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Add me on SphinnI haven’t really written an article on how I’ve been dealing with Google lately, and PPC ad networks in general. My progression of where I advertise has been pretty simple :
Four Months Ago - 70% Facebook / 30% Google
Two Months Ago - 40% Facebook / 60% Google
Two Weeks Ago - 0% Facebook / 100% Google
Now looking back already, the biggest mistake was relying 100% on Google…and I’m feeling it via slappage.
Now my experiences with Google in these past four months? They’ve slapped more and more, and faster and faster. How have my strategies changed?
Early Strategy : 3 Accounts, Lots of Campaigns in Each, Use Redirect Trick
I had 3 accounts that I’d make 5 campaigns in and use the redirect trick (make your ad so the display URL and destination URL is Geico.com, they scrape Geico to determine your QS, then set the individual keyword destination URL to your landing page. this gets any site through and gives it a good quality score).
It took Google maybe a week before they’d catch on and slap everything. Matt would then just make 5 more campaigns in each account and repeat and wait a week.
Eventually they stopped sending a lot of initial traffic to the campaigns and slapped them right away.
Mid-Way Strategy : Mass Accounts, 1 Campaign Per Account, No Redirect Trick
The redirect trick was getting snuffed out right away so we ditched that and went onto mass account building. Matt made 20 accounts in a day and added campaigns to all of them. We linked right to the site as well. I think because we didn’t use the redirect trick, none of the campaigns got any traffic. I think five of the accounts spent $100 or so, and the rest didn’t do anything.
We ditched that and are moving back to…
Late Strategy : Single Account Rotation with Mass Campaigns, Redirect Back
Now we’re going to use 1 account. Make 10 or so campaigns in that with the redirect trick and see if they all get traffic. Once it gets a burst and gets slapped, we rotate the account out and use a new account and make 10 campaigns in that. Rinse and repeat.
This clearly isn’t the textbook way to use Google and it’s not anything that’s going to generate a long-term profit, but we’re making money on it now and that’s what matters to me. As long as I can keep finding ways to make a lot of money fast, 1-2 good years is all I need.
Anywho, just wanted to openly share exactly how I’m promoting things right now.
I’m planning on getting back into Facebook, MAYBE Myspace, and definitely media buys.
Happy April Fools Day ya’ll.
April 1st, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Nice one :-)
April 1st, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I tried internet marketing for 3 years and failed at it. Now I am doing trading (in high risk and volatile derivatives) and reached 6 figures of profit ($100,000+) only in the first 3 months. I am having more money and success than I ever had in my life and for the first time I feel like a winner.
People only use the bad economy as an excuse for not being successful and thriving. The media is just hyping this mild recession for all it’s worth and most people are buying into the mindset of doom and gloom.
You said you need 1 or 2 good years of income before you quit. How much do you want to earn before you retire from internet marketing?
April 1st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
so wait, none of that shit was true? april fools?
April 1st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
This is another great lesson. Thanks for the helpful suggestions.
December 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I totally agree! :)
April 1st, 2009 at 7:59 pm
It’s like you’re stealing my ideas.
I have guys in india making about 10-15 accounts a day with as many campaigns they can make after they have created each and direct linking them all. Make $100 – $1,000 here or there and keep it going. Pretty easy since I”m paying them about $2/hr.
April 1st, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Run the same method on yahoo ppc :) but just more time consuming
April 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Thanks for sharing most valuable lesson, I got visitor that comes from search engine 60%(google), is it good?based on your experience?or do I have just to focus on making email opt in list, where truly is your loyal readers?or which way is the best way to get income in steady and handsome way?thanks for response if any.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:54 pm
great lessons here
April 1st, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Looks like you’re back on google and completely ignore facebook. Hope this is not a april fool post.
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:29 am
Nice information. Learn something here. Thank you.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:32 am
Sounds like you are just another person with flogs… way to go.
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Ya Flog master at works sounds like to me…Good luck with that
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
So, if I understand correctly, the redirect trick is to point your disp/dest URL to an authority site in your niche? You mentioned Gieco.com … I assume that’s b/c your offer was in the same niche as Gieco.com?
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
A lot of this going around, good too see bloggers have a sense of humor.
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Hehe, very strange post on first sight.. but the effect is clear enough :)… nice one…
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
This is awesome information. The big G’s algorithms constantly change and likewise, we must also change dynamically with it.
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Hey Paul,
Could you enlighten me on setting up multiple accounts with the G? I’d like to add that the method of faking your LP for QS does work, but I have problems getting it to work consistently… perhaps because of the account. None the less, I would like to figure out this multiple account thing you are doing.
Thanks,
Jason
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 am
Thanks for ‘1-2 good years is all I need.’
I have some unique techniques to do with Google, but I didn’t applied them because I wanted long term shit.
Time to go and play with Google for fast money!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Looks like a good plan. Now I need to stop being chicken and actually start into PPC type advertising.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Very useful stuff here. Thanks dude
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I haven’t had too much luck with facebook advertising. I had a free $250 credit to advertise with facebook, but the bounce rate was so high from traffic from those ads. I have had good luck with adwords though, even though it is expensive.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Just out of curiosity – does Google not ban you for having multiple accounts like Facebook? If it does, how do you get around it in your case? Do you find that they blacklist the domains as well? Do you have to register 10 new domains for each of the 10 campaigns? That might be why your campaigns are getting slapped so fast at times.
Also, how long does each campaign typically run using your last approach before it gets canned? Are the 10 campaigns in your case across several niches or variations of one?
Sorry for the flood of questions man. Shit kinda went downhill for me, so I’m just trying to pick up new things.
April 11th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Any response to this?? Do you use a new domain for each campaign?
How do you create so many accounts without getting banned?
April 15th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Just go and create. I have hald a dozen of Adwords accounts, used promotion codes on all of them, so got some hundred dollars free adverticing money. There is a limit on Adsense accounts, but not on Adwords, as far as it does not go to mass creation. Or maybe I’ve been just lucky.
April 4th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Are you serious? Difficult to read you here!
April 5th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hey fuck this affiliate marketing!!
Im more intrested in the ‘trading (in high risk and volatile derivatives’ that tyler commented in the 3rd one down.
i do ok online but hey tyler share the knowledge dude!!! day trading? forex?
April 5th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
blimey!!
I think im now interested in these high risk volatile derivatives mentioned by tyler in the third comment, know where i can get any info on these.
Thanks tyler would be great if you could
April 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
how much do you pay Matt?
April 6th, 2009 at 3:09 am
You shouldn’t just depend on one source like you did. You should always have something just in case Google went wrong.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Typically shady advertising good job hope you feel good scamming people
April 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
How do you setup so many Google accounts without Google realizing what is going on?
April 8th, 2009 at 2:41 am
Yeah, and how much credit cards you need?!
Thousands per month.
April 7th, 2009 at 3:10 am
It’s pretty hard to trick google in the long term. Sure you can tweak stuff here and there and get couple days of increased traffic/revenue but unless you are extremely sneaky it won’t last longer than a week or two.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Wow… this was a spoof April Fool’s post… and none of this stuff was for real. Why are so many people believing that is what he actually does for marketing.
If you try that stuff in the post… you more than likely will get banned by Google. ‘Nuff said.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Fcebook PPC is pure shit and useless n Adwords is oversaturated no matter what you do! but thnx anyway for the nice lesson
April 7th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
This comment made me lol and fall out of chair…
April 8th, 2009 at 7:19 am
get your self a pet lizard, your not very good with joke telling!
April 8th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Thanks for the post it came just in time. I’ve been looking for a banner package for our new site. I’ll try these guys out.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
UPDATE PLZ.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Gry dla Dzieci is right, you can only fool google for so long, before it all comes crashing around your ears….
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August 5th, 2009 at 1:05 am
I must say that its interesting article. I always thought that Google is a place to focus on. The whole idea of making site appear higher and higher on search results is not maybe a total mystery to me, but still some blank sheet. I heard that Twitting is great way of making benefits from web blogging, also some good opinions about Facebook. But never thought that using Facebook could give so much.
December 9th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I’ts great and big lesson for me! Thnx for sharing
March 9th, 2010 at 8:57 am
Any update yet? I would love to hear an update too.
April 3rd, 2010 at 11:02 am
Great article but always remember that a lot depends on the campaign parameters
April 8th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Crazy!
They don’t teach you this stuff every day, great info to learn but not sure if I’d directly use it hehe