I have been using the off line downloadable Google AdWords Editor to build and manage my campaigns for the last week. The software works awesome, its a huge time saver. This is one problem though…. When I tried to build Google placement targeted campaigns I could build them but I couldn’t upload the campaigns to my AdWords account. And also another bug is that you cannot do CPC (cost per click) for placement targeted campaigns, you can only bid on CPM (cost per impression). My solution? I just did the placement target campaigns online in my AdWords account. I hope the AdWords team will see this.

Other Google Placement Problems

A weird thing about placement targeting sometimes they begin running and others time they just site there. There is no explanation why the ad group isn’t running either. I don’t understand Google, I love doing placement targeting campaigns I just wish they would work all the time or at least tell me what the hell is going on. If I did something wrong , inform me. I am trying to spend money and I am left in the dark without a clue sometimes. If other brick and mortar companies ran their business this way, they would be out of business. Google please start to respect your customers more please! We made you who you are, we spend $1000s every day. All we want is what we deserve.

C.V.

I was thinking about my goals today and I want to make $100,00 month in profit . I’m not sure when I want to achieve this by. 100k a month would be 1.2 million per year, not too shabby. I really believe I can and will do this, but by what date? If you have a goal you need to have a date as to when it will be achieved by. I think I can pull this off by September 2008, so that gives me like 5 months to a little over doubling my affiliate marketing income. Can I do it? Hell yeah! I don’t have it all figured out, but it will happen. The law of attraction will do it’s magic, along with me working hard and will become a reality for me.

I need to branch out into different niches to achieve my goal, and then from there I need to scale my pay per click campaigns to their maximum potential. It’s amazing the amount of money you can pull in with pay per click marketing, it’s unreal. This is not some cake walk though, you really need to know lots of different areas in order to really succeed at internet marketing.

Skills you need to be a good internet marketer:

1. web design/layout - designing your own websites & landing pages (photoshop skills, design skills)
2. html/php - coding your own websites, blog & landing pages
3. copy writing - writing effective PPC ads & copy for your websites/ landing pages
4. research - this is the most important factor. You need the ability to dig into a niche and find ways to generate traffic (even in competitive niches).

The last part I added because some friends were asking about how you do pay per click, hopefully they read this and understand it’s not nearly as easy as they think. Anyone can do PPC marketing as long as you’re willing to work 12 hours a day and already have a good portion of the skills I listed above. You need to have the drive to do ANYTHING to achive your goal. A real burning desire and commitment to “make it happen”.

Th reason I blog about how much I want to make financially is because this is how I reach my goals by writing them down, it helps so do it. Don’t just sit on your ass, make it happen. You are the creator of your own destiny, where do you want to be in 5 years? Where do you want to be in 5 months, 5 weeks? Plan ahead, and control YOUR LIFE, don’t let your life control you….

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• how bad do you want to be rich?
• My personal goals
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Yeah, yeah, Yahoo Search Marketing implemented their new B.S rule. Minimum bids are no longer fixed at $.10. So what does this mean? Well you could be paying less, but probably more for your keyword bids.

Straight from the horses mouth:

• Sponsored Search minimum bids are no longer fixed at $.10.
• Content Match minimum bids currently will remain at $.10.
• Higher ad quality may help you receive lower minimum bids.
• Currently applies to U.S. accounts only.

The same as their buddies over at Google AdSense, it’s all about the quality score….. Also the number of bidders and bid amounts on a keyword market will affect how much you pay per click. WE will see how this turns out. Luckily I don’t rely on Yahoo very much. I use Google which is even more anal, lol.

Gas prices goes up, food goes up, flour goes up and PPC clicks go up. I don’t give a shit, you want to get ahead make more money, that’s it. No one cares, it’s up to YOU to get ahead. Want more money, then make more pay per click campaigns, that’s it… That’s how I deal with inflation, simple solution for me anyways.

I had a great conversation with Google AdWords team again, they are soo dumb. My ads were lots of traffic on the content network, then 2 out of the 3 ad groups died right now. I then needed to contacted my heroes at Google AdWords. Of course I saved the conversation just to show how stupid they are.

You can read for yourself:

Chat InformationThank you for contacting Google AdWords. Please hold a moment while we route your chat to a specialist who will help you with your question: “impressions way down”.
Chat InformationDevon S has received your message and will be right with you.
Devon S: Hello C. Thanks for contacting Google AdWords. I’m happy to help you.
C: hello
Devon S: I understand your impressions have declined and you’d like clarification as to why, is that correct?
Devon S: I’m happy to look into it.
Devon S: For account verification purposes, can you please give me your customer ID number?
C: My impression on 2 ad groups are almost down to nothing
C: k 1 sec
C: Customer ID: ********
Devon S: Ok.
Devon S: What ad groups are those?
C: 1sec
Devon S: And have you made any changes to the account recently?
C: no i havent
C: ******** ******** ******** group
C: ******** ******** group
Devon S: Ok. Hold on just a moment while I take a look.
C: ok
C: still there?
Devon S: Yes, I’ve been looking through your account
C: ok
Devon S: It looks like the rank of your ads dropped, most likely due to a change in the family status of your ads.
C: why is that?
Devon S: Publishers can decide the status of ads they’d like to show on their sites, so if your family status changes, you might not be eligible for certain sites.
Devon S: Here’s an article about family status:
Devon S: http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=69787
C: no listen
C: it was approved and ran find for 1 week now they change status
C: wht the hell is that about?
C: why did they approve it in thew 1st place?
C: and its not porn its damn ******** site
C: with no nudity or any adult words
Devon S: I apologize for your frustration, C.
C: thats fine
C: but seriously
C: look at the site
Devon S: Ads are reviewed when they are added originally, and are often re-reviewed.
C: doesn tmean it was aprroved right
C: dont you thnink they could have made a mistake when they rereviewed it?
Devon S: I don’t believe so
C: so they made a mistake when they 1st reviewed it?
C: lol you guys are nuts
Devon S: Did you make any changes to the ads?
Devon S: When ads are edited or updated, they’re submitted for review again.
C: seems silly , cause all the diff editors seem to have their OWN rules
C: yes i changed the ad so i coudl try to get a better ctr
Devon S: No, we have a very specific rubric for approval.
Devon S: Ok.
Devon S: Then that’s why it was re-reviewed.
C: if you have a specific rubric for approval. then why was it approved originally then?
C: does that make sense to you?
Devon S: It was approved both times, C. It sounds like the changes you made affected the family status of the ad.
C: thatsBS
C: the ad is clean
C: no adult words at all
Devon S: We don’t just consider the ad text, but also the concepts within the ads.
C: does that looks like adult wording to you?
C: bah
C: make no sense
C: you really dont even knwo why it wasnt approved do you?
Devon S: C, the ad was approved.
Devon S: It’s running.
C: yeah approved but not RUNNING!
C: oh yeah its running
C: i got clciks today
C: i got 3 clicks
C: wow
C: compared to 300 clciks the other day lol
C: but its running fine
C: too bad no one will ever see it
Devon S: That may be due to the decrease in impressions. However, it looks like everything is running fine in the account.
C: gues waht is really funny
C: if i resubmit again i might get them running as family safe
C: do you realize how dumb that is?
C: but you know what it will probably work
Devon S: That’s possible, but not likely if you don’t change the ads.
C: MAKES NO SENSE
C: google is hit and miss
Devon S: Keep in mind your ads won’t run at all on the content network while they’re in line to be reviewed.
C: 1/2 the time the edotirs dotn do things the RIGHT WAY
C: gotcha
Devon S: I apologize for the frustration, C. Was there anything else I can help you with today?
C: lol this is uesless
C: I can figure it out on my own way better than your help
C: sorry but you guys are nuts
C: but thats life
Devon S: I’m sorry you feel that way, C.
C: no offence to you but seriously
Devon S: I don’t think this conversation is productive anymore, though, so I’m going to have to end this chat.
C: anwys see ya
C: yup thanks buddy..

These “specialists” are good for nothing, they are Google robots.  The reason my ads aren’t showing on the content network is this. I had my ads all approved and running fine, I adding some new ads so I could get a better CTR, which in return was sent to review where they flagged the ads as  not “family safe”, which is pure bullshit.

Here is the stupid part if I create a AdWords new campaign it will probably get approved as “family safe”, they love to waste my time. It really is insane how stupid they are at Google AdWords. Time to make a NEW campaign…..

Logging into my AdWords account and I see $12 bids across all my campaigns! I shit my pants, whats the hell is this all this about? Well I checked a few blogs later that day, and it seems I am not the only one to get hit by $10- $12 AdWords bids. At first like I said I did shit my pants but then I realized that Google did me a favor. I was going to go through my AdWords account soon anyways and start checking which campaigns that I should stop, because of low or no profit from them. Well thankyou Google you saved me some time and money. Thanks so much!

I still think the way they do business is very harsh, and they treat paying customers like crap. If that was to happen in the brick and mortar business, they would be much more accountable for their actions. However since this is the web, it seems like you can do whatever the hell you feel like. It’s not like they released a statement explaining all of this. Why should they, it’s the internet so you can do whatever the fuck you want right?

Kid of sad when their is no relationship between companies (Google) and the customers (AdWords advertisers) that pay their bills. There is a better way to do business with people, treating people with respect is a start. But hey, who am I right…..