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By Design By George, Inc. July 22, 2011
TAKES OVER 2 Years ago, if you had $100.00 a month in your Adword's account, that was plenty to get you on page one. Not any more. I am speaking on average and of course, as always, there are exceptions. About a year and a half ago, I put up aDiscountWatchesUSA.comwebsite where I sold watches from a drop ship company. My profits go to the ASPCA and Humane Society. The competition is fierce but we are USA and free shipping. So, we sold about 30 watches a month. Nothing to get rich by, but it helped the animal cause. Google Shopping Can't do it anymore. Why?A bulk of our traffic was coming fromGoogle Shopping. I had uploaded a list of our watches where they would display on Google Shopping. And, we had an Adwords account. 1.Merchant Account: Google stopped publishing our watches on Google Shopping without an explanation. I looked in the account Merchant Account and it said that the watches were not published but did not indicate why. I thought the data feed had a problem or some sort of technical glitch. I wrote Google Support and nothing but a canned response that they are looking into this. The short of it is, it took 3.5 months for them to tell us, they do not allow wholesalers who drop ship. When I created this account, that was not mentioned and the terms of service were updated. But that is NOT what I signed. How can you argue? 2.Adwords Account: Low quality landing page. Now, it had been fine for the previous 9 months, the same landing page. All of a sudden, no matter what keyword I entered, I got low relevnancey and low quality landing page. I sell watches, the keyword was 'watches', the landing was "Discount Watches" with brand names on the front page.How much quality or relevancy do you need?!!!You be the judge.DiscountWatchesUSA.com. Now, at the time, we had 60 brands. We sold watches with Timex, Skagen, Casio, and so on all over the home page. How relevant can you get?? Because Google wants content, we had to put some more fluff text. But yet, we were not relevant, and the previous 9 months, we were 100% relevant and 100% quality score.Google made a mistake !!!and that took 4.5 weeks to resolve without an apology, without maybe a $100 coupon they seem to so freely hand out, and no real explanation. This was prior to Christmas, the best selling time of the year. That did it. That was the straw that broke the camels back.Google cost my company thousands of dollars. Here's the problem. When you step into Adwords,you are now a paying customer.This isn't free, we pay for this. I expect better support as a paying customer. But no, they are equally as bad, if not worse than the free services. It is shameful and almost laughable had I not lost so much money. I couldn't believe it. You can't call them, you can email them, but they will come back with a canned email that they are working on it. We all make mistakes, but not answering, delaying and no explanation and it taking weeks, I mean weeks and months, it is not forgivable. This was not the first time, nor that last. A year ago, $100.00 a month was all I needed to be on page one. Today, it would cost $600.00 and they are blocking the organic searches. We were fine on Merchant Accounts under Google Shopping. Now you as a customer, will not see my store because Google decided my wholesaler who drop ships is not worthy. Why? You got free shipping. Business is all USA. Warehouse was in Texas. Brand name with warranties. BBB excellent ratings. But Google, yes Google decides drop shipping is not allowed. You loose the customer.We all lose. These are just the facts, not my opinion, but my experience. If you have an issue with your account, whether it Adwords, Merchant Account, or any other service, how was your experience? What is happening is that the bigger companies with the bigger marketing budgets are winning out. Just like newspapers, it is the business with the big bucks that can afford to put that quarter page ad on page one of the newspaper. Same thing here. Bing Adcenter even tells you in their tutorial that you should expect to pay a minimum of 500.00/ month. So Google, it is more like 800.00. You haveGoogle TagsandGoogle Boostwhich also adds another 25.00/ month, see: Google Tags and Google Boost. In addition, just like Adwords Google Boost is another form of PPC, which is an addition to your Adwords cost. Oh, did you want a map with that ad? There are only 12-13 places on page one of Google. This is premium real estate. Just like with any other advertiser, the ones with the bigger bucks win. 800.00/ month is generally too much for the small business person. Where it used to be only $100.00 as an adjunct to your organic search results, it is too much to pay for so little pay back. Google Takes Over, everyone else dies Crawlers and spammers come along and click and it costs you money.Ads are not really relevant. Now, it may be okay for general information, but ecommerce businesses are suffering. Where you might have been tempted as a business owner to run your own Adwords account. I would pay the extra $50.00 or$100.00/month for someone to manage it for you. Unless you are devoted to paying much time and energy on Google Adwords, Analytics, Webmaster and so on, you might be throwing your money down the drain. It is not for kids anymore. The great equalizer is no more. Please tell me your experience. Despite all of this, I have published many websites that are successful with the Google Adwords, but it wasn't easy. I had to create ads in other sites, I had to write articles, I had to write content on other sites which is very relevant, but if you only Tow Cars, then how much can you write? Sometimes you can have a very simple product and there isn't a lot to say. You want to advertise a towing service. This was perhaps the hardest, but most successful. I will tell you how in my next post. Before I close, I will say this,Microsoft Bing's Adcenter has excellent support.I can call, email or even chat real time. They want to help you. You can have them set it up, or they will work with you. One night, I was on the phone an hour with them and was trying to get off the phone.They were almost too helpful. Hats off to Bing. Tell me your experience, or visit me at KP Roscoe at GS Consulting 2010 ...read more
By Webworks February 14, 2011
Vol 1. 1 - 02/24/2010Where do I start to market my business?* First, you have to define your goals. Are you an e-commerce site, do you sell something? If you do sell, is it regional? Is it a service or products to ship? Are you promoting a cause or writing blogs?* Second, if youneed a drop shipper list, we can provide that for you as well. And I might warn you of the pitfalls. Out of a list we bought of 200, maybe 20 are any good. See email below.* Either way, you still want traffic and in the case of selling, you want not just hits or visitors but customers.* Define what your goal is and the time frame. If you call someone likeGSConsulting2010, you need to let the consultant or web developer know up front what you want and when.* As we move through the lessons, I am going to useDiscountWatchesUSA.com, where you can see how a real live site evolves.------ FREE GIFT with every Purchase -------Is this an ad?????? Did it catch your attention? I have found over the past 2 years FREE tools or apps. Free tools to submit your website to over 50 search engines and 100 international, tools to create sitemaps, robots.txt, RSS feeds and more. Free logo makers and banners. Download free icons, images and photography free to use on your site. Really good keyword search tools. Lists of drop shippers for e-commerce. All of these I put in my Toolbox and if you play nicely, I will share.What is Google Analytics?FREE*This is a FREE tool or applicationGoogle provides to webmasters. All you do is put a small snippet of code in your home page. Google will now keep track of the number of visitors that come to your site, how long they stay, where they came from and what pages they landed on. Not to mention, much, much more.* There are Graphs, Reporting Tools, Download to Spreadsheets functionality and so on. Here is a short video that tour at:http://services.google.com/analytics/tour/index_en-US.html* You need to know if you are improving. If you redesign your home page and want to see if traffic increases, well, here are your numbers. You can pay for WebTrends and other applications but why when it is FREE.* As a reminder, when I am done, I will further explain how to get the FREE tools, the best and the worst of them. Too many people try to rip you off.What is Pay Per Clicks (PPC)?COST* These are 'sponsored ads', where the higher the bid, the higher up on the search engine results for Google.* A chief economist from Google explains AdWords. You can see the movie at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l0a2PVhPQ* You can also have Google email you $100 promo code. $100 bucks of clicks.COSTDON'T DO IT !!, DON'T BOTHER !!, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY* You know Bing and Yahoo are merging because they know their ability to market your site with their search engines aren't working.* Read an email Microsoft sent me. I received a similar one from Yahoo too.Dear kip,Microsoft® and Yahoo! have now received regulatory clearance to form the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance in the United States and European Union. This milestone is an exciting step in our effort to give your business a time-saving and cost-efficient way to connect with a larger combined audience of potential customers.How the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance benefits youAfter the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance is implemented, you will:* Reach more potential customers: Search ad inventory from both the Yahoo! and Microsoft networks will be joined in a new, unified search marketplace powered by Bing™ , with a combined audience of over 150 million searchers in the U.S and nearly 577 million searchers worldwide.1* Save valuable time and effort: You'll use a single platform—Microsoft adCenter—to manage your campaigns easier and faster. With just one buy, your search ads will reach users on Bing, Yahoo!, and other premium partner sites and networks, such as The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, msnbc.com, FoxSports.com, Facebook, and Buy.com.What's aheadFor now, it's business as usual; there is no change to your account or service. Your ads will continue to serve on Bing search results pages, and you will continue to receive the same great service from Microsoft.Both companies are committed to making this transition a seamless experience. Our goal is to bring the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance to the U.S. by the end of 2010, prior to the crucial holiday season, with additional countries following on a staggered schedule beginning in 2011. As our transition dates approach, we will contact you with information about what to do next. In order to ensure you continue to receive important service updates, please verify your contact information is current in Microsoft adCenter. View our help topic: Change contact information. How to learn moreIn the meantime, you can familiarize yourself with the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance by visiting our new resource, searchalliance.com, where you'll find plenty of additional details, including press releases, FAQs, and more!We appreciate your business and look forward to bringing you the benefits of the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance.Sincerely,The Microsoft adCenter Team-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Okay, so now you have an overview of Marketing Your Site on the Web. Next up, we will get started with examining your site so it is Google friendly and Google compliant. None of this will do you any good if you don't adhere to the rules and have good content. Let me show you some very basic techniques that are used. Remember, this is not an overnight solution but we are talking about months. If you need help, please visit:www.kp-roscoe.gsconsulting2010.com/or for a business that helps and cares.GSConsulting2010.comIf you need alist of drop shippers,see us as well. Have over 200 but only about 20-25 that I would recommend.KIP Roscoe Posted byKip RoscoeatEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Google Buzz Labels:Bing market,drop ship,dropship,free tools,Google,gsconsulting2010,kip roscoe,make money from home,market your site,Pay per clicks,ppc,SEM,SEO,sponsored ads,work from home,Yahoo market ...read more
By Webworks January 30, 2011
When you have a problem with your Windows computer, you will need to contact the Microsoft support center. However, many people are unsure of how to reach support or what information will be required. Fortunately, the steps for reaching technical support are simple. Follow this guide to ensure that yo... ...read more
Like any other business, remote IT support requires a method for charging customers for services completed. However, many people who are starting their own remote IT support company may not be familiar with the best methods for customer billing. Fortunately, there are several different possible billin... ...read more