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Hi all, I have a PPC account. with 100s of keywords. But the main keyword i want to show up just wont! Every other keyword does. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

maybe your bid $ is not enough.

try spyfu.com and search for the keyword.
it should give you an estimate of the bid $

What percentage or share does Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Bings PPC program take out per click?

That information is not published. Your tools for each site will only show you what you get paid, but it is well known that of those three, Google AdSense is probably the best.

i have been selling clickbank products for nearly 6 months. i have spent nearly $500 in pay per click ads in google adwords & facebook ads.
but till date i managed only $400 in profits.

can anyone suggest some other way of promoting click bank products other than PPC?

What you need is the "Affiliate Master Course" it is available as a free download at:-
http://aff-masters.sitesell.com/anja0.html

This complete, 10-day course focuses 100% on helping you, the affiliate, succeed. It pulls no punches, it holds nothing back. It leads you step by step, day by day through a flawless process

I hope you get the same value from it that I have

Best of luck with your Affiliate venture

Does anyone know what is the best training to become a good affiliate marketer with the use of a pay per click engine like Google Adwords?

There are tons of guides out there introducing adwords, sorry them kind of become a blur to me, it’s worth viewing at least one over the shoulder tutorial video package, to ge a feel for the flow, you can probably find something at clickbank in the $20 range, though googles online educational material is extensive and will teach you all of the mechanics.

If you were investing in a single package, get something that encompasses a broader range including adwords, perhaps a general affiliate marketing package, or looking a step further, a CPA marketing package, which will often touch on PPC as one if several promotion techniques. The CPA packages tend to be pricey though, because that that way the big money hunters go.

Perry Marshal has a ton of training material out there, his definitive Adwords guide should be OK, he has a 3 level pricing arrangement starting at $49, which is something new for this sort of product, (beats back-selling the advanced version) might pay off if you need an adwords voucher.

After writing the comments, I checked, THE 2 BELOW APPEAR TO HAVE RECENTLY GONE INACTIVE, sorry about that.
One adword specific package I found useful crackingtheadwordscode.com priced at $39.95 seems to have a broken neglected cart link. Guess I and 2 year old packages are out of touch.

I found Affiliate Blueprint to be one of the most practical nuts and bolts guides with 4 1/2 hours of material showing in detail his exact day to day PPC routine, he made extensive use of spreadsheets for tracking, it was produced in 2008, if made today it would probably just add emphasis to google’s quality rating system, unfortunately has been recently pulled off the market to clear the way for the more costly Affiliate Blueprint II which is really a complimentary product, relying entirely on SEO traffic instead of PPC. While version 1 sold last for $97, version 2 is more like $397. Perhaps you can find someone with version 1.

I have other PPC ad accounts. In analytics I can see how many visitors I am getting and how long they stay on the page, bounce rate etc…but I can’t seem to figure out how I track how many of them turn in to sales. My account gives me overall goal conversion but says they are all coming from my shopping cart as the source. Any ideas?

Some people worry that analytics would enable to know what you are earning from your ads, and would price them proportionally. there are Ok alternatives like statCounter

Affiliate companies will pass on tracking code you can attach to clicks, allowing you to track conversion, the form is something like:

www.destination?tid=ad3site4 (tid for clickbank, sid is for CJ) ad3site4 is your secret code 8 char max

The big budget operators can use statsjunky.com which automates the tracking process to a sick degree, though again sharing results with a 3rd a party may not be for the truly paranoid.

I’m having problems using pay per click (PPC), mainly Google Adwords, since it is now just sooo expensive that it makes it not worthwhile to even be in business.

Does anyone know any way that I can either cut my PPC costs, or increase the number of people who buy - I guess mainly I want to make some profit again, so I guess the main thing is cutting the costs, although more turnover for the same spend would I guess be the same thing.

Are there any good websites, tips, courses, books, etc that can help - or can any of you help please? I’m up against it and desperately need help.

Thanks,
Jan

I think John M gives some good advice, don’t automatically go for 1st palce and make sure your ads are relevant to what you do.

You could try PPC management companies, but they tend to be very expensive and you really don’t know who you’re dealing with, it could be some kid sat in their bedroom at their moms house - you get the idea..

One product I would recommend is here at http://www.ppc-management.org - it didn’t cut out costs by 90% as they claim to for some, but it did save us around 65% which is still pretty impressive, you just have to watch out then that Google and co don’t keep putting the costs up!

I use google adwords and yahoo, put the price per click is out of control! Any help please?

Yea, pay per click IS out of control so if you want quality traffic to your website, I would go ahead and start using a pay per view company like mediatraffic.com or linksador.com. There are others like trafficvance but that company requires minimum deposit of $1000 and you need a referral. Linksador.com traffic is really high quality and I have all my bids for only .01. Mediatraffic is somewhat more expensive because of competition and minimum deposit is $200.

What is the the best approach for keyword matching in a new campaign and ad group.

Start with broad match then refine refine refine?

OR

include a broad, phrase and exact match for every keyword in the adgroup?

Cheers - John

You might want to consider actually starting with phrase match and exact match for new campaigns. These should:

1. Convert better than broad match, thereby increasing your ROI.

2. Have higher click through rates (assuming you have written tight ad groups with relevant ad copy) which will increase your quality score and position.

After several weeks, if you more room to play with your profit margins, consider adding broad match terms but make sure you have a decent negative keyword list.

spyfu.com, you can see how much keyword bids are at and what your competitors are bidding/spending.

That is riduculous don’t YOU think ? OK maybe the term Jobs is the problem because Online stuff is Businesses such as affiliate programs and information selling digital products BY seraching i find that the % is 88% that are scams the ones that adverise google cash write for google are scams they are referring to ADWORDS accounts which are free to GET then you pay X amount of $ to have Your ads listed on Google’s search engine in your niche ! Also they use Data entry Jobs online for things like survey sites and Google businesses ! IF you do not know how to do adwords or any other PPC program then DON’T start because YOU be broke FAST ! SO give YOUR answers to MY question is it really 99.9 % are scams or really far less ?

http://usa1proxy.cn/jobs-job.html

If depends on how you count. In other words, 99.9% can be accurate because of all the duplication of the spams from some many people. Yes, there are legit jobs on-line, but with so much "noise" it’s very hard to find them. If you see a spam posted 100 times for 15 different on-line "jobs" from just 10 people, do you count that as 100 posts or 15 posts or 10 posts? The problem is that it’s easier for people to earn money or points or whatever by recruiting others to join than it is for them to do whatever the web site actually does, that they spam for all their worth. So I’d say that 99.9% could well be accurate.