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Traffic is the most essential element for making sales online and is also the greatest challenge for online marketers. And without sales, there's no flow of money and no profit. Whereas most small business owners and entrepreneurs tackle the issue of traffic by looking for free sources, while big companies and marketers have discovered they can simply buy traffic through Google AdWords.

Paid advertising online has a real benefit, in that it can be scaled! Increasing traffic (and profits!) is just a matter of pushing a few buttons once you've found your keywords. Google AdWords bring almost immediate results, where search engine optimization takes much longer.

When you buy traffic through AdWords or other types of paid advertising, you are using what is often considered to be the most cost effective strategy for increasing targeted traffic. The only problem is making sure your website is designed with sales in mind so you don't quickly lose money.

With paid traffic, the results are immediate, often yielding hundreds of thousands provided you use proper keywords and marketing. The best part is you can turn that traffic on and off, much like a light switch.

The easiest method of getting traffic is to buy it. When a marketer makes big claims of high monthly revenue, say in the hundreds of thousands each month, you can bet he or she is buying traffic from one source or another.

The way to most effectively use Google AdWords is to have a strategy in place for turning visitors into customers before the marketing elements even begin. Once a visitor reaches your site, if it isn't geared toward making sales, you'll lose what could have been a customer, and your AdWords dollars will disappear down the drain.

If you are going to buy traffic in any form, it is critical that everything about your website is perfect. Unless all the details regarding your site are flawless, you will have wasted everything you spent to pull in your traffic.

Since you now have the website scrubbed and polished, you can begin buying traffic from Google AdWords. As you look at revenues, what is considered a healthy return?

If you invest $20 in clicks and you return $24 in revenue, is that good? What do you think? A profit of 20%!

Now think about playing at a higher level, say, $1,000 for your advertising with a return of $1,400! Let's say you spent $10,000 for your AdWords campaign and returned $12,000. At these levels, 20% starts to look really good. With a paid advertising campaign, even a 10% return is wonderful.

There are some marketers who spend over $!0,000 a day with PPC and they return a healthy profit with their investment. To keep from having to ship products or deal with customers, a lot of marketers basically just push traffic with a direct link.

You'll be much more successful with AdWords if you make sure you learn all you can before you begin. Free traffic is usually the place to start before looking into the realm of paid traffic. Of course, if you feel you have what it takes, maybe you should go ahead with AdWords first.

It's no exaggeration that millions of dollars can be made from paid advertising. People from all walks of life have found great success by taking advantage of AdWords.

Work smarter not harder
David Arena http://www.bigtopbusiness.com
http://www.bigtopmarketing.blogspot.com

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by Fran

5 Killer Techniques - How To Profit From Adwords.

Internet marketing is one of the hottest ways to make money today: With the right product or service, there is a lot of money to be made. One of the most popular ways of marketing a product or a service is through Google Adwords. If you've never heard of or only have a vague understanding of Adwords, you must thoroughly research and understand how Adwords work before you sign up for an Adwords account.

Do a quick online search, and you'll find there are thousands of articles, ebooks, and courses dedicated to Adwords. Read everything you can, remembering that not everything you read is 100 percent accurate. Knowing how to use Adwords will ultimately help you make money with Adwords.

Following are five techniques that illustrate how to profit from Adwords:

1. Bid on keywords in odd amounts. Even if the amount is only a few cents, you'll find that it gives you better ad placement than other Adwords users have.
   
2. Make sure your ad leads to a complete Web site that gives your visitors the information for which they're looking.
   
3. Keep track of your Adwords campaign. You must always test and tweak your ads to ensure they are as effective as possible. For example, run two distinctly different ads then analyze them to see which got the most clicks. Drop the one with fewer clicks and replace it with a new ad then analyze again and repeat the process.
   
4. Choose the best keywords for your target market. Put yourself in your prospective customers' shoes: What search terms would YOU use if you were one of your prospective customers? Bidding on the best keywords is essential to the overall success of your Adwords campaign.
   
5. Write compelling headlines that will draw people to your ad. Writing compelling Ad headlines is a skill that takes practice, so don't give up if your headlines don't draw large amounts of traffic to your Web site. Keep practicing, and eventually you'll be able to write attention-grabbing headlines.
   

Understanding Adwords isn't difficult. In fact, you will probably be able to learn everything you need to know in a relatively short period. However, remember that you have to continuously educate yourself about marketing if you want to get ahead, and stay ahead, of the competition. Keep a close eye on the competition to see what they're doing.

You may initially be intimidated by Adwords, but if you use the techniques you learn from Adwords experts or in online adwords courses , you'll better be able to plan an effective campaign.

By Scott Jason

Ever heard of the 90/10 pay per cliíck rule? Basically it says that 90% of PPC success is enjoyed by only the top 10% of advertisers who know the inside methods to getting the most from their PPC campaign. And oddly enough, it's basically true. Especially when it comes to Google's AdWords, which offers the most advanced methods to help advertisers get their money's worth (and then some!)

Some people use PPC as their primary source of search engine marketing while others use it as a way to get steady supplemental targeted traffíc. As an SEO professional I've developed PPC campaigns for my clients so they get targeted traffíc while the organic optimization is ramping up, which often takes weeks or months. Whatever the reason, PPC is a good way for any online business owner to get targeted traffíc and a great way for those who know how to use the system to their advantage. And that's exactly what this article will do for you.

But before we dive in, just why is AdWords so valuable? There are plenty of reasons but for starters...

1.) AdWords listings are seen by more than 80% of all Internet users on millions of sites ranging from Google and AOL to very specific niche locations it would otherwise take forever to research and manage independent advertising accounts with.

2.) Your ads can be targeted specifically by region or language.

3.) Ads that you can constantly update and test are a great way to test what keywords are really best for targeting in your organic SEO efforts, which can be very time consuming and expensive.

Step 1: Get an AdWords Account

If you don't already have an AdWords account, it's easy enough to sign up for at http://adwords.google.com. Once you have your account you can begin creating ads and finding the best keywords. Actually, you can use Google's free AdWords keyword research tool even without an account by visiting:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.

Step 2: Develop a Killer Ad

Here are the things to know about ad development broken out by Title and Body...

Ad Title:

1.) Use targeted keywords NOT your company name

2.) Mention a benefit, rather than a feature.

3.) Take advantage of the "Dynamic Titles" feature by entering the following code in your title "{KeyWord: Your Keyword}" (without quotes.) This allows you to use the same ad body text with a dynamically generated title that matches exactly what the searcher is looking for and makes your ad the most relevant it can be. By the way, this is case sensitive; "{KeyWord: Your Keyword}" will make the first letter of each word capitalized while "{keykord: your keyword}" will make it all lower case.

Ad Body:

The body or text of your ad need only do two things; hook 'em and then reel 'em in. The hook is something that peaks their interest such as "íncrease your profíts with XYZ software." While reeling them in involves what traditional marketers refer to as a "call to action." This might be "Download your Free 30 day Tríal now."

Note: Do not over capitalize your ad. At best just capitalize the words you feel are most important to the viewer. It's OK to capitalize the first letter of each word in the title but not the body.

Step 3: Maximize URL Usage

While we're on the subject of what the searcher sees in your ad, we need to consider the URL. Google will let you make the visible URL different than the actual URL leading to the landing page where the visitor will end up after clicking your ad. This is huge! Take advantage of it.

This feature will let you test multiple landing pages in your ads to see what pages are converting sales best while showing the visitor the "display" URL for your product. Let's say the landing page being tested in this particular ad is "...com/XYZ/purchase3.htm." When that ad gets clicked you will soon see if "/purchase3.htm" is converting better than "/purchase1.htm." But here's the magic... By using a display URL of "...com/XYZ/" , and actually having the product there as well, you are building your brand and providing a visual queue for users to manually type in the URL if for some reason your landing page is unavailable.

Step 4: Use Special Keyword Advantages

Obviously keywords are a very big factor in the success of your campaign. Choosing the best keywords is extremely important and using Google's "Keyword Matching Options" can help take your great keywords one step further. Just clíck the "Advanced option: match types" link when setting up your ads and choose from the following...

1.) Broad Match: Is the default and will show your ad each time all of the keywords in your keyword phrase are entered.

2.) Phrase Match: Looks for the order of words in your keyword phrase and only shows your ad if the order matches. Your ad will still show if your phrase is any part of the search query, but only if the word order is the same.

3.) Exact Match: This is the most stringent and will only present your ad if your exact keyword phrase, and ONLY your exact keyword phrase, is used.

4.) Negative Match: This is a nice feature that will stop your ad from showing if a word appears in the search query that you don't want to get clicks for. The most common example is "free" which would eliminate you paying for clicks from people who just want a free version of what you offer.

Step 5: Find and Use the Best Keywords

Now for the most important aspect of your PPC campaign; keyword selection. The more targeted keywords you can find, the better. Google offers a great free keyword tool as we discussed early on. Here are the qualities to look for in your keywords:

1.) A good "Average Search Volume" rating (check out the blue bars)

2.) A high search volume for the previous month (especially true for seasonal topics)

3.) The lowest possible "Advertiser Competition" rating

4.) Look for common misspellings and use the "exact match" feature to get plenty of low cost targeted traffíc.

5.) Scroll down the page and find hidden gems that others miss. There are a lot for those who look carefully enough.

Insider Tip: You can also collect hundreds of low volume keywords, put them in a spreadsheet for easy upload and use the "Dynamic Title" feature we discussed earlier to generate hundreds of low cost highly targetëd leads.

Professional Tip: SEO professionals typically use specialized keyword selection and SpySoftware because it does weeks worth of work in a matter of hours. Keyword Elite for example, can generate thousands of valuable keywords in minutes and does "ethical spying" that exposes the competition and makes placement takeover easy.

That's all you need to know to join the top 10% of PPC advertisers getting the most out of their campaigns with minimal effort. Best of luck!

About The Author

Scott Jason has been an SEO professional since 1999 and is the founder of BestSEOcopywriting. He has developed and managed PPC campaigns for both small companies and corporate giants alike.