Does Using Google Adwords To Advertise Work? - Lets look at the facts

Google adwords has been around for a while now and well there is alot of hype going on around
whether it work or not and well there only seem to be a handfull of guys out there that seem to
be making any real money at all.

I went about a year ago or so to try to make money online and I had a very well paying job
that could support my new hobby (trying to make money online).
Well I got started by looking up every person that seemed to know what they were doing
on the internet by searching on google and came across the warrior forum on internet marketing
and making money online and well it gets the best reviews by far.

So I read there for a week or so and came across 2 main areas that people talk about
E-mail marketing and Google adwords and adsense.

Well let me clear things up a bit...
E-mail marketing is pretty much going out collecting peoples
E-mail addresses who are interested in what you want to tell them and through telling them
interesting stuff you promote things aswell and make a comission on everything you sell that
the people on your list buy.
Well I looked at this and well I know that the only E-mails I read are either work related or from
friends and so the success rate can't be that high in E-mail marketing so I decided to leave that
one to the pros.
Then there's Google Adwords.
Google adwords is a system that Google put together that simply lets people choose keywords that
people search for on Google then advertise in Google everytime someone searches for that keyword.
Here's an example....
I search for "siberian dog trainer" then on the right hand side and the top of the screen where the
results come up I'll see adds like Amazing Siberian Dog Trainer etc etc and if I click on it then
Google gets an advertiser who put the ad there to pay them for every click that someone clicks
to see where the ad goes.

Well I really like Google adwords and thought it could work for it simply meant choosing wisely
and testing your results over and over again, for thats what it said in the forum.

So I created my adwords account and got $50 free through a tip I got from someone.
And went and bought every E-book available on the topic.
I bought "the rich *BLEEP*", "the definitive guide to google adwords", "google cash", "Google profits"and "adwords miracle" for I knew that as everyone said.... "you will lose a lot of money if you just jump
into it and don't do it properly.

So as I was reading through the books I came across that they clashed on certain topics but all agreed
on others, so decided to focus on the topics that they all agreed on for they must work right?
Then I went about using what the books said about choosing products to promote via clickbank
and which one sell well and how to find them.
I signed up as an affiliate with them and was all excited to get going.

Then I followed the books step by step on how to choose my keywords and bought the "dowser" software package and the "adword analyzer" package to choose my keywords wisely.

Well then I went along and did as they said step by step and well never made anything in my first week
but kept on trying and testing, trying and testing.
But one thing I noticed was that because I was working with real people that my results weren't really
constant...
They kept on changing one week I'd be doing well then the next week I'd really do badly.
But I thought it would all improve if I persisted and I just did exactly as the books said and never
did anything else.

Well I got to a reasonable point and was making a bit of money every now and again and came to
the realization that well even after 4 months of trying and following every little thing the books said
that well it was just barely making me any money and well I stopped and pursued something else.

I'll make another post soon.

 

 

 

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I dont know, at first and on the posts name you were talking about it working if used as advertising, and then you are talking about making money with it. Which one is the post about? I havent really looked into google adwords, but as far as I know it really must work as an advertising solution.

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like all advertising, adwords needs a large userbase, so to make much money, you have to have a LOT of users - how many people per thousand visitors will click an add? In that sense it is better to get a deal if you get something direct where somebody pays you for having something on your site at all, though they will only bother with that if you have lots of visitors anyways... For me, just setting up sites is a better source of income at the moment, as there are quite a few people I know who want sites for their companies and stuff. It's nice

Did what you made even out what you had to pay just to get the adwords thing going?

The thing I like about adwords is that they don't normally have banners. (though I have seen them!!) Just plain text and customisable (am I right there?). So they look best

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If you wrote it yourself, very nice post to come into the community! If you copied it from some place else, an admim will probably come to clean this soon

Anyway, in my experiences Google Adsense is the only advertisement system which earns a nice profit and realyl pays out once you reached the payout limit, not like AdHearus a few month ago which closed down when they were about to pay me and the rest of advertising programs online :>

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Yea, sence it's "google" it must not be a fraud right? xD

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It sounds as though you went about your project quite reasonably and if you were making money AT ALL from a standing start like that then you were doing pretty well. If you stuck with it and continued to tweak your campaign I'm sure you could have have been successful.

 

 

 

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I've just started using Google Adwords last week and it seems like there's an art too it.
I takes alot of time to set up and to conjure up keywords that would attract business but not use up all your budget in a flash.

The key is to be specific about what you are advertising and use keywords that are going to bring in people who are going to buy your product. It's very time consuming to set up new adwords and review reports especially when the product you are promoting changes very often.

I recommend following the Adwords tutorials by Google for any first timer, there available at http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/

It helped me to understand how to use the whole system and not spend alot of money without any return.

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of course they work, i mean look at trap17 they use google adsense. thats why they can give us free hosting cos of adsense it obviously pays resonably well.

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Yea, you must to find some target keywords that cost you less money but bring you more money.

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I have had good luck with adwords, and at a low cost..
The keywords you choose makes all the difference
Most good keywords are expensive
you could pay 1.00 per click if your not careful
If you were selling a house thats not much but
for most of us we would begin loosing money

One way i found to avoid this is to target the ones of us
who cant type

I like to use mispelled keywords
they are very cheap and do get results

what do i mean?
Have you ever tried typing "Ipod" and end up with "I[od"
So have others

This works so give it a try

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