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Here's a 4-Step System for Driving Up Your Traffic while Lowering Your PPC Ads Spend - Making Money From Google Adsense.

As an online business, your goal should be to show up on the first page of search results for as many related keywords and keyword phrases as possible. Preferably on the first page of the biggest Search Engine - Google. Google accounts for 65% of all internet searches in the U.S. So thats where you want to be - whether you're a business or a blogger wanting to make money through Pay Per Click (PPC) programs.

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising - like Google Adsense - can be immensely powerful if you know what you're doing.

If you're a newbie at all this, don't stress - we all had to start somewhere. It's a bit of a struggle at first but its worth it when you go to check your Adsense account and there's money there. Kerching!

And if you're already an experienced PayPerClick operator I bet there's some tips here that can make you even more money. -

Why Pay-Per-Click?

On search results pages, there are two parts. First there are natural search results - what the boffins call Organic Results. And then there are sponsored links - paid for links. In the image on the left, the natural (organic) search results are boxed in blue and the sponsored links are boxed in red.
PPC Google Adsense

To get your website to show up in natural (organic) search results, you have to master "search engine optimization" (SEO).

Finding the Best Keywords

You can start building a PPC keyword list now, with these 4 steps:

Expand - come up with as many keywords and phrases as possible
Target - refine the keywords you chose (for Google)
Group - separate keywords into groups with matching ad copy
Scrub - eliminate the unnecessary keywords

Step 1: Expand Your List

To begin, think about your product/service. What is it? What does it do? You must know what you are selling/providing and be able to define it accurately.

Also, you know who you are trying to sell to better than anyone, thus you need to think about your customers: what problems are they trying to solve? How might they go about looking for your product or service on a search engine? What point are they at in the purchasing cycle – are they searching for information or ready to buy? Put yourself in your customer's shoes.

Be creative and expansive in your choice of keywords and phrases. Let your mind wander. Spend some time brainstorming and develop your own list of keywords and key phrases.

Tip: UseKeyword Variations

Once you have expanded your list of key terms, expand keyword variations. On search engines, variations such as synonyms, plurals, different verb tenses, and common misspellings of your keywords are unique! So use this to your advantage as you start to build out your list.

Here is an example of common keyword variations to help you brainstorm on how to grow your list.

1) Singular vs. Plural - enter these separately into Google. "Used car" and "used cars" are entirely different keywords in the eyes of a search engine.

2) Hyphens matter! - Often you might come up with a keyword phrase such as "self help." What you might not realize is that lots of people will enter the same phrase as "self-help" or even as "selfhelp." If you don't add "self-help" and "selfhelp" to your keyword list, you might be missing out on half the market!

3) Vary the verb - Different people express themselves differently so use the different variations of verbs. Example: "Learn to play guitar" and "Learning to play guitar."

4) Adjectives - Many people use adjectives when searching such as "new, brand new, best, quality, cheap, free, premium, etc."

5) Use website names - For most people, Google has become the onramp to the internet. As a result, when people want to navigate to a site, they often search for domains such as "www.camping.com" or "camping.com." So be sure to include the relevant domain names and all their variations in your keyword list.

6) Misspellings - Use common misspellings to your advantage! When searching online, users commonly misspell words and phrases they are looking for. As an example, barbecue is often misspelled as barbeque or bar-b-que. Don't leave out any misspellings that might attract customers to your ad!

Recommended Free Keyword Selection Tools

After your first brainstorm, you will come up with dozens or perhaps even a few hundred keywords. However, don't stop now. Use these FREE tools below to grow your list in no time by up to 1,000%! You want your keyword list to include as many relevant keyword phrases as possible and the tools below are critical to help you get there.

The tools here are especially powerful to help you come up with keyword phrases that are 3 or 4 keywords long. These are harder to find on your own but often the longer the keyword phrase, the more targeted and valuable it will be for you. Compare a keyword such as "guitar" to "how to play guitar" - the longer keyword phrase gives you much more information about what the customer is looking for!

The following tools are very useful in growing your keyword list:

Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool

Find a list of matching as well as related keywords and keyword phrases in English and in other languages. It is by far the single most powerful free keyword suggestion tool.

Overture (Yahoo!) Keyword Selector Tool

This tool is easy to use and provides a list of related keyword phrases containing your keyword. It also shows the number of times your term was searched on Yahoo! in the previous month. Note, this tool lumps plural and singular terms together. That is fine for Yahoo! but for advertising in Google, you want to make sure you include them separately.

Wordtracker

Wordtracker is better for advanced online marketers. Its a paid service and the others are free. But Wordtracker can help you save a lot of time as you come up with the most comprehensive keyword list.

Here's some more powerful FREE tools that will help you to get additional ideas for more keywords phrases.

Ask.com - The Ask Jeeves search engine automatically suggests (1) more precise keyword phrases and (2) related topics you might not yet have thought of.

Clusty.com - Clusty is a new search engine that automatically suggests the major topics for any given keyword or keyword phrase. It is an excellent tool to come up with other keyword ideas and keyword groups.

Google Suggest - Suggests popular keyword phrases.

goRank - Search for related words that you may not have considered or otherwise overlooked.

Amazon.com - This can be a great inspiration for keywords. Just type in one of the keywords that you have in mind and see what books have been written that contain the keyword or phrase. This will help give you more ideas.

Thesaurus.com - A thesaurus will give you a variety of useful synonyms that you can include in your lists. It is sometimes a great way to get fresh ideas that you might not have otherwise thought of.

LexFN.com – allows you to search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator.

Check Your Internal Site Searches

If you have a search engine on your own website, go and find out what people are searching for on your site. This can further help you grow your keyword list.

Watch Your Competition

By now you should have an excellent keyword list. However, if you want to keep pushing and brainstorm some more, find out what keywords your competition is targeting.

Enter some of the top keywords and keyword phrases that you have identified above and enter them into Google. Now scan the search results for more keywords and keyword phrases. After all, the top sites that show up in Google, are your competitors. They are currently in the position that you would like your site to be in.

Check out what your competitors are doing! How? Go to their site and click on View and then Page Source in your internet browser and look at the tags.

Another useful tool is GoogSpy, which allows you to effortlessly browse by "company" or by "keyword" and see which terms your competitors are buying on Google. Note, however, that you cannot see every competitor and every keyword, but you can certainly get a good idea.

Having LOTS of keywords is half the battle to win new markets and acquire traffic for low bid prices.

Investing time to grow your keyword list is time well spent!

Okay - now we go on to Step 2.

Step 2: Target Your List (for Google)

Now that you have a great initial list of keywords, it's time to refine your keyword list to include the best possible words and phrases that will most accurately relate to your ads.

To help you get started, Google offers some powerful keyword matching options to help you further broaden and narrow the reach of your online advertising campaign. These options are called

broad match
phrase match
exact match
negative keyword match

Google allows you to use any or all of these options simultaneously.

1) Broad Match (default setting in Google)

Google automatically uses the broad match setting for all keywords. You need to be careful with broad matching because it triggers all the search results, regardless of the order of search terms.

Broad match example:

search term: camping gear
For what keyword phrases would the ad show up?

gear for camping (keyword phrase contains both terms in any order)
camping and hiking gear (keyword phrase contains both terms in any order)
Caution: Broad match can be a very powerful way to get your keywords additional exposure for keyword phrases that you did not think about. However, it might also get your ads displayed for searches that are irrelevant. This could potentially be very costly since visitors that come from irrelevant search terms are unlikely going to end up buying your product.

You can use the three additional options Google provides to complement broad matching.

2) "Phrase Match"

When you add quotation marks around a keyword phrase, such as "camping gear," you ensure that only search terms with "camping" followed by "gear" will display your ad.

Phrase match example:

search term: "camping gear"
For what keyword phrases would the ad show up?

winter camping gear (contains keyword phrase)
best camping gear (contains keyword phrase)
3) [Exact Match]

Place brackets around a keyword when you want your ad to appear only when a searcher types in a specific term. The term [camping gear] will only feature your ad for the exact term "camping gear," and not "winter camping gear" or "eddie bauer camping gear."

Exact match example:

search term: [camping gear]
For what keyword phrases would the ad show up?

camping gear (only exact match)
Using [exact match] is clearly the safest of the three options since it only displays your ads exactly for the keywords that you have approved. However, it is also the most limiting since you will not be able to get increased exposure for keyword phrases that you have not yet thought about.

Fortunately, there is an additional matching option that makes broad match and phrase match far more powerful.

4) Negative Keyword Match

When you use broad match and phrase match you cannot anticipate all of the keywords and keyword phrases that your ads might show up for. However, from your keyword research, you will quickly see keywords that are undesirable. Start a list of all the keywords that you see that you don't like and add a hyphen "-" in front of them. Adding negative keywords is crucial for a successful campaign.

For the keyword:

gucci handbags
Negative keyword examples would look like:

-fake
-used
The above keyword list contains a broad match for the keyword phrase gucci handbags and two negative keywords fake and used.

For what keyword phrases would the ad show up?

cheap gucci handbags
gucci and kate spade handbags
For what keyword phrases would the ad NOT show up for?

fake gucci handbags
used prada and gucci handbags
Google will never show your ad when the search query includes the negative keyword. Building a detailed list of negative keywords is critical.

The single best way to identify negative keywords quickly is to use the Overture (Yahoo!) or Google AdWords keyword suggestion tools. If you enter any keyword or keyword phrase, they will list for you all the similar search queries, including all the keywords that you don't want your ads to show up for.

Reminder: Since it's impossible to anticipate all the combinations of keywords that users will be typing into search engines, take full advantage of the broad match, phrase match, and exact match options, and have a solid list of negative keywords to avoid having your ads show up for irrelevant keyword phrases.

Getting a winning keyword list containing all of the delimiters for phrase and exact matching in Google can be hard work, but the AdWords Wrapper free online tool does a lot of the work for you.

Step 3: Group Related Keywords

Now that you have a comprehensive list of keywords, it is crucial that you sort them under separate groups. Because you can only have ONE ad copy for ONE group of keywords, you want each of your keyword groups to have matching ad copy.

Why is This so Important?

1. When the copy of your ad matches the keyword phrase, users are far more likely to click on it.

Our tests have shown that this simple practice can significantly boost the click-through-rate of your ads by up to 100%.

2. Once they click on your PPC ads, the page where you send visitors to (called the landing page) must be tailored and relevant to the visitor.

Obviously, someone looking for a "canon digital camera" is looking for something different than someone looking for a "sony digital camera." Only when you group your keywords can you show specific ad copy which sends visitors to targeted landing pages.

3. You know how much or how little to bid for your keywords.

For example: Someone looking for "cameras" is probably less likely to buy than someone looking for a specific model such as "Cannon EX 650." The conversion rates will be very different for different groups of keywords. As Google allows you to vary the maximum amount you are willing to pay per click, when you group keywords well, you can know how much you should pay per click. (This is covered in further detail in another tactic on bidding strategies).

4. You can beat your competitors!

Studies have shown the majority of online advertisers fail to group their ads sufficiently.

As the image on the left demonstrates, even for the popular keyword phrase email marketing only 1 out of 4 online advertisers has a headline in their ad that matches the copy. Why? Because more likely than not, the other advertisers have far too many keywords in each group of keywords, which prevents them from having highly targeted ads.
keywords in title

The above points are worth repeating because they are so important!

So, put yourself in a far better position to succeed, and start grouping them with these tips in mind:

When should a keyword phrase have its own group?

When a lot of people search for it!

Take a look at the screenshot of Overture's Keyword Selector Tool on the left. Although the keyword phrases similar to internet marketing online are almost identical, you can split them into separate groups because so many people are looking for each specific keyword phrases. It is a good opportunity to show very specific ad copy MATCHING those phrases.
Overture

Google Tip

In Google, splitting singular and plural popular keywords into different groups can further boost the performance of your ads. For popular keywords, even splitting hyphens into different ad groups can pay off handsomely. While people searching for self help or self-help are looking for the same thing, you want to split these phrases into different ad groups so that in one group the copy of your ad says self help and in the other group the copy of your ad says self-help. This alone can boost the click-through-rate by 50%! Paying attention to detail and using lots of groups can go a long way!

Step 4: Scrub Your List

Have you included all the necessary relevant keywords, specified negative keywords and keyword matching criteria, and included keyword variations such as nouns, verbs, hyphens, plurals, and synonyms? Do a final sanity check:

Eliminate all irrelevant and ambiguous keywords that might generate results that don’t include what your customers are looking for.

And this is a continuous process:

You should monitor your performance and profitability of all your online marketing campaigns, at the keyword or at least at the group level. You will start to see which ad groups are profitable and which are not.
For the unprofitable groups, lower the maximum average bid and if the campaign continues to be unprofitable, scrub your list and throw this ad group out. Don’t get attached to keywords or ad groups. Even if the keywords are highly relevant for your products or site. If a campaign is not profitable, bid less or throw it out!
Over time, you will likely be able to delete non-converting keywords and cut your ad costs by up to 50%. This is why tracking and measuring your ROI and profitability is so important.

Summary

Always remember the 4 steps, and use the tools we recommended to save yourself time and effort.

Expand - come up with as many keywords and phrases as possible
Target - refine the keywords you chose (for Google)
Group - separate keywords into groups with matching ad copy
Scrub - eliminate the unnecessary keywords
You should now be equipped with the knowledge and the tools to rapidly build and grow your keyword list for your PPC campaigns, match the right ads, and watch your profits grow.

What you've just read is an extract from the PPC Section of Mind Valley Labs Ecommerce Course. These guys know their stuff - they're ex eBay and Microsoft. The entire section on PPC covers 5 chapters. Make Money with Google Adsense

Oh boy...this is brilliant! I got these Keyword Optimization Tips from a buddy of mine that works for a SEO - a Search Engine Optimization company. He said he shouldn't be telling me this stuff but I got it out of him anyway after plying him with drinks and a bloody big pizza. Here's what he revealed.

We all want to be on the First Page of Google or Yahoo and MSN - that's a given. 75% of people don't go past the first page of a search engine. So Poll Position is page one and preferably up the top of page one. How do you get there? With optimized keywords or phrases and good original content. There's no point in building a website or a webpage around terms that are going to be buried under a mass of opposition. So the first thing you need to establish is How Competitive is the Keyword? The more popular a keyword, the more tweaking you're going to have to do to get it ranked high.

Perform a Search
To find out how competitive a keyword is, first we find out how many other pages come up when you do a search for that word (or phrase).

Like this. Suppose we're building a site around the keywords Tattoo Removal.

When I enter those words into Google I get 2,190,000 results. This means Google is throwing up all mentions of tattoo and removal - whether they're relevant or not - sometimes those words are just used in passing so if you were seriously looking for tattoo removal treatments, that listing wouldn't be much use to you. BTW I found this YouTube video while I was on about Page Ten - it's very short and pretty funny. The tats still look crap though.

Refine the Search
So we can refine the search just by enclosing the keywords in quotation marks. Like this "tattoo removal". And now the number of results drops to 1,280,000. This means Google has found the exact phrase tattoo removal in that order somewhere on a page. But this is still a lot of potential competitors.

Narrowing the Search
So what we do now is further refine the search to see how many other punters are optimizing for that keyword phrase - optimimizing by using the keywords in their title. All we do is enter allintitle:"tattoo removal". Don't forget the colon or the inverted commas. And now the results drop dramatically to just 34,500. That's more like it. Suddenly we're not up against 2 Million odd competitors but 34,500. But it looks like there's still going to be too much competition to be able to get a high ranking easily.

Text Links & Anchor Text
So now we use another tool at our disposal - text links and anchor text - the clickable text of a link. These are Incoming Links to your website that search engines use to figure your site's popularity. If you add keywords to the anchor text it will increase rankings for the site that is being linked to - it's a good idea to build incoming links that contain your desired keyword phrase in the anchor text.
So now we can check for anchor text on our search. If we type in allinanchor:“tattoo removal" it will show only pages in which the anchor text on links to the pages contain the words “tattoo removal".
Google shows 28,000 pages that have linked the phrase “tattoo removal” pointing to them. This is the hard-core competition - the guys that know their SEO techniques.

So What have We Got?
Our Keyword Phrase is: Tattoo Removal.
There are 2,190,000 results on Google.
When we narrow the search with All in Title we get 34,500.
When we enter All in Anchor we get 28,000.

Going on these figures it would be quite hard to get ranked highly - at least on Google. My SEO buddy says you want no more than a Million mentions on Google and less than 1,000 “allintitle” and less than 3,000 “allinanchor.” And the formula to work this out is here -

The EF Ratio to Determine Keyword Competitiveness

The EF Ratio is the number of Exact Matches (searches with quotes around the keyword) divided by Find All Results (search without quotes) multiplied by 100 to give a percentage. The higher the percentage the more difficult to get a high ranking.

So "tattoo removal" (Exact Search in quotes) returned 1,280,000 in Google and tattoo removal (Find All no quotes) returned 2,190,000 results.
1,280,000 divided by 2,190,000 X 100 = 58.4 % which means this term is way too competitive and achieving high rankings will be pretty difficult.

How about that eh? Of course you could buy a Keyword Optimizer that will do all this for you - like this one. But that may only be viable if you have heaps of sites or are into this full-time. The rest of us can probably just get by with this free method. The secret, of course, as far as Adsense ads are concerned, is to choose High-Paying Keywords. So you might want to read this. Finally, you can cross-check your findings with this Free Keyword Difficulty Checker below. This tool issues a percentage score that indicates how difficult it would be to rank on the first page for this term; higher percentages mean greater difficulty.

Keyword Difficulty Check Tool © SEO Chat™ Keyword Enter a keyword or keyword phrase Enter Captcha To Continue To prevent spamming, please enter in the numbers and letters in the box below Report Problem with Tool.

Malcolm Lambe is an Australian blogger/vlogger living in Paris and trying to make a living online (with some success).

This is a Great Article on Search Engine Optimization - a great article. It comes from Mind Valley Labs. This is fantastic advice - So How Do You Get Your Site Well Positioned?

Fortunately, there is an ethical way to get high search engine placement.

What we're going to reveal here is a tried and tested 9-month system pioneered by James Glog, the founder of a successful startup in Silicon Valley. James wouldn't let us reveal his real name - but let's just say that James is on a first name basis with several engineers in Google and has a solid understanding of how to ethically get a good Google ranking.

The key word here (no pun intended) being "ethically".

The philosophy James preaches is not about manipulating search engines. It is about understanding how they work and how to plan your site marketing strategy so that you can achieve good rankings in a reasonable amount of time.

James helped us prepare a detailed spreadsheet outlining his system. The beauty of this spreadsheet is that it will make sure you hit all the necessary points to ensure your site gets good placement.

It won't happen fast (any SEO specialist who promises you fast results are usually lying through their smiles) - but James says you'll see dramatic results in 9 months.

So here's what we're going to reveal in this lesson:

First, We'll start this lesson with 11 Critical Steps you need to take to make sure your site is search engine friendly. If you aren't following these best practices, you should start now.
After these steps we'll give you the main item - the Comprehensive SEO Checklist from James. You can download it at the end of this lesson. This organized list covers every single strategy you need to implement to boost your rankings.
11 Rapid Ways to Get a Top Ranking in Any Search Engine

Search engines don't read information like humans do. They follow specific rules.

Here's 11 things you can do to speak their language.

1) Optimize Your URLs

If you have not yet picked a domain name for your website, don't try to go for "mykeyword.com." Instead, try to pick a name that you want to build your company and/or a brand around.

If you are into online marketing, do you really want to have a site that is called "Online-Marketing-Tips.com" or "Online-Marketing-Guru.com?" How memorable is that?

We decided to call our website MindValley Labs for this same reason - to build on the MindValley brand rather than trying to go for short term SEO gains by using a URL like Top-Conversion-Secrets.com or something similarly cheesy.

2) Optimize Your Page Title, h1 and h2 Headers

Create a short relevant title (60 characters max). Have the keywords appear first. Adding stuff such as home page in the title tag will only decrease your Google ranking.

The headline at the top of your page should use the H1 HTML header. The sub-headline should follow the H2 header. Include your SEO keywords in the headline and sub-headline.

3) Optimize your description and keyword

Add the SEO keywords to the meta tag description. The description should be 200 characters max.

Example: meta name="description" content="Enter description here and include keyword phrase"

Add the SEO keywords to the meta tag keywords. Include 5 keyword phrases max.

Example: meta name="keywords" content="Enter up to 5 keyword phrases, use a comma to separate keyword phrases"

Note: Yes we realize that some SEO experts say that these meta tags are no longer relevant. But since adding them is so easy to do, we feel it's better to be safe than sorry.

4) Optimize your keyword density

Creating a keyword rich content page is a MUST. Be creative, write good content and make frequent use of the keywords you are optimizing for. However, make sure that your keyword density never exceeds 5% for pages with long copy and 10% for pages with little copy. If they do, you might get penalized by the search engines and your ranking will go down.

To find out what the keyword density is on your page use this free Keyword Density Tool:Seochat

5) Spice up your SEO keywords and move them up

Be sure to have your keywords appear at least once in bold, italics, and underlined in the copy. Again, do this once, but don't over do it!

Text towards the top of the page, such as in the first paragraph, counts for more than text further down the page. So, make sure that your keyword phrase is included towards the top of your page.

6) Optimize your text links

The anchor text in your text links is one of the MOST important aspects of SEO and will majorly affect your search engine ranking. It should always include the keywords that you are optimizing for. Here is an example for the keyword phrase "beginner guitar lessons."

This is bad:

Click here - points to http://www.iplaymusic.com/lessons.html

The first mistake is that the URL is not optimized and the second mistake is that the anchor text says "Click here."

Here is a better way:

Beginner Guitar Lessons - points to http://www.iplaymusic.com/lessons.html

Good! The anchor text is now optimized. All links pointing to this page should have the keyword in the anchor text.

Here is the best way:

Beginner Guitar Lessons - points to http://www.iplaymusic.com/beginner-guitar-lessons.html

Perfect! You now have both your URL and the anchor text optimized.

7) Use keyword stemming

Make sure to include all the variations of the keyword that you are optimizing for. Here is an example of keyword stemming. The keyword "optimization" has variations such as "optimal," "optimize," and "optimum." If you include all of the keyword stems (similar words) you can help you get a top search engine position.

Here is a free tool to identify all of the similar words and stems for a given keyword:Using English

8) Optimize image descriptions

Every image can include a description called the "alt text." Make sure that the alt text describes the image and includes the relevant keywords where appropriate.

9) Optimize your site structure

Every "important" page on your site should link to every other "important" page on your site.

Example of good linking structure:

10) Only go two levels deep

Make sure that your site structure is such that pages are only two levels deep (two clicks away from the home page). This is very important because even if your landing page is deemed to be relevant, the deeper pages are buried in your site the less relevant they are deemed by search engines and the harder it is to achieve a top ranking.

Here is an example of an good site structure that is two levels deep.

www.homepage.com

1 page deep: www.homepage.com/products

2 pages deep: www.homepage.com/products/product1

2 pages deep: www.homepage.com/products/product2

1 page deep: www.homepage.com/services

2 pages deep: www.homepage.com/services/service1

It all has to do with PageRank and the reputation of a site. You want to get backward links that point to your main page to build your PageRank. However, even if your main page has a high PageRank of say 6 then the pages inside your site don't all have a PageRank of 6. PageRank is passed along.

11) Add good outbound links

From your key content pages, include links to the best and most relevant content sites. Linking to related authority sites shows that you are trying to help users find the best content and will help you with SEO.

How's that eh? Pretty good advice. Covered in more depth here at Mind Valley Labs.

Did you know you can get some plug-ins to help you with your Adsense program on Wordpress? here's just some of them -

Adsense Deluxe

Adsense Injection

Adsense Inline

Adsense Beautifier - places images beside ads to increase your clicks (CTR) and Adsense earnings.

AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar

MightyAdsense - lets you host the code in Wordpress without having to modify the templates.

AdRotator Wordpress Plugin - with this one you can rotate your adsense ads with other affiliate programs. Said to help reduce ad blindness.

Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin - shows your Adsense earnings within the Wordpress admin panel.

I'm not on Wordpress so I can't vouch for any of these Plug-Ins. But they seem to be pretty good.

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