about adsense/adwords? Posting it once is sufficient.

PPC can work well if you know how best to use it - and if the product you are selling is something people will be interested in buying after they click on your ad.

kay

HMPH! Is that the best you can do?

Seriously though, those are some very nice numbers.

Are you serious you pay that much, wow you probably make half a million at least.

what exactly is that showing...that you received a bunch of clicks?

PPC works...I've been doing it for years now and have made money. The trick is to track and test..and yeah you have to have a budget.

But most newbies put up a bunch of ads with 1000 keywords in the adgroup and have crappy CTR and then spend $1000 and hardly even profit and give up.

TO be successful at PPC you have to start small on your budget and track at the keyword level. Also track landing pages and different CB offers...it's a numbers game for sure...and the guys selling all the make $100 a day with adwords ebooks....well they always sell the end dream....they also forget to mention the cost of getting that $100 per day. Most of that is not net. So to make $100 per day they might spend $20.

because i think its a good time to get into the fat loss and all that since summer is around the corner but make it more specific. Any tips that the successful people have for me thanks.

Im not backing down from working and im not trying to get rich quick but on paper it seems like it works and i have sold some stuff not on a constant basis though. Its like everything else you have to work. Where would you say most interent millionaire make their money?

I recently saw an interesting thread by Brian Mahaffey on Directly Linking in Adwords. He answered a lot of questions on the topic which might be helpful to you.

well how do i get that information?

oh yeah i forgot about that so its just trial and error. For something so simple seems like most people aren't successful i would be happy making 100 dollars a day.

Search engine optimization.

Hi Harry,

Not sure if you are serious here. (I'll get to the "SEO")

After reading your post title I then became interested in your post because
PPC is a disaster waiting to happen for anyone who is in the early part of
the learning cycle.

As a Noob You will ALWAYS lose money using PPC marketing.

However, like anything, you improve with time, and start to learn how to
become more effective:

Selecting ( and promoting) products that ACTUALLY CONVERT strongly -
E.g 1 sale in every 20 clicks as opposed to 1 sales every 1000 clicks.

The difference between Product x and Product y may not seem so
apparent at first glance.

Selecting products that convert at 1 in every 20 clicks, say product x, is
not that difficult once you start to figure it out (free article on the IPK Blog
early May).

You need to understand WHY Product x converts to a sale (and thus your
profit) from far fewer clicks than Product y.

The large spend figures that Blackhatzen shows serve as a good example
of where you can take PPC.

I don't know Blackhatzen but I do know guys (I outsource to some of
them) who spend £20k a day ($30k) on PPC for themselves - let alone
clients.

Sure they have access to very sophisticated tracking and analytics and
truly have mastered the art - allbeit after huge losses at times - but that
is not to say YOU can't get to that level in time.

The key with PPC to a noob is start very small and start very carefully.

I started by just bidding on [exact match] on loads of campaigns (examples below).

I focussed on Quality Score so low cost PC and also only bid on keywords
that implied (to some degree) a SALE.

For example:

[buy nintendo ds console]

or [pink ds lite console]

The "pink" suggests the searcher is ACTUALLY looking for a specific console
(and therefore offers a high probability of a sale) rather than [ds lite
console] where many searches may be looking for games, accessories or
even just to look at pictures.

Land a $.04c click on a page featuring aff. links to Pink DS Console
suppliers and you will be profitable using that strategy.

The down side is you will get way fewer clicks than if you bid to appear for
any search that includes "DS Console".

The up side is THIS IS A PERFECT STRATEGY for a noob.

You get to learn your way around Google Adwords with a very very low risk
of losing money.

Right - I was working towards "SEO"

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is the best way for a noob to start
out.

If you pick certain niche keywords for small "mini site" projects - and I'm
talking as few as 5000 broad match results a month (there are MILLIONS of
these available).

If you optimize your pages (so ON PAGE SEO) correctly you can get to
Google #1 (or at least page 1) very easily without the need to rely on
"powerful" back links!

No risk (apart from the cost of a domain) and potentially very healthy
profits from half a days work.

In the free IPK Blog article next month I am going to show a real example
of an "average" mini site that was created in 3 hours and makes £2200+
($3500) a year without ever having been touched or "tweaked" since it
went live.

The reason it is able to pull in $3,500 a year from 2 hours work is because
it converts to a sale every 30 clicks or so. Again it's knowing what type of
products convert this way.

I'm writing the article in response to our members who have been asking
for more support in this area - it's not as obvious as you may think - but
once you understand that a certain keyword/product converts better than
most others it becomes a simple case of rinse & repeat.

Multiply that by one site every 3 days and you are talking over $400,000 a
year.

It is NOT difficult and represents a risk free strategy that is a great
alternative to PPC.

In fact you can even combine the [exact match keyword] PPC method with
this SEO strategy as a means to improving your understanding and
effectiveness with PPC.

Moral: If you are a noob - read up on mini site SEO strategies rather than
losing money with PPC.

The alternative is BUY a very well respected course/e book on PPC. That
may just be a great investment and save you the "getting it all wrong".

Cheers, I'm off down the PUB.

Craig IPK...

what are some must have tools that i need to track sales and contact people after the initial sale is made and all that?

Hi Harry,

You should really consider landing pages. I know Amazon and the Google gods will be happier with you in the long run.

I suggest opening an account at commission junction and apply for a bunch of places to promote products for. This will give you a wide range of stuff to promote.

Have you tried using google trends yet? Look at google trends, look at the trends that people are searching for that hour, throw together a quick landing page and an adwords campaign.

I've done this before and have had some success. It's not the "gateway to making millions," but maybe it could add a few more hundreds in your pocket a month...