Hi I'm Rosa just signed up, I will like to know which banner is more affective? I have a blog which I'll like to add it:) Tips and advice are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Hi Rosa! In my experience each banner does equally well. I tested this quite a while back using a classified ad site geared toward network marketers. I placed each banner and assigned 50,000 credits to each one. They each got the same amount of clicks. So, it really just comes down to aesthetics and what looks best with your site.
I have been given £75 from Google Adwords, i have £90.00 in my Google account
I would be grateful if someone could please give me the right keywords and what to place
as word discription, as i have tried but not getting any hits
Hey Doug! I'm not really going to give you any specific keywords for you to use because there are other things to consider and I wouldn't want to lead you astray. BUT, there are lots of keywords and phrases that are still really open. In fact, Mr. Joe Florendo and I were talking the other day and he told me about a GDI keyword phrase that he is going to start using. If I remember correctly it has less than 10,000 websites with that exact phrase and not one of them were actually trying for that keyword phrase. Oh and it is good too! I told him that in the next 2 weeks if I don't see him at the top I'm taking it. His last words to me in that conversation was "Don't touch my keyword!" Haha.
Anyway, here is what you can do. And I'm giving you all a big nugget here as far as keywords are concerned. The first thing you want to do is go to
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ and start brainstorming some keywords. Wordtracker is great and if you can afford it I would highly recommend using the paid for tool. The free one works OK though. The goal here is to find keywords and phrases that are searched for.
Make a list of all the keywords you find and come up with. Put them in a text file so you can copy and paste.
Next, go to
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and do the same thing. The goal here is to find keywords and phrases that do not have a great deal of competition but still get a large amount of hits.
Both of these tools will help with your brainstorming and discovering keywords you can focus on. Now comes the fun part.
Go to
http://www.google.com and start searching for those keywords and phrases using quotes. For instance, this has nothing to do with GDI but if you were looking up the keyword phrase Vincent Parker you would search for "Vincent Parker". Now, look at how many websites have that exact phrase. You can find that number in the upper right hand corner. It will say something like: Results 1 - 10 of about 61,100 for "vincent parker". (0.27 seconds)
What you are looking for are keywords and phrases that have less than 50,000 results or round abouts. Anything under 50,000 is very open and anything under 10,000 is a virtual goldmine.
You can definitely compete for keywords that have over that many results. It's just that the fewer results that are found the easier it will be.
Most of this advice is centered around organic search results but should also be applied to adwords. Before starting an adword campaign, however, I would highly recommend getting some training on using it effectively. Otherwise you may just be throwing money out of the window. There are two resources for this I would definitely recommend. Perry Marshal's "Definitive Guide to Google Adwords" is awesome. He even has some free videos to watch and if you want the link to that just let me know. The other is Mike Dillard's "PPC Domination". It is a little pricey but oh so worth it. If you can't find it and want a link I can send you one for that too. Either way, both are excellent and you can easily find them by doing a search on Google (or asking me for my affiliate link, wink wink).
Hope this helped!