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Marketing: Google AdWords a good way to go?

Jan 23, 2008 6:46AM PST

Hi!

I have an affiliate website and I wanted to generate
some traffic. Is Google AdWords a good cost-effective
way to generate targeted traffic? Any suggestions?

Thank you for responding,

Philip

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Re
Mar 5, 2008 6:49PM PST

Hello

I have a small business and I wanted some traffic on my website too. For that I tried Google adSense for advertising my website, but I was not very happy with the results I got.

Then I googled 'opt-in email advertising'. I also tried email advertising on different networks and it seemed to me that taketheinternetback.com ads results were a little bit better in terms of generated visits and conversion.

So in that way I increase my traffic and my sales too. I'm quite pleased whit those results.

If anybody can come with another suggestion that can generate better results ... just do it.

Thanks.

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Re: email advertising
Mar 5, 2008 10:56PM PST
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It can be
Mar 25, 2008 7:25AM PDT

Adwords works very well if you carefully research your keywords. You can look at keywordtracker.com to see how that works. Try to stay as narrow term wise as possible. Don't be greedy and go to broad or it will be too expensive. Also think about geo-targeting your campaign so that it only displays in areas you need it to.

Best of luck

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Google Adwords
Mar 31, 2008 5:07AM PDT

Google adwords are a great way to go to generate traffic, as well as joint venture relationships, affiliates and CPC, CPM.

Chase

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Marketing: Google AdWords a good way to go?
Apr 4, 2008 3:55AM PDT

I think AdWords work fine as long as you choose the right triggers. I was talking about this with a partner of mine and he mentioned that he had come across a website www.dojohut.com that does a pretty good job also.

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WOW
Apr 4, 2008 4:45AM PDT

I have never seen ads like this. Have you seen this inaction?

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WOW
Apr 4, 2008 5:09AM PDT

I myself haven't used the service, at least not yet. As I said, my partner told me about and he says it (www.dojuhut.com), has worked for him very well. Does it look like something you could use?

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I don't Know
Apr 4, 2008 5:38AM PDT

It looks a little scary to me. I'd have to see some samples of it in use.
Best

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WOW
Apr 6, 2008 6:03AM PDT

Just a note.

In a separate post that I deleted (because it started to look like spam) vellum12 seems to have doubts about the website he recommends twice in this thread. He asks if anybody has experiences with them.

If anybody has, we'd like to know.

Kees

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WOW
Apr 6, 2008 7:28AM PDT

Kees;

My apologies if my posts looked like spam. I was merely mentioning the name of the website and someone followed up by asking if I'd used it myself. I have looked at the site several times and demo'ed it..but one of the responses prompted me to ask if anyone has used the services. I'm in no way linked to the site.

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Re: Wow
Apr 6, 2008 7:42AM PDT

No problem. I repeated your request here, so anybody can answer it. But 4 posts with the same website in a few days, that's suspect.

It always helps to do a google search yourself. It doesn't turn up much positive, so there's some reason to have doubts. Nothing explicit negative either, although they seem to spam to get customers. But then, who doesn't.
I would ask them for references before you pay them $3000 for each keyword.

Anyway, the only certain thing is that the domain name is registered in October 2007.

Kees

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Dojo Hut
Apr 8, 2008 11:31PM PDT

It seems like hardly anybody here knows of this service. I have been trying to work out some numbers with them before taking the plunge and just to give some closure to my request for info here, I've decided to give them a shot as I really like what I see.

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SPAM Filter
Apr 11, 2008 4:59AM PDT

interesting that all over the web the only place I can find much of anything about DoJo is where they had Google ads on parked pages. A couple of forums mentioned it, but not much else. If they are so good at getting top placement, I would think they would have better placement for themselves.

The other thing that is REAL interesting is that our eSafe filter at works blocks the domain as being the SPAM URL category.

If you ahve $3000 to throw away, toss it my way.