Do you feel like you are spending a lot of money on PPC but that you are getting little in return? For small business owners and internet entrepreneurs, spending even a couple thousand dollars on PPC can feel like an incredible amount of money. To ensure that your ads actually bring your business results and to make the most out of your PPC investment, implement some of these money-saving tips.

1. Make sure your ads are geographically targeted. If you are a dry cleaner in Brooklyn, only place ads for people in your local area. This will help to lower ad impression, raise CTR, and give you better ROI and a higher quality score.
2. Use the negative keywords match feature to your advantage. When you use the negative keywords match feature, you can filter out keywords for which you do not want your ads to show. The words “free” and “cheap” are common elements of negative keyword phrases. For example, if you sell web templates, surely you don’t want people searching for “free web templates” to click on your ad. You will have to pay for those extra clicks and all of those unwanted impressions will lower your CTR. Use the negative keywords match feature to filter out such negative keywords. However, you may find that some negative keywords would be of benefit to your campaign. Go to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, choose “negative” in the drop down menu under Match Type, and determine which negative keywords may serve you.
3. Create separate ad groups, ads, and landing pages. Rather than targeting a slew of keywords with one ad and one landing page, group similar keywords in individual ad groups, create individual ads for them, and then point them to your designated landing pages. By doing so, you can improve your CTR and conversion rates because the landing pages will be more relevant to the terms that users are searching for.
4. Use ad scheduling. Ad scheduling allows you to control the day and time that your ads appear. For example, if your business offers a special Tuesday deal, you can schedule your ad campaign so that your ads promoting the Tuesday deal only show on Tuesdays. Or if you are running your ads 24 hours a day, you might find that by running them only during a certain time frame of the day instead, you get better conversions. Let’s say you have a health website. You will probably get more clicks and conversions in the morning for keywords like, “morning after pill,” “morning sickness,” “morning headache,” and “hangover.”

Don’t use broad match. Many people are simply unaware of the different keyword match features that are available in Adwords. By default in an Adwords campaign, your keywords are set as a “broad match.” The problem with broad match is that your ads will show up when people search for different variations of your keywords, even if they are not on your keyword list. Google is likely to consider many words as relevant when they are really not. Use the “phrase” keyword match type to ensure that your ads only show up when people search for the exact keywords on your list.

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In this article we are going to cover how to monetize your website, This is actually one of the most fun parts of building a money making website. Monetizing is actually how your website is going to generate an income, there are many ways to monetize a website but monetizing should be done last after you have found a theme for your website, after you have found your target audience, after you have your content, monetizing your site is the absoluet last step. The only way to monetize your site effectively is to have a clear vision of where your site is going.

What is Monetizing

Believe it or not this is actually the easy part. This is where you convert warm, willing-to-buy Presold visitors into income. At the Monetize level your visitors are eager and ready to buy, basically they have their wallets out and ready to purchase. There are many ways to add income streams to a website, your job is to guide your visitors to these monetizing outlets by using your content and then preselling to your visitor, preselling will raise your monetizing conversion rates.

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In my previous list building article I was discussing how to drive massive amounts of traffic to your squeeze page. Though very effective, the traffic sources I listed were also very beginner friendly. Today I’m going to take it to the next level and show you have to drive even more traffic, with some more advanced resources – note that these aren’t supposed to replace the resources in the last article, they are meant to be add-ons to your overall traffic strategy.

But before we get started on that we need to take a close look at your conversion tracking…

Conversion Tracking & Split Testing

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Welcome to the third article in my list building series. In the first two articles I discussed ?how to set up your squeeze page? and ?how to write your follow up series?. Today I?m going to show you the next step – how to drive traffic to your squeeze page, and how to make sure that traffic converts into new subscribers, and thus money in your pocket.

There are hundreds of ways to generate traffic – I?m going to focus on the ones I use the most, which of course also are the most effective for me. As with the other articles I?m going to rank theses step by step – note that it does not mean that #1 is the best, it means that I believe #1 to be the easiest to master and get results from. You don?t have to use all the traffic sources, you need to figure out what works best for you and how many sources you can use effectively. But at the same time you don?t want to limit yourself to just one source.

You will always hear a lot of people say that this and that traffic source does not work or does not create results. I couldn?t disagree more, there is no such thing as bad traffic. It?s what you do with your traffic that matters – what offer you present and how you do it. Sure you will likely get a better conversion rate from PPC than you will from traffic exchanges – but at the end of the day, what matters is your return on investment (money or time). Comparing conversion rates across methods is like comparing apples to oranges, but you can compare cost per sign up and use that to find the traffic methods that work best for you.

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Welcome to the second installment in my survey based, list building article series. Today I?m going to show you how to write a great email follow up series for your auto responder.

But first of all? the strategies I?m about to reveal won?t make much if you didn?t read my last article. Afterall it does not make sense to write a follow up series unless you are actually building a list. So, if you missed it last week – please go read How To Set Up Your Squeeze Page? first.

The Meat & Potatoes?

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I?m always telling entrepreneurs how a big list of targeted subscribers is crucial for successful email marketing campaigns.

But the truth is, even with hundreds or thousands of eager subscribers, most marketers don?t have a clue how to make the most of their email marketing strategies.

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There are basically two types of bloggers in the world – reporters and experts – and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it?s hard for reporters to become experts, but it?s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I?ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

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