Online Advertising Experiments

I have been rigorously doing some online advertising (mostly PPC) to promote various landing pages for the past few months. It was definitely a costly experiment with some modes of advertising returning many fold where as some PPC advertising channels just hogged my budget without returning even a cent.

This short article is about the advertising methodologies and channels that I used and the effectiveness of the same. Needless to say, Google AdWords is still the best option in terms of RoI though it can be really expensive if not careful. Facebook ads, as I mentioned sometime ago, can be cheap or expensive based on your delivery model but ineffective for conversion either way.
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Got a whack from Google! Page Rank down to 0

google-page-rank-downThis year doesn’t seem to be very good for me and DollarShower. After facing suspension (which got corrected recently but with huge losses) from some affiliate programs, mini slaps from Google AdWords now this blog’s home page page rank has been reduced to zero from 3. I am not sure when exactly this happened but I noticed it today morning and verified the same with multiple page rank checker services. The inner pages still enjoy good search ranking and PR.

The only reason I could think of behind this demotion is my recent review on a traffic tool (which was on the homepage). Or could it be the recent announcement to switch DollarShower to a do follow blog?

Anyhow, I am not too paranoid about the PR downgrade as long as the traffic to the blog doesn’t reduce. So far, I haven’t seen any impact of this on my traffic (of the past two days, that is). Probably, I would even contact Google to understand what triggered the downgrade decision.
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MaxBlogPress Subscribers Magnet Coupon – 50% OFF

Update on 1-Apr-2013: Till the time MaxBlogPress reopens their discount deal, we are still offering a $20 PayPal rebate to all our referrals who purchase the product at the original price of $97 (Unlimited usage license). Please use the image link below to shop and claim the rebate via our contact form. The single blog usage license is still available at $37 using the link below and without any rebate

maxblogpress subscribers magnetMaxBlogPress had released their super list building plugin ‘Subscribers Magnet‘ exactly two months ago. Owing to an overwhelming frenzy over purchasing this plugin, they had to temporarily stop offering the plugin but now they are reopening it for subscription – but only for 1 day i.e. October 7.

On October 7th 2010, you can purchase the MaxBlogPress Subcribers Magnet using this link and get the $147 plugin for just $97 but we offer an additional $23.50 rebate to help you buy the plugin for $97 just $73.50 or flat 50% OFF!.
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TrafficAnarchy – The Traffic Generation Tool

This is NOT a paid post and I do not know who Steven Lee Jones either. However, the tool – TrafficAnarchy – that he is supposed to have developed or promoting seem to really help drive traffic to your website and landing pages. And it surely helps with your SEO as well if used judiciously.

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3 Simple Steps to Increase your Search Traffic drastically

So you have a great blog with a number of quality posts. Your blog is indexed by Google and you are already getting reasonably good amount of traffic from search engines. However, like everyone else, you feel that you need to improve your search traffic (organic traffic).

In this post, I shall share a few tips that I have found working for me in order to increase search engine traffic of your existing content or the posts that are already published. We will be using only the Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools to figure out where to optimize.


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What are good Keywords for SEO?

Many Search Engine Optimization experts claim that if content is king, then SEO is the queen! Well, I am not sure if SEO is feminine gender but sensible linking and good keywords definitely make your content more visible to the organic traffic aka search traffic.

Finding good keywords is no rocket science these days as search engines have mostly exposed search data (for their own business reasons) and keyword suggestion tools have made it easier to find keywords. Hence this post is not necessarily about how to pick good keywords but more about the traits of keywords that make them good based on what and how people search for.
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