It light of all the buzz around the “Arbitrage Conspiracy” product launch, I thought I’d post a quick strategy on domain name bidding, which was briefly covered in the AC free report. This is not my endorsement for Arbitrage Conspiracy by any means…I’m simply providing you with a strategy you can use to bid on domain names whether you buy the course or not.

Basically, in this short video I walk you through a quick method of finding actual misspellings of searched for domain names. We all know that misspellings are a good way to get cheap, yet targeted traffic.

But usually our bidded on misspellings are just best guesses at what people actually type into the search field. What if you could know what they “actually” typed in? Take a look…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6RRry-9Mbc

Again, I apologize in advance for the poor quality of the video. I need to do some more research on how to get better resolution when converting from Camtasia to YouTube. The video is hosted on YouTube, which may be a little clearer. Once I get a better video though, I’ll update this post with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6RRry-9Mbc

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Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with image ad placement campaigns in the content network. I like image campaigns for a couple reasons:

• Image ads of course are more eye catching than text ads
• Using image ads with placement targeting can be very effective
• You can dominate an entire ad region with an image ad
• There is less competition for certain verticals in the content network
• They’re quick & easy to setup
• Google’s quality score works differently than search, making direct linking to the offer a much more viable solution.
• And if you’re lucky enough, the creatives have already been made by the advertiser
  * (the caveat of course is that not all ad formats are available, hence the reason I am writing this post)

Last night though, I had to shoot off an email to my main affiliate networks with a request that I think all affiliates can agree is lacking in the industry. We need compliant creatives in the networks supporting all the available Google image formats! Read the rest of this entry

I just received a very interesting email from one of the foremost experts on Google Adwords, Perry Marshall. I’ve been following and studying Perry Marshall since 2005 (when I was just a wee little PPC baby, tinkering with Adwords using Google Cash methods).

Once again though, the latest cutting edge Adwords strategies often become mainstream once Perry Marshall brings them to the forefront. After reading Perry’s email, I had remembered seeing often strange results with the Adwords listings, but never equated it to much. As much as I’d love to say I found this trick on my own, the credit of course goes to Perry. I won’t paraphrase, so here’s the email in it’s entirety:

from: Perry Marshall <#### [at] perrymarshall [dot] com>
to: [removed]
date: Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:11 AM
subject: New AdWords technique for competitive spy intelligence

Wes,

Today I’m going to give you a very cool trick. Read the rest of this entry