According to the official Google Adwords blog, Small Business Corner is “designed to give those of you who are running your own AdWords accounts the opportunity to share best practices in discussions with your peers so that you can make sure your AdWords account is doing all it can to support your business goals.”

Topics that will be explored include how to write great ads, how to use the tools available, and even how often to sign into Adwords. Users will be encouraged to submit their own topics and also trade tips, tricks and ideas for helping each other get the most out of their Adwords usage. In fact, Small Business Corner came about because of users asking for such a place to discuss their experiences, according to Miles Johnson of the Inside Adwords team.

Setting up Small Business Corner is a smart move on Google’s part. They rely almost entirely on ad revenue, and it’s in their best interests to keep Adwords users happy and well-informed about how best to use the system. Letting users help each other by building a solid community is an especially good choice for providing this information.

To use Small Business Corner, be sure you have a Google Adwords account, for starters. Sign in and start by creating a Google Profile that will introduce you and your business to the community (you don’t have to do this step, but it helps).

Then head to the Small Business Corner! Read, post, learn and explore what’s available to you. Find out what works for others and what doesn’t when they use their Adwords accounts. Small Business Corner is just one more way to make your ad dollars go as far as possible and maximize your online marketing success. Good luck!

Once you get a GWT account, you must add and verify your site. Click “add a site” to add your URL, and then follow the instructions under “verify ownership.” The verification is to ensure that you actually own the site about which you’ll be tracking data. That’s all you need to do to get started, but just in case, we suggest you submit a Sitemap, as well. A Sitemap is essentially a list of the pages on your site, submitted in case Google can’t find them all easily with its crawling process. This is especially helpful if your site is new to the web, populated with dynamic content, and/or lacking links to it.

Once your site is in the system, Google Webmaster Tools will be able to provide you with tons of useful stats on your page, including keywords, subscriber stats, search queries and how many other sites are linking to yours (that’s particularly important for SEO, as we’ve discussed before). You’ll also see problems like 404 errors and crawl errors so you can troubleshoot and fix them. You can submit more than one site under your account, of course, so you can track how all of your sites are doing.

What use is all this data? Knowledge is power! If you discover that your site is coming up in searches for something in particular, you can tailor your content accordingly. If you find that you’re not ranking for the keywords you thought you were, you can adjust your AdWords campaigns or other SEO efforts so that you’re not wasting your time or money. If you’re conducting a link-building campaign and want to see if it’s working, you can check on which sites are linking to yours (and raising your PageRank in the process).

Use Google Webmaster Tools to stay on top of what’s working (and what’s not) for your site, and you’ll be in a better position to optimize your search engine rankings. Better SEO means better online business success, so be sure to put this great resource to use!

The goal of any ad is to get people to click and, if possible, buy. Write for your target audience and tell them clearly what they’re getting once they click. Encourage a “buy now” vibe with a solid reason for WHY they should buy now. Remember, if your words do little more than describe your offerings, there’s not a lot of motivation to click and buy. The web is full of so-called window shoppers, people just browsing, so to turn those browsers into buyers, you need to give them a reason to break out the pocketbook.

Your clear call to action can be as varied as you can imagine, as long as it tells the truth, makes the offer clear and gives the visitor a reason to click and buy. Notice the “and buy” part; your overall clicks might go down a bit on ads that have a clear call to action, but the point is that the number of clickers who are interested in actually buying should go up, leading to a potential net gain in revenue.

Some examples of a clear call to action:

1. Buy now and get 20% off your purchase!

2. Get free shipping if you order now!

3. Get this [fill in the blank item] for just $79.99 if you shop now!

4. Sign up to receive our newsletter and get a free ebook/download/coupon/etc. as a thank you!

Some examples of unclear calls to action (do NOT do these):

1. We have 30,000 varieties available! – This is bad because it’s describing your inventory, not enticing someone to buy. Lots of varieties are great, but ads like this create a “that’s nice, now moving on” response in visitors.

2. Get our monthly newsletter! – This tends to fail because most people don’t want to sign up to receive more emails (newsletters, spam, whatever) without a very good incentive to do so. Coupons, downloads and ebooks work as motivators to get people to hand over their email addresses; simply saying “get our newsletter” generally does not work for the average visitor.

3. We have great prices! – How great, exactly? And why should anyone care? You might get some clicks on this, but unless your prices are truly the lowest on the web, you won’t be as likely to get buyers. Be as specific as you can about good pricing deals in your ad itself, and people will know before they even click exactly what great deal you’re offering them.

Remember: A clear call to action in your ad copy helps to ensure that visitors know what they’ll get, why it’s special, and how to get it. All that remains is for them to click, buy and walk away happy customers, which means you experience increased success in your online business. Good luck!

Sources: Google AdWords, Wise Startup Blog

First, it’s important to remember that there is no hard and fast rule for across-the-board ppc copywriting. Every situation is different, so you must start by examining your niche. Look at what your competitors are putting out there. Watch the top few advertisers and see if they keep coming out on top. If they do, that means those ads are working. So look at how those compare to the lower ads on the page… what makes the top ads more powerful? Are they giving something away, or calling for users to buy right now? Are they simply collecting emails or using testimonials to build credibility? Whatever they’re doing, do it better. If your offer is the most compelling, people will be more likely to click on your ad over the competition.

Next, to whom are you marketing? You have to know your potential customers to know how best to handle the ppc copywriting. What age group makes up the bulk of your customers? What are their interests? What do they do for a living, and how much do they make doing it? What would they need badly enough to buy from a newcomer to the marketplace (i.e., YOU)? And what might STOP them from buying from you?

It’s also important to know how your potential customers talk about what they need. For example, someone with a medical need may use terms like “symptoms,” “diagnosis” and “treatment,” not “product” or “service.” If you can communicate with your visitors in the language they use, they’re more likely to trust you and buy from you.

So how do you learn all this about your potential customers? Market research! It’s not as tough as it sounds. You can conduct A/B tests (testing two messages to see which works better), buy market research reports, survey your existing customers, survey your non-customers (perhaps as they leave your site without buying), and most of all, use social networks like Facebook to see what your potential customers like and talk about. Join groups in your niche and be partof the conversation that goes on around you. You can learn a lot from just observing the social networks!

So now, you’re ready to start your PPC copywriting. You know what your competitors are doing right (so you can do it better), and you know what your target market needs and wants. Make an offer that’s compelling and focused on your customers’ needs. Use a personal, conversational approach. Keep it SIMPLE, no matter what group you’re targeting. And make your call to action clear so that people know what you want them to do.

Keep in mind that credibility in modern times lies in being as much like your potential customers as possible. They want to see themselves in you and your offering. This is why research is so important; if you can more or less hold up a mirror to your potential buyers, they’re more likely to buy. Know your market, know what’s working for your competitors, and know how to write in simple terms, and you’ll have turned PPC copywriting into online success in no time!

No one can know for sure the exact percentage of each factor in the ranking process. SEOMOZ.org sends out a questionnaire to SEO industry experts on a regular basis, and the results are turned into a report. They ask each of these experts what they believe are the most crucial elements taken into account when Google ranks a webpage. Their opinion is below:

• 24% Trust/Authority of the Host Domain
• 22% Link Popularity of the Specific Page
• 20% Anchor Text of External Links
• 15% On-Page Keyword Usage
• 7% Traffic and Click Through Data
• 6% Social Graph Metrics
• 5% Registration and Hosting Data

Most of the factors in this list are things that we can control. If you look at the top three items, accounting for what experts believe is 66% of what decides where you rank, you will see that they have to do with external links. The trust and authority of your site mostly has to do with back links to your site and where the links come from. If it is a fairly authoritative site like cnn.com that is linking to your website, it’s going to make your site have a higher authority then a link from some random blog.

Link popularity is the volume of links pointing to your site or page. If you have 100 links versus just one link, it’s going to make quite a difference with your ranking. Of course all links are not the same (see trust/authority above).

Anchor text of your external links is another big factor. Always use the exact keyword you are trying to rank for in your external anchor text. If you don’t, then you are leaving it up to Google to figure out what your page should rank for, and we should never do that.

The other items on the list are not as much in our control. We can’t really control Google’s traffic and click through data. We can’t control their social graph metrics. We can control our registration and hosting, though. What this usually boils down to is how quickly your website loads and if it is ever down and for how long. If Google tries to crawl your site and finds that it is down several times, it will most likely lower your rankings since your site appears to be unreliable.

All of the factors that affect where you rank are important. I urge you to do the most you can do for the factors you have control over. The more work you put into these factors, the higher and faster you will rank in the search engines, and the more online success you’ll see.

“Better advertising means better marketing”

If you have a lead capture page or squeeze page, then it is really important that it is attractive. Many such pages are starting to become noisy and directionless. Keep your page simple, clean, straightforward and organized. You need to persuade someone to do something, and this means you need to focus on their needs and not yours. In other words, you need to understand the audience and what they are looking for – make that connection.

“People buy things for what they do and not for what they are”

People are driven towards the end result and not the tools along the way. You need to shift the focus off you and onto them.

To help you write your ad, consider the term AIDA:

• A – Attention: Get the reader’s attention quickly with a good headline.
• I – Interest: Once you’ve hooked the reader’s interest, keep it by advertising a topic of interest.
• D – Desire: Promote something that people need or want.
• A – Action: Have a clear call to action to motivate people to click.

Headlines drive business. They help your best small business idea be clear and bold. What is it that makes great headlines stand out? They grab your attention. Some studies suggest that 70% of web users who find your page will stay on your site longer if you have a good headline.

Some headlines that really work are those connected with the latest news and celebrities, so you need to look at a way to incorporate what’s buzzing into your ad. Don’t make false claims, though; if Snookie from “Jersey Shore” didn’t actually use and love your product, don’t say she did.

Appeal to what people want and need in their lives. For example, more and more people are looking to gain more free time and work less, so a good headline for your marketing business could be “Earn great money online by working fewer hours.” People should connect with the statement, so what you need to do next is to provide the solution. A call to action like “Click here to start working less and making more” is a clear way to motivate people.

Remember, do your internet marketing research and follow the four simple steps: get Attention, gain Interest, promote Desire and have a call to Action. Online success is around the corner if you work to make your ads as eye-catching, efficient and clear as possible!

Author : Gary Oakes

The problem is, not everyone goes about mobile ads the right way. I hear a lot of complaints from friends who get hit with spam text messages. Spam texts are intrusive, and they are particularly annoying because they can cost the recipient money to receive the text. The key with mobile advertising is to remember that our cell phones are essentially extensions of ourselves at this point; we don’t leave home without them, and we take them very personally. So how can advertisers get into the mobile ad market in non-intrusive, effective ways?

Mobile pay-per-click is a method that’s gaining popularity. Pay-per-click ads tend to be paired with web searches; the Mobile Marketing Association found that 3 out of 10 survey respondents used mobile search for the first time in the past month, so mobile pay-per-click ads would then be paired with mobile searches. Several major players are already getting into the arena, with Yahoo! Search Marketing pairing with go2, a mobile directory. With this partnership, Yahoo! ads show up now with go2 search results. Of course, Yahoo! ads (pay-per-click) also appear with Yahoo! search results on mobile phones.

But what about Google? Where Google goes, so does the market, and sure enough, Google is getting into the mobile PPC platform. Google Adwords technology lets advertisers buy text marketing messages that will show up when a mobile user does a Google search on their device. The ads are targeted by area and include both a web site link and a phone number for texting or calling the advertiser directly. Advertisers need a mobile web site to use the service, and they pay only when someone clicks or calls (depending on which service they opt to use). Google even allows advertisers to target a variety of devices and search for mobile-specific keywords via the many tools they offer.

It’s clear that more and more web users are going mobile, and more and more mobile users are using their devices for web browsing. Smart advertisers should be getting started now in exploring the mobile PPC platform and turning the potential into real revenues with relevant, targeted ads that capture the mobile element. Keeping up with the latest technology is just one vital part of making money online.

Sources: Pay Per Click Universe, Google for Advertisers

Unfortunately, the quality of Adwords services varies greatly, with many inexperienced individuals and companies jumping on the band wagon.

The following is a list of things to look for that may help you when recruiting an Adwords specialist:

1)      First and foremost, ask for some examples. They don’t have to be FTSE100 companies, but you are looking for someone that can not only demonstrate experience but can also demonstrate results.

2)      I like to ask the applicant to list what they consider to be the “top 5 mistakes made with Google Adwords.” If they can’t think of 5 mistakes (and there are a lot more), it’s likely that they will make some of the mistakes they haven’t listed.

3)      Ask what steps will be taken to analyze and improve the account on an ongoing basis; you’re looking for lots of references relating to Google Analytics.  To correctly optimize an Adwords account, it’s imperative that the reports from both Google Analytics and Google Adwords are used.

4)      It’s also very important that your Adwords specialist is up to date. As such, be sure to ask how they make sure they are aware of new Adwords features. At a minimum, they should be subscribers to both the Google Adwords and Google Analytics blogs.

5)      Genuine enthusiasm for Adwords management is also very important. It can be quite a lucrative industry and has attracted a lot of people that are in it for the money. Real enthusiasm and interest are vital. Ask them if they can see themselves working with Adwords in five years, and if the answer is a resounding yes, you could have found the right person.

6)      Finally, make sure whoever works on your account has passed Google’s certification program. It’s not expensive at $50 an exam, so there’s really no reason why a legitimate Adwords specialist wouldn’t have taken and passed these exams.

Whilst the above list is not intended to be an exhaustive catalog of every detail and characteristic you should check for when recruiting an Adwords specialist, it should help separate the genuine specialists from the not-so-capable. Ultimately, selecting the right person to manage you Adwords account can literally be the difference between online success and online oblivion.

I think you have heard/seen somewhere over the net while you are looking for tips to increase your Google adsense revenue something called MFA [Made For Adsense] websites made by some adwords advertisers who advertise their websites only for Adsense and try to make money normally called as arbitrage.

You can name those websites as bad websites because they are low paying advertisers ($0.01-$0.05) while you can get more from other advertisers.

I’m sure now you want to block those websites from your ads, well there is an option in your Adsense account which is called as the “Competitive Ad Filter”

This feature allow you to add all these bad sites or low paying advertisers and your website’s competitors in order to increase your eCPM and your overall total income.

The Competitive Ad Filter enables you to block specific ads, such as competitors’ ads, from appearing on your pages. Entering a more general URL will block a wider range of ads; entering a more specific URL will block a smaller range of ads. For example, by entering a top level domain such as “example.com”, you’ll also block all ads that link to any sub-directories of that domain, like “forums.example.com”. Review the examples below to learn how you can create filters that will block only the range of ads you want.

I know that everyone would be interested in receiving $0.50/click on an average, if you are one of them, then I’m sure that you have to work on your adsense ads placement (Targeting aswell) & block these adverts which pay very low.

Well you will not close this page and go with nothing, I’d help you to complete this step of increasing your revenue. Here I got with me some advertisers which should be blocked using the “Competitive Ad Filter” option, because many of these are just MFA sites.

blogspot.com
12-bestsites.com
dbmoz.biz
oemji.com
e-isn.com
searchignite.com
info.com
reviewsbykrystal.com
shopping.com
ez-tracks.com
8-TopWebSites.com
shopica.com
faster-results.com
ringringmobile.com
e-nternet.com
clobo.com
toseeka.com

Also I got with me a useful website for this option, you can generate your own block list.
Website link: Www.adsblacklist.com

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So you will ask me what is Adsense Section targeting ?

The answear is that this feature allows you to take a small area on your website in order to point relevancy to your adsense ads.

If you have huge amount of content based on different niche, and you want to show the ads which are relevan only to one section I’m sure that you have to try Section targeting.

We know that when you place your ads on your website (ex: Homepage), the ads would be rotated with relevancy to any of the informations/content on the page you placed in the ads, but if you are interested in showing ads which are just relevant to the first paragraph of your articles or just the content area you need to implement section targeting.

How to Implement Section Targeting ?

Look at the examples below:

<!–– google_ad_section_start ––>

Here all your website content

<!–– google_ad_section_end ––>

if you want all your website’s content to be under section targeting you can frame up:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of your website</title>
</head>
<body>
<!–– google_ad_section_start ––>

Here is your website content

<!–– google_ad_section_end ––>
</body>
</html>

But make sure if you target a very small area of the content of the website, maybe you will not get paid for the ads IF there aren’t much advertisers for this niche as you can call the ads then a PSA (Public service ads).. So you have to be careful while you’re targeting your ads to any section of your website.

Maybe you would say that I better leave the ads rotated with relevancy to the whole content of the page so I can earn more, I’d like to tell you that when you use the section targeting you can show up many different ads niches in 1 page, so every visitor is interested in a niche so you can earn more clicks and you know it means more money

Finally I’m sure that you have to try it out and you will notice the increase of your adsense revenue !