I got this from Googlest.com:

Googlest.com visitors and forum members! We are still offering our users the largest list of the known high paying keywords on the Google Adsense network to maximize revenue from your websites, for FREE!

However, to encourage more people to join our Forums, the list will now only be provided to forum members who have made at least 30 quality posts! To get your Free complete 13 page list of the top paying google adsense keywords: simply join the Googlest.com Forums, make 30 quality posts, then Email Us with your forum member name, your email address and links to the 30 posts you have made! That’s it! And we will send you the complete Googlest list by email within 24 hours!

Other sites charge $149 to $499 for 1/10th of this list - but at Googlest.com it’s all Free! Power to the people!

NOTE: If you’re too busy to join the forum & make 30 quality posts, you can pay $12 for it. (price goes up June 25, 2005)

Pretty good deal if you ask me. I almost wanted to pay for a list like this.

Categories: Google AdSense | 1 Comment »

I haven’t been blogging lately because I have been busy doing some others things…. Enhance PPC Search Engine I recently took 1 of my campaigns from Google AdWords and put them in Enhance.I set a daily spending limit to $10 and sure enough it did stay at $10.Well maybe a few cents more than $10 but yes it is trustworthy unlike the old Overture which is now called Yahoo Search Marketing? I decided to go with Enhancebecause some of the loan application clicks were cheap there comparedto Google and Yahoo but they didn’t convert at all! I spent $30 on 108 clicks and received ZERO leads. In Google, I have 3 leads (people whofilled up the Pay Per Lead application form) from 50+ clicks. I’m going to test FindWhat as my 3rd alternative. GoogSpy For Keyword Research Thisis 1 cool tool for spying on my competitors but seriously what I wantto know is what keywords they are using so I can use them myself. Here how I use GoogSpy:

1. I research the common keywords for my particular affiliate program. The ones I know I can never afford to pay for.
2. I enter the keywords in Google.com to see which ads are displayed as the AdWords ads.
3. I copy and paste the URL or company name into Googspy to see what keywords they are bidding on so that I can use them too.

GoogSpy shows you a list of keywords a company is using. If someone isconstantly at the top paying loads of money, I am sure they are not madenough to stay there if they are not making a profit. So just take alook at what keywords they are using and test them in your campaigns to see if they convert for you.

Affiliate Mini Sites

I am in the process of creating my 1st “proper” 1 page mini site topromote an affiliate program. The site will be like a Google AdWords landing page asking for your name and email address and redirecting you to the merchant’s web site once you submitted your email.

I learnt that from a fellow Singaporean internet marketer, Ewen Chia. Sign up for his newsletter to get this free report “7 Days To Freedom”. I am following his 7 day plan but it sure is taking me more than 7 daysto complete my first site. Look at his web site closely…. I am now at the autoresponder stage. I hate writing… except for writing in this blog once in a while. I literally had to force myself to sit down at my table to write a 7-day autoresponder series. The good news is while I was creating my 1st affiliate web site, I realised it would be easier for me if I built a template I could re-use over and over againfor my future sites.

My First Product?

WhileI was creating my first affiliate site… I realised what a pain it was to create the web site pages, autoresponders series and all thattechnical stuff that goes along with it… I had a lot of questions inmy head like:

• Where can I get a good web host for my multiple affiliate sites?
• What kind of autoresponder service/script would suit my needs?
• How does an affiliate site look like?
• What types of affiliate sites should I use? 1 page site or a content site?

I created a bunch of templates for my own use. I looked at Ewen Chia’s web site and followed his model of a simple opt-in page and bunch of thank you page ads. I also created “fill-in-the-blank” affiliate/salesletter template and autoresponder template. I looked at all theautoresponder examples from Yanik Silver’s Autoresponder Magic and created text files for each type of autoresponder sequence.

For my future autoresponders, I simply have to add my own content to thosetext files and I am ready to launch them in my autoresponder script. Yanik’sbook is really helpful but it still takes hours to get the formattingand content out of the PDF file so that is it “useable” and”apply-able”. Simply reading the ebook didn’t get me anywhere till I took the effort to get the structure of their autoresponders out in text files.

Now I have a whole collection of the different types of autoresponders on my computer. The e-course, product introduction,book excerpt and customer follow ups. I am still testing out mytemplates to make them more fool proof and user friendly for”non-techies”. I plan to either sell it on its own or give it away as abonus for people who purchase affiliate marketing products through myaffiliate link.

Traffic Equalizer, Article Equalizer, Blog & Ping, Google AdSense, Blogger and WordPress

I recently bought an ebook titled AdSense Empire for $97. I read it 3 times over the weekend and I’ve still got loads of questions to the author because I don’t quite understand it. From what I understand, I’m going to create pages with Traffic Equalizer to getlots of free traffic and redirect the traffic to my “main” web site. This could be an affiliate site or my own web site. I will be able to use all the tools above in a logical way that drives lots offree search engine traffic to my sites and make affiliate and Google AdSense ad revenue.

Sounds cool to me. I’ve always wanted to learn howto do this and I know a guy who told me he was making more than $100 aday from their Google AdSense revenue. But he wouldn’t tell me how heis doing it because its his secret. I’m going to uncover this “secret”no matter what and make it work for me. Some people say you can learnabout this at the forums but I only get bits and pieces of informationfrom people who would rather keep this a secret. The AdSense Empire is too vague in my opinion and I have over 15 questions after reading the book 3 times. I made a list of things I don’t understand about the “system”. There are no screenshots, no stats just a bunch of diagramsand 38 pages of text. I will have to test to see if it really works outfor me. I don’t want to be a “loser” and say it don’t work if I havenever attempted it myself because I have heard terrible things aboutusing Traffic Equalizer, blogging and pinging. I need to uncover thetruth myself.

Categories: Affiliate Program Marketing, Pay Per Click Search Engines | 5 Comments »

This is the final part of my blog and ping series. I have stopped recording my results. Here you will see how many of my pages got indexed my the 4 search engines in a period of about 14 days.

Indexed Pages - 14 May 2005

Altavista - 11 (but I can see only 7 on the page)
Google - 2
MSN - 0
Yahoo - 7

PDF - 14 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 16 May 2005

Altavista - 8
Google - 2
MSN - 0
Yahoo - 8

PDF - 16 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 17 May 2005

Altavista - 29 (+21 - 8 yesterday)
Google - 2 (same)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 29 (+21 - 8 yesterday)

PDF - 17 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 18 May 2005

Altavista - 52 (+23 - 29 yesterday)
Google - 6 (+4 - 2 yesterday)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 30 (+1 - 29 yesterday)

PDF - 18 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 19 May 2005

Altavista - 52 (same)
Google - 7 (+1 - 6 yesterday)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 30 (same)

PDF - 19 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 20 May 2005

Altavista - 55 (+3 - 52 yesterday)
Google - 17 (+10 - 7 yesterday)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 55 (+25 - 30 yesterday)

PDF - 20 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 21 May 2005

Altavista - 54 (-1 - 55 yesterday)
Google - 56 (+39 - 17 yesterday)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 54 (-1 - 55 yesterday)

PDF - 21 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 22 May 2005

Altavista - 57 (+3 - 54 yesterday)
Google - 56 (same)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 54 (same)

PDF - 22 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 23 May 2005

Altavista - 68 (+11 - 57 yesterday)
Google - 56 (same)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 61 (+4 - 57 yesterday)

PDF - 23 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 24 May 2005

Altavista - 60 (-8 - 68 yesterday)
Google - 56 (same)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 57 (-4 - 61 yesterday)

PDF - 24 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 25 May 2005

Altavista - 50 (-10 - 60 yesterday)
Google - 56 (same)
MSN - 0 (same)
Yahoo - 48 (-9 - 57 yesterday)

PDF - 25 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 26 May 2005

Altavista - 52 (+2 - 50 yesterday)
Google - 56 (same)
MSN - 1 (+1 - 0 yesterday)
Yahoo - 44 (-4 - 48 yesterday)

PDF - 26 May 2005

Indexed Pages - 30 May 2005

Altavista - 52 (same as 26th)
Google - 53 (-3 - 56 on 26th)
MSN - 1 (same as 26th)
Yahoo - 52 (+8 - 44 on 26th)

PDF - 30 May 2005

If you click on the search engines links today, you will see the number is more or less the same at 52 - 54 indexed pages except MSN. It is still at 1 page only! It took MSN quite some time till they indexed my site. I don’t understand why.

I highly recommend the Instant Blog & Ping software and use it with your own WordPress PHP blogging script. Just take a look at my WordPress blog Vincent’s Blog & Ping Experiments and you’ll see over 200 entries to my blog. That’s all automated using the Instant Blog & Ping software.

I moved my blog and ping blog to its own web site by purchasing a cheap .info domain name. You could get a .info domain name as low as $1.99 per year. I just wanted a seperate place for my blogging and pinging activities.

Categories: Search Engine Optimization | 2 Comments »

I haven’t been posting lately because of more web hosting hell!

I thought my web hosting hellish period was over but boy was I in for another rude awakening. This blog is currently hosted at Host Gator. I pay $9.95 per month to host and unlimited amount of domains here. It seems like Host Gator can’t really handle my little amount of traffic and they cannot send out enough emails per hour.

Host Gator suspended my site for a while because I was blogging and pinging too much about 1 or 2 weeks ago. Then they disallowed my newsletter script not because I was sending too many emails, because the routine CRON jobs that run every 5 minutes was using too much server resources. Its not like I have 1000s of subscribers so I found that to be ridiculous.

Host Gator was cool for my web sites for a while. Now I realised they must have too many web sites on their servers to provide a basic level of traffic for my blog and affiliate sites. My sites receive very little traffic. They can’t even handle that so I am moving out very soon.

My huge web site OasisFanatic.com is currently hosted on Site5.com. I am very pleased with them even though they want me to get out of their shared hosting plan. I used them for 2 months and I am able to get a refund of my hosting fees because they have 60 day money back guarantee. My site gets over 3000 visitors per day and gobbles up at least 1GB of bandwidth per day. They have a "load balancing" feature on their web host that somehow manages to keep my site up for most of the time. I have been suspended a couple of times but they have been nice to me.

After some research, I realised its better for me in the long run to get a VPS (Virtual Private Server). Its a semi-dedicated server that works like a dedicated server.

I still choose to use 2 web hosts for all my sites. Here’s why….

I need to split my web sites into server intensive sites and the non server intensive sites into 2 web hosts.

I will put all my important web sites and scripts on my VPS web host.

Therefore, I would not have to worry about my important web sites and scripts causing my shared hosting web host to suspend my account due to its high resource usage and losing lots of my time and money in the process. I will also have a peace of mind that my important web sites and scripts will be able to run smoothly. I believe its worth $49 per month I pay for my VPS web host. I don’t want to wake up in the morning with ZERO sales because my lousy web host couldn’t handle my visitors.

I will put all my affiliate sites on my shared multi-domain web host.

I have decided to go with Site5.com because of their good service and performance. They have a good reputation and I trust that my affiliate sites should be able to "live" there without any problems. Since my affiliate sites do not run any scripts directly because they are just HTML files. They will connect with scripts on my VPS web host so the load will not be on the shared web host. It would be hard to get kicked out of a shared hosting plan if you just have a bunch of HTML pages. If I should get kicked out of this web host it would be a cause for celebration because I managed to attract that much traffic to my web sites to make them want to kick me out!

Server Resources VS Bandwidth Limits

I’ve been "kicked out" of 3 web hosts because I have used too much server resources even though I am within their bandwidth limits. For my sites, its has been a maximum of 3000 + visitors per day and 1 GB bandwith usage per day till they want me to get out of their shared web hosting servers. This number might vary from web host to web host so please do not be fooled by the huge numbers in their sales pitches saying we allow "50 GB bandwidth" because from my experience if you hit up to 30 + GB bandwidth, they will start to kick you out of their house.

The good thing about my web sites is that they generate enough money to cover the web hosting fees. I choose to have a peace of mind when I go to bed at night. I can’t stand waking up with an email saying "Your site has been suspended!" anymore!

Categories: Blog Updates | 2 Comments »