PPC Kahuna Review: PPC Tools Compared
Thursday
Apr 16, 2009
I have purchased and used PPC Kahuna, PPC Classroom 2.0, and Commission Blueprint now over the last 6 Months and have tested all 3. The most recent being PPC Kahuna, the new PPC membership site by the creators of Traffic Kahuna.
I was coaxed into trying PPC Kahuna after I posted a few comments about my negative experience with Traffic Kahuna on the Warrior Forum. I was offered a Free One Month Trial of PPC Kahuna to see how it stacked up against PPC Classroom and Commission Blueprint. I am a current member of PPC Classroom and have been one since October 2008. I purchased Commission Blueprint when it was first released and I value both programs and think they are very complimentary to each other. I will get into the specifics shortly.
I didn’t like Traffic Kahuna, the much heralded traffic and SEO generating program. I didn’t like it because it didn’t have a lot of automation to it. It was very expensive for a monthly “limited” membership and I felt that members of that service were being ripped off. I still think SENuke is the single best SEO and traffic generating software membership package you can buy, bar none, but I digress. Let’s talk about PPC Kahuna.
I wasn’t thrilled with trying PPC Kahuna initially, based on my above stated experience with Jason Katzenback’s Traffic Kahuna. Jason convinced me to try PPC Kahuna and asked me to write an unbiased review on it. I decided to take it a step further and compare it to a few other PPC Tools that I value.
As I said previously, I have been an active member of PPC Classroom since it released it’s 2.0 version in October. PPC Classroom has a few keyword tools and some nice bonuses which include a One Month Free trial of Speed PPC, which is an must have program if you are serious about getting into Pay Per Click Advertising. The membership is an actual series of classes with tests at the end of each module. After you finish the classes, the main reason to stay with the membership is the continual Webinars and Case Studies which showcase multiple techniques for using not just Google Adwords, but other Pay Per Click Services as well. The PPC instruction is fairly basic, but it needs to be if it is catering to everyone. The benefits lie in the added and very constant webinars and case studies as I mentioned previously. As with all of the programs listed here, this one focuses primarily on making money via PPC with Clickbank.
Commission Blueprint is a value added PPC instructional tool. It is a little more advanced and not a program for complete novices. It teaches a single technique for making money with PPC and Clickbank. It is very well structured and it is laid out in a very organized manner. This was the first PPC instrucitonal program I had ever purchased and I had some immediate success with the technique. I wrote a few reviews here about it. I still use quite a bit of the technique I learned with Commission Blueprint, but it has morphed with other things I have learned since. The main thing to recognize with Commission Blueprint is that you will pay one price for this product. No monthly fee is required and it is a great and highly recommended PPC product. It also provided me with a technique for building Landing Sites that I still use. The reason I say Landing Sites as opposed to Landing Pages, is because I believe Landing Sites are the only way to have real success with PPC versus just having a few Landing Pages.
PPC Kahuna on the other hand does focus on creating Landing Sites, which is the first thing that caught my eye when I began going through the material. The videos are very well done and I believe they have even gone back and redone a few of the videos to make them better. Much like Commission Blueprint, PPC Kahuna has a very specific technique they teach in their training modules for doing PPC (again) with Clickbank products. It is a very solid technique, but that is not the strength of PPC Kahuna. The strength of PPC Kahuna lies in the base PPC Kahuna keyword research software. The software will help you immediately find if specific keywords are profitable ones by telling you their click to conversion ratio. This is a monsterous help when doing PPC. Commission Blueprint has something like this, called Market Samurai, but you have to pay extra for it. Market Samurai and PPC Kahuna’s keyword software are very much alike, the main difference being that with PPC Kahuna, you have to pay a monthly fee to keep using it and Market Samurai, you pay once and it is yours. PPC Classroom has a few keyword research tools they promote, like Traffic Travis and Hexatrack, but you have to buy these tools separately. PPC Kahuna also gives you Traffic Travis as part of the membership. PPC Kahuna’s suite of tools is pretty impressive and I love the user friendly interface.
Overall, when you compare the 3 programs, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. As a complete beginner, PPC Classroom is where I would start with a month or two of the membership. It depends how fast you digest the material. If you are on a tight budget and want to see if you can take PPC to the next level, I would recommend buying Commission Blueprint/ Ad Grenade (which is a Speed PPC knockoff)/ and Market Samurai. Ultimately though, if you want to take your PPC and Clickbank money making to the next level, you want all the tools and software in one location, and a solid technique for making money with PPC and Clickbank; PPC Kahuna is one of the best memberships for doing that.
Even though I didn’t like Traffic Kahuna, I am a firm believer in PPC Kahuna.
Make Money with Adsense and XSitePro
Monday
Apr 13, 2009
When it comes to Making Money with Google Adsense these days, most will tell you it isn’t worth the effort. Contrary to that, I still operate and create new Adsense sites all the time. The difference is the way I go about it.
You used to be able to slap up a couple thousand pages using a site generator; blog like hell and BAM!; you would be making hundreds of dollars a day from one website. Those days have come and gone, but the one factor that remains the same is that Google Adsense pays.
The cost per click on Google Adsense ads has gone up considerably and so have their payouts. It is well worth taking the time to create an Adsense specific Money Site because you can and will make money with it if you follow a few simple guidelines.
My most recent Google Adsense sites have all been built using XSitePro. The main reason why is because of the Google Adsense Terms and Conditions. These terms specify that you must have a Privacy Policy on your site and Google recommends the use of a Contact form or page for site visitors to contact you. XSitePro automates this process nicely and makes putting up a site easy and fast.
I start my site making process with Keyword Research. I take a look at the top paying keywords, but I don’t go after the very top because most of the really high tier keywords which pay $40-$50 per click don’t actually get that much traffic and are not worth the effort. These keywords also have competition saturation and it can be hard to get into the top listings for those terms. I like to use mid level Keywords which advertise for $9-$10 and pay anywhere from $5-$6 per click (depending).
Let’s use my latest site as an example. I researched keywords and found that Motorcycle Insurance is a decent paying keyword. When I go long tail on it and change it to: Harley Davidson Motorcycle Insurance; it becomes a $9 Keyword phrase (give or take).
I then went to Guru.com and paid to have 10 Articles written about Motorcycle Insurance by a professional writer. I paid $80 for the articles which are 100% unique. I only start with 10 because I don’t want to invest too much at the beginning and find out the site isn’t profitable and I want to keep the site tightly focused on my keywords in order to bring in the highest Pay Per Click.
I created my site with XSitePro and picked an ugly site template that won’t attract anyone to staying on the site too long, but long enough to either decide one of two things: Either to click on the back button or to click on a Google Adsense Ad. This is what your site is built for. The content is important. I have 6 of the 10 articles onthe site now and I have scheduled the other 4 Articles for 10-14 day intervals over the next few weeks (using XSitePro’s Automatic Scheduler). If the site starts drawing in a lot of clicks from the site promotion I will do with SENuke, I will go to my writer on Guru.com and have him write another 10-15 Articles for me and I will add them to the site.
Here is the site I created with XSitepro in about 30 minutes using these 10 (6) Articles: Harley Davidson Motorcycle Insurance
I won’t promote it heavy at first because Google will SLAP sites quick if you go to heavy right away. I will end up using 5-6 of the new articles I get from my writer to add to EzineArticles over 3-4 weeks. Once these articles are included in EzineArticles Iwill add the same articles to 10-12 Social Sites like Blog.com and Xanga. This works extremely well and over time I expect to see great results with this site. I have gone through this exact same methodology with several Google Adsense sites now and it looks like a long term profit situation a my sites have held steady in the SERPS. I also make small changes, add RSS Feeds to the sites after a month, and add small News tidbits to the sites to keep them fresh from time to time.
Take all of this into account and you too can Make Money with Google Adsense.
Wordpress Affiliate Theme Review: Landing Page Theme for Wordpress
Friday
Apr 10, 2009
Most of you know I am a big PPC buff and I am actually finishing up a review of a couple of the top PPC tools right now. I also am a big Wordpress fan and I use Wordpress to promote tons of Affiliate Programs. Well, in case you missed it, there is now a bona fide Affiliate Landing page theme built specifically for Wordpress called: Affiliate Theme.
Now when building landing pages for any PPC ad or even if you are creating Reviews to bring in affiliate commissions, the layout in Wordpress and even any other site design software can be hard to deal with. Now that is over. With Affiliate Theme you get 6 different layouts which are ultra flexible and they all can be tailored to exactly what you need it to look like. Colors, text, images, and more. I absolutely love this theme. There is litterally no better Wordpress Theme for creating landing pages. Check out the Video overview here:
If you watch the video you can see that there are very few Wordpress Themes which offer even half as many options for building unique Affiliate Landing Pages. There is really not much more you can say, this product really sells itself.
For more information on the Wordpress Affiliate Theme, click here: Affiliate Theme
Internet Millionaire Interviews with Ewen Chia Review
Wednesday
Apr 8, 2009
First off; I am not a big fan of jumping on the “Internet Marketing Guru” bandwagon and promoting their stuff just to promote it. Ewen Chia recently released a book highlighting his Affiliate Marketing and Internet Marketing successes. Internet Millionaire Interviews is just that.
Internet Millionaire Interviews is two interviews done with Ewen Chia with Calvin Woon & Jonathan Teng. Woon and Teng have a large viral marketing business and they asked Ewen Chia to disect their business and tell them what they could do better and then Ewen went on to divulge some seriously solid information on how to make money with Affiliate and Viral Marketing.
Normally you would never see an article posted on my site with a product like this, but on the recommendation of a friend I purchased the interviews. What I found was some seriously solid info that made me rethink several techniques I am currently using to make money and it made me look at a few more that are definitely worth trying out.
Ewen Chia is undoubtedly one of the premier affiliate marketers of our time and every ounce of information in these videos should be listened to closely. The good thing is that both interviews are also transcribed and have been put into written form as well, so you don’t have to take notes. You just need to highlight the parts that matter the most.
I wouldn’t put my site here or my name on anything like this unless I thought it was worth it. So if you are looking for an information product worth buying. Buy this. It is only $17. You can’t beat that.
For more information on Ewen Chia’s Internet Millionaire Interviews, click here: Internet Millionaire Interviews
Clickbank Bonus Domination Review: Is it Worth it?
Tuesday
Apr 7, 2009
When I first saw the Clickbank Bonus Domination product get released, I was happy that someone finally came up with a new script to automate the process of giving away bonuses as an incentive for clicking on my affiliate links from Clickbank.
Here is where I was a little disappointed; it is a membership site. I don’t like the idea of having to use someone else’s site to promote products. Why? Because ultimately you end up driving more sales to the other guy’s site. Sometimes there is a payoff in this and if you like automation and ease of use, then maybe CB Bonus Domination is for you.
If you are lost at this point and wondering what I am talking about; here it is. If you use the Clickbank Marketplace to make money through Affiliate Sales, ulimately you want to encourage people to click on your Affiliate Links so you can get the hefty 50 to 75% commissions that products from Clickbank generate. A very common Super Affiliate tactic is to offer Bonus items to you if you click on their Affiliate Link. For the most part it is a pain to track and in the past marketers have had to search through sales records to confim purchases and then give the bonus through email. Most of these Bonuses end up being Master Resale Rights products or the Super Affiliate’s products. I personally use PLR and Master Resale Rights products. It works. People want more for their money.
Well, with CB Bonus Domination, this process is now automated. You can easily setup your Bonus and Affiliate Review site or however you want to do it, and then use CB Bonus Domination to automate the process of delivering your Bonuses by making the buyer input their Clickbank Receipt code into a form and then they get the Bonus. Simple, yet effective Affiliate Marketing.
Like I said; I am not happy about the Memberhsip thing, but if you don’t have a lot of time, but oyu do have a lot of products you would like to promote through PPC or whatever, this product could make life a lot easier and it definitely will increase Affiliate Sales; depending on the Bonuses you offer. Plus there are some Bonuses from CB Bonus Domination you can use, but if you are offering the same thing everyone else is I don’t see that working very long. it is always better to do your own thing. Originality works.
Now, there is another program which I feel is just as good. maybe not as flashy, but good. It is from a small time software and script developer who produces some really good stuff called GeckoTribe. The program has actually been out for awhile and it is also very Clickbank centric. It is called Fast JV. It is well worth the $47 you will pay for it. So, if you don’t like CB Bonus Domination, you have an alternative which works just as well.
I recommend both, but only if you are a dedicated Affiliate Marketer who is looking to make a lot of money with Clickbank products through PPC or Article Marketing.
UPDATE: I stand corrected. As Version 2 of Clickbank Bonus Domination was released on May 20, 2009 I decided to try it again. This time no refund is required. They have done a great job on the new version and with the Reports and Ads Add-ons, this product has just risen to awesome! It is a script which runs on your own server (hosting account0 or you can choose to use theirs. My recommendation is to always use your own hosting account. After setting up 2 Bonuses now I can say Buy this and you will not be dissapointed! Great for making money on affiliate sales and the Members Area has a great set of videos to take you through the process of learning how to use it.
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