Comments on: Proven Basics Come Before Unproven Success Ideas

By: high yield investmen

high yield investmen — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:31:08 +0000

Guys…… to put Jonathan's words in perspective i would say in the beginning of any campaign the breadth of the keyword list is more important than the depth.

The simple-proves-keywor-research- Strategy:-

1) In the beginning of a campaign focus on the Broad keyword related to the niche.

2) run the campaign for a while then pause the campaign.

3) Tracking- Count out all the non CTRed or low relatively CTRed Broad Keywords. List all the relatively good CTRed Keywords.

4) These are ur tagets now, Now pick each Keyword and go deep down in it. Likewise for all the selected broad keywords.

Thats how it goes…………. Except Jonathan and a few IMers no IM Guru will even tell u such facts even if u buy their Highly-Priced course ware.

I hope i made things clear….

Regards

Anks

By: ankur sancheti

ankur sancheti — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:12:55 +0000

Jonathan…. Thanks..

I believe 99% of wanna-be IM-ers fail coz either they try to "reinvent the wheel" or they think Beyond the Box instead of "Out of the Box". I felt it myself.

Most newbies are suffered from "Paralysis of analysis". If you too then my strong advice…….Just stop going to all forums, all Black-hat WSOs, all self_proclaimed guru words and all……………..

Jonathan's Blog is more-more than sufficient. Just that u need guts to understand the way Jonathan wants to tell u things to do. I do not read Jonathan's word but i just feel what he writes about, why he thinks so, why he does things this way………….And Boom… i learn Quality stuff……..

Jonathan Thanks Again………

Hey Nate, man wishes for ur success.

Regards

Ankur

By: Mr Nomad

Mr Nomad — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:40:35 +0000

One of the most sensible bits of advice I have seen in a long while

By: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:23:50 +0000

Well it's like anything in life, start off at the bottom or in this case with the basics and then move on from there…

You first have to crawl before you can think of walking!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:08:49 +0000

Ah I see, so someone should start with the keywords that convert first, like "online dating" and then move into longer tail keywords. Yea that makes sense since a newcomer is so likely to make a profit bidding on a term like "online dating".

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:04:07 +0000

I hear you – I was running a campaign awhile back and trying to "reinvent the wheel". Needless to say, I wasn't seeing any results.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:50:44 +0000

I totally agree with this. as I begin my work on sites I still am trying to remember to stick to the basics for now until I have a proven winner so I can expand upon that with those crazy ideas that I have.

By: PPC Fool

PPC Fool — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:04:35 +0000

That's true everywhere: the basics and fundamentals

Build a solid foundation on this and you will do well!

By: Poll Factory

Poll Factory — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:00:56 +0000

I think i’m slightly guilty of this. I always feel like I want to skip the AAA team and head straight for the majors.

crazy ideas are great, and can probably be put to use eventually, but you have to crawl before you can run

By: nate

nate — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:36:08 +0000

Jonathan, I appreciate that advice (and your candor). It's interesting you mention that you need to walk before you run. I just posted on my first profit in PPC recently and I had the exact same point to make. I tried jumping in head first and sunk every time. This time, I started with a great tracking program and a small amount of free money coupons from the networks (like you have listed on the bottom right here in your blog). I started 3 accounts and asked the networks not to auto-refill my accounts when they got low. If I lost my money, then fine. Walk away and get another coupon. If I made money, I kept the account and campaign and tried to optimize. I'm now happy to say I'm a profitable PPC advertiser. I certainly have a long way to go to catch up to the likes of you, but I'm only doing so by way of your (and a few others) blogs. Thank you for the great training and content. Cheers!