Are you controlling your targets to be hit in your PPC marketing? You can achieve more success in PPC marketing by improving your adwords campaign using sitetargetsniper.com. Using this tool, you can improve your placement targeting methods. Controlling your ideal targets to be hit is essential to PPC marketing.

Using sitetargetsniper.com, you can hand pick all of the different websites that might relate to your target customers. This can help in improving your adwords campaign and to successful PPC campaigns. This is simple to use, just enter your keywords and it will search all the other sites that respond to the same keywords. Now you can place your own ads to each of the result sites that are using Google Adsense and reach more of your customers.

So take control of your adword campaign targets. You’ll have more success than if you just hand it over to Google and cross your fingers.

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Have you ever bought any electronic device and opened up a very think instruction manual? Good thing there are some that came along with a quick start guide. In no time at all you can start using that device already. What can you learn from this is that, “creating a quick start guide” can help attract people into your business. If you create something that is easy for your customers, for sure they will stick around and it will be beneficial to your business.

For example, in writing sales copy, you want to attract people to buy your product. So one thing you can do to improve your sales copy is by eliminating roadblocks for your customers. So what are the possible roadblocks that prevent your sales letters from conveying your message to the people? As what have been mentioned earlier, with all the competition out there, you want to make things as easy for your customers as possible. Most people would prefer to get all the information right away and would not want to read the 40-page letter just to find out what they can take advantage of.

The next time you write your sales copy, try applying this tip. In addition, try to use also some of the words in your quick start. For example, when a customer sees the word “discover” instead of “learn”, it sounds like a lot less work and a lot more fun.

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Packaging your product is one aspect of marketing strategy that you need to spend quality time thinking critically what could get and hold people's attention. The things that people first see in a product can influence their buying decisions. So take advantage everything that involves in the packaging of your product, the design, the color, etc.. Each of these offers the opportunity to communicate information to people.

Product packaging must be appealing to people in order to attract their attention. If your product looks just like everyone else's, people might just pass right by it until they find one that attracts their attention. So the key is to be unique. Packaging is purposely designed to hold and protect the product but aside from that it can also be a powerful selling tool.

So try to be unique in your packaging and at the same time, try to keep it simple. You want to get your message out there and provide a product that is easy for your customers to use. Just make your packaging memorable and you'll see the difference it make to your sales.


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Talking about adwords, this may seem the most complicated part of internet marketing, because many people still struggle about this part. Basically the main goal of using Google Adwords is that, when someone types a keyword relating to your product or services as a search on Google, your ads will be displayed. Then someone is taken to your site where he will hopefully buy your product or sign up.

What most people do is choose as many keywords as they can and later realized  they are loosing much money on PPC campaigns. Keyword relevancy is the main concern. In PPC, every click is valuable so targeting the right person is important.

What you need to do inorder to have greater success is to determine the relevancy of your keywords. Google is pretty particular now about adword relevancy, so my advise is, pick one. How to boost adwords relevancy? Select one keyword and one adgroup and use exact match. If you do this, your relevancy score on Google will increase, and that’s the goal. Don’t waste your money on 20 or 30 keywords when one can be more effective.

When you have selected your keyword, be sure to use exact match. Then make sure you put that one keyword in your URL, your headline, your description, etc. Make sure the keyword density is high, and you will see greater success.


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One thing that one has to consider when choosing keyword phrases is not just the search volume but also the commercial intention that a particular keyword may have. Finding keywords with commercial intent is one aspect of internet marketing that a lot of people over look when choosing their keywords.

It is important to determine whether the keyword will likely result in sales or not before you bid on that keyword and later found out that you just wasted your money on poor PPC campaigns.There is no easy way to determine the commercial value of a certain keyword, but Microsoft Ad Center Labs has produced a valuable tool to help you accomplish this. All you have to do is enter your keyword in the search box and it will calculate for you the projected success of your keyword. This program specifically calculates keywords with commercial intent and can be of great value to you and your ad campaign.

So take the time to try out a few different keywords. Don't just focus on finding keywords with higher search volumes but also consider the commercial intention that a keyword phrase may have.

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While others pay for some expensive tools for advertising to get traffic for their website, targeted advertising through SEO may still be the most effective and the cheapest way to bring traffic to your website. Have you noticed that on the social networking sites like Facebook, they have some very clever advertising? Each ad is almost always tailored to your specific interests. What these companies have done is taken the information you have plugged into your profile and used that to target you as a potential customer.

For example; if you have entered the name of your favorite band or your favorite music genre into your profile, you might see an ad for a new CD that’s being released. If there’s an advertisement about something you are interested in, it’s more likely to grab your attention. The key here is to use the information that you already have about your customers to your advantage.

Now, let’s apply this concept to search engine optimization. When a customer chooses their keywords and types them into the search query, then that tells you exactly what they are searching for. Now it’s up to you to provide them with the information they need and to secure their business. This is accomplished when you create your “title tag.” Let’s use auto insurance as an example; if you are a company that sells auto insurance, but the only word in your title tag is “Geico,” customers are going to have to work a lot harder to access the information they are looking for and are likely to choose a different company. However, if your title tag is “Geico Auto Insurance,” that makes things a lot easier for the customer. It also makes your job easier because you will be targeting your ideal customers.

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Previously we discussed here about how you can maintain a good reputation online, how you counter bad comments about you. In relation to this, one way of countering bad comments is posting testimonials about you or about the product you sell online or the company as a whole.

Also, you can use testimonials in sales letters. And the more you have, the better off you’ll be! Actually, most of us would probably do a little research first. We would ask around and maybe get a few referrals. The more positive things you hear about something or about the person, the more likely you are to take them your business. That is the value of testimonials.

If you have enough evidence that your system or product works, then more people are likely to purchase from you. It’s up to you to prove you have the best offer. If you have included facts, numbers and testimonials, then customers will have more confidence in you and your products.

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Want to impress your readers right away at the time they see your page? Make them curious about your product or service by capturing their attention right away!

When designing your website, there is a term called, "above the fold", an area in your webpage that is in view without having to scroll up or down and left or right. In the "above the fold" section, put something you really want your customers to see. A good thing to note is that the average computer monitor has an “above the fold” size of about 1000 pixels wide by 578 pixels high. The key is to use this space to grab your customer’s attention.

The term "above the fold" actually referred to a newspaper, which when they are delivered to customers are folded up, meaning that only the top half of the front page is visible. The item that is above the fold, which the editor believed will entice people to buy the paper.

So, if there is something you would like your customers to see, you know where to place it. Use the space to grab attention and if you're successful with it, most likely they are willing to stick around and check the rest of the page.

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Here are main types of keyword selection tools that are commonly used for PPC Keyword Research:
     1. Spy Tools – There are two main types of these and all of them are paid and are often very expensive.

          a) Tools that provide competitor intelligence information (what your competitors are bidding on) that are updated   infrequently.  The disadvantage of these is that they do not provide real time data.  The biggest advantage is that they have large databases with up to 1 billion keywords!  They also often provide SEO keywords that your competitors are optimizing for.  Examples of these include keywordspy.com and spyfu.

          b) Tools that provide real time data that allow you to see assess how long people have been running ads on various keywords.  This should give you the ability to make an educated guess about whether people are making money with certain keywords.  These tools generally focus on keywords that are getting traffic and do have an extensive
database like the ones that are described above.  WARNING: Just because someone else is making money with a particular keyword and/or offer does not guarantee that you will.  There are a LOT of factors such as quality score, ad position, ad copy, landing page and url differences that can drastically affect the profitability of a campaign.  These keyword selection tools will often provide “training” that teaches you to clone other people’s campaigns.  Do not ever do this.  Do your own keyword research!  Trust me on this one.

2. Tools that return long tail and related keywords based on a seed keyword – Some of these are paid while some are free.  Free ones include Google Keyword tool or Yahoo Overture Keyword tool.  An example of a paid tool is wordtracker.com.  These are great as they can save you time so that you don’t have to manually think about all plural versions or past present and future tenses of verbs and other variations that are common with the keyword phrase in question.  These should return to you the majority of closely related keywords that actually are getting traffic so you don’t waste time building campaigns around keywords that no one is searching for.  Everyone should be using these regardless of what other paid services he/she may be using.

3. Tools that use one or more tools described in #2 to save time.  Some of these may provide SEO competition data, filtering options and a variety of other bells and whistles.  Most of these keyword selection tools are paid.  My favorite is Keyword Research Pro as you get advanced filtering options that are not available in excel.  Other examples of such tools are keyword elite, traffic travis etc…All of these keyword selection tools have different advanced features that may or may not help you.  This is not a product review so I will not be getting into the details of these here.

Wise decision is to start to use type #2. My suggestions is do brainstorming on your own and generate the seed keywords that get traffic and plug them into these tools and grabbing all the related ones that you can that are related to your offer. NEVER export keywords from ANY tool and blindly start bidding on them.

Use tool type #3 to save you time once you figure out what you are doing and use tool type #1 sparingly.  Consider these to be a luxury and use them only to get ideas of what might be working or ideas that may help you generate more seed keywords that can be plugged into tool types 2 and 3.

Now that you have an idea about these tools, don't feel pressured to buy the most expensive tool because it is recommended by someone. Be wise enough in using these tools.


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Getting quality score for your landing page will lead to better rankings for your ads and a lower CPC. As search engines strive to provide users with a good experience and trust, there have been some drastic changes to the quality score algorithm. So if you are one those affected by that change, here's what you can do to increase quality score.

Actually there are two categories; short term and long term. These solutions can help get your campaigns running again, assuming that you have not been banned from Google. Remember not to deal with quick fixes that promise you a simple solution as most of these do not offer genuine long term business strategy.

Here is a list of some quick fixes that may help you if you have gotten Google slapped in the last couple of weeks:
  • Cloak your affiliate links - Google has slapped all affiliate sites so you must cloak your links if you want run review style affiliate pages on Ad Words
  • Don't promote scams and/or rebill offers with hidden terms and conditions - if you don't trust the site with your money, then don't promote it
  • Read Google's Terms and Conditions and Don't Violate Them! - I know some of these can be vague but some things are spelled out in there so make sure you are familiar with these
  • Don't promote in scammy/spammy niches such as (this is not an all-inclusive list): teeth whitening, colon cleanse, acai berry, and make money from home - Google has taken a dim view of these niches due to the all the BS affiliates that are out there. Even if you are legitimate, you may get lumped together with everyone else and you may actually get banned for no reason.
  • Don't use fake reviews or fake blogs - no explanation needed.
Here is a list of some long - term business strategies that can help you increase quality score and survive regardless of what Google decides in the future (who knows these days right?)
  • Write original, quality content on a site that you own (preferably word press)
  • Optimize your site for SEO and work on increasing page rank, creating back links and doing what real businesses do - Google will let you get away with more on Ad Words (squeeze pages even in some cases) if you have a higher PR. I have tested this and it seems to be true (although who can be 100% sure?)
  • Instead of spamming affiliate links everywhere use your natural and PPC traffic to build a list with the traffic you get
  • Focus on building relationships with your customers by providing useful content and capturing leads
If you are an affiliate using review pages etc..by following the quick fixes above you can still promote your site with ad words for the time being and increase quality score. By following the proven long term business strategies you will be able to thrive in any environment for the long term regardless of what Google does with its algorithms.

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