I decided to write this marketing blog to have a documentation of the learning process that is a part of internet marketing success. And also to share it with anyone who would like to benefit from my knowledge and time. It is as much for my benefit as for anyone else who happens to read this.

Internet marketing can be a very profitable venture if you use the proper tools and resources available to you and believe me there are plenty. Don't feel you have to buy every single book and software on the market to achieve internet success. There are plenty of free tools and a select group of informative books that will help you in your quest. 

As you read along, I will guide to various resources and methods that have helped me.

Thanks for following my internet marketing efforts!

email: pak@internet-success-guide.com

TOP TWO GOOGLE ADWORDS HOW TO BOOKS:

1.How To Get High Rankings In Google

2.Google Cash - How to Earn Thousands On AdWords
 

June 6, 2005

I purchased Xsitepro today. It is a great program for developing a website empire. It organizes all you affiliate information in one spot including the html codes, companies you affiliate for, notes regarding web development ideas, and so much more. I'm off to read the manual and start producing.

P.A.K.
 

May 4, 2005

I have decide to take this to the next level. I am going to invest in some content creating software. Either Traffic Equalizer or Xsitepro. It seems like either or both will bring up your websites in the search engines.

I may get both.

I just found out that Google Adwords limits you to 25 campaigns. I have to find out why that is.

P.A.K.
 

May 3, 2005

Another month has gone by without an entry. Shame on me!

My ClickBank sales started to pick up this past week. So it inspired me to test 2 campaigns starting today. I am also going to test my other successful campaigns on FindWhat. I heard from sources that it is a pretty good advertising source. If I can repeat some of my success with my other campaigns I will be good to go!

PAK
 

April 3, 2005

My first intention with this blog was to write down what I do everyday as a document to my success but as you can see I do not always find the time. My goal is to post in it at least once a week from now on.

I like to find new tools to use in internet marketing. As I find new ones I post them on a list of free internet marketing tools. They are helpful, time saving tools that you should also find useful.

I am going to write ads for the top 10 selling click bank products for each category. I know that these products convert I just have to write a good ad.  I have a few that really have been profitable for me and I want to add more products and ads for test campaigns. The only way to operate with Adsense is to test. I like to test at 150-200 clicks and pay a minimum click through rate.

P.A.K.
 

February 25, 2005

I have been working on my website trying to make all the adsense ads the most profitable. I try to put a large rectangle within the pages and a large banner across the bottom. The key is to make the ads blend in as part of the content. In fact these are two tips I learned to make the most money with Adsense:

1.    Target expensive words with content.

2.    Adsense ads on top and bottom that look like content.

The key for internet success is to optimize all your efforts and to have multiple streams of income. Mine are websites, Adwords, adsense and Ebay. Whatever is done ACTION is what makes it happen.

P.A.K.

February 9, 2005

Blogging has been a habit I keep delaying. At the end of 2004 a company I used to work for asked me to come back and I did for about 3 months but then I moved to FLORIDA. I am able to support all of time to my internet marketing strategies.

I put all my adwords and overture ads back on in January and they have been doing quite good. My AMM is particularly good since the new year started. Though Clickbank has slowed with the new changes in Google Adwords. I have to make new landing pages for my ads as they were performing pretty good but now are not showing up too much. When Google made the rule that they will only show one ad that has the same URL, it made my clicks throughs really slowed down. I like to buy my clicks at a low rate. I don't care too much about the ranking as a good ad will make them click through anyways.

P.A.K.
 

August 3, 2004

My blog has been on the back burner this summer. I am working on a lot of things. I still have my AMM working. I had to cut off the ads for about 3 weeke because of lack of funds but ever since then I have been on. And it's been fairly steady.

With Google Ads I used to bid higher to get in the top spots, but I have found that I feel better paying the 5 or 6 cents a click and if I write good ads I still get traffic. If its a good converting web site I will still make money.

I have been Ebaying more this summer also. I find that to be quite profitable too if you get the products that sell. 

P.A.K.
 

June 1, 2004

I have not entered in my blog for over a month. I have been doing so many things besides my internet business. My daughter is graduating from high school and I made a movie for here graduation class. That project took up most of my month of May.

Another thing is that my sales for my AMM kind of slowed and I tested quite a of new products on Clickbank. I was getting depressed when I see my Google Ads bills going up and up and up.

But things have picked up quite a bit the last week of the month and I haven't tested anything lately so my profits are up again. But since I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket I need to test and find another winner.

I received my first Clickbank check today. $205.00. Yea! The products I test on there I tend to break even or lose money. I am trying to find a good one. Just have to have persistence and determination.

P.A.K.

April 27, 2004

I had my best day ever today with pay per click. $210.00 in sales and only 78 clicks. It is so cool! 

I added 3 campaigns today to test also. They are more in the internet marketing area. I thought I would try out those waters. The sales I've been making are not for Clickbank products and I really would like to get a good campaign going there.

Keep testing! Keep tweaking! Keep on!

PAK
 

April 25, 2004

I don't know why I worry. I should be confident in the fact that sales is a numbers game and eventually it evens out. I came through with a sale for $90.00 on Friday and just got one for $60.00 today. I talked to the person in charge of the program I affiliate with and he said that  the affiliate who gets the commission is the one that is clicked at time of purchase. I figure it doesn't pay to be number one because I think my ad is better than the one other affiliate I see selling this product. I lowered my highest CPC today. Just so long I am in the top eight.

I think AdSense is going to pull in some hefty cash after I get things rolling. After adding it to only about 10 pages of my web sites I am collecting about $10.00 per day. Not a lot but I have 14 web sites as of now and they are starting to pull in some traffic.

I am adding AdSense to each one. I have a color code for each site so I know which layout to use for the ads. I try to blend it into the web site so it appears not to be an ad. Though you have to leave the Ads by Google within it, if you match it to the colors of your site, it looks pretty good and entices a person to click.

Google does have a lot of rules regarding their ads and I am going to strictly follow them because I believe with the number of websites I want to have, I would be a fool not to keep AdSense on them. It surely is easy money.

My goal this weekend was to finish an internet dating affiliate web site I've been working on. I finished my goal and have some PPC campaigns set up. Good luck to me!

PAK

P.S. Lucky for me I love working on the computer cuz that seems to be where I spend a lot of time.
 

April 22, 2004

I am getting nervous. I haven't made a sale on my ADD since April 19th. When I made my last sale I added hundred of key words. Took it over to Overture for more exposure. Upped all my limits. I figured I would be rolling the sales in but now they've slowed. I also paused all my testing campaigns that were not doing good for evaluation. I am still way ahead of the campaign so I'm fine in waiting. I just like to see those sales rolling in.

I have 1 campaigns I run periodically. I get a lot of clicks but use it only to build up a subscriber base for one of email newsletter. I only pay 5 cents per click.

I never got around to doing my EBay products last Sunday. Had some things going on that didn't leave me enough time.

I started using AD sense on my web sites today. Seems that it may be another stream of income. The more the merrier! LOL
 

P.A.K.

April 18, 2004

Well I finally made another sale last night for my AMM (Adwords Money Maker). I make about $80.00 per sale. Over the campaign I have had 917 clicks at a cost of $115.31 and have made $385.00 in commission. I like that ratio. Let's hope it keeps up.

Sundays I like to list stuff to sell on Ebay. When you list on Sundays with a 7 day auction you get the most response in the final moments of your auction. Usually you get the highest number of bids on the last day. Here is a great book for how to make money on Ebay.

I am trying to find a niche on Ebay rather than just sell randomly. I think if you specialize in one are, you get to know the product and how to sell it better. Ebay is a great way to start off selling on the internet. It is simply a matter of a free registration and then start selling with stuff you have around the house.

Good News! I just made another sale on my AMM. I love this job! Of course since I am so into the internet I wouldn't call it a job but a hobby! But the bottom line is about making money and it looks like I am!

P.A.K.
 

April 17, 2004

I am going to start on my 14th web site today. For me the costs of having a website are pretty low. The domain name at GoDaddy is only $6.95 for the month of April and hosting costs are low because I pay just $29 a month to host up to 200 sites.

Here are some tips in building a web site.

Tip 1: Look at using Niche Market Profit Report to help you locate profitable niches to build sites around.

Tip 2: Wordtracker is another very useful tool. I've got an annual account I use several times a week or you can just try it for a day.

Tip 3: Read the book Mini Site Profits to see how the master of mini sites does it.

Tip 4: If you want to build a text based site like, which ranks very high in the search engines, and you're not comfortable doing it all on your own use Site Build It.

Tip 5: Use pay per clicks such as AdWords or Overture to start getting traffic until your site gets traffic from the search engines. You can learn How To Get High Rankings In Google here.

I'm off to look for a niche topic.

P.A.K.

April 16, 2004

I received my affiliate money maker check yesterday. The payment was for $309.00 and cost me about $85.00 in clicks. As of Tuesday I was doing really good, I optimized my most relevant keywords so that they would all be in the top three. I added the same list of key words to Overture. I thought great this is really going to start bringing in some big money. But since a sale Tuesday...all I have been getting is clicks and no sales.

I know I am still ahead on this campaign but it's nerve racking to watch the money click away. Tonight I thought I'd check the ads out and I see I have some competition on my key words where there wasn't before. I wonder if for the past 3 days the other ads have been getting clicked on instead of mine. I wish I knew which way the cookie affiliate was saved. The first or the last. My ads are behind the other one so I upped all my bids so I would be ahead of the other ads.

There ad may be pulled anyways because it has superlative words in the heading and that is not allowed by Google Adwords. I also discovered that for a short time today my link was not working yet the clicks were getting charged. That sucks. Once I discovered that, I paused the campaigns and then started it again when it was working.

I added a new campaign yesterday. Since the summer season is soon approaching I am trying to focus on ads for the season. I hope to start another campaign over the weekend.

Talk to you soon.

P.A.K.

April 14, 2004

I seem to have an affiliate money maker. At least I hope so. I have been selling about 1 product per 75 clicks. The products pays me about $60.00. I pay up to .25 per click so it is profitable. I have about 150 keywords on Google Adwords and last night I added all those key words to Overture. Overture delivers results you can't ignore. Only Overture search listings reach over 80% of active U.S. Internet users with just one buy.

I am concentrating on this one campaign right now. I paused a lot of my other campaigns until I get this one totally optimized. I don't have a lot of competition for the key words so it looks like I hit upon a good campaign.

P.A.K.
 

April 5, 2004

Its been a few days since I posted to the blog. I have some of my websites at my office and some at my home. I moved this one to my home computer so I can enter in in every day if I want to. I should just put everything on my laptop but I just don't like working on a laptop for any length of time. Its more for convenience. I think the keyboard is different.

I am really getting excited and have a lot of things going on. I have a membership site that is started to get members. It is a resource site for local, small businesses. It is called Local On The Net. I really haven't promoted it much yet but it is getting ranked in the search engines. I think I have the search engine optimization rules down pat.

I have several ad campaigns going on with Ad Words. I am promoting  something that pays me $59.00 per sale and after 98 clicks at .13 each  I have sold one. It is a high ticket item so I think that its pretty good money maker so far. I just have to up the numbers.

Another campaign I have sold 2 items with 67 clicks at .11 each. I make $23.00 each so that is profitable. My third seller has had 2 sales with 177 clicks at a cost of .08 each. My fourth possible money maker has sold 2 items in 164 clicks at .10 each. The last two are not high money makers...about $13.00 for each item but I am still in the black so I am sticking them out.

These ad campaigns are very exciting to watch. You can almost see the clicks working in action. For more information on how AdWords works, here is a great book to get you started, Google Cash. You can learn how to use AdWords, step by step, and profit considerably. I know its working for me.

P.A.K.

March 26, 2004

Today has been a busy one at the office. I do have my own marketing company which we help small businesses market their products or services. I also design websites.

I received 2 orders for website design today. How am I supposed to work on my internet marketing when I have to do real work? LOL!

I do love to do websites. I like to create something from nothing and then have a client like the work. My policy is to pay half up front and the balance upon completion and satisfaction. www.creativeBUSINESSworks.com

P.A.K.

March 25, 2004

When I first started using Google Adwords, I made a sale within a couple of hours...I thought wow this is going to be easy. It is easy but its time consuming. A great step by step guide is Google Cash.

You have to:

• Check with Affiliate's Alert to find things to market from Click Bank.

• Design an ad that will get people to click.

• Choose appropriate key words to target.

• Set up the Adwords Campaigns.

• Monitor results so you can be sure to have a profitable campaign.

I have 13 campaigns running right now. I really enjoy myself setting them up and watching the results pour in. 

I have decided to test campaigns by waiting for 100 clicks and if I don't get a sale. It's gone. I cancelled my first campaign today. I only paid .06 per click so it cost me $6.00 to test it. I want to keep 10 campaigns running every week. Some testing some winners.

P.A.K.

March 24, 2004

I can taste internet success. I know it's there and I know it's close. I am totally motivated and driven to achieve it. I now have a total of 13 web sites. Lucky 13. This blog is giving me a place to list my goals and to see what I have to do to get them.

My plan is based on "multiple streams of income". There is an old saying that says "don't put all your eggs in one basket" and that is totally true for internet marketing.

My plan for multiple streams are as follows:

• Small Business Marketing Site: Creative Business Works

• Web site design services.

• eBay! selling of small, fast moving products. Low shipping costs and low maintenance for stock on hand.

• Mini websites based on content and affiliate income. It is very profitable to do websites this way. They are easy to build, can be easily optimized for search engine optimization, and are highly profitable. The leader of information on mini-sites is Phil Wiley from Mini Site Profits. 

• Websites built networked together and optimized to get the most traffic are also another of my goals. I have a template made and can just edit the content to the subject. The person who inspired me on this is James Martell. His website is very inspiring  and motivating to me. Here is a link to his Affiliate's Handbook if you haven't seen it before.

• Pay per click services to be used to point internet surfers toward your affiliate URL. Google Adwords and Overture are two of the major services. Search Listings are the best way to advertise online and Overture puts you on sites across the Web. More info on Overture. The process involves paying a set amount per click and it is really profitable. I only just recently started with the Adwords and it has taken off beyond my wildest dreams. I am on my way!

P.A.K.

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