In this post I wanted to make you aware the direction Google is heading. I believe it is going to get harder for small time internet marketer over the next 5 years to make a good living online.

You have noticed Google removing 10,000’s of affiliates from it’s adwords network. The one who have stayed are now experiencing the Google creep. That’s when the price per click creeps up instead of down, until the point the advertiser can no longer afford the cost. What this means is Google only wants large business with big  budgets to advertise on their network.

But, wait it gets better.(that’s sarcasm) Let’s take look at a high value keyword like “Mortage Rates”. If you look at the top of the page you see a big Google ad that saids”Compare Mortage Rates”. Then click on the ad and you will see quotes from the largest fortune 500 companies. How is the little guy going to compete with that.

Google is controlling the traffic and giving it to the highest bidder… I’m talking Multi Million dollar contracts. It’s not going to stop there, they will use this in other verticals too.

Wait I have more. Maybe you think SEO is the answer - think again. Google is now paying for content generation and building there own content to rank in their own search engine. Then they are selling Adsence ads on the content pages. Yahoo is doing the same with associated content. What is means is that you are going to have to compete with a multi billion dollar company to gain rankings in almost all the high valued keywords. Think of wikipedia on steroids.

So, what are you the small time internet marketer going to do about it. First of all this push is going to take about five years to complete. If your going to make money online you will need to act fast and do it now. Secondly their are other ad networks that have a lot of traffic and can compete with Google if you give them support. So, act fast and find alternatives.

Most people tend to shy away from image ads because they find it to difficult to create the ads. Those who use image/banner ads successfully can get cost per clicks as low as .03 cents a click.

In this lesson we are going to show you how to create image ads quickly and find placements in the Google adwords content network.

Are you ready? The thing you will need to know are the ad sizes that Google will allow you to run in their content network. You can Google “adwords ad sizes” and then click on the link that takes you to adwords helpcenter page that displays the ad sizes.

Adwords Ad Sizes:
120 X 600
160 X 600
200 X 200
250 X 250
300 X 250
336 X 280
468 X 60
728 X 90

These ads are in pixel sizes. For example 120 pixels. Also you should know the ads are at 72 dpi/ppi. ppi stands for pixels per inch. 72 dpi/ppi is the resolution of your computer monitor.

Now, that we know the sizes of the ads, we need some software that can create image or banner ads. This type of software is called image editing software. The best known of the image editing software is called Adobe Photoshop. Now, I am NOT saying to buy the latest version on Adobe Photoshop, it is out of the price range of most people. But, you can find old versions for sale on ebay and Amazon.com, any version newer than 4.0 will do the job. Some other image editing softwares are Corel paint,Serif PhotoPlus X2, fotoflexer, picnic, Adobe Elements.

Once you have Adobe photoshop or other editor installed, copy the ads from Adwords helpcenter and paste them into your photo editor as a new file.

The elements you have to work with are photo, text and color. In the training video I show you how to use layers and how to move your objects inside those layers. I also show you how to resize an image on a layer.
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I get my royality free images from Istockphoto.com or clipart.com. Use images the get peoples attention. Your ad should raise a question in the
viewers mind. I use bright colors as well.

You have to design the same ads in each size. Once your design is completed save your image as both a .psd and .png file. Save them all in a folder.

The next step is download and install Adwords editor. Once installed ad a new campaign and ad group. In ad group tab click on the “ad” tab. Then click on Image Ad. Then click mulitple ads tab. A new widow will pop up and add your images using the add button. Include to display and destination URL.

Now your ads are imported, you have to go find placements. There are few ways to do this.

1. You can select Auto placements and Google will find places to place your ad automaticly. Typically this is more expensive and less targeted.

2. Is login to adwords and use there placement finder tool. This is less expensive but the traffic is not as high as you would like.

3. I use software call Aggressive PPC that searches Google and finds all the pages that rank on the first three pages for your keywords and that offer adwords space. This way you have high traffic and low cost.

Once you find your placements you can paste them into your adwords editor under placements and set your bid price.

The last step is to upload your ads to your Adwords account and wait for your ads to be approved.

Once your ads are running watch your placement and see which one are getting the most clicks. Also start more than one ad group and test different add copy to see which one converts the best.

So, let me ask you this… What came first, the ThighMaster or unwanted thigh fat… Teeth Whitener or coffee-stained teeth… Acne Cures or pimples?

Right, the market has always been there for these products… all that had to be done was to introduce the market to a product for the right price.

What is so cool about the internet is… there are so many tools on the internet that collect marketing data for you. All you have to do is learn how to access the information and discover these gold mines.

The tool I want to introduce you to today is ehow.com. A successful product is one the gives a solution to a problem. ehow.com provides high quality answers to peoples burning questions.

How do you use ehow.com to do your market research. There are two different methods I will talk about here. (Both are based on the most popular post) The first method gives you the most popular post for the whole site and the second tells you the most popular for different categories.

Method one: Go to ehow.com. Scroll to the bottom of the page. On the left hand side of the page you will find “Top 10 Ehows”. Check them out and see if you can match a product to the market.

Method Two: From the home page at ehow.com click on one of the categories under “Browse How Tos” . Choose larger markets like “Parenting”  or “Pets”. After clicking a new page will open with results. At the bottom middle of the page yo will find “Top 10 Articles”  for that category. You will also see sub categories labeled “More Categories”. Click on these as well to see the top per category.

So what to do with your findings? Here’s one the questions I found in the top ten “How to Remove Cat Urine Stains on Clothing”. There are CPA and Click Bank products that are solutions to this problem. You simply match the market to the product.

See how simple that was… Imagine how many different markets you can discover with just  a little research and some clicking.

You may have heard about youtube and how great it is for getting traffic to your site. But, for many it’s not so - why?

Thousands of videos are posted to Youtube everyday and each one has the chance of being watched by millions. But 100’s of thousands more only get viewed by just a hand full. (I mean you can count the number of views on your fingers - this is NOT good)

As marketers we can spend hours of our time each week creating and posting videos just to end up with no views. Imagine how frustrating it is to create hundreds of videos only to end up with no traffic and sales on your web site.

What if there were a way to only post winning videos. What if all your videos had a backlink to your web site and got at least 50,000 views? What if just 1% of the people who saw those videos visited your site? Would 500, 1000, or 300,000 visitors a month change your online business?

You bet… Here’s how to have your link on videos with 50,000 views and growing. You will only have winning videos from hear on.

Step 1: Stop making videos and posting them to Youtube. (what?) You are shaking your head in disbelief. That’s right stop wasting your time (unless you make really interesting videos). Like I said thousands of videos are uploaded to Youtube everyday by regular people (people who are not marketers), just everyday folks.

Step 2: Pick a market and find recent videos in your market. Then follow some of those videos and see if they get 50,000 views.

Step 3: When you find a winning video that does not have a url link to a web site contact the owner. Ask the owner if they would be willing to take some cash in exchange for a link on their video. You can also ask them to put an annotation on thier video as well.

The process is simple and will get thousands of views to your website. But, there is one problem to the process, it still takes a lot of time to do all the research and contact people. Well, I found a service that will do all the research and contacting and give you a list off all the people who willing to put links on their video for less than $5 a month. You can find them a utubesniper.com.

I hope you take advantage of this technique and learn to profit from Youtube traffic.