Profiting From Local Business Using PPC

by Joshua Elliot on 19/07/2010

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Local business has been a long forgotten area in Internet marketing, but is now currently a hot topic that has been making a lot of people some money, some has made over $10,000. I have a friend who made $100,000 a month with 20 businesses. One of the businesses is making him an average of $10,000 per month.

I must say that using PPC to reach your local business is one of the easiest way to make money online, and most of the local business owners do not know how to use PPC properly and not engage in a PPC consultant to help them get the most out of PPC. This is good news for us who have been using PPC to make money.Local Business PPC [click here to continue…]

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PPC Consultants: How To Know If They Are Experts

by Joshua Elliot on 19/05/2010

There are a lot of PPC consultants out there with Adwords Qualified Professionals, or Yahoo PPC Qualified Consultant, but most of them have not use PPC to generate income for themselves yet. They are just like stock brokers who are trying to sell you stocks, yet they have not invest in it yet.

That is a very sad thing, and of course there are real PPC consultants who knows what they are doing, and will help you in driving targeted traffic, and at the same time lowering your PPC cost.

The question now is, how do you find these PPC consultants who are experts and can help you drive targeted traffic, making you money in the end? [click here to continue…]

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1000 Impressions And No Clicks: How To Rectify!

by Joshua Elliot on 06/05/2010

How do you rectify when you have 1000 impressions and no clicks? First of all, the problem lays in the click through rate of the ad. That is to say your ad copy.

If your ad copy is not compelling for someone to click and find out more, then the ad copy is a failure.

How do you test your ad copy if they actually work? [click here to continue…]

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What Does High Cost Per Click Indicate?

by Joshua Elliot on 25/04/2010

Cost Per Click (CPC) in Adwords is the cost of each click when someone searches and found your PPC ads relevant, this is the price that you pay for the traffic from Google. So if you have a high cost per click, it just means that you have a very competitive keyword and that a lot of your competitors wants a position in the first page of the search result as well.

In my previous post, on High Cost Pay Click, Competitive Market, What To Do!, I shared on how to rectify when you have this situation.

Today, I will go further on why the cost per click will continue to increase in cost, and how you can further solve this ever increasing cost per click problem by just changing a very simple yet not known to a lot of PPC users. [click here to continue…]

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Mobile Adwords: Is This The Next Trend?

20 April 2010

I just recently started to use the Mobile Adwords targeting only Singapore. As most of my online market are targeted to offline services instead of online products, as I find that it’s a much more better market than the later.

Now that the world is all about mobile, should we go ahead with Mobile Adwords too?

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High Cost Per Click, Competitive Market, What To Do!

12 April 2010

What do you do when you have a high cost per click (CPC), like $4 and above and in a competitive market or niche that is full of Adwords PPC ads (more than 11 PPC ads). Do you quit or continue?

Quitting is a very easy choice to do. You may not have enough budget to carry on or the sales or conversion is very low using PPC, thus not making profit and the cost did not go down as well. It may seem that quitting is the way out now, but do you know that you can rectify the situation by doing some correction on your PPC campaign?

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Not Switching Off Your Content Networks

7 April 2010

Content networks in Adwords is a great way to get massive traffic in the fastest time, it is relatively cheaper then using the search networks. BUT they are not people who are looking for the services or products you are selling online.

I have done a major mistake of not switching off my content networks before (thank God it was once and only for a day), getting un-targeted impressions to the content networks are not really a good idea, if your PPC ads are not screaming at them to click on your ad…

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When Negative Keywords Can Do That Much, PPC Ads Can Help Filter As Well

1 April 2010

Using Negative keywords are a great way to get rid of unwanted or non-targeted traffic coming to click on your PPC ads. But you always seem to attract clicks even through you have done your homework of generating a list of negative keywords for the campaign.

In Business, its always about sales and costs. If you can bring in more sales or lower the costs, then you will have a greater profit. That is the success in business, and it goes the same to Adwords as well. But how to generate targeted traffic and at the same time letting the un-targeted traffic not click on the PPC ads?

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Using PPC Search Engine Marketing To Increase SEO Ranking

29 March 2010

Can using PPC marketing to increase SEO ranking? I must say that it can’t be done, as PPC does not affect any SEO ranking on your website. But PPC can help to find out the profitable keywords and you in turn focus on these keywords to rank better in terms of SEO.

Finding out from the keywords that converts in PPC and using it on your website as SEO is a smart way to get free traffic. This will help you focus on driving conversion traffic instead of those that does not convert is a much better and faster way to making money online…

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How Do We Know If The Ad Is a Boardmatch?

26 March 2010

Finding out if your competitors are using broad match keywords is quite easy. What you need to take note is the URL of your competitor’s first then key in a keyword phrase that is related to the compeitior.

I have used an example of using “slim down fast diet” as a keyword phrase, note that I am using on the U.S search market. Right is the ad which I saw and took as example…

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