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Subject: AdWords Panic!!!
First of all, I want to apologize for sending you
so many emails in the past two days but I've
had a lot to share with you...
What I am writing to tell you about is
VERY IMPORTANT.
Right now Google is making some CRAZY
changes to their AdWords system. They
are going and manually reviewing the
landing pages of their advertisers and in
many cases BOOTING PEOPLE from
their system.
In many cases, they aren't actually terminating
people from the AdWords system but they
will raise the minimum click price for their
keywords to like $5.00 per click -- essentially
running them off.
WHAT ON EARTH IS GOOGLE DOING?
I've now seen firsthand that Google is turning
away people that were spending over $10,000/MONTH
with AdWords. Yes, basically telling them
"We no longer want your money go advertise
somewhere else."
It's truly INSANE.
Maybe you've been one of the unlucky ones
that this has happened to. If not, be prepared
for it.
Here's the deal...
It appears as if their latest changes are mostly
affecting SQUEEZE PAGES. In other words,
landing pages that go for the opt-in before
showing a sales letter or the bulk of the site's
content. (Although it's happening to some
sales letter pages too.)
For a publicly traded company that's under
tremendous pressure to continously generate
more profit from quarter to quarter, this surely
seems like an IDIOTIC move on their part.
OR DOES IT?
My buddy Frank Kern has an interesting
'theory' about why they are doing it. Google
is supposed to be coming out with a CPA
offering very soon. This will allow advertisers
to pay Google on a cost-per-action basis,
such as by paying PER OPT-IN SUBSCRIBER.
- I personally believe they are moving in this
direction because of all the CLICK FRAUD.
Anyway...
Frank's theory is that Google is very against
landing pages that are focused on collecting
opt-ins because they hope to SELL THEM
with their new CPA offering.
Either way, something crazy is going on with
Google AdWords and it's WIPING OUT some
marketers' revenue. It totally sucks.
This is yet another reason to LEVERAGE
your traffic from multiple places and not have
all your eggs in one basket.
If you use AdWords for traffic don't panic.
We'll figure out a solution to all of this and
find a way to make it very profitable -- that's
almost always the case everytime there is
a major change. What seems horrible
to some marketers becomes a major
OPPORTUNITY to others.
I am in the process of fully investigating
this situation and as soon as I have any
solid information to share with you about
possible solutions, etc. I'll be in touch
about them.
Yours For Online Profits,
John Reese