How to Make Killer Profits Using Google AdWords

By Joe Stewart

Look, I'll just get right to the point. If you don't read a proven Google AdWords Guide Book before you attempt to use Google AdWords, then you're in for a big disappointment. Why do I say this? Because it's been proven time and time again. People that are new to advertising online or pay per click marketing, get excited when they hear about all the success that others are having and they want a piece of the pie. So they pay the five dollars to open their account, throw up a handful of very broad, untargeted keyword phrases, type up a quick ad and wait for the money to start flowing in. In their excitement some people don't even notice that they can put a limit on their daily spending, which is simply amazing to me because it's in plain site, and end up losing several hundred or several thousand dollars before they're able to get their campaign shut down.


Granted, not everyone will be this ignorant, however, if you are spending money advertising on AdWords and haven't read Perry Marshall's "Definitive Guide To Google AdWords" yet, then you are seriously behind the learning curve. You might be thinking "oh no, not another product endorsement". Hey, I can relate. I get pitched all the time and I realize that it gets old, but I'm telling you the facts. Perry's book has information within it that can turn a losing campaign into a winner and a winning campaign into a runaway hit. My first two months using AdWords I'd lost just over $100.00 per month. The first month after reading the Google AdWords Guide Book I reversed my fortunes and earned $135.00. The following month that increased to over $300.00, followed by over $500.00, $700.00+ and so on.

The biggest thing that I liked about Perry's book is that it's really not rocket science. All that he shows you how to do is to tightly focus your keywords so that the only people clicking on them are genuinely interested in what you have to offer. He then shows you how to find more keywords like those, how to properly group your keywords, how to write ads so that people will be compelled to take immediate action and manages all of this in such a manner that he eliminates all of the waste from your campaign. That means that you're not paying good money for curiosity seekers to click on your ads.

Perry and his staff are constantly in the thick of things in the AdWords arena learning new tactics, testing, testing and testing some more. They not only live and breathe this stuff, but they also have their own campaigns to run. They also give 100% free updates to the book every year, keeping you up to date with everything new in the world of Google AdWords. Take a look at some of free information that he has to share and stop wasting your money.

Many Have Tried, But All Have Failed To Provide The Same Quality Of Information About Google AdWords As Perry Marshall. Find Out The REAL Truth About Pay Per Click Advertising By Going Right Now To http://PayPerClickFirm.net or by clicking on Google AdWords Guide Book

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Google Adwords Guide II - Why Use Negative Keywords


By Christoph Puetz

When you are running a Google AdWords campaign, it is important to include negative keywords. You should consider the use of negative keywords if some of the keywords or keyword phrases in your campaign are broad and generic. Negative keywords will prevent an ad from being shown on a publisher's website if the negative keywords are in the search phrase/text area that Google uses to match ads and content.

By using negative keywords you will reduce the number of click-throughs that would not convert to sales anyway. In addition to that - the overall CTR of your ad (click through rate) will be much higher because there will now be a smaller number of Internet users be viewing your ad but not clicking. The higher CTR will cause the ad to receive a higher position without the need to work with higher CPC (cost per click) bids.

In your Google Adwords campaign you can add negative keywords by following the link "No campaign negative keywords. Add". On the next page you can add your negative keywords. The negative keywords you select in this section will apply to all Ad Groups within this campaign. So, you want to be careful selecting the negative keywords to avoid negative impact to your overall campaign.

An example for negative keywords to use would be as follows. Let's say you are selling cloth diapers for babies. Using the Overture keyword tool you search for diapers and get the following results.

183844 diaper

80390 adult diaper

74619 diaper bag

19184 diaper cake

13684 diaper girl

12509 cloth diaper

3968 diaper punishment

3108 huggies diaper coupon

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Assuming that the word "diaper" would be one of your keywords that you use, you can tell that it would be involved in keyword phrases not applying to the product you are trying to sell "cloth diapers". Therefore it would be recommended to add anything to your negative keyword list that absolutely does not match your target group. In this example I would recommend to exclude "adult diaper", "diaper punishment" and "huggies diaper coupon" and set them as negative keywords. Nobody searching for adult diapers would now get your ad served and therefore you would not run the risk that such a search would end up in clicking on your ad and you wasting your money.

About the Author

Christoph Puetz is a successful entrepreneur and international book author. Examples of his search engine optimization work can be found at Health Information, Small Business Success Blog and First Time Pregnant - Where the babies would shop

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Google Adwords Guide I


By Christoph Puetz

You probably have already heard about the new marketing tool from Google.com on the Internet. Their advertising service is called “Adwords” and allows you use Google.com for marketing. Your ads will be displayed on Google’s website when people initiate a search. Your ads can also be displayed very targeted among many thousand websites that partner with Google in a program called “Google AdSense”. Adwords is the Google.com version of a pay-per-click advertising model. That means users click on your ad and will be redirected to your website or a specific URL that you have selected when creating your ad campaign.

What do you need to know about Adwords? Adwords is a way to spend a lot of money on advertising very very fast. BUT – Adwords is also a way to spend marketing money very selective to a targeted audience. Adwords can be very expensive for the advertiser if not properly planned and tested.

When you setup a Google Adwords ad campaign, you choose certain keywords for which your ad will appear on search results on Google.com. You also specify the maximum amount of money that you are willing to pay for each click. Remember - the Google Adwords program is a PPC (Pay per Click) model and you only pay when someone actually clicks on your ad and hence visits your website.

It is very important to select the right keywords for your business ad. Going with too generic keywords that everyone will not be very effective and very expensive. Play a little bit with the Adwords keyword and campaign settings just to get a feeling how expensive the generic keywords for your business and industry are. You will realize soon that you need to be creative and careful with the usage of keywords.

Google recommends using different spelling variations and plural versions of your keywords to reach the best target audience. This is a good approach, as not every one of your potential new customers will search for a keyword in the same way as everyone else. Some people will use plural versions and others will use singular versions.

Exact matching of keywords in Google user queries requires you to place square brackets around your selected keywords. Example: [web hosting]. Your ad will now only show when users search exactly the phrase ‘web hosting’. Your ad will not show if other words are included in the search string or the words are entered in a different order.

Another keyword matching option is the phrase option. This is very similar to the exact matching of keywords in a search in the sense that the keywords must all be present and in the right order. However your ad will still show up in search results even if other words are present in the search. To make use of phrase matching you must include your keywords in quotes. Example: "web hosting".

Negative matching is the final option available for your Adwords advertisement. This option allows you to block your ad being shown if a certain word is present in the search query of the Google user. This allows you to reduce the number of possible clicks on your ad in non-relevant searches and therefore to keep your cost low. It also helps you to make sure that your ad is not shown to users who will not be interested in your products. If your keyword is 'web hosting' but your web hosting is based on the Linux operating system and not based on a Windows Operating System then by using negative matching you can choose to have your ad not shown for search queries with 'windows web hosting'. In this case 'windows' would be your negative keyword. You simply place a dash in front of your negative keyword to use this option. Example: -windows

Using the here described ways of selecting keywords will help you to be more successful with Google Adwords. Google also allows you be very specific for which geographic area your ads will be displayed. You go from global to country and even state or city specific settings. Especially local businesses now will have it much easier to use Google Adwords for their specific local markets.

Well, you got the idea how to be very specific how you select your keywords and combinations of keywords. But how do you actually select the right keywords? In order to get the most out of Adwords, you must have a list of great keyword and phrases. If your keyword list is not good enough, you will be punished with paying too much for your advertising. Write down the top search terms that you can think of. Ask friends and family how they would use Google to find your product (without searching for the business name itself).

A competitor of Google actually offers a free tool, which will allow you to find out how popular the keywords are that you selected. Find this free tool here and use it for your advantage:

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Create a list of the most popular keywords. Now add words to the actual keywords. Use words that would describe your specific product or service. Now use these phrases or word combinations when setting up a Google Adwords campaign to find out how much you would have to pay per click to get your ad onto the first page on a Google search.

If the keywords selected by you are very expensive to use you should consider rewording or using different combinations. Maybe concentrate on a certain niche to find lower priced keyword options.

When testing new campaigns make sure that you limit your exposure by amount of money you want to spend per day as well as you should set a date / time limit. It’s easier to activate a campaign again if it works just fine for you. If you fail to set limits you might spend lots of money in a very short time – money you can’t get back. It is gone ….

Another way to save money on your Adwords advertising campaign is to wait for the end of the month. It’s funny, but many folks follow a plain rule to start their advertising in the beginning of the month. By the time the 25th of a month is there they have spend most of their money on their campaigns already. For you this means that the prices for many popular keywords might be more affordable for you.

If you are advertising specific products with your ads, link to the specific product page and not to your homepage. 95% of the people who click through to your website will not really be willing to start another search on your website to find the product mentioned in your ad.

Conclusion

Frequently revisit your campaigns and compare prices and results. The Internet is a fast changing environment. What works one day, might not necessarily work the next day. Keep track of everything – maybe create a spreadsheet.

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Christoph Puetz is a successful small business owner (Net Services USA LLC) and international author.

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Adwords Miracle - Use Adwords to Quit Your Job


By Bryan Super

A new Adwords guide has come out on Clickbank. If you have not heard of it yet chances are you will very soon.

The main question is, does "Adwords Miracle" really work?

The creator of Adwords Miracle makes some bold claims on the sales page. He says that you will be able to make $300 per day and quity your day job. I am very familiar with Google Adwords and I have purchased almost every new Adwords guide that comes along. Here is what I think of Adwords Miracle:

The nice thing about Adwords Miracle is that it is aimed at the beginner as well as an experienced Adwords user. The beginning will show you how to set up your first campaign and explain all of the important terms such as click through rate. This is a great section if you are not familiar with Adwords.

There are so many ways you can write an advertisement but Adwords Miracle shows you the easiest way to do this. Every guide will show you something a bit different but in a way they are using the same techniques. I have found that there is always a better way to write an ad. Adwords Miracle shows you the best way I have ever seen to write your google ads. Do not worry if you are not a sales genius, you will be taken care of with this guide.

If you are new to Adwords, you will be pleased at how you will be shown how to manage your adwords campaigns so you can get the lowest cost per click and the highest return on your investment. All explained here.

Here is the good part and probably the main reason I purchased Adwords Miracle. The creator calls this method skimming. This is truly amazing when you put it to the test. Everything is explained on how you can set up little campaigns that will make you around $100 per week. The idea here is to set up as many of these as possible and before long you will be making enough to quit you day job. This is something you need to see for yourself.

I can say that the difference between people who make money online and those that do not is very simple, action. Those who will put in the time will be rewarded in the end. If you never try, you will never know.

Overall Review:

Using Adwords and promoting other people's products has produced a healthy chunk of change for me for the past year. Adwords Miracle can definitely show you the path to quitting you job and making a living online. It is up to you whether or not you want to take the steps to do it.

I would say out of all the great Adwords guides around today, Adwords Miracle is the most complete and most helpful when it comes to making money. Read the book, put the words into action and you will see for yourself that there is money to be made. I started by making some income goals for myself each week. I aimed at making $100 per week and have never looked back. Give it a try and you will become addicted to making money online as well.

Adwords may scare many people because of the high cost, but with Adwords Miracle you will learn how to cut your costs and explode your profits. Making hundreds of dollars a day is possible.

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ebook Review: The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords


By Sunil Rajan

Never before has it been possible to spend five bucks, open an account and have brand new, precisely targeted customers coming to your website within minutes.

But with Google Adwords, you can do exactly that. Now, let us first know what is Google Adwords?

What is Google Adwords ?

Pay per click (PPC) marketing is a miracle of the modern world. It has proved to be the most important development in advertising. In comparison to banner ads, link exchanges, buying space in e-zones, waiting weeks or months for search engine listings to show up, ADWORDS is a web marketer’s dream come true. Adwords is the fastest way to bring new customers to a cash- hungry business.

Advertising on Google is not a cakewalk in the beginning. You can set up an account and get visitors in as little as seven minutes…. But a day or later, your bids get cancelled, ads get disapproved and you pay way too much for clicks.

Writing an effective and profitable Google Adwords is one of the most difficult, yet important tasks that contribute to the ultimate success in online keyword advertising on Google. Normally, nobody likes to write ads. It is a painstaking process that takes hours of tedious work. The only people who like to write sales copy are those really expensive copywriters that charge you an arm and a leg for it.

While Google Adwords were at one time a very easy way to get quick, cheap targeted traffic, its success has rendered it a bit saturated. To counteract the increasing prices, Perry Marshall has developed methods to get smarter and smarter about finding good keywords and using them to target your traffic.

Perry Marshall developed a comprehensive toolkit called ‘The Definitive Guide To Google Adwords’ detailing how to effectively use Google Adwords. This eBook will take you by the hand and lead you step by step giving case studies and personal
examples, to understanding and benefiting from enormous power of Google Adwords. It helps the Internet storeowner to increase his/her traffic and sales easily and instantly.

First, let us have a little background as to who is Perry Marshall and why would you trust him to teach you about Google Adwords?

Who is Perry Marshall?

Perry Marshall (also known as Perry S. Marshall) has used Internet marketing to grow a quasi-start-up business 2000 percent, which later sold for $18M. Perry Marshall had sold millions of dollars of products on the web since 1997, when he was national sales manager at a hi-tech start-up in Chicago. He started advertising on Google before most people could do that. His clients’ websites would go from zero traffic to hundreds or thousands of visitors each day overnight. Since then, he has become one of a tiny handful of experts on this new advertising medium. Now, he consults with dozens of companies in software, publishing, manufacturing and information marketing.

The reasons why you should trust him to teach you about Google Adwords :

He has been in the business of generating more business for years. While Adwords may be new, direct marketing is not & Perry has been in the marketing & promotion business for years. He was one of the first to publish a book on Google Adwords. As Googles is treacherous at first, it punishes uneducated marketers and rewards smart ones. So, Perry wrote a 5-day email course to help you beat the system fast. He discovered how to consistently pay less for your Google traffic than everyone else – while getting more clicks to your site. You can sample his expertise with a free e-mail course on Google Adwords and then decide if his expertise will be valuable to you.

Perry is known as ‘Google Adwords King’. Perry has marketed products such as ebooks, computer hardware, health products and $50,000 software licenses. His articles have been published in major electronic and industrial trade journals.
Perry’s products include The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords, The Definitive Guide to Writing & Promoting White Papers, and The Perry Marshall Marketing System. The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords is a self-help course on how to drive more visitors and pay less for each one on the Google Adwords pay per click advertising program. Now, we shall see as to what is this product and why should we trust it in detail?

Book Description

The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords is the least expensive of Perry Marshall’s products, the most down to earth written, and by far the most popular.

It is an excellent ebook and has the fastest way to beat the leaning curve, get new customers and put more dollars in your pocket. This ebook is 205 pages long and comes in a password protected PDF format.

The Definitive Guide To Google Adwords arms you with a slew of powerful tools and ideas, including:

Fast-Start Guide gives a blow- by- blow example of setting up a real Google Adwords campaign for a real company. A revolutionary, effective new keyword insertion approach that prevents your keywords from being put ‘On Hold’ and disabled.
Discover how to get traffic from hundreds of inexpensive keyboards instead of 10-20 expensive ones and get more visitors for less money.Several specific strategies for dealing with Google’s “no popup” rule – methods that are much more effective, and don’t annoy customers.How to use Pay Per click market intelligence to optimize your web pages to get FREE traffic from search engines.

Ultimately, this toolkit is not merely about Google. It’s about squeezing the most dollars and new business from every person who comes to your website. Every thing you get is real – real companies, real case studies, and real screen shots. You can flip through the manual and get powerful strategies that you can put to work immediately in fifteen minutes. It even comes with a 3-page fast-start guide with a tidy summary of all the best shortcuts.

Contents of the Book

The Book goes on to detail:

A Real- Life PPC campaign
Managing the basics – Keyword Selection, testing & Statistics.
Making Your Traffic Pay – Conversion cheat Sheet, tracking Sales.
Tools, Tips & Tricks – Account Management Tool, cool Tips for keywords, Do Less & Earn More.
Your Questions Answered – How To beat The Competition, Real Q & A… and much more.

There are seven main sections in the Book:


Section 1 starts off with getting started and explains how to start your Google Adwords campaign.
Section 2 talks about keywords and the relevant keyword matching types. Here, he talks about how to organize your keywords into various ad groups.
Section 3 talks about ad positioning (the ideal position for your ad), tracking conversions and sales, value per visitor and the very important split testing.
Section 4 is a little section on tools, tips and techniques specifically on keyword generation, improving your ad copy with the use of capitalization and tweaking your campaign.
Section 5 is an FAQ (Frequently asked Questions) section where Perry provides answers to frequently asked questions.
Section 6 and 7 are pretty much bonus areas where Perry talks about using PPC to improve the world by promoting child sponsorship.

Importance of the Book and why it is highly recommended

To sum it up, The Definitive Guide To Google Adwords is an excellent Book and there are very few that go into such detail on winning Google Adwords techniques. This Book is more tailored towards the intermediate marketer who has already a
couple of campaigns up and running and would like to improve on them. It really gives you an edge over your competitors and Perry goes into so much detail that you really gain a good grasp of the techniques he is teaching.

In the book, Perry Marshall will walk you through the setting up of a campaign, and show you where the tools are to find good keywords. Then he will show you how to design a direct-marketing campaign around those keywords. You will also know how to eliminate false hits that can cost you big money. He will talk a great deal about writing good ad copy and little tricks that skyrocket your click – through rates. The only downside is not really a downside at all. It is that this book will take some thought and time on your part. It is not just something you read and implement in a day. It takes practice and testing.

In fact, this ebook is the best guide to Google Adwords available. With the best tips and tricks to get the most from your advertising dollar, it is an essential guide for the Internet Professionals and perfect for the learners who are looking for the information at the right price.

This ebook is not for the casual Webmaster. It is for the serious persons who want to analyze the market and apply a data- driven approach to maximize profits. It is simple, easy, fast and doubles profits overnight. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. If
there is one expert who really knows his work in terms of helping real-world marketers refine their sales process for business-to-business, especially technology, it’s Perry Marshall. Perry Marshall is a gifted teacher and a champion practitioner. What Perry knows about Google Adwords- and how to build a business with them- is very powerful. If you really want to drill down and focus on the B2B space, or get additional advice on how to make Adwords work for you in generating better-quality leads, then check out for Perry’s ‘The Definitive guide To Google Adwords’.

Sunil Rajan offers reviews, advice and assistance for new webmaster interested in making money on the internet. His services are free as he provides assistance as a personal hobby. He enjoys helping those who want to make money thru his website http://www.therichmonkey.com His site contains information on setting up sites, how to make profits from them and how to keep an edge on the internet. Please include this bio when reprinting.

Run a Profitable Google Adwords Pay Per Click Campaign


By Michael Lawrence

Google and Yahoo-Overture control over 90% of the PPC market and as such you should seriously consider using them if you want the maximum possible exposure to targeted web traffic through PPC advertising .

Sign up for the Google Adwords program is free but they require a $5 USD deposit before they will start to display your ad copy. Google provides an excellent interface to work with. A pleasant modular design groups all of your work into nice "containers" that can be manipulated and viewed in a variety of ways.

The system reporting is by no means real time but the delay on their results display is palatable when comparing them to the other major PPC provider, Yahoo-Overture.

A nice feature that sets Adwords apart from other PPC providers is that your ads display almost instantly after you place them in their system. They have built a lot of their editorial guidelines into the ad entry system.

Their system will flag your ad before you can enter it if it doesn't meet their terms of service . That is a lot better than waiting 2-5 business days to find out if your ad had a problem or not. Time is money.

Also provided with your Adwords account are a number of free tools to help you with your campaign management.

While several of these tools are great starting points I have found the need to augment what Google provides through my own online research, tools and software as well as e-book purchases.

The lesson learned, everybody that uses Google Adwords has access to the same tools that you do, including your competitors. It goes without saying that if you want to get an advantage here you will need other resources to supplement your knowledge other than what Google provides.

Having said that the Google Adwords system is still extremely powerful . Providing you with keyword suggestions, automated bid management, campaign optimization (by Google staff), geo-targeting, roi tracking, and all the reporting you can handle, their system allows you a b level of control over your spending and the ability to truly identify who your customer really is.

What I really like about the Adwords system is the fact that the guys with the most advertising dollars are not guaranteed to win any particular market.

Google tracks the Click Through Ratio (the percentage of people who see your ad and click on it) for each of your ads and keywords. Their system gives you a better position in their display listings if more people are clicking on your ads.

Why do they do this?

To reward people who take the time to write relevant ad copy and marry that to a tightly relevant keyword list.

You see, Google will reward you for doing your homework . The time you invest studying and learning their system will save you money , which can be just as rewarding as making money.

Hey, if I could afford 5 dollars a click I would pay it, but I can't. I need to lower my advertising costs while at the same time generating as much targeted traffic to my site as possible.

Unfortunately, my experience with their support system does not paint as rosy a picture of the mighty Google . In general, their online information is pretty good. It will solve your routine questions such as "when exactly does my credit card get billed? ) " quite well.

Google's support system seems geared towards keeping you off the phone with them. They like to refer to their repository of online documentation and use template driven email communication.

In instances where I needed specific information (i.e. why is this keyword disabled even though I created a brand new campaign to put it in?) I received "canned" emails with my support persons name "pasted" into the email.

Often times I was required to send them another email asking if they had even read my first one and to get the answer I was REALLY looking for.

At the end of the day I was left feeling that eventually my problem was going to be solved I just wasn't sure when that was going to be and how many times I would have to contact them in order to get the answer I really wanted.

Typical Costs associated with Running an Adwords Campaign

There's two ways to approach this:

Are you going to manage your own campaigns?

or

Do you want to leverage someone else's experience and invest money in a company that can manage your Adwords campaigns?

Let me suggest that you manage your own accounts at least in the beginning . Start small and start collecting reference materials while you learn how the system works.

Search for other products and resources that can help you but keep in mind some of them won't work out . Don't let that stop your research, there is material out there that can truly help you and save you a lot of money.

Investing in a $40 e-book is a lot cheaper than blowing $500 or more with Google while you are learning the ropes .

Having said that if you want to get a successful campaign started now you can enlist an SEO company to manage your Adwords campaigns.

The question is: How will you know who to trust?

You can burn several thousand dollars for overpriced, untargeted traffic if you let the wrong companies manage your campaigns. How can anyone honestly know what to look for in an Adwords Management company if you haven't even tried the system out for yourself? Food for thought. If you manage your own campaigns at first you will get a feel for the system.

Campaign Costs

Ok, let's talk about the typical costs you can expect running a Google Adwords campaign. The good news is Google Adwords gives you the potential to reach millions of surfers in a matter of minutes for pretty much as little money as you want to spend.

The bad news is after the novelty of having an Adwords account and setting up your first few campaigns wears off it can begin to feel like a ball and chain. There are a lot of monotonous tasks that have to be managed daily and it can be a tough thing to manage unless you are a disciplined person.

Before you spend money on campaigns and resources acquire this mental discipline. Realize before you begin that it isn't going to be fun after a while. Google Adwords is a business tool, one of many, and as such it has it's advantages and flaws . It can make you a lot of money or it can cost you a lot of money and create a lot of stress for you depending on your ability to consistently manage your campaigns.

Ok, your minimum initial deposit is $5 to get started as we learned above. Start here, and I suggest resisting the urge to JUMP in and start spending like crazy... stay at or near this $5-$50 level of investment until you use it up .

You're not going to see any returns on this investment financially but you will gain valuable knowledge of how best to use the Google Adwords System to generate income without learning the hard way.

You have a lot of learning to do before you want to start pouring money into your account. Google is in the business of making money and their system makes it "REALLY" easy to spend as much as you want.

Minimum bids start at a reasonable $0.05 USD. After developing your keyword list and dumping it into Google's system you have to start making financial decisions.

If you take Google's suggested bid prices for your keyword list you can pay a lot of money for your web traffic depending on how large your keyword list is and how much traffic these keywords generate.

Rest assured Google's system will provide you a lot of traffic quickly if you want to pay for it. It's not uncommon for Google's big management system to suggest max bids in the $20 - $30 range.

You don't have to accept these outrageous suggestions of course so your first big money saver is to lower the max bid to something you find acceptable and enter it for all of your keywords.

Please note Google's system will not charge you this full amount unless someone else is willing to pay that much for the keyword. Leave this number set higher if you want to produce a lot of clicks quickly.

Bidding into position's 1-3 will deliver the most traffic, but will be less targeted than position's 4-6.

Position 1 will get the most clicks but many of these clicks will be untargeted "impulse" clicks. Taking the time to scan all the way to position 6 in the listing and click on the advertisement at that position suggests that the searcher is extremely interested in the subject being advertised.

Over time you will learn which keywords are making you money and which one's are simply too competitive for your budget. Google's campaign tracking abilities in conjunction with other 3rd party ad tracking software can help you identify these profitable keywords and track your website visitors.

Unfortunately every system can only provide so much traffic and you will find the larger companies can afford to bid pretty high for more general, high traffic keywords because they can afford it.

Large companies will pay $5 for general keywords like "credit cards" because they know over the lifetime of using a credit card they will recover their investment.

The big boys can squeeze you out of the Google Adwords World just as easily as in the "real world". Of course it's not all "doom and gloom". You still have a powerful and relatively inexpensive tool in your hands if you can exploit niches and find the "bargain" keywords.

Google's system of tools leaves you high and dry in this respect unless you have a lot of money to blow on "throwing out a wide net" by trying a large keyword list and then refining your campaigns as you start to get clicks and track your conversions.

You can get a lot of garbage clicks by bidding your way to the top for general keywords . This is expensive, less targeted, and lower converting than if you bid to position 3-5 or spend time finding the less expensive niche keywords (using your third party software or e-book techniques).

Chances are when bidding on more general high traffic keywords you will be competing with large companies and competitors using SEO company services to manage their campaigns.

These companies can afford to pay a lot more than you or I for their clicks. In order to counteract this you need to tightly target your campaigns and find niche keyphrases to be profitable with Google. I can't stress this enough.

To make proper decisions you will need to gather as much data as you can on how the Adwords system works. Obviously, you won't have this data until you run a campaign or two which is why I suggest running your own Adwords Campaigns for a while to get familiar with their system.

Study the stats provided by Google which are really quite good in conjunction with one or more 3rd party stats tracking packages.

You will start to notice trends in the numbers which will allow you to make more effective use of your time and money by bidding only on the keywords that are generating sales.

Analysis may also prompt you to tweak your site content if you notice a niche you want to start competing for (better yet start up another site or tier two web page on your site targeting that niche and remove these keywords from the original campaign moving them into a new campaign pointing to your new content).

Minor tweaks can save you BIG money using Adwords

Some Notes on Scalability:

Google allows you to bid on 3 types of keyword matching options which immediately gives you three times the keywords to bid on without any more brainstorming on your part.

Each matching option provides different results and should be managed on a keyword by keyword basis.

Google also provides two methods of displaying your ad on their network: Content Match Listings and Search Network Listings .

Effectively this allows you the potential to be noticed by:

1) anyone searching on Google's portal

2) anyone searching portal sites that get their search results from Google

3) anyone viewing a site displaying Google's ads that has content related to the keywords you bid on.

4) anyone reading an email with content related to your keyword at Google's free email service Gmail.

That's a lot of options and a lot of potential exposure. Tweaking to find the right combination for your particular situation and spending requirements is something you simply have to do on an ongoing basis. I think the benefits are obvious to you by now.

A final word on costs. You may have noticed that I didn't use a lot of numbers in my discussion of campaign costs with Google. What I think I have illustrated is a Google campaign truly can cost as little or as much as you want it to.

It can get you as much or as little traffic as you want it to. What kind of traffic it brings and how much it costs is up to you.

Where will your ads be displayed? More places than you might think:

At the time of publication AOL, Netscape, Ask Jeeves, AT&T Worldnet, EarthLink and Excite all get some or all of their search results from Google.

Content Match Listings vs. Search Network Listings

When user's do a search on one of the Google family of portal sites your paid listings appear either along the top of the search results highlighted as sponsored listings or to the right of the actual search results in text boxes.

Your position on these search pages is determined by your keyword list and your bid for that keyword.

Your results with the Search Network Listings can be quite successful as long as you manage your account using some of the techniques suggested in this article.

Use the included Geo-targeting capabilities built into the Adwords system to ensure your ads display only in areas that are potential customers for you.

Content match listings appear as inserts on web pages not in search engine results pages. My experiences with the content Match Listings haven't been as successful as with the Search Network Listings although I still use this option for some of my campaigns.

Google's system analyses the content of web page and serves up ads to those pages based on the what it feels the page is about . A web page on motorcycles may feature ads about buying motorcycles, motorcycle catalogues, parts distributors ... I think you get the idea.

And this idea is a good one since the ads it displays are usually pretty close to what you would think they should be. When you display ads on your website using Google's Adsense program for example, you are effectively joining their content network.

A drawback to the content matching system is you can't really know who is clicking on your ad. It could even be a competitor clicking on your ad from their own site! Google gives you the option of disabling either of these display methods if they aren't working out for you with the click of a button.

You can do this on a campaign by campaign basis only enabling/disabling what is working for you. If you want to minimize your risk but still utilize the Content Matching system you do have an option.

You can set up a separate campaign with lower bid prices for your keywords and only enable content matching for this campaign. Remove the content matching option from your original campaign and voila! you've minimized your risk.

A few more notes on Google Campaign Optimization

I can't stress enough the importance of getting a good Click Through Ratio (CTR) for your best target keywords. Google has really offered you a chance to save some big time money if you know how to get a good CTR for your ads and keywords.

Getting a good CTR allows Google to sell more ad space which makes them more money. Google transfers some of this money to you the advertiser by increasing your ranking within their search results it displays for your keywords, at no additional cost.

That's right, if you can write relevant ads for your target keywords you don't necessarily have to pay the higher bid prices for those keywords that your competitors are paying. More money saved!

Advantages of the Google Adwords System

- Highly configurable system with an intuitive web-based interface.

- Reporting system is near real-time so you can tweak campaigns on the fly

- Since their system is web based you can access your account at any time.

- Good list of Free tools and guides (although third party tools may still be required)

- Rewards advertisers that pay attention to providing relevant content to their search clients not necessarily the highest bidder. Get a better CTR and your ads are cheaper.

- Geo-targeting capabilities. Target by City, Country or display your ads Globally.

- Multiple ad delivery systems. Content and Search listings, Partner Network listings, Email.

- Multiple keyword matching options including the ability to 'filter' keywords.

- Reasonable minimum startup cost of $5 with no monthly minimum spend requirements

- They have licensed their search results to several other large search engines improving your web site's exposure to people that don't use Google as their main search portal.

- Free ROI tracking tools.

- Minimum bid is a reasonable $0.05 USD.

Disadvantages of the Google Adwords System

- Learning curve can cost you a lot of money.

- Not the most expensive PPC search engine but certainly more expensive than all other PPCs except Yahoo-Overture

- Click fraud is an unavoidable risk.

- Content matching system does not always deliver the same ROI as their search listings. If both ad delivery systems are enable for a particular campaign the content match results can lower your overall campaign CTR and get keywords disabled.

- Support system is email template driven. It can take you a few tries to get the information you REALLY need from Google's support.

- Interface does not indicate what your competitors are bidding, only the maximum bid for any particular keyword, making the implementation of bidding strategies much more difficult.

Google Adwords Resources: Google Adwords Homepage

About the Author

Michael Lawrence is the webmaster for the Cobrasurf Directory of search engine optimization resources. He also publishes an SEO Blog, SEO Web Guide featuring SEO articles, news, tools and services.