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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.

Google Shadow launched just a few minutes ago and I thought I would add my 2 cents on this new release from the maker of Day Job Killer.  Having worked through an advanced slice of the material and membership, I was able to work this “new” technique quite a bit with mixed results.

First, Google Shadow is not a set it and forget it PPC enterprise.  The basis of the program is based on Volume.  Volume being the number of campaigns you are running.  If you have a program like  Speed PPC than you might be OK.  There are a few others out there which might even be better for this program specifically.

You run on average just 3-4 keywords per campaign.  The technique has you submit numerous campaigns which you test continuously.  The bulk of the attraction to this program is that it is all based on Direct Linking to products through your Affiliate Links.  By producing massive amounts of campaigns with Google Shadow, you can very quickly achieve $50-$100 days.  While Google Shadow has its own software, it would help to use Speed PPC or some like variation to help with uploading tons of campaigns (the Adwords Editor is used with this program for speed).  I was able to load and start working 20+ campaigns in one day.  My average payout per day was $1-$5 profit per campaign (So $100 per day for 20 Campaigns possible right away).  You see where you will have to manage a large number of campaigns using this software to reap the benefits of it.

It is a solid technique, but you need to have time to dedicate to it.  It is Newbie friendly because you don’t need a website of any kind to work it’s magic.  The instructions are very thorough and specific, so if you have the time, this might be the program for you.

For more information of DJK’s Google Shadow, click here:  Google Shadow

It seems like every 5 minutes my Inbox gets hit with another PPC WebSpy affiliate promotion.  Usually when a product is overpromoted it burns out rather quickly and I ultimately ignore it.  After surfing the usual forums and talking to a few friends I decided to try it out to see what all the hype was about.

Is PPC WebSpy just another PPC Tool?  Yes and No.  For Affiliate Marketers it can be both a great tool and a great Viral Marketing tool, but it has some serious limitations.

First off, PPC WebSpy is a great tool for those of us who use Google Adwords to make money via our own websites and Affiliate Marketing.  With PPC WebSpy you can litterally “SPY” on the competition like never before.  You can see up to 100 Keywords that each advertiser is using in their current Adwords campaign (an invaluable tool) and you can tell if they are promoting products through Clickbank, Paydotcom, or Amazon and you can see what landing pages they are using.  It would be nice if we could also see their Conversion Rates and other data too, but you can’t do that with this tool.  All of these features are great for your own Adwords research, but you cannot get all of these features with the Free Standard edition of PPC WebSpy.  You still have some of the features, like being able to see 10 of the keywords Advertisers are using, but other than that you are fairly limited.

The Viral Marketing feature of PPC WebSpy is that Gold and Platinum users can add their Affiliate accounts to the program for Clickbank, Paydotcom, and Amazon and then when a user has PPC WebSpy active in their browser (you have to use FireFox to use PPC WebSpy) the first 2 positions in every Google Search they make will be products or services which have the Affiliate Link of the person they were referred by.  It all sounds good on paper, but in reality I don’t think this part of the program will yield a lot of results.  I read the testimonials on the site and I’m not buying they hype on the Viral aspects of the program, but it could have potential if you are marketing this to a ton of newbies who don’t mind clicking on your affiliate links for everything they search for.  I rather doubt that seasoned marketers will fall into this methodology, but I guess it might work if you have a solid newbie market to exploit.

Overall i do like this product and I purchased the full Platinum version.  I purchased it during the One Time Offer and was glad I did being that you will pay a full $50 more later if you don’t take the OTO.  It is listed at $97 on the OTO and $147 on the inside of the site in the upgrade section.

If you are an avid Affiliate Marketer and use Google Adwords quite a bit and want an edge on the competition, this is a great product for you.  i don’t suggest buying it strictly for the Viral Marketing aspects, but if you have a good market for this, then it might be a cash cow for you.

Update:  After talking to Brad Callen in the Warrior Forum yesterday (02/10/2009), he said that he agrees that the Viral aspects of the program are not what drives the program and he is minimizing those aspects and focusing on improving the PPC research aspects of the program.  He has just added the ability for Free Users to disable the Affiliate Links they see from their Upline if they want to.  Great work Brad.  This software just got a lot better!

For more information on PPC WebSpy, click the link here: PPC WebSpy.

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This Review goes over the original Commission Blueprint (Version 1).  If you are looking for information on Commission Blueprint 2, go to the bottom of this article.

As promised, I have completed my 1 Month evaluation of the Commission Blueprint Make Money with Clickbank and Google Adwords Program.  The first thing to understand is that this program is not for beginners.  As I worked through the methods taught in this course I realized 2 things.  Commission Blueprint is not for a Google Adwords PPC novice and to do this program you will have to be prepared to spend money.  Pay Per Click (PPC) is a spend money to make money enterprise.  Steve Clayton, the creator of Commission Blueprint recommends that for each campaign you create, you should budget at least $500.  That is a lot of money for a novice.  I budgeted $200 for my tests, but I will get into that in a minute.

If you are a novice and want to get into PPC with Google Adwords, I recommend buying the Adwords Miracle course.  It was written in 2007 and recently updated, but is the essential guide for learning the ins and outs of how to make money with and use all of the tools provided with Google Adwords.  Commission Blueprint is a program on how to make money with Google Adwords, but it teaches a specific and advanced series of techniques which for the beginner might be overwhelming.  Plus, I don’t want to set any newbie up for failure because they didn’t undersand the complexity of Steve’s technique.

If you are an Affiliate Marketer and you are not using PPC to make money than you are really missing out.  Commission Blueprint has shown me the light, but I did have to spend a little cash up front to make it happen. Here’s what I did:

The first thing Steve talks about is how to select the right Clickbank products to advertise with PPC on Adwords.  Steve lays out his process for finding products that with give you not only the best chance for success, but also the best chance at not losing money right from the start.  Clickbank Affiliate Programs are picked based on their actual payout for afiliates and their overall gravity (see Clickbank for details on Gravity).  You receive an Excel spreadsheet with a formula already embeded which shows you if you can make money from the programs you select.  All you have to do is import the information from Clickbank and BAM, you know if a program has profit potential.  I selected 5 Programs from Clickbank that looked good and then I started my keyword and SEO research.

SEO and Keyword Research is critical in this program, but Steve once again provides a great spreadsheet for importing a few critical values in that will help determine what keywords have potential for converting for your Clickbank programs.  I used the free Traffic Travis SEO and PPC analytics tool for most of this research, but I also used the free Google Adwords Keyword tool to obtain more information on the highest traffic’d keywords for each of my programs.  Commission Blueprint recommends that you only use 10-20 high payoff keywords to start your Adwords campaign, so I identified between 10 and 20 for each of my 5 programs. 

The big thing with this process is that keyword conversion tracking really comes into play and you have to be able to separate each keyword into its own ad group with its own ad.  After working through around 4-5 keywords and burning the better part of 2 hours, i decided enough is enough and broke down and bought Speed PPC.  Steve Clayton recommends it in his program, but I thought I could get away without using it.  The answer is no way.  In fact, I could write a review on Speed PPC by itself.  I had seen tons of ads for it in the past, but never really realized what the program did until it was described in Commission Blueprint.  Speed PPC will literally create all of your ads, the ad tracking, the keyword groups, campaigns, landing pages, and more and do it for you in 15 minutes for as many keywords as you want to use.  I always wondered why it cost so much (between $397 and $497) and now I can see why. The Pro version is incredible and it works with 12 different Pay Per Click engines, not just Google Adwords.  You can setup all of your campaigns and then blast them into Yahoo, Microsoft AdCenter, Miva, Looksmart, etc. in just a few minutes.  The bottom line is this, if you are doing PPC and want to make money fast, you have to use Speed PPC. 

I know I went off on a tangent there, but it really is must have software and they have tutorials on how to use everything which helps alot.  Anyway, on to my test.  After using Steve’s spreadsheet and picking my keywords for each Campaign for my 5 Clickbank Affiliate Programs, I pumped the info into Speed PPC and generated my 5 campaigns (you also use the free Google Adwords Editor in this process) in Google Adwords.  I set my daily limits, but overall I didn’t want to spend more than $200 per campaign during this test. So you can see what I mean about having to spend money to make money here.

I didn’t start my campaigns until I had created all of my landing pages.  This was a process in itself, which is also detailed pretty well in the program.  The thing that is stressed here is creating landing pages that will garner a high Google Quality Score.  If your ads, keywords, and landing pages do not relate to each other properly (in Google’s eyes), you will not get a good Quality Score and this will affect your PPC cost per click amount.  You can litterally go from paying $.05 a click to $5 a click if your Quality Score isn’t any good.  There are a lot of things that factor into this, but Steve Clayton goes over this nicely in the program.  After spending 4 days building landing pages, I finally felt that my setup was good and my ads were ready to be activated. 

After 5 days I had acumulated a decent amount of data and stopped one of my programs outright.  I had spent around $85 with no sales and the bounce rate on my sites versus clickthroughs on my Clickbank affiliate link did not equate to spending anymore money on that particular program.  This is where the conversion tracking that Speed PPC and Steve’s keyword tracking system really come into play.  If you don’t know what keywords are converting into sales, you don’t know how to take advantage of it, or in this case, stop it. 

The 4 additional campaigns continued running and I found that after 7 full days I had spent $378 on all the programs combined in PPC costs (this does not include the program I dropped). In Clickbank, using the tracking methods Steve provided, I found several keywords for each program had generated sales, but one program was really not performing well.  I had made just 2 sales, but my costs equaled the profits, so I decided to drop this Clickbank product as well.

So here I was with 3 products remaining and I had made $922 in sales total from all of the Affiliate Programs I had started.  Not too bad for a week, but I had spent $463 total in this test, bringing my total profit to $459.  Using the techniques provided by Steve, I now expanded on the keywords that worked for me and converted well (again, the program has a way to calculate this effectively so you know what is working and what isn’t). 

Now, after doing all of this for 4 continuous weeks and continually checking ads, making small changes here and there and scaling the process; I have made a total of $6833 in sales.  I have paid $2545 in Google Adwords pay per click costs.  This brings my overall profit to $4288 in one month of using this program.  It is key to note that I also paid $97 for Commission Blueprint and $497 for Speed PPC, so I guess you could say my profit was a little less. 

The bottom line is this, Commission Blueprint works and it works great, but you will spend money on this program and oyu might even lose a little at first.  It is important to note that this is not for beginners and you should not rush into using the technique in this program without studying it all th way through and not jumping into it without finishing the entire course twice.  It is excellent in every way, but you have to be carefull not to jump in too quick.

For more information on Commission Blueprint, click here.

For Information on the New Commission Blueprint 2, See My Review here:  http://www.blackhatsoftware.net/make_money/commission-blueprint-2-review-an-affiliate-marketing-masterpiece/