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Some Cool New PPC Tools on AffPortal

Mikey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:17:41 +0000

PPC Coach just recently released a new Month 1 method last month, and I’ve been having some really good success with it. I can’t say what it is specifically, but I’ve been averaging about $100/day with it regularly on the Google Content Network. Although it has taken me quite awhile to master the nuances of the content network, I’ve been slowly figuring out how to consistently get good traffic at a cheap price with it.

One of my secrets to my recent success is due to the tools found at Affportal. Affportal is a membership site that hosts a bunch of awesome tools. Most of these tools are completely unique and I’ve never seen anywhere else. Although the site hosts several cool PPV tools which are great in their own right, I wanted to share with you guys a couple of PPC tools on the site that I’ve been playing with.

The first PPC tool is called Deep and Wide keywords. For those not familiar with the terms, deep keywords are the keywords directly related to your term. So example deep keywords for the term “pay per click” might be “pay per click coaching”, and “pay per click tools”. Wide keywords are more losely related to your keyword, so for the same example, keywords like “affiliate marketing” and “google adwords” would be wide keywords. Usually, people use deep keywords with the pay per click campaigns, but I’m finding some really profitable keywords targeting these wide keywords. The bid prices are often less, yet the conversions are almost just as good. Plus, I’m getting more impressions because my keywords are targeting a wide variety of sites.

The second PPC tool I wanted to mention is the Keyword Mashup Generator. This tool is the ultimate keyword expander. Keyword Elite 2.0 has a similar feature where you can add prefixes and suffixes to each of your keywords, but this tool also does a lot more. For example, you can add states, cities, and other categories of words automatically to your keywords. The tool contains a ton of options, and I’ve been using this tool to quickly multiple my list of keywords. Adding the cities and states to your keywords is also a great way to do local campaigns. If you drill down far enough with your keywords, you can easily compete for highly competitive keywords (like car insurance) that you would have no chance with otherwise.

AffPortal was developed by Corey Bornmann. I think he is or was a PPC Coach member as well. Anyway, the site contains a ton of really cool tools, so I recommend that people take a look and check it out. I think they’ll make a big difference in your PPC (and PPV) campaigns.

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WP Quick Polls Review – How Does It Measure Up?

Mikey — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:20:26 +0000

I know I blew off WP Quick Polls in my last post, but Joe was nice enough to give out several review copies of WP Quick Polls on the PPC Coach Forums and I was able to get my hands on a copy. I had been sitting on it for a few weeks, but I finally got around to installing it this weekend. I haven’t really seen an in-depth WP Quick Polls review posted online anywhere yet, so below are my thoughts after playing around with the product. I will be comparing it to WP Easy Polls (WPEP) since that is currently my poll creation tool of choice.

For those who aren’t familiar with the product, WP Quick Polls is a Wordpress plugin for creating CPA polls. It costs $49.95, which places it between Poll Control and Poll Factory in terms of price. Installation of WP Quick Polls is relatively simple, although it is quite large (10MB) relative to other plugins I have installed. For some reason (slow connection?), it took about 10-15 minutes to upload everything to my server. It is nice to see some documentation and a quick start guide, which I skimmed through, but I am the type of person that likes to figure things out myself.

In a lot of ways, WP Quick Polls and WP Easy Polls offer similar results, using different approaches. WP Quick Polls gives you a lot more power by allowing you to micro-manage every aspect of your polls. Want to change the instruction text size and color? There’s a section for that. Want to customize the number of empty lines before your RSS feed? You can specify this too. You can customize everything including your themes within the WP Quick Polls control panel. However, for those new to polls, I think the amount of options can be overwhelming. Although WP Quick Polls does include a lot of helpful instruction text and inline help, I still found myself constantly confused at what a lot of options did. I can see this being a problem for new users.

WPEP on the other hand is much easier to setup and run out of the box. It only has one single poll creation page and the interface is much easier to get up and running right away. WP Quick Polls does include a Quick Create option which works nicely once you configure it the settings how you like it. However, this just brings it up to speed to WPEP’s default behavior.

One issue I ran into with my WP Quick Polls setup is that I could never get any of my poll images to show up. I ended up having to consult the documentation and it seems like this is a pretty common issue as it has a whole section which addresses this. I currently have WP Quick Polls installed on Hostgator, and othere happens to be an issue with Wordpress Fantastico installs. I worked through each of the suggestions like setting the permissions of my cache directory to 755 as well as disabling the cache and resize image options, to no avail. I’m no technical wiz, but I don’t quite understand why displaying an image from a url would require all this messing around. I know Hostgator is one of the most popular web hosts for PPC Coach members so I think this would be an important issue to get resolved.

Poll themes are one of most important aspects of any poll creation tool and WP Quick Polls does include several built-in themes. Based on my experience, it looks like the Plain themes would work the best. They are comparable to the Simple Theme from WPEP which I currently use and get good landing page click through rates with. I have my doubts at how well the other included themes convert as they don’t meet some of the best practices described on the PPC Coach forums. Don’t take my word for it though, as this is something you will want to test yourself. WP Quick Polls does allow you to edit themes from within the control panel. Some may like this, but I find it much easier to edit code in an external text editor.

Feature wise, both tools have the same basic features you want in a poll creation tool, namely offer rotation, and support for both the two popular tracking systems, PPC Coach Tracker and Tracking202. Both also give you the option to use double-metarefresh which is important because it allows you to cloak your referer and hide your poll page. One feature I like, that is unique to WP Quick Polls is the campaign feature, which allows you to group offers together and share them across polls. This might prove to be a nice timesaver. WP Quick Polls also includes several seeminly unnecessary features as well. For example, there are two options in the Settings page, “Show results after vote Javascript” and “Show results on interim page”. Next to each of these options is the text “not recommended” and “even more not recommended”. Why are they in there then? In my opinion, it only serves to clutter up the interface.

Overall, WP Quick Polls does a decent job, but I don’t think I can end up recommending it over WP Easy Polls. I just found the interface too clunky to navigate around and it just feels inundated with various options that I don’t feel I need. WP Quick Polls does have its nice points, but nothing that would warrant shelling out $50 for it when you can get the same functionality for free with WP Easy Polls. If you are a CPA Poll expert and like the ability to modify everything from within the control panel, you may want to give WP Quick Polls a look. However, for everyone else, I think using a free copy of WP Easy Polls is still the way to go.

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Best Poll Creation Tools

Mikey — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:01:54 +0000

I have been using Poll Control for quite some time now to create my polls. It’s pretty good for churning out polls, but it did cost me $20 to buy. I wanted to take my polls to the next level though and add in some things like offer rotation and double-meta-refresh to cloak my links. I also wanted to build a site around my polls to hopeefully avoid the dreaded Google slap.

After doing some research on the PPC Coach forums, I was able to find two alternatives that seemed like they would fit the bill – WP Quick Polls and WP Easy Polls. Both are wordpress plugins that enable you to add polls to your wordpress blog. WP Quick Polls seems like it has a lot of different options. However, it costs $49.95 and I am not sure I really want to shell out significant money for a poll creation tool.

WP Easy Polls is developed by my buddy Chris who I actually referred to PPC Coach more than a year ago. For some reason, he’s giving away this poll creation tool to PPC Coach members for free. I just tried it out, and this thing is awesome for launching polls. I’ve installed it on my poll site, and got it working with PPC Coach Tracker. It can handle offer rotations which makes things sooo much easier to test now. It is really simple to use and the built-in themes are really great. Anyway, check it out if you are making Polls. It’s really been making my life a lot easier.

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This is why I dislike Polls…

Douglas — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:20:00 +0000

As I do more polls with ppc, I begin to hate it. For the following reasons, I have moved on and off of polls. However, I have made money with them, and I have actually learned a lot from them. They are definitely the best for learning.

Polls always get slapped
CPA Networks scrubs polls
CPA Networks do not like polls in general
They require a lot of campaigns before finding a “winner”
They aren’t consistant
They can trigger a domain slap, then you would have to buy a new domain

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TAKE IT SLOW!

Douglas — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:41:10 +0000

My strategy is to set a bid at a certain amount and lower it by a very small amount, but only like twice a day. I went ahead and pushed it by lowering it by $0.08 cents, and then now I am getting crap impressions. GREAT! Now I have to start over and have anyother losing campaign day. So learn from my mistake, do not lower the bid costs in a dramactic amount. Slow and easy will win the race.

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Raise your impressions for a campaign

Douglas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:30:20 +0000

Sometimes, when I see some of my campaigns dying, in terms of impressions. A good strategy for you to bring those impressions back up, or just add on more impressions, is to add more keywords. However, that also means you would need tweak those new keywords. PPC campaigns will always require somewhat of a maintenance.

I applied this method to one of my campaigns already, and I’ll post up some results after tomorrow.

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A way to increase profit margin

Douglas — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:27:02 +0000

I know this is a small scampaign, but I just wanted to use it as an example. However, this can also work and you will see a lot more of a noticable difference with a larger campaign. So the day before yesterday, I spent ~$3.59 with average CPC of $0.13 in adwords. I tweaked the campaign by lowering my bids by $0.02 and then it dropped my average CPC to $0.10. I spent less money on adwords, but I still got the a similar amount of impressions, so I ended up profitting more. I was able to maintain the same conversion percentage, but I spent less for advertising and kept more to myself.

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Couldn’t save my campaign

Douglas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:00:32 +0000

After my last post about my campaign dying, I couldn’t save it. Well, I think I could of, it’s just that my tracker liked to not work for some reason, so I had to ask coach for help with it. Hopefully he can find out why my tracker isn’t working properly. The good side is, I have a very small campaign running that’s making a $1 profit- LOL. It’s profit! I should try to tweak it a bit.

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My Campaign Died!

Douglas — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:39:51 +0000

Since this is my first post, I thought it would be proper if I gave a bit of background info about my PPC life. So far, I’ve been in PPC Coach for about ~4 months. Every month that you stay with PPC Coach, you will unlock a new technique to work with and it will get harder as you reach deeper into the stages.

Right now, I should be at month 4, but I am still doing month 1. A side note, just to clear up any questions, you can move on to the next months, but I set a goal for myself to master the first month before approaching the newer months. My slow progress is because I had no time for it until the beginning of the recent winter. Since December, I have been tackling this PPC and after many failures, I have found a winning campaign. Next, I analyzed the winning campaign, and then I re-created a few more using the same concept and created a few more profitable campaigns. Long story short, my campaign died today, and I have no clue why. I have a few hunches, but I think it is most likely that the advertiser is scrubbing my leads. To counter this, I changed my offer, but the downside is that the offer may not convert as well as the previous one. So, let’s see if I can make profit for today, or break even, at the least.

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My PPC Coach Review

Mikey — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:12:56 +0000

For those of you that don’t know what PPC Coach is… PPC Coach is a coaching membership service that teaches you how to advertise via Pay Per Click (PPC). You can apply your PPC skills to promote virtually anything, but in this membership course, you will learn to promote Cost Per Action (CPA) network offers. CPA offers are offers which you promote and if you get a lead meaning if someone signs up for that offer, then you will get money for it.

Quick notes… *IMPORTANT*

I’ll be honest, this course is not a get rich quick scheme. It actually requires work. Your “rich”-ness will reflect how much work and effort you put in. You will have to work with websites. You can join even if you have no website experience, but be prepared to learn and don’t get discouraged, because there are friendly people who are ahead of you, and they will be able to help.

My PPC Coach Review
A little about me, I have tried many methods and I have bought many e-books. After trying so many things, I decided to test out PPC marketing. Coincidently, I heard about PPC Coach everywhere, at least in the forums which I attended. Anyways I joined the course with zero knowledge about how exactly PPC works, and now I am able to pump out some profits using PPC to promote. Originally, I thought I would be working with coach one on one, but really, you don’t work with him that much. Coach’s course is more like a college lecture. He gives you a video lecture on how to do things, and you should take notes, but not mandatory. In a regular college class, you would always go back to your book for reference. Like that college class, you would always go back to Coach’s videos for reference.

In the beginning, it might be an information overload for some people, but there’s a forum for you to ask questions. Coach is pretty busy, there’s no doubt about that, butÂ you can still reach him if you would like him to personally review something for ex, your campaigns, or to answer your questions. However, most likely, your question has already been asked by someone else, so I would recommend searching the forums for quick answers. You can contact Coach via forum private message, or e-mail. I’ve actually private messaged him a few times, and he answered my question within 24 hours.

Other than using the forum for asking questions, you will also find, as I would call it, the first month’s homework. Every month, you will get a new homework – a new method. He presents a method for you to apply your PPC skills to. Basically, you are suppose to learn the basic stuff from the video material, for example, setting everything up, and then you start to gaining experience through the hands on work with the first month’s method. The idea of month one is to just get your feet in the water. Again, for every month you are enrolled with PPC Coach, you will unlock a new method which corresponds to the number of months you have been a member. You aren’t expected to make profits or anything before you can move on to the next month. However, you should try every month, so you will be able to tackle on the later months which may be harder.

The Help
As I mentioned before, Coach does offer help, but he’s not like a mentor where he will hold your hand through the way. Let’s be real here, he’s only going to help you if you ask, otherwise he won’t know how to help you. Especially in a course like this, he won’t be able to see who has trouble in this huge class.

Referring back to my classroom analogy, you can find help by asking and meet with your classmates or exchange numbers, etc.. and if your classmates can’t answer your question, then you ask the professor. In coach’s course, you will find help by posting in the forum or searching the forums, if they can’t answer your question, you can ask Coach or just ask coach to begin with. There are many veterans in the course, they post some very helpful material on top of coach’s material. Everyone is very friendly and helpful, and not taking advantage of that is what differentiates one who makes money, and one who doesn’t. On top of those available resources, my approach was, I actually exchanged my screen name with a handful of people from the course, so we can help each other.

The Tools
Coach offers tools for you to work with, so this makes life a lot easier, but the downside is… you would have to get familiar with the tools, which can be quite overwhelming. I know I was overwhelmed during the beginning, but not until I setup my first campaign. When I actually tried to setup my first campaign for month one, I found out it wasÂ a piece of cake, and I would be glad to help anyone that needs it. Another way to think of it is, it won’t be any easier unless you actually do it. When working with Pay Per Click, you really need to track your results inorder to make a profitable campaign, which is why Coach gives you a tracker to use. The tracker is pretty good, and I would do a few things differently, but it gets the job done. So, to summarize the major tools available with his course, there is/are: Landing Site Generator, Calculators, Adwords Campaign Generators, Keyword Tracking System.

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