January 24th, 2011 - Posted by Mike under Articles

One of the most popular ways to make money online is through paid traffic, and one of the best sources of paid traffic is through the use of pay per clicks ads. Pay per click, or PPC as it is often called is a way of placing your advertisements on a site and paying some money each time someone clicks on your ads. Of course the most famous pay per click platform is Google Adwords, but there are plenty of other online advertising services like Bing and Facebook.
If you know how to write engaging ad copy, and design compelling landing pages, making money with pay per clicks ads can be extremely lucrative. I know many marketers out there who makes thousands of dollars a day with paid traffic. Of course, I know plenty of marketers who have lost their shirts as well. With great rewards, comes great risks, right? Still, here are a few benefits of using pay per clicks ads in your money making portfolio.
The biggest thing with PPC is probably immediate results. For those who have dabbled in SEO, you know that waiting for your first site to make money could take months. With PPC, you could see results within hours depending on the platform you are using. Usually you just setup your PPC campaign, wait for approval and your ads go live right away. With immediate results, you can start optimizing your campaigns and hopefully tweak things till you become profitable.
Another advantage of pay per click ads is cost control. Most pay per click platforms allow you to set a budget for your campaigns and ad groups. For example, if you only have $100 a day to spend on advertising, you can divvy up your campaign limits so you don’t go over your budget. This is important, because with some paid traffic sources, the clicks come in fast and furious. By capping your ad spend, you ensure you don’t run out of money too soon.
Targeting is another wonderful option that most online advertising services provide. Many, like Google Adwords allow you to target geographically by country and even cities. This lets you promote various offers that target only a specific geographic location. Other pay per click ad platforms like Facebook and Plenty of Fish give you even more targeting options like relationship status, income levels, and much more. By creating targeted campaigns, you can increase your ROI and hopefully run more profitable campaigns.
These are just a few advantages of running pay per click ad campaigns. If you are selling a product, or just trying to promote affiliate offers, paid advertising is definitely something to look at. So if you have some money to spend, sign up to your favorite PPC platform today, and go make some money today.
January 16th, 2011 - Posted by Mike under Tips

I have a lot of people emailing me about using Bookmarking Demon and how to use it most effectively to achieve high search engine rankings So I’ve decided to post a simple guide of how I would use the software to rank a niche website. I’ve tried to keep this guide accessible to all, so even newbies can get started using this strategy.
Keep in mind, that implementing this strategy will require some time and effort. Tools like Bookmarking Demon will save you a lot of time and makes the process easier, but there’s more to achieving high search engine rankings then just pushing a button.
Creating your Money Site
If you already have a money site up and running, go ahead and skip to step 2. If not, keep reading.
I’m going to already assume you have hosting, and a domain name picked out for your site. You should also have a main keyword in mind to rank for as well as a few secondary keywords. Use the free Google Keyword Tool to check your keyword’s search volume (use Exact match!) to make sure it’s worth targeting. The free Market Samurai keyword module has some more advanced filtering capabilities so you might want to try using that for additional keyword ideas.
To start your site off, you will want to write 5 to 10 articles related to your niche and centered around your keywords. Make sure you include your keywords in the titles of your posts, and sprinkle them naturally throughout each article. Make sure each article is unique and at least 400+ words. Post your articles to your site daily or once every couple of days.
Initial Link Building
Each time you post a new article, use Bookmarking Demon and bookmark the article url using the BMD main sites only. Make sure you use the built in article spinner to spin the titles, descriptions, and keywords for each submission. I personally don’t like to submit to all main social bookmarking sites at once. Instead I’ll randomly submit to 3 of them each day. Keep doing this process for all your articles.
Once you have completed this process, you can start adding in link wheels and similar strategies to build 2nd tier links. The key here is, each time you create a new property to bookmark it using Bookmarking Demon. For these 2nd tier links, use all the Bookmarking Demon social bookmarking site available to you. In that way, you will be building stronger and stronger links. This is how you achieve better search engine rankings.
May 10th, 2009 - Posted by Mike under Reviews
PPC Kahuna is a pay per click membership course started by Jason Katzenback & Marc Quarles, although Jason is the face of the site. You may know Jason from his internet marketing related products (Traffic Kahuna, Syndicate Kahuna, Comment Kahuna, Portal Feeder) or as the blogger behind the new John Cow. If you have ever used his products or read his blog, you know he is quite successful at what he does and his products are very well put together. As an avid reader of JohnCow myself, I have always appreciated his insights into making money online and was I anxious to learn what he had to teach about pay per click marketing.
Here is what you get for your $67 a month membership fee.
PPC Kahuna software
This tool allows you to spy on your competition and emulate their successful PPC campaigns. PPC Kahuna is a desktop software that you download onto your computer and it will scan and track all the advertisers for the keywords you put in. By scanning the relevant keywords in your niche over the course of 1 or 2 weeks, you can quickly determine which specific keywords and advertisers are the most successful and making money.
This works on the idea that an advertisers would only spend money consistently on an keyword (and ad) if it was making them money. After collecting enough data, PPC Kahuna allows you to filter the results so you can easily spot these profitable keywords. This will enable you to use these keywords in your own campaigns, as well as identify good ad copy and landing pages to emulate. The software is comparable in functionality to other PPC spy tools like PPCBully and iSpionage which normally run about $50-75 a month. The tool works as advertised and my only wish is that it would work on my Mac.
PPC Kahuna 14 Day Challenge
This is your chance to look over the shoulders of Jason Katzenback as he goes through the process from beginning to end of setting up and launching his own pay per click campaign. This is where you will learn the theory and practice behind the PPC Kahuna system. Each day, you will find two video lessons, narrated by Jason on a specific topic. Each day’s lesson also includes a supplementary pdf which contain a checklist and easy to read flowchart to help you follow along by yourself. Not only does the PPC Kahuna system teach PPC theory, it also has a strong SEO focus as well. This ensures that you are achieving the maximum profit with your site from from both paid and free traffic traffic sources. The whole course is professionally put together and easy to follow along with.

Lesson from the 14 Day Challenge
BlitzLP
Want to creating landing pages on the fly? This is a script that you install on your own server and it makes it completely easy to create dynamic landing pages that can achieve high quality scores. The interface was just recently revamped and a ton of new features were added in the latest version. It’s a little hard to get your head around it at first, but after watching the included training videos, everything becomes much clearer. This is an awesome tool that you need to take advantage of and it is only going to get better. A comparable script like LPGen will run you $597, so this is amazing value right here.
PPC Kahuna Affiliate Blueprint
Each month of your membership, you will get access to a new affiliate blueprint. For the lazier folks among us, the blueprint gives you an exact niche that Jason and his team have already researched for you. Each plan will give you an overview of the niche, a plan of attack, both PPC and SEO keywords to use, a pre-sale page article, and three topic related articles. What more do you really need? It’s all there for you and all you need to do is implement and profit.
PPC Kahuna Web Based Tools
There are a ton of PPC tools on the PPC Kahuna site itself that are very useful. Let me highlight a few of them. The BlitzPPC tool enables you to add all your keywords, create some ads and export the campaign data to the Google Adwords Editor. If you have ever created an Adwords campaign by hand, you know what a timesaver this is. The PPC Ad Copy Wizard enables you to generate 9 variations of an ad to split test with. After rotating through each ad for awhile, enter in your results and it will tell you which is your strongest performing ad. There are also several keyword related tools including ones that allow you to clean up your keyword lists, group keywords together into adgroups, generate keyword variations and much more. Finally, there are also a couple of handy tools to generate your boilerplate text for Disclaimer, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages which will really save you some time.
PPC Kahuna Bonuses
There are several bonuses you get for signing up to PPC Kahuna, but my favorite one is the free upgrade to Traffic Travis Professional. This is a $97 value and Traffic Travis is one of those tools that you must have as an internet marketer. It has some great features for both SEO and PPC. I have been using this software for quite awhile now and I love it. The free version is great, but if you can get your hands on the Pro version, why not?
These are just some of the highlights of the PPC Kahuna Membership. There are actually a number of other cool aspects I’ve neglected to mention including the growing PPC Kahuna community. It is really easy to ask questions on the forum, and Jason himself is on there to answer questions. The software is constantly getting updated, and I expect to see new tools being added in the future. I encourage you to read my experiences with the PPC Kahuna 14 day challenge on this blog and then check out the sales page for more information. Overall, I am quite happy with my PPC Kahuna membership and will be staying on for quite awhile. If you are motivated to learn PPC, then I think PPC Kahuna is a great place to learn it.
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