 |
 |
Build Other Traffic
| At this point, we’ll cover the final two of the big 5 techniques
for building traffic, Pay-Per-Click Search Engines and the major directories.
Let’s start with #2 of the big 5, Pay-Per-Click Search Engines.
Pay-Per-Clicks allow you to bid for keyword placement. For example, if one of your pages focuses on the topic of “fashion models,” you can bid for the #1 placement (or any other #) on the first page (or lower, but what’s the point of being on page two?) of search results. Boy, does that save time! No tweaking, submitting, etc. But there’s a catch, of course. The most popular keywords have become quite expensive at Overture (the first and biggest engine) and are rising at the others. So your best strategy is to work the niches. Bid on hundreds of less popular keywords related to your Theme-Based Content Site. This can be an extremely cost-effective way to build a big list of lifetime customers in a hurry. There’s a drawback to bidding on hundreds of words, the time involved to research and actually bid upon them all. Luckily, Site Build It! Manager takes care of all that. Let’s quickly review the top Pay-Per-Clicks. The grand-daddy of all
the Pay-Per-Clicks is
While you’re there, download their mass-submission Excel template (Basic
or Power form, either one is OK, they prefer if you use the Power form).
Site
Build It! Manager speeds this whole process up and makes it easier,
too. The Manager works with all of the Pay-Per-Click engines’ mass-submission
spreadsheet templates.
Overture will generate more traffic for you than all other Pay-Per-Clicks, combined. Overture is now must marketing. However, it is important to note that the other Pay-Per-Clicks are starting to come into their own. Of course, due to its great popularity, each click from Overture will cost you more than from the other Pay-Per-Clicks. Even though the other engines are cheaper, it normally might not be worth your time to prepare bids for them. Why? Because, even though they deliver cheap traffic, they don’t deliver a lot of it! Factor in the cost of your time and it might not be worthwhile. Now, though, thanks to Site Build It! Manager, submitting bids on the other seven Pay-Per-Clicks only amounts to a few minutes work per engine! Good, cheap, targeted traffic! So let’s take a quick look at the next tier. In order of approximate importance, here are the next Pay-Per-Clicks. There are many others beyond these, but they do not generate enough traffic to be worth your time FindWhat
7Search
Kanoodle
ePilot
Sprinks
Before you bid on anything, it’s wise to research. And keywords are no exception. During chapter 2 of the discussion, you had an optional exercise. If you haven’t had time to do this yet, here it is: Let’s create an Overture bid-for-keyword list. Do it for each engine. But since Overture will drive 80% of your traffic, we’ll start here. Label the first column “Keyword” (yes, the same keyword as in your master keyword list. Now add 23 more columns to the right of keyword (yes 23, or better still, Site Build It! Manager has already done all this for you). Here’s what to do for each of your high profitability keywords. Label the first two columns to the right of thekeyword column “Price I Should Bid” and “Buys #”, leave these two columns empty for now. In the next column, enter the number of sites that have bid at least a dime for each keyword. Let’s say that you do a search for “fashion model” and you find that 15 sites bid at least one nickel for “fashion model”, enter “15”. Now, in the next 20 columns, enter the price for the top 20 search results spots, searchers are unlikely to scan any result past #20, so bidding for a spot beyond #20 is a waste of time. In our example, since only 15 sites have bid for “fashion model,” you enter these bid prices in the first 15 columns, leave the last 5 blank or enter 0.00. Some Pay-Per-Click engines only show you 10 sites on the first page of search results. In that case, only enter the bids for these. Enter “0.00” for #11-20, because there’s really no point in bidding for a spot on page 2. In general, bid a minimum bid higher than the highest site that seems to reach your target visitor. If the descriptions for the first three sites are clearly aimed at someone who is not your target, why outbid them? Stay higher than your competitors, as long as that bid makes financial sense. You do not want to be below your competition, the click through drops off quickly as you go down the page. What makes financial sense? Whatever makes a profit... Suppose you are paying 10 cents per click for a keyword (minimum bid at Overture). That means 1,000 clicks costs you $100. Suppose you do a decent preselling job and a total of 20% of your visitors click on at least one of the five in-context text links on your Keyword-Focused Content Page. That’s 200 people visiting your merchants. If your merchants average a 3% Conversion Rate, that’s 6 sales. So, if the average commission is $20, your $100 has returned $120. And if you’ve chosen good affiliate programs, ones that offer lifetime customer commissions, you’ve gained 6 lifetime customers, which means ongoing income with no further expense! If you are referring visitors to your own online store or sales site, do similar profitability calculations. One special bidding strategy for Overture: Overture does more than just provide its own search results at its highly popular engine. It supplies listings for many major search portals such as AOL Search, Netscape Search, Lycos, AltaVista and large meta Search Engines. These search services tend to cherry-pick the top search results. Your very best strategy for maximal distribution across all of the Overture search partners would be to make a bid that puts you in the top 2. Next best is in the top 3. And then in the top 10. Of course, anywhere in the top 40 puts you on Overture’s first page of results. But you’ll get far less traffic if you appear further down. You’ll have to balance the per-click cost of being in the top 2-to-10 against the financial benefit of the extra clicks. You may even be willing to lose some money, on a per-first-sale basis, to gain precious lifetime customers. As always, your bids must make financial sense. I can’t overemphasize that the key to success is to bid upon hundreds of keywords related to your site. Yes, hundreds. So the mass-submission templates are absolutely essential. Don’t let them scare you, except for one engine, they’re easy to work with when you use the Site Build It! Manager. Let me tell you a bit more about SBI! Manager, a productive piece of software that comes with Site Build It!. The Manager runs off your computer. The rest of Site Build It! (i.e., the no-HTML SiteBuilder, World-Submitter, the link tracker, the reporting functions, etc.) runs off of theirs. Together, it’s a terrific marriage. Basically, SBI! Manager is a marketing tool for developing highly profitable keywords related to a theme that is in turn related to products of affiliate programs that you represent. It automates much of what you have studied so far in this discussion.
Then use the Site Build It! server-side site-building tool to develop
your Theme-Based Content Site, full of Keyword-Focused Content Pages. Attract
traffic to these pages and then refer visitors to affiliate-merchant sites
or to your own sales sites that sell products or services.
Same idea as when you made the Title for your Web page chapter 6), except your title does not have to be the actual page title. It should contain the keyword that you bid for, since the click through will be higher. Overture cuts the title off after 40 characters, so keep it short. Get your most important, biggest point up front. Copy-andpaste your META description that you prepared in chapter 6. Same basic rules and principles apply. (The Manager even reminds you if you forget to include the keyword in the Title or Description.) Direct searchers (your potential visitors) to the specific page on your site that has the information they request, not just to your home page. One important rule of every Pay-Per-Click. Each keyword that you bid
upon must clearly relate to its Title and Description, and to the contents
of your site. For you that’s natural, already done!
Use the Manager's pay-per-click automated research functionality to quickly get all the info at each engine about all of your keywords, showing you where the bid should be for each keyword. All you have to do is the fun part, enter your bids! When that’s all done? Just one more click. Click upon the “Create File” button to create a file for Overture’s masssubmission template. The Manager automates mass-submissions to all the major Pay-Per-Clicks. Now it only takes minutes to do what previously took days. E-mail these files to the Pay-Per-Clicks and presto! Instant, cheap traffic! With no hassle. Site Build It! Manager is software that you run on your computer. The Site Build It! Manager automates and greatly accelerates
More information about Site Build It! The Wrapup on Pay-Per-Clicks
Site Build It! is the ultimate way to build pay-per-click traffic. Use the client-side Manager and the server-side Tracker to create and monitor a powerful, cost-effective, pay-per-click traffic-building program. It’s totally do-able. Unlike the free Search Engines, all you have to do is bid. |
||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||
