Types of Google Adwords Advertising
August 29, 2008 by The Big SEO
Filed under Adsense
This is a listing of the techniques in using Google Adwords. It explains what each option is about, along with some tips and facts about what is involved in using any of them.
Google Search network
Ads can appear on the right hand side or highlighted on the top for keywords you have specified. This can be worth a fortune for the right position and or product on one of the millions of search terms used in a day. To advertise on the search page of the largest search engine in the world opens a world of income possibilities. With only this choice your ads will only show on search pages that are produced by Google.
Search Partners
Search Partners include such corporations as AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, Lycos and AT&T. Combine these with other Google properties such as blogs and a wide variety of participating websites, on practically every conceivable subject, and you get an amazing network of potential customers.
Both the search methods are thought to bring better quality clicks because the people who searched wanted to find what you have and what they were looking for. It is permission marketing at its finest.
Content network
Google also has a content network of its own working with entities like the New York Times, HGTV and The Food Network. The Google content network also includes the massive power of Gmail. It would be a mistake to miss the smaller entities such as people who provide content on small websites. There are millions of these small websites that cover practically every conceivable topic. With all these different opportunities, it can only mean more eyes seeing your ads. With all the options considered, Google covers over 80 % of the internet.
A lot of gurus will suggest that you leave this section out of initial attempts. Personally the content network has made me money, more money than the search functions. I use it a lot with click-per-signup where the end products is usually a free trial offer. The cost per click is generally less and the volume of clicks is generally more.
Placements you have targeted
If you aren’t comfortable with the keyword route, you have another choice. The placement function is relatively new. It offers a new way of advertising using Google. You can hand pick the sites that are most relevant to your ads. As long as the page is part of the Google content network then you can be one of the ads in the “Ads by Google” boxes. Check the page to see if it has any of these boxes. Also check if you think the page is acceptable for your ad. Some aren’t.
Google Tools that will help out your selections
Okay I can hear the groans, “picking keywords”, “picking websites”, sounds complicated. Really it isn’t that complicated but Google has thought about this. Under the Tools tab, they have a keyword tool that will suggest keywords based on either a topic or a URL that you supply. It not only suggests keywords but also groups them. That’s really quite handy for composing ads. The groups could be used as prime subjects for the ads. This keeps the ads and keywords closely related which is something that will help your quality score with Google. A high quality score lowers the bid needed for a specific position. The first three categories listed here are all dependent on keywords that you choose.
The other problem is picking websites for placements. Google also has a tool for that. The placement tool is only available from the ad group level under the Placement tab. When you choose the Add Placements menu option, Google will take you to the Placement tool. It will pick websites based on four different ways to get associated websites.
1. Picking from an expandable list of topics that are closely related to the subject of your ad
2. Specify a topic or multiple topics
3. Specific URLs. You put in the URLs and Google looks for similar websites
4. Demographically, things like gender, age or annual income.
It’s a Wrap!
Google also has the ability to put your ads in physical newspapers all around the world. They also do audio ads through a network of radio stations. By the time you read this, there may be even more options involving things like video and social networking like Facebook. The one think about Google is that they don’t sit on their hands after bringing new products online. The constant thing about working with Google is the changes that happen.
Backlinks — The Key To Search Engine Domination And Free Traffic
August 27, 2008 by The Big SEO
Filed under Backlinks
Driving traffic to your site is the lifeblood of your online business and with all the different ways you can use to drive traffic like pay per click campaigns, banner ads and such, ultimately you want to be able to drive free traffic so your advertising costs are minimum and you get to keep all the profits to yourself.
But how do you do this?
Ranking high in the search engines. Search engines are the kings of the internet, they receive thousands of visitors everyday and at the same time they are responsible to driving traffic to thousands of other sites and these sites receive all that traffic because they rank high on the search engines. When people search for a particular term on a search engine the sites receiving the most traffic are the ones that appear in the first few pages of the search results.
Most people say the key to ranking high is to optimize your pages with the right keyword density, keywords in your title tag, keywords here, keywords there and all of these techniques work but the one with the most value to the search engines are the links pointing to your site from other sites which are known as backlinks or inbound links.
In the early days of the internet webmasters figured out the search engine’s algorithms and they were ranking high for a whole different variety of terms in order to send people to porn sites. Let’s say you searched for the word “Golf Clubs” you could easily end up on a porn site even though the search result said otherwise. The search engines needed to come up with a solution to this problem or their business would be in trouble.
They came up with the link popularity system where the website with the most backlinks would be consider more relevant than websites with a lower number of backlinks. Google in particular will give much more credit to websites with a lot of backlinks. So if your site does not have any other sites linking back to your site the chances of receiving free traffic from the search engines will be low.
In order to determine the amount of links pointing to your site you can simply go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites and type in your domain name in the search box, click on explore URL and they’ll show you the amount of backlinks you are receiving.
Building backlinks to your site it’s extremely important if you want your site to rank well in the search engine and become an authority site. Start building those valuable links today and enjoy the free traffic.
Google Advertising Report Reveals Simple, Little Known Method Works
August 19, 2008 by The Big SEO
Filed under Adsense
Google AdWords puts your ads exactly where you want them: in front of potential customers, right when they re looking for your products or services. AdWords ads appear alongside or above the results on Google.com search results pages and on sites in the Google Network. Google AdWords provide an inexpensive advertising venue for businesses to advertise products or services to a targeted audience. Advertisers have the ability to control their budget, target their advertising based on keywords.
Google AdWords is a pay-per-click online advertisement service that lets advertisers post text ads for their sites targeted for specific keywords. These ads are shown in the “Ads by Google” banners seen all over the World Wide Web, and also as sponsored links on the Google search results pages. Google AdWords provide an easy method for people to place advertisements on the Google network via an online submission system. Google AdWords can place your ad in two places: in Google search and the content network. Google search provides results from searches that prospective customers run directly using www.google.com.
Google AdWords is a quick and simple way to advertise on Google and its ad partners, regardless of your budget. AdWords ads are displayed along with search results on Google, as well as on search and content sites in the growing Google Network, which includes websites like AOL, EarthLink, HowStuffWorks, & Blogger.
This may come as a SHOCK to you, but after all these years with Google selling pay-per-click advertising, some people admit that they’ve never paid for any, otherwise, paid-for advertising. In fact, last year alone, a group of marketers got over $26.7 million in pay-per-clicks free at all the TOP search engines like Google, Yahoo, Overture, etc.
Shortly after the Net’s release of pay-per-clicks and other paid-for search engine advertising, the a few people spotted a very simple way to eliminate ALL of his otherwise paid-for advertising expenses at search engines.But they didn’t bother to tell a single soul!
Another Google advertising method, AdSense, is used by publishers who wish to bring traffic to their websites.
Click through rates on the content network are typically much lower than those on the search network and are therefore ignored when calculating an advertiser’s quality score. Additionally, the more keywords you have, and the more specific the search phrases are, the more likely that your visitor will be truly interested in your product or service.
For example: ‘pda’ is a very general search term. Advertisers decide which queries their ads should match, and then Google decides on placement, i.e., which ads to show and in what order. Google determines placement by an auction; the auction not only considers what the advertiser will pay for the ad, but also its click-through rate, i.e., how often users click on the ad.
Admittedly, it has its limitations. Search engines are demographically skewed, and just because it works for Google customers doesn’t mean that it will work on Yahoo. Advanced targeting options, customizable ads and detailed reports available to AdWords also enable dealer clients to evaluate the benefits and performance of their online advertising efforts. Adding more keywords 9. Deleting non-performing keywords etc 10.
The BEST part of this secret is that it’s nothing illegal, and it doesn’t steal money from the search engines.
To read more about this simple, free, technique visit the following: http://linkbee.com/FreeGoogle
5 Proven Backlink Building Tactics For The Bloggers
August 10, 2008 by The Big SEO
Filed under Backlinks
Very often a blog is a sort of the side medium and the blog owner does not have enough time to build the required amount of backlinks. So it is very useful to know that the job can be automated.
This article tells about 5 backlink building techniques, which I have used successfully for my blog.
1.The Article Marketing.
It is easy to write articles if you are a blogger, the two jobs are so close to each other. The articles will bring a lot of backlinks rapidly, if the writer uses a mass distribution system to hundreds or thousands of websites and article directories.
These written articles must be optimized using effective keywords. This is cricial, because people will find the article using the same keywords than what the article writer has used.
The article writer, a blogger, has to remember that a mass distribution means a lot of dublicated content. This means that these widely distributed articles will not climb to the first places on the result pages of the search engines but will work effectively by bringing a lot of visitors and backlinks.
2.The Reciprocal Link Building
This is another effective way to get targeted visitors and links. The term reciprocal link means that your blog and another related blog both has a link pointing to each other. It is a sort of a co operation.
How you can get reciprocal links? Okay, first you can use a manual system and join some link exchange program or you can mail to a single blog owner and ask if he wants to change links. These both ways are relatively slow.
Then you can buy some software, which is a powerful way to build a lot of related links. However a blogger must be careful, because if the linklist will be too big, the search engines will see it as a sort of a link farm and punish the blog.
3. Take Your Blog To The Groups Of The Search Engines.
The biggest search engines have different groups and you can join some of them and get the blog url there. By writing some quality post you can get traffic to the blog and some backlinks.
4.The Blog Content Quality Is Still The King.
The most effective short and long term backlink builder is the quality content of the blog. This means that a blogger must take the blog seriously. It is not a diary but a business tool. When blog visitors like the content, they will bookmark the blog or even quote the posts, which both mean a good amount of backlinks, visitors and a nice image.
A blogger must never use his own articles as blog posts, because they are dublicate content.
5.Writing To The Forums.
The same topic forum posts work effectively in backlink building. Here also the quality works best. Every single post builds credibility and does the preselling work. When the blog url is in the sig file, every post build a backlink to the blog.
The posts can also be optimized, which makes it possible for the search engines to rank them on the result pages.
The history of Ask.com
August 10, 2008 by The Big SEO
Filed under Ask Talk
Funded in 1996 in Berkeley, California, by David Warthen, who had founded EyeGames – a children’s video game company, and Garrett Gruener, a venture capitalist, Ask.com is now a business division of IAC Search & Media. It was originally implemented by Gary Chevsky.
Ask.com is not its very first name; instead, it was called “Ask Jeeves” at the very beginning. “Jeeves” is the name of the “gentleman’s personal gentleman” or valet, based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster’s fictional valet from P. G. Wodehouse’s work.
In April 1997, Ask Jeeves was launched as a natural language search engine.
In February 1998, Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com) was released.
In 1999, Ask Jeeves’s revenues increased exponentially and completed its initial public offering of stock.
In February 2000, Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit Technologies, Inc., a company whose technology aggregated and organized online content.
In September 2001, Ask Jeeves purchased a Piscataway, New Jersey-based company named Teoma Technologies, Inc., who focused on creating a mathematically based solution that could produce the most relevant search results, an acquisition that was credited with injecting new life into Ask Jeeves. At the time the acquisition was completed, Ask Jeeves ranked as the 17th most visited web property, receiving more than 14 million unique visitors a month.
On March 4, 2004, Ask Jeeves agreed to acquire Interactive Search Holdings, one of the largest privately held online search and media companies, for 9.3 million shares of common stock and options and pay $150 million in cash.
On March 21, 2005, Media conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp agreed to acquire Ask Jeeves for 1.85 billion dollars.
On September 23, 2005, the company announced plans to phase out Jeeves in a humorous way, with the engine saying he was retiring.
On February 27, 2006, the new disassociated name “Ask.com” came out, also a rebirth of it.
In June 2007, Ask launched “Ask3D”, with which users could customize their search, something similar as Google’s Universal Search concept.
In December 2007, “AskEraser “was released, which allows users to opt-out from tracking of search queries and IP and cookie values.
On 4 July 2008, Ask.com announced the acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
Today, Ask.com sites include Ask.com U.S. (www.Ask.com), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederland and Ask.com UK.
Ask.com brands also include Ask.com Mobile, Ask for Kids (www.askforkids.com) and Bloglines (www.bloglines.com.). It’s definitely one of the leading search engines on the Web.
For more details for the development of Ask.com, please visit its Fact Sheet t/fact_sheet.shtml


