I Have Been Spending $5000 Per Month on Adwords. Better Ideas How To Buy Ads?

[wpriley]

I don't think (for most sites) that SEO can totally replace PPC (or vice versa). If you're in to PPC, it's difficult or impossible to maximize your goals without using Googleas they control 75% or more of the viable paid clicks.. I'd suggest:

1) Discuss your issue's with a Google AdWords specialist at 800-516-0530.

2) On that call request a free optimization of your AdWords campaign. This takes a couple of weeks for Google to complete and leaves your old campaign(s) in place but suspended. If it doesn't provide better results, you can quickly switch back to your old campaign(s).

Pat Riley

PS - I manage Google AdWords on about 30 sites. I've turned their Content Network off on all but one of these finding that their Search Network provides more cost effective results for me even when the average cost-per-click is higher.

[SEObyCanz]

Hi.

I always considered I'd call myself a failure if any of my SEO clients had to use adwords or any PPC after i had worked with their site. So far I haven't failed at all.

One client was spending $1500 a month and receiving 120 clicks via PPC I worked with them for 6 months all up, at month 2 they stopped PPC and were getting 150 visitors, and almost 90% more conversions....

Anyway for your question, paying for advertising is a rocky road, depending on what you want your advertising to do, generate links, or build your organic ranking in search engines, for relevant keywords, this second outcome can be worthwhile.

I just took a look at your site, why haven't you done SEO on it? Wouldn't it be better to rank well organically than pay what did tobby say $60k a year on PPC ... wouldn't be too much of a mission to get your site ranking a lot better than it is for relevant keywords.

Lynny

[SEObyCanz]

Hi Folks replying to this post, I just checked what other posts this person has made, and he's seems to be just posting to get people to his site and join his webring.

This Matt has a video on yourtube tell how he would have to pay thousands in PPC to google, if he wasn't using his own backlinks he's created. He's acting all shocked at the thought of paying that much $3k I think it was....

On the video he was showing his webalizer stats which as we know deals with hits rather than real visitors,

Anyway, don't waste your valuable time replying to this post..... just another person looking for suckers to join this webring lol....

Lynny

[deepsand]

Hm-mm.

Today's "Special" is bogus as well; it uses a rolling date, so that every day shows the same "limited time" offer.

<p align="left"><font color="#0000FF" size="4" face="Arial"> <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"><a href="#topic1">Special! For a limited time only! Register by midnight,
<script>
var mydate=new Date()
var year=mydate.getYear()
if (year < 1000)
year+=1900
var day=mydate.getDay()
var month=mydate.getMonth()
var daym=mydate.getDate()
if (daym<10)
daym="0"+daym
var dayarray=new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")
var montharray=new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December")
document.write("<font color='FF0000' face='arial'><b>"+dayarray[day]+", "+montharray[month]+" "+daym+", "+year+"</b></font>")

Might just be that the low click-thru rates owe strictly to the product being not highly sought after, a conclusion seeming supported by his post in another thread reading "Most of the traffic I get from them is from content not search."

[SEObyCanz]

OMG that's funny Deepsand.... Could use that script for something more honest so thanks.... lol

[deepsand]

Scripts don't scam people, people do.

[dbramley]

Hi,
Got to agree with contacting websites and advertising direct with them.

I run a number of websites that I host private paying ad's on and google adsense on and have noticed an increasing trend lately of national and international firms contacting me to advertise direct rather than through Google.

I think this is for a few reasons;

They get much more value for money (cut out the middleman)
They also gain SEO /backlinks
Its highly targeted

Perhaps you should look at this? Yes it is more time consuming for you but I'm sure would offer a better return.

Cheers
Dan

[freeleads2]

Lynn,

Yes I am interested in people coming to my websites, yes I did a video on how I was successful on building link exchanges and yes I am interested in having real conversations on this topic with people here. I believe I am doing this. I am not interested in "suckers" as you say. Not an accurate or friendly comment to make.

Back to your points. I did kind of give up on SEO for that particular site because it had a PR0 because of the links rotating on and off. However, that particular site is really profitable in spite of the PR0 ranking so I did not want to change the format.

I have done SEO on some of my other sites and they rank quite well for their keywords though I admit I still have work to do in this area. SEO and paid advertising are not mutually exclusive. That is great to get a client several hundred clicks by SEO but I am looking for thousands of visitors not just a few hundered. This is one of the main advantages of paid advertising. It is fast and you can get larger amounts of traffic. This is becoming more and more difficult with Google though. Good luck.

[freeleads2]

Dbramley,

Yes I agree with you completely. I think more and more people will look directly for websites to advertise on. I did not even think about the SEO implications. Good point. Thanks.

[dan2009]

IF I where you I would focus on increasing my page rank. Get listed in Yahoo, and all the other major link directories. Hire a seo specialist to help you optimize the coding on your website. I also suggest you focus on on building organic website traffic.