我是一個樂於助人的人,新手請仔細看看下面的文字,或許會對你有很大幫助。
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0 }! S% f- I1 I( @) mGuelph is the city where my brother-in-law (his name is Waseem) attends university. It is
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The whole idea was to have my brother-in-law stay with me during the summer and see
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The college degree that he is completing is in human resources management and he may* R$ q) _5 Z8 x7 e) A0 S- K
have taken only one marketing course in his college life.
, O1 ~2 h# A8 c( t; tHe had absolutely no prior Internet marketing experience.8 d3 ^1 `3 ^5 D
Zip. Zada. Ziltch.
( x8 M0 A3 } Q! [: c# XAll he knew was that I was making large amounts of money every day.( C* U% a/ }2 A
It wasn』t after months when I started talking to him about pay per click did he realize6 v% f+ p, a- l3 ` n+ ^ y
what I was doing.
: B" ~6 d. n0 B* e( Z6 ]Based on what he heard in the past, he thought I was in the 「paper clip」 industry., r; d& T3 h# k6 {" Y. O& B
No bro, it is 「pay per click.」/ D, N1 X- r* {( q$ X
I cut him a deal and said that I would teach him all my methods and see if I could get him2 Y/ @; q) g: F3 f q
to make money.8 L8 \$ ^+ S; T
Not only could I prove to myself that this stuff is teachable and write an entire course on
' a6 a! H6 z- ]/ T7 m. o3 M* kit, I figured I could get an awesome testimonial from my brother-in-law if I ever did/ S( r& h, m1 @- ?
release a course.
: F+ z M: p" Q; bSo he came to my house in mid-May 2006. I was to be his mentor and he was to be the
9 `0 `8 Y) A1 C9 v. [apprentice.
, h! y8 l7 T! x9 S5 h8 ^Basically, I was Yoda and he was Luke Skywalker as he kept insisting." }* E! S& o, n1 O7 Q/ o7 _( P
I made a phone call to one of my favorite affiliate managers and had him approved for9 r* H& ~6 H4 A
Primary Ads CPA network in about 24 hours.
2 H6 ^1 r) Y, L1 uI have a white board in my office, so I sat him down and started from scratch.% m! s( f! P% Z8 ? i2 U
I explained to him:
4 `. y* v( D+ p3 ` Z9 [1. What CPA lead offer was.
: G8 O6 y( S1 t% D6 o, |* O4 {2. What a CPA Network was. m% k" c/ X0 [+ L% H
3. What a pay per click search engine was.4 @" T* ?/ s4 a; N L5 P4 o. S2 W
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* o% b) S/ f( \4 xI drew out on the white board the concept of driving paid targeted traffic to CPA lead
% H4 Z& n/ O! Z$ `- Zoffers and making money.; y5 }' }. U; k6 U6 x
We converted half of the my baby son』s room into a small office so my brother-in-law
; z/ E) d' j/ Q( I* e; }could work from there on a separate computer.
3 x I9 {% D0 u+ GI told him to open up an Google Adwords account and pick an offer from Primary Ads to/ P; ?7 m; ?& L* c. L$ f
promote.. C$ Y" R; j; [
The guy is a fanatic about cars (especially luxury cars) so he picked out a car quote lead
! {- _1 P# m8 r. R" Eoffer that was paying about $6.25 a lead.
, A) t# k( r1 b+ F% J& xI told him the basics of doing keyword research and setting up a Google ad.
7 R6 y! O( ^# D# KHe used a software tool called Key××d ××te by Brad Callen to research his keywords
2 i6 m/ b/ D$ I A- Yand went about setting up ad groups. Y8 Q5 C% l) h, H* o5 P2 U: h4 _
I told him to keep the keywords within each group very specific and targeted towards the
$ u5 Q' n" ~; \5 ~7 A9 ~theme of the ad group.
, E3 D" E" A: o2 i/ nFor example, and Honda related keywords should be in a Honda ad group so that we) c$ p W5 L* X
could write a targeted ad for prospects looking for Honda quotes.
+ Y1 i, _: E+ Z7 sHe then set about creating his ads and ad groups quietly while I worked in my office.
! B& U' B# |0 vBig mistake.
% Q, w$ o7 G+ O+ u3 OI had basically thrown him into a lake without giving him enough swimming lessons.
: S2 ~' L+ }. k2 \& eHe started getting clicks coming on his ads, but NO conversions.
6 c- U% A) j; n. T9 h8 R/ Y9 X* `! kMore clicks kept coming, but NO conversions.4 ^8 f% D- S' b+ @8 T
I started thinking to myself, okay well this is a crap offer.8 B8 h' W4 i: D' q. v
** Note **
5 j& y. }8 X8 G* b3 s- F! nIn my experience, around 7 out of 10 campaigns you start will either breakeven or not be( p# V6 H5 s5 l" F6 U& U. Z5 s
profitable at all. No big deal. Mo need to cry over spilled milk. Just move on to another.8 w9 V+ k" M4 `# F6 j6 G7 s7 i
** End of Note **: y! Q. n) J$ W4 P) v1 S
Then I realized a couple of things. I logged into Primary ads and discovered that the car9 h0 p4 g- I' O& S* C v, p& A. U
quote offer lead stats were not real time and that we would have to wait until the next day
( P. U C8 w, f9 ^7 ~for those leads to be imported into the network stats.2 H) V8 ~9 ]! k7 s2 u! ^
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; W" r" B/ O8 }2 o+ a+ |Okay I said, that is one reason why we are not seeing anything.; L1 C8 X1 `* N0 S# ], Y/ d
Then I logged into his Google Adwords account and was stunned at how badly written" Q7 J0 t% D) }* @8 f# B
his ads were.
2 Y& J9 V6 V7 g) `9 lDude, you need Copywriting 101.
; O2 [ I+ ], _, x0 T! YHis click-thru rates were not very good, so I told him to rewrite his ads from his
: g; [2 ]; Y9 J2 o1 q+ wprospect』s point of view and try to make it more benefit oriented.- H5 F! D) u8 c5 y$ B. z7 d
At the same time, I told him to start other easier campaigns such as the ones that only ask# O3 y" d8 [* m: K+ B
for a zip code or email address.7 N9 Y. c3 {6 a8 Q& C& Z
Here is where things got really screwed up.* @/ `0 H8 v4 ]
Whenever he set up another ad group, Google would charge outrageous minimum bid
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wanted a $1.00 minimum bid on most keywords.
( h( J* q3 n- d9 H+ ZUmmmm, how the heck he supposed to make money promoting a $1.25 lead offer while
+ f# O; A9 d/ b$ xpaying $1.00 per click. He would have to have close to a 100% conversion rate to make4 N/ N/ U7 n- X$ w9 l5 _& [
any decent money.
& o5 D" Z. Z! wWhy, oh why, are you doing this Google?!
2 r+ K7 Q. N; }Then it hit me… 「Quality Score.」
3 P. J' y; x7 {You see, Waseem』s overall 「quality score」 was low because of that stupid 「car quote」: D0 \' s# g- a. g y" ?
campaign and because Google looks at your historical account click-thru rate, they were" R" o" f/ J" [+ q6 e
effectively punishing Waseem for his initial ad campaign.1 V) w( E6 v8 ^7 G! q
Google basis the quality score of any keyword you bid on based on these factors:
8 m# |: `. u+ N( c1. Click-thru Rate (CTR)
$ c. n6 G+ E, b2. Ad Text3 o4 M1 G" G7 r8 _6 Z
3. Historical Keyword Performance
8 r6 m* O9 z& T' ?( Z# c/ a$ J5 v( B4. Landing Page: \5 F) v- g* j Z# r: x7 i2 }2 w
5. Web Site The Landing Page Is Residing On- R2 G7 {4 P2 a4 m7 }7 R, _: K
Google had really nothing to go on as far as click-thru rate or historical keyword
- X# `4 Y2 ^- G8 i5 Aperformance for his second ad campaign, so they looked at Waseem』s ENTIRE account; F) ~# `! _' C' o0 ^1 S( Y
when determining bid prices.
. y; g; c1 U- SSo now Yoda is getting pissed and Skywalker is getting frustrated.
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So at this point… I cheated and told him to get out of the room and put my son to sleep in
# G4 R& ~5 h5 m# {$ [( U. pthe other room while I worked on his campaign.; Y" r- d6 p) r2 \7 S7 y E3 c
So I am staring at the computer screen trying to figure out how I am going to make it
: O5 e+ F& H( k: Owork with Google Adwords now that my brother-in-law has a bad historical record.+ T: m0 c' _! t0 _8 y
Google is basically going to punish him for anything new he sets up, so now what?
$ q0 H5 N5 F; P- @6 W1 RI had the option of just starting an entirely new Google Adwords account to get a fresh
" J5 A6 l$ [) E- j/ hstart.
4 d1 F+ Q) h( g1 w2 h! A** Note **! p8 N8 T3 y) ^* m" Q1 e
If your Google Adwords account has a bad history of low click-thru rates and crappy ads,( |5 w. u/ l' f i4 t: O: K
you may want open a new account and start fresh.3 w) x, I6 b2 U# \/ g
** End of Note **
& K" { z! z2 Z% o" FI didn』t want to start a new account and based on my experience, I knew of a way around' o+ N: W, _ I# w
this problem.
- T: b- Q& w. m6 u% kBut it would *cost* my brother-in-law money.
& b* @: M7 m& ~3 SI decided to place the minimum bid at $1.00 for the $1.25 lead offer and let the campaign' V6 Y4 U% C; m* P
run, but only AFTER I wrote the ads for him hoping that Google would reward this
: w- E$ F& t+ paccount if I wrote ads that were very keyword *specific* and had a good click-thru rate.
$ N6 v- g+ \7 L+ S2 E/ e oSo, boom! I let it run knowing that every click was costing my 「college-broke」 brotherin-
, n: x K( Q+ g xlaw a full dollar.
7 T8 O) @9 i$ n- Q7 OOn May 18th, 2006, Waseem generated his first (2) leads at $1.25 a piece for a total of
8 [% x& D, y/ y+ k, z, s$2.50 in affiliate commissions.& Y8 j7 y+ y2 z" s( Q4 g
But it took him (6) clicks to generate those leads for a total cost of $1.00 x 6 = $6.00.
) c w, c0 f) m* ~Ouch! He lost $3.50.4 _7 o( n( M1 [1 m+ M' [, e
But a 33% click to lead conversion. Now that is great!
$ t# O) c" y' F/ rSo I tell him to keep running the campaign at a loss and he is looking at me with this9 s8 F+ @6 `4 T0 Q1 C. B
serious 「I am a college student, $3.50 is a huge amount of money to me」 look.$ S& ?9 \1 \ t9 s6 E3 v
Trust me, I say.# I [, T; j8 z: y* N6 ]1 y
The next day, four clicks and zero leads.% Z4 \ z0 K" f& x
Not good.
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But wait, the click-thru rate on the ad is over 10% for the last two days. Are the Google: Z& A! |% A) X, |. k
Gods watching?% Z) n( n& n: E4 j7 }/ C3 G7 [
Not bad ad writing Gauher, pat yourself on the back.
3 i/ g( k9 |; I S2 p8 N; I" XBut Waseem is still looking at me with that 「$4 is almost a full lunch at McDonald』s」
& e7 ^6 [ X" O6 Tlook.( f5 \: g( [7 i+ }5 `
Hang in bro.
8 c# o4 C; F) U/ X8 K4 q+ }The next day I figured Google must be loving me for my great click-thru rate and I, C& g, W: {% }/ z) ]
decided to drop the bid drastically.& X1 u& |) z; d, L, r6 g# O) V
I was hoping that I wouldn』t see the dreaded 「Keyword Inactive: Minimum Bid $1.00
Y$ R5 D" Q; }- w& Ymessage beside each keyword.7 u/ Q4 W% v3 V* r/ c$ M) t
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