Upgrade your Wordpress Blogs

Just a quick posting tonight. If you are using Wordpress to power your websites, you probably noticed the notification inside the dashboard. It is time to upgrade again. If you are like me this turns out to be quite some work, because I am using Wordpress all over the place. Does anyone know if there is a software that upgrades all your blogs automatically? I do not mean the plugin that allows you to upgrade, but rather a software that uploads the new files to the different (pre-configured) websites and then you can conveniently upgrade from some sort of a control panel?

Anyway – I use Excel to keep track of all my websites where I use Wordpress. It contains the Domain Name, the direct link to the wp-admin / Dashboard + user ID and password I am using. Since the upgrade plugin became available I do not have to upload any files at least (except for maybe upgrading a plugin here and there). All in all it takes me about 45-60 minutes to upgrade the different Wordpress installations. Time I would rather use for something else, but what do you want to do. Safety first

Just make sure you enable all plugins after the upgrade – especially Askimet. I missed that on one blog and ended up with 3762 comments waiting for approval.

Reviving my SpeedPPC Discount Offer

Things got a little complicated during the release of version 3 of SpeedPPC and I had to shift things around a little. My apologies for that. Anyway – I have been working with SpeedPPC V3 now for a while and I am very impressed. The software is easier to use and more effective than ever. I really like the 15 landing page templates that come with the Pro version. They are of very high quaolity and extremely easy to adjust for different topics and niches. That has been a lifesaver for me as landing pages are always my main weakness. It seems like this is changing now. SpeedPPC Pro also comes with almost 400 expansion lists that make it  much easier to build long tail keyword lists. So, if you are considering to buy SpeedPPC, don’t wait. Every day you wait might be a day of income left on the table.

 

<<Update: This offer is no longer valid>>Here is my offer for you. Buy SpeedPPC at list price and receive your rebate from me. How does it work? Well, if you buy thru my affiliate link I will share my affiliate commission with you. If you buy SpeedPPC Pro at $497.00 you will receive a $100 payment via PayPal from me. If you buy the ‘normal’ version of SpeedPPC at $397.00 you will receive $50.00 from me via PayPal. This is one of the cheapest way to get your hands onto SpeedPPC. Some restrictions apply: There is a money back guarantee. Before you can receive your SpeedPPC discount money, my affiliate commission needs to be vested. Once the commission is approved you will receive your payment from me. Make the purchase and forward me a copy of your receipt so that I can keep track of the purchase and the commission.<<Update: This offer is no longer valid>>

 

 

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This offer cannot be combined with any other promotion. You need to purchase at list price through my affiliate link to make this work. Email me your receipt at speedppc [@] seoker dot com. If you do not want to buy through my offer and if you do not want to receive a great discount on SpeedPPC – here is a direct link to their website.

Who needs a Moving Van anyway?

Here are some nice pictures for all the car enthusiasts out there. Last Monday I was driving through town when I saw this Nissan Altima. I was waiting at a red light when he drove through the intersection. When I got a green light I was able to catch up (don’t laugh – took me 3-4 miles to do so because this guy was not going slow), I was able to take the following pictures. Enjoy.

PPC marketing in a high competitive Niche

Have you always wondered how difficult it is to enter a busy niche market with a new website and PPC traffic? The main assumption would be that a) you have to deal with many competitors and b) with very high bid/click prices. How would one approach such a niche and build a PPC campaign that does not drain your financial budget, but delivers good results so that you can withstand the initial loss you might have to accept until Google Adwords rates your PPC campaign and website trustworthy.

I have been doing a lot of research in a specific niche market and wondered how these people do it. Page #1 of the Google results always shows ads of the same 6-10 players in this field. Only one or two are linking to the actual product. 4 are linking to a main website with no product information, but more generic information about the market/products. These are review websites. The remaining competitors are using the “Scam” approach, by warning the visitor of possible scams out there and then try to convince them that the remaining product they describe is the golden egg.

I have been following this for 10-15 days now and I have to say it seems like either way must be working. Clicks in this market must be from around $0.75 (established campaign with good CTR and awesome quality scores) to $1.50 (new website/new CTR). The keywords I have used to monitor are pretty generic and should generate quite some traffic. So, my overall impression is that the different ways to approach customers seem to work for these people. Certainly worth diving more into that market to see if I can enter it without bleeding money too much before I start earning money. Certainly a good niche to try the long tail first and then to start competing with the big guys when already seeing some cash flow.

Here are the steps I did to monitor this market.

• Identify the niche and the different products
• Find 20-30 generic keywords to monitor
• Identify the different competitors
• Monitor their ads and their ad position
• Identify their approach to sell the product
• Collect the data and make it readable to be able assess and to come to a conclusion

Once you have some real data to work with, you can decide if you want to take the risk to enter this market. If you do, don’t reinvent the wheel. Pick a strategy matching what the top players are doing. Build a website and ads following that strategy. Now comes the difficult part – you need to find out what converts. This requires you to spend some money. Pick the generic keywords that generate a lot of traffic and enter the market with high bids. You want ad impressions and you want people to come to your website. Use something like crazyegg.com to track where visitors click on your pages. Use Google Analytics or any other good stats program to monitor traffic flow. Spend a couple hundred bucks if necessary to optimize your website and to swap products around if needed. In my case the affiliate commission is between $15 and $35 per conversion (broad range as I do not want to hand out which niche I am playing in right to avoid more competition) . I know that this is the difficult part that involves some risk, but if you don’t try you will not be able to succeed.

Here are some niches you could explore and see if you want to give it a shot:

• Diet and Weight Loss
• Credit Card offers
• Mortgage offers
• Colon Cleansing
• Debt Relief
• Cash Advance
• Beauty
• Shopping

There are certainly more niches to play in, but those here have offers at many different affiliate networks.

SpeedPPC Launch Price Expiring soon

If you have not decided yet on buying SpeedPPC V3 you better think twice. The 7-day launch of SpeedPPC 3 ends 9am (EST) Tuesday, 15th April. The current discount of 20% makes this software a steal in my opinion. If I would not have my own copy since last year already, I would buy now. I was dragging my feet for quite a while back then and once I had the software I kind of regretted being so hesitant, because I knew I had lost out on some great opportunities.

Here are some of the benefits of SpeedPPC if you are not aware of it.

- cuts down building large PPC campaigns from hours to minutes
- almost 400 extension lists to chase the long tail
- Campaing duplication for faster roll-out of new PPC campaigns
- List cleaning (Data Cleansing)
- Support for Google, MSN, Yahoo, and more …
- Campaign Budget setup
- Dynamic Keyword insertion
- Advanced Ad Creator
- Unique Text Ad for each keyword
- Landing Page Templates
- Data Feed Websites

SpeedPPC has helped me to bring my Google Quality Score ratings from “Poor” or “OK” to mostly “Great” and the ones that came back as “Ok” I was able to make changes on the fly and re-upload ads for hundreds of keywords with just a few clicks. So, I am completely sold on SpeedPPC. Therefore my recommendation that you take advantage of the 20% Lauch Special before it expires.

Got to SpeedPPC now.

SpeedPPC Version 3 rocks the House

It is no secret that I am a big fan of SpeedPPC. The software has helped me a lot to produce profitable campaigns in the past and now that version is out I am looking forward to even more PPC fun. Version 3 of SpeedPPC was in the making for quite a bit, but I think the wait has been worth it. If you have been eye-balling SpeedPPC for a while, but could not decide to spend the money on it, you should reconsider and buy now. Great features have been added + the launch special offers 20% off the normal price. You would also get 12 months of access to a private Clickbank mining tool that will help you to identify profitable products over at Clickbank.com.

 

What are some of the new features? You can not only create and upload campaigns for Google Adwords, MSN, and Yahoo, but you can also create campaigns for smaller advertising networks and therefore deal with less competition. 15 custom landing pages are included in the deal, so that it should be easy to jumpstart your PPC efforts. SpeedPPC now allows to build even more targeted ad groups which should help to achieve a great quality score. Using the dynamic insertion feature allows to have extremely targeted ads as well. SpeedPPC now also allows an easier way to copy ads from campaign to campaign and to cut down the time needed to get your campaigns hammered out and to make money.

 

A large list of extension lists provides keywords that help you to build larger keyword lists. Buy keywords, cities, states, and much more make it easier to take a base list of product related keywords and to extend it to target the longtail. The result will be less competition and therefore lower bid prices. I have not counted, but I think the number of possible extension lists comes close to 200 (?) or so.

 

Anyway – my initial impression makes me feel very excited. I do have a couple of PPC projects I am working on and that is now a cool tool to extend my existing campaigns. For me as a paying customer I am receiving this upgrade free of charge, but if you want to finally take your PPC efforts to the next level I would recommend to take a look at SpeedPPC. If you don’t like it (which I doubt) – there is a money back guarantee as well. The current launch special of 20% off the normal price won’t last long.

 

PS: I have been offering $100 money back if you buy through my affiliate link. This offer will be paused for a while, due to the 20% launch special being in affect. Use the 20% off instead and get going in PPC Marketing. An updated offer for up to $100 off the price of SpeedPPC Pro is to be found here.