Googles BROKEN!

Many internet marketers and google adwords users are scratching their heads wondering how to go on with a game plan. The google keyword tool gives cost and placement estimates per keyword. It's kind of a crucial tool that Ive been using and am finding it difficult to live without. How do you estimate how much you're going to pay per click? How do you find low cost clicks to base your ads on. I emailed google from the support inside my account. I dont expect an answer but its worth a shot.

I've looked everywhere, but it seems the only people talking about this issue are members of the digital point forums where I found out that, some of overture's (yahoo) tools are broken as well. coincidence?

I checked Out Matt Cutts blog. Matt cut "joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000" if anyone would know he would, but theres NOTHING posted on his blog about it! Maybe its hush hush. but so many people are cut off from the tools they need to survive on the internet.

One more note, the keword suggestion tool on seobook has also been down for quite a while. This tool shows how many people searched for a keyword per month. Results show for google, yahoo and msn, and the tool links to overture, google suggest, and googles external keyword tool.

These guys are on top of things. If they're not tellin i want to know what the hecks goin on!?

Pipeline Profits Launch Botched

Pipeline Profits, the newest to come from stomper member was very promising, and I think we all expected the launch to be as big a hit as stomper. Pipeline Profits was a heft course to teach you the ins and outs of coregistration. A method of listbuilding/internet marketing not for the feint of heart.

From what I understand of coregistration (having never done it) is that you find a list broker, and purchase leads from the list. At .05-.85 cents a piece, you must be careful of which coreg service you go with, that your email copy and that your website converts well. If you dont know what you're doing, you could potentially spend ALOT of money with very little return.

The creators of Pipeline Profits had been through it all, and made the course to help people avoid the pitfalls of coregistration. It all looked fine and dandy until shortly after launch. They rescinded their 360 day policy to 30 days, the print material would be 15-20 days later than expected and online accounts were shut down with no notice.

You can never tell what's going on 'on the other side' nobody knows what problems they were having but the word on the street is that support was very much lacking, and they were extremely quick to offer refund to people who had compliants.

A friend that actually shelled out his hard earned cash for the course has his own story to tell about the botched launch. Follow through his experience on his blog

How to set Name Servers- Domain Name Registration

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Domain Name Registration - Add On Video 2

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Holy Cow - 1.5 Million Visitors? $500k/mo?

I don't know how they do it. but they do. I just read a sales page from Ewen Chia, Jo Han Mok and Simon Hodgkinson. I don't know if you've ever heard of them, but they're huge in internet marketing. They got 1.5 million visitors for one of their product promotions, and the made some SERIOUS MONEY. With that many visitors, you cant NOT make money but we're talking in the neighborhood of $500,000 a month. It makes me dizzy thinking about it.

I wish I could sit down with one of these guys and make them answer this question, what the HECK are you DOING??? Because I've been trying to get visitors like its no tomorrow, and there's definitely something I'm missing.

I guess I'm going to get my chance, because they're having a teleseminar class that is going to explain the ONLY real 3 ways to get traffic online. I looks damn good. Not a bunch of b.s. that doesn't work or takes forever. And these guys know from experience. So I'm droppin $20 bucks of my hard earned cash, cuz i think its gonna be worth it. If you' re wondering too and would like to join me, Id love the company.

Heres their intro page that leads to more info on the seminar.

See ya there! :)

What is Monthly Web Hosting Costing You?

Im going to be upfront with you. There’s something I think you should buy. By the end of this post, I think you might agree. I make a ton of websites. I have dozens of domain names and my need for web hosting is enormous. If you’re reading this blog because you love to create websites, I want to share with you the web host I use to do this all with, and the steal I got my hosting for...

Web hosting companies charge a monthly fee to host your files on their server. It can be as low as $4.95 a month and I’ve seen some as high as $29 a month and up for large packages. Cost usually determines which package you choose. The more you pay, the more you get (web space, domain names, bandwidth).

As your website grows it will require more space and bandwidth, and you’ll need to upgrade your services. If you’ve ever exceeded your bandwidth you know how frustrating it is to have to pay more because your website did what it was supposed to, and attracted more activity than you paid for.

Consider a lifetime web hosting company. You will receive a web hosting account with a one time fee only. Combine one payment lifetime hosting with unlimited features and you have a total winner. All of the features such as bandwidth, add on domain names, subdomains, MySQL databases with Fantastico (for quick blogs, forums, life support, sitebuilders) are unlimited.

This Web Hosting Company gives you everything a large monthly package gives you - for a one time fee. With 6GBs of space you’ll most likely never need to upgrade and never exceed your bandwidth, even with the highest traffic sites. Compare the difference between monthly hosting and lifetime hosting:

Let’s do a 3 Year Cost Comparison for the webhost that is Ranked #1 in Google right now (Fortune City)

Monthly Hosting at the lowest payment:
@ $4.95/month or $54.45/year – in 3 years will cost $163.35, plus domain name renewal (1^st year included $8.95 for year 2 and 3) for a total of $181.25

For a larger package most comparable
to the lifetime hosting package:
@ $29.95/month or $329.95/yr – in 3 years will cost $898.20, plus domain renewal ($8.95/year) for a total of $1007.75

Unlimited Lifetime Hosting
Current one time payment $114 + $6.99 for domain name you control = $120.99 upfront plus $6.99 yearly to renew your domain name. total = $134.97

WOW. Can you see the advantage of using this service in cost alone?

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What’s RIGHT and WRONG about the Most Popular Adsense Tips

AdSense is a great way to make money with your websites. It’s very easy to implement and with enough practice (or the right tips) and enough good traffic you can do pretty well. With the right placement and keywords, even minimal traffic can do well.

The absolute number one key to making money with AdSense is DRIVING TRAFFIC to your website. This is where the big AdSense money comes in. BUT, you have to build a GREAT site first.

Of course there’s a few guidelines to follow before even beginning to build your web site, first being Googles AdSense Policies - this is a must.

ADSENSE TIP #1
Make sure that your adblocks blend with your site.
Very Important. The internet is full of junk and advertising. When surfers are looking for information they instinctively look away, skipping over advertisements to find what they came for. It’s actually been termed “Banner Blindness”. Flashing, blinking, blinding websites are a thing of the past as marketers learn that virtual shouting doesnt work, as people are covering their ears (or eyes in this case). Basically, your visitors will skip right over the ads if done incorrectly.

Adblocks that work the best for me are 336×280, or one of the square blocks inserted near a few other links and close to your main text.

Here’s the page layout that continually works best for me:

I put my navigation down the left side, put my h1 header above the adblock and a general image to the right of the adblock, and put this smack dab under the header of my site, in plain view.

Fonts on your site should be similar in size and color.
Important in helping adblocks blend with your site. I make css styles that match the ads to use for all other content and links on my site. They will never always perfectly match, as google expiriments by serving 2 or 3 ads in a 4 block, the text of the ads get bigger. So its not perfect, but it does well. Since we have no control over what google does, we make due.

Match the border color and background color
Matching adsense to the background color on your web page is extremely important. I try to’hide’ the border by matching colors.

You may also want to experiment with text ads and image ads. You can choose on or the other, or both.

COMMON MISCONCEPTION:

Match also the title, text and url colors to the ones you are using on your page.
If your logo and headlines are green, make your title the same green. If your text is gray, match this gray, and if your links are blue, match the same blue.

No Way!!! I changed my ads to adhere to this tip. I made all of my ad titles blue because everyone says to use blue. My initial reaction was, EEW! but I left it for a few days to see if they were right. When I tried this, my clickthroughs plummeted!!!!

Here’s the color scheme I use on ALL of my adblocks, and my clickthroughs went right back to where they were before, EVEN THOUGH my navigation links are blue.

Border: White (ffffff) (as most of my pages have a white background
Title: Gray (7f7f7f)
Background: White (ffffff)
Text: Black (000000)
URL: Blue (003399)

I save this in a custom palette called ‘plain’ and its easily accessible every time I need to insert my code. I use channels and php includes to test quickly.

ADSENSE TIP #2
Keep your adblocks “Above the Fold”.
By above the fold, I mean visible on your website without having to scroll down. Your ads should be in a place where people will look. When I started out I was just playing with one of my sites, I had adsense at the bottom of my page. When I moved it to the top, I started to see some action. This definitely works.

Tower ads outdated?
We tend to scan a page top to bottom, from left to right, unless something interesting catches our eye. It would make common sense that the tower placement off to the right side of your text would work well. As a viewer reaches the end of a line, it’s a good place for their eye to rest. If an ad is close by, it’s more likely to catch a viewers eye.

A lot of other people have had luck with this layout. I never have. I think people are getting used to this type of ad placement and are trained to completely ignore it. You may have a site it works well on. Try it and see if it works for you. Leave a comment if you think that Im completely wrong.

Google allows you up to 3 adblocks, and 1 linkblock on a page. I believe its better to keep it simple and just use 1 adblock above the fold.

I’ve completely abandoned linkblocks (horizontal and vertical) because even though they get clicked, in my experience they barely pay. I also think they’re kinda sneaky, even for google. They LOOK like navigation. A visitor who doesnt know about adsense, thinks theyre going to another page of your site and end up off of your site with pages of other options. I dont see the sense in that. Keep them on your site, clicking YOUR ads.

If you want to make sites with an adsense income potential, you’ll need more than one. Preferably MANY more. As many as you can think of.

If this is your goal, find a web host that offers alot of space and unlimited add on domains. If you build 100 sites each with different domain names, you don't want to host with 100 different web hosts. That could get quite expensive.

Heres the web host I use that offers unlimited add on domains. You can purchase a cheap domain names and direct them to your published sites. It’s a MUST HAVE when creating many sites.

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