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I'd suggest limiting the age range you target. Who is most likely to actually make a purchase?

Your ad copy needs to perform better than theirs. Copy their ad word for word and use that as your control ad copy. Then test different ad copy until you have an ad that has a higher CTR than the competitors ad copy. If you run into writers block and need some different words, try boostctr...

Haha! I wish I owned it. Sorry for sounding like an ad. As the OP said, "I'm willing to pay for..." information I thought I'd be helpful. But wtf do I know? A daily ad spent of $X,XXX, hundred of hours searching and learning about QS...all so I can troll BHW?

My personal guess is that the traffic estimator is using your account history as one of the variables in the estimate. I've had keywords in that past that I was getting 50 clicks/day from organic search, but the traffic estimator said only a few. Possibly they were judging me based on the fact...

From a Google forum: "My thoughts on your question would be that although keyword A has higher local monthly searches in comparison to keyword B, but it might not be very popular among the advertisers who are using the keywords within Google Adwords. So, definitely a keyword might have...

Great job on taking action. 90% of the battle is just showing up. The other 10% is to not don't give up.

Every year is better than the last. Imagine how much more you know today than a year ago!

Internet gambling is something to consider. Facebook could be poised to be the platform of choice for poker and other gambling if U.S. states legalize online gambling. A recent Justice Department statement said states have the right to do so. At the same time, if gambling were to be a...

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There are restrictions on certain kinds of keywords. Addresses, public utilities, drugs, etc... are not allowed or have specials conditions on their use. Somewhat related, ads may only appear on the bottom of the page if there aren't at least 4 advertisers.

Last I heard they weren't accepting any new affiliates. I'd reach out to them directly and ask. Probably a good idea to exaggerate how much traffic you would send them.

You are virtually guaranteed to lose money when you start Adwords. The only question is how much and how fast. Before you do anything, read as much as you possibly can. I highly recommend ppchero and searchengineland. Also, there is an AWESOME download on BHW. Search for "Brade Geddes" and...

There are a bunch of sites that will tell you. Keywordspy is one. You simply type in the name of the site and you will be able to see all of their keywords and ads. To download the entire list, you would need to pay a monthly fee, but to just see if they are doing anything is free.

The only answer is to do a split test where you test your conversion % when you only rank organically vs. when you only have paid ads. Sometimes having paid and organic creates something ppc experts call the "halo effect" in which having both improves clicks and conversions of both. Other...

Anyone know of a good PHP tutorial for a beginner? My immediate goal is to scrape a website (3000 pages) daily, parse the html for specific data, and put the data into a database/spreadsheet. I have done a lot of googling and I've seen people recommend DOM with XMLReader. Any advice on...