Its a Friday here in Singapore and I'm Going Fishing!

Well not fishing exactly, gonna hop over to Universal Studios (Singapore) and check out the rides, maybe pop into the Marina Sands Casino along the way. Quick unwind after a week of slugging out there with Google and finally sit down to some needed R&R.

Random thoughts before I shut the computer down.

While Adwords can be mean (and they've been pretty mean to pretty much everyone recently), and almost everybody is jumping ship to making money with plentyoffish, myads, trafficvance, mediatraffic, leadimpact, adbrite etc, and all different types of advertising networks.

My advice is to stay with Adwords and go against the current because only shooting stars break the mould.

That means, if you're doing CPA with the networks such as C2M, or Azoogle, or MaxBounty, or Copeac… step back and source for new affiliate programs to market.

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Google Adwords Will Ban The Following Type Of Sites

Google will suspend AdWords accounts include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • data collection sites that offer free items and the like in order to collect private information
  • arbitrage sites without relevant and original content that are designed for the purpose of showing ads
  • affiliate sites without relevant and original content that are designed to drive traffic to another site with a different domain
  • "get-rich quick" sites
  • malware sites that install software on a visitor's computer
  • poor comparison shopping or travel sites whose primary purpose is to send users to other shopping or travel comparison sites, rather than to provide useful content or additional search functionality

These are guidelines, but they will ban more as Adwords deem non- beneficial to the public. If someone writes into Adwords and a manual reviewer reviews your site, deciding it is indeed non compliant, or if enough complaints can be found on "rip off" complaints sites, then the account and all related accounts, domains will get banned too.

The AdWords system visits and evaluates advertiser landing pages on a regular basis to ensure this compliance.

When suspending accounts,  Adwords determines whether an AdWords account is "related" based on various factors including subscriber data, account content, and other information.

If you're a six figure ex adwords advertiser and want to get back into the Adwords game, with new accounts and all, contact me here for "Google Slap" support.

Google Slap And How To Get Around It

These days, everyone is suffering from the Google Slap.

Adwords Ban is very common now. Google Adwords reviewers have the authority to ban any site they perceive as "poor" user experience.

We all love to market info products. However, the days of marketing information products using Google Adwords are 99.9% over.

Most newbies start out trying to market CLICKBANK products.  Understand now that if its just a simple sales page, or a site that is of low quality which has received complaints by users writing in to "rip of sites", telling of their negative experience, that domain will receive a low Quality Score, which means expensive $1.50 bids, or you might receive an outright ban.

But is this going to impede us from earning $1000++ a day?

Of course not! :)

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How To Get $75 Worth of Adwords Coupons FREE

These coupons come along once in a while, but when you get them, its like someone handing you $2000 in cash.

Adwords coupons are handed out by Article Directories.

Article directories are used by marketers to market their products and they often provide insightful tips that give benefits to their audience.

For marketers that are versed in article marketing and earn good back links as well as traffic from idexed articles, article directories also hand out FREE adwords coupons.

If you only have 1 author account, then you only get 1 adwords coupon. If you have many author accounts, then you get 1 coupon for every author account you hold that has contributed articles to the site.

A few good ones are

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Received $750 Worth Of Free Google Adwords Advertising

Today, I just received $750 worth of Google Adwords Advertising via their promotional codes. About 10 in total.

This is equivalent to Adwords putting $2250 in your bank account for free!

This came as a surprise because a traffic generation strategy that I use consistent to this day happened to send me free coupons to help me get more traffic! I will detail this and what you need to do to get these $75 Adwords promotion coupons.

Talk soon!

Back From China!

Its been an interesting 2 months in China! Where the weather food and shopping are great..

Now i'm back in Singapore and its time to share. The number of rich in China are just going to get more and why not lets be one of them…

One of the reasons I went there is to source for products that are currently selling hot right now in the West. If marketed right and the products tested before sale, you're looking at a margin of x3 what you pay for it in China.

Another reason are the recent google slaps that make it harder for one to market the common products that are common to most new comers. Google now bans accounts instead of just giving warnings. Physical products are very less likely to get banned because they are marketed much less as compared to info products.

Hence if you're able to go the extra mile to get into untapped markets, then there's alot more money to go around.

What kind of products?

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A Different Kind Of Wealth!

A way to make money online is to go into product marketing. We're looking at ebay, alibaba, places where you can source for products then sell. Most of these products are manufactured in China, where the overhead and cost is low. Many good brands like the apple iphone are made in china also.

As a home business entreprenuer, you'll want to be sourcing products from the smaller local factories or from the whole sale centres. I have been in GuangZhou for 1 month already and will share 1st hand the pros and cons you can expect to find here in China.

Pros

1. Price – The cost is cheaper, and that leaves sufficient margin to be profitable in the profitable world of online product marketing.

Cons

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Thoughts On Whether To Buy Traffic or SEO…

Buying Traffic is good because it offers a perfect litmus test before deciding whether or not to enter a market. With the right traffic souces, you can easily do about $10,000 per month online in your niche, then go into more permanent traffic sources such as blogging, or putting fresh new content on the net.

Another good thing about paid traffic is that you can localise your money spent. If you're only targeting customers in a country like Singapore, then producing content for an international audience might not even be necessary if enough paid sources of traffic are available at very cheap prices.

SEO stands for search engine optimization. Your content can be indexed by google, yahoo in many ways. Common ways are putting videos on youtube, starting a blog, or article submission. When you go by such a route, your product should be international because its more profitable that way. Traffic from all around the world will drop by your site and you want to be able to monetise your site to the max.

You would also want to go in SEO when your site isn't given a good QS by Adwords or Bing and you aren't sure how to optimise it further for a good QS. For those new to Adwords, this advertising platform is quite picky when it comes to displaying ads. So if your site isn't what they like from the start, its going to be difficult to fix it. If your business is something you berlieve in and is going to stay, then SEO is good to consider.

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3 Factors To Consider Before Building a List To Earn Money Online

You may have heard of the term list building and its usually associated with online wealth. The successful list builders have a good relationship with their subscribers and this list is often responsive to new offers available. For example, some lists that im subscribed to are new playstation 3 games where we can preorder for additional discounts when the dealer brings new titles in. 

Here're some of the customer lists you can look to build online.

1. The Mass Consumer lightning list that makes 6 figures a year

This kind of list is usually associated with products that earn you anywhere from usd18 to usd90. You will be wanting to build a list that purchases immediately after opting into your list.It can be a dating program, muscle building, male enhancement products, insurance. All consumer type products are workable here. This money can be made  quick and when you have a list building campaign that works, there isn't much to do afterward until something like the google slap comes along 3 months down the road, by then, you'd have earn a good amount of money online and ready to embark on a new product.

Such list are usually built with paid advertising such as pay per click marketing, media buys, ppv, display, banner advertising.

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Promoting Recurring Billing Products

Its a good idea to promote recurring billing products because as compared to a one time commission, you get to earn a few times over the long run. When promoting recurring billing items, its important to take note of a few things.

1. Recurring Billing Items That Are Hidden Cost.

Some items have their cost hidden in the terms and conditions. These items can be quite profitable, however, they need to be within the VISA guidelines. Its easy to get in trouble when there are enough complaints against the item. Right now, the industry is in a midst of change regarding this sort of billing, so do be careful if you intend to promote these items. Lawyers can contact the networks that you're working with and they may contact you to take down your site. Some marketers that promote such items do inform their customers to study the terms and conditions before they purchase. Such responsible marketing is good for the industry.

2. Informed Recurring Billing

Informed recurring billing keeps the customer informed before they purchase. This allows the customer to know what they are in for. It could be fresh content updated every monthly, or a health product shipped monthly. You can normally expect a customer to stay with the purchase for at least 3 months.

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Looking Back at 2009, Now 2010!

For all online internet business owners, starting out as an Entreprenuer is mostly a lonely road.

If my experience and others who have started their own niche business is anything to go by, it always starts with a dream. Whether it be working at your own time, working from anywhere in the world, waking at 10am while everyone is rushing to work, or just plain getting financially well in just under a year.

Once we have made up our mind, we sling a backpack over our shoulders and start walking.

Those that finally make it, usually stand out as leaders in their own vertical. If someone decides to go deep into a vertical such as property, modded cars, professional travel blogger, online mlm, dating, they will earn more then most of their peers.

However, before we get ahead of ourselves, it will not only take an understanding from your family, it takes endurance to last the race. 

It also takes desire, alot of it.

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Working With Google Adwords

Adwords quality score – The quality score is awarded by Google to determine how relevant a landing page is to their searches. If the quality score is high, the lower the cost is. Often once a page has been visited by the google bot, if it has a bad quality score, the QS is going to stay that way, which is not a good thing because it translates to expensive clicks which can be unprofitable for a business. If the QS is high, its going to be profitable UNTIL, your page goes through a google manual review. When this happens, the campaign might get hit by what is known as a google slap. The bids will then fall through the roof and one will need to pay for clicks that are no longer profitable, anywhere from $1.50 and above.

Adwords click thru rate - Google can give a good QS to a landing page of about 7 to 10 upon 10. Over a period of 24 hours, should the CTR of a keyword associated to an ad be too low, the QS can fall to 2. This will almost immediately translate to bids that are far too high to sustain the ad running. While choosing a keyword that is too broad and has too many searches, the CTR can very quickly fall way too low, resulting in high bids.

Working with rebills - Rebills is something that google is not too keen to have on their advertising platform. This is because there're too many complaints about charges that should not be. Its suggested that if you run rebills, try not to run it on google adwords.

1st Manual review - Sometimes, an ad will not show for more then a few days. This normally happens to new google adwords accounts. When this happens to you, either wait for the review to occur or, you can write to Google Adwords support and request for a review that your ads are not showing. That can help expedite your ad to show.

Adwords OPPORTUNITY Tab – This gives you suggestions for keywords that are closely related and helpful for your campaign. With these suggestions, some might be good, some not, so be sure to be selective about the keywords that you decide to add to your campaign. It can be the difference between a couple $100 extra and a campaign loss.

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Online Marketing Tips

These are the kinda problems the higher then average earners will face. If you're doing $500 to $1000 a day, that's good, then there're some that do $5000 per day, even better then.

1. Accounts Get Banned – There's been a major clean up over at Google Adwords. The life time ban from using the google platform has affected MANY online marketers. It does not only affect those that run the google biz type of ads, those that run poor quality acai ads, funky rebills as an affiliate are also hit. For most affiliates that have lost their adwords account, getting back into the adwords game requires tons of new credit cards, and learning how to clear cookies from your computer. Not for the faint hearted.. 

But if you have a campaign with Adwords that's earning $1000 per day, its worthwhile to get back in to the game with the big G. If you're new to online marketing, try using MSN and Yahoo instead, get some exposure there before tackling the Google giant.

2. Campaigns Get Deleted – This happened to a friend. He was an overachiever and created 10,000 keywords in 1 day in a span of 12 hours. Along came an admin who deleted the entire campaign and banned the acccount.

3. Leads Get Shaved – This happens in the CPA marketing industry. The most one can do is write in to the network and trust they'll look out for your interest by crediting you with leads that were lost. Most of the time, you can expect a return of 1/3 of the actual sales that was lost.

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Timeout With Disco Spider, DJ Steve Porter

Will have some new online marketing tips out next post, meanwhile…Enjoy this!

Back from China and Adwords Cleanup..

Just back from China, and thought i post in case some folks thought that im out of commission. Im still alive and kicking. There's been a clean up over at adwords on how one can advertise on their network. Here's some insights.

  • No advertising of biz ops, such as google biz ops.
  • Suspension of adwords account that promote thin affiliate sites.
  • Health products are still allowed.

If you're thinking of going into the biz ops, I recommend don't unless you know a thing or 2 about adwords, have an "ALTERNATIVE" method of selling biz ops, and have some back up traffic sources. Some folks have been doing pretty well with them, and make around $17,000 to $100,000 per month.

That's it, running late to pick up someone, wil talk soon,

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Wednesday's Network Payment Tip

Here are a couple of ways to get paid from the networks, withdraw your cash from your local ATM and spend it on your daily needs. Let's have a look.

1. Paypal Masspay

Tip: This mode of payment will have your commissions paid to your paypal account. From your paypal account, you can withdraw your money to your banking account.

2. Check

A paper check is sent to your home, where you'll cash in your check and withdraw the cash from your ATM.

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PPC Bully 2.0 Beta Testers 15 Day Results

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Pay Per Click Marketing- Monday's, If You're Making Money, You Are Making Money…

Ever wondered if a paid advertising campaign was working and whether to continue or stop the campaign? If you're ever in such a scenario, the campaign is breaking even or just slightly profitable, and that's not a good place to be when doing PPC.

I'll describe a couple of things you can do as well as typical scenarios.

1. Delete all the keywords that are too expensive. ($0.50, $0.90, $1.50 onwards) 

If you cannot afford to bid on expensive keywords, don't force yourself to. 90% of the other advertisers are probably suffering. In niches im in, I do have a mental recollection (PPC Bully does help) of which ads are new and which ads have vanished. Most of the ads bidding for expensive keywords will vanish in less then 7 days. Even those will good conversions will end in 20 days.

There're 2 kinds of expensive keywords.

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The "Start Out Small And Grow From There" Methodology…

Here's one question that we see in forums. Should we bid high for keywords on a new campaign?

Sometimes people bid high in order to achieve any of the following.

  • To get their keywords activated.
  • To quickly study where converting ads are showing up on the content network.
  • Good keywords often cost more, bidding high allows them to discover the higher cost keywords that convert.

Once the keywords are activated, to see profits, they'll discard the keywords, placements that aren't performing and slowly bid down on their keywords.

The downside of this method is that its an expensive route to do PPC, not necessarily good for the brand new online marketer.

My own preference is that its better to err on the conveservative side and start of campaigns small, slowly building them up over time, say every alternate day.

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PPC Bully Results-My Beta Test Tinkering In 6 Days…

Hey everyone, PPC Bully beta test results are in. Get your skin in the game and expect to earn anywhere between $2000 to $12,000! Hit your personal income goal then reward yourself with a xbox 360 gaming console :)

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