I will be doing a fairly big update to Google Money Pro over the next week, and if you’re a Google Money Pro customer you will receive this update for free.

Here’s what will be included in the new update:

• How to get clicks for less than $0.01 per click
• Detailed information on how to write killer text ads
• How to get lower max bids
• New techniques for generating keywords
• Small changes to some of the strategies
• Better instructions on how to get better quality score
• Several other small changes

Even though I’m updating Google Money Pro with the updates I feel are necessary, I need your help! Please post below and let me know of other things you want in Google Money Pro so I can add them to this update. Working on Google AdWords daily causes me to overlook things that some people may need help with because it’s second nature to me.

If you have an update request, simply post it in the “Leave a comment” section below. If you want to be discrete you can email it to me at support@googlemoneypro.com.

So incase you haven’t realized it yet I did the Bum marketing experiment in the past…6 months ago to be exact. So here are my results from November 2007 to May 2008.

I wrote 5 different articles all on a subject I’m familiar with so the content would be valuable enough so the readers would click through to the URL provided. 4 of the articles were accepted, but 1 article would not be accepted no matter how hard I tried (I still don’t know why they wouldn’t accept it).

The articles were viewed 1,006 times and of those viewers 134 of them were interested enough to actually visit the website. Of the 134 visitors 16 came from EzineArticles.com website and the rest came from Google searchers. Out of all the visitors I made 1 sale, which is normal for Google Money Pro’s conversion rate (it usually converts 1:100 – 1:200 visitors).
So does it work? Yes, it definitely works.

Is it worth it? Maybe…then again maybe not.
Even though I did manage to make one sale, it took me 5 hours of work to get that. Because of this, it didn’t make this worth my time, but it was interesting to see how everything works. If you have zero resources to invest then this may be a good way to start your internet marketing ventures. Also, as with most things, if you keep working at it you will learn how to become better and more profitable with the strategies. I definitely think that if you worked very hard at this you would be able to make $100 per week, but I think that $1,000 per month would be stretching it for just about anyone.

So I decided to give Bum marketing a try just to see what type of results you can get. Most Bum marketing guides give you a few different “Article Websites” to use for various search engines. I mainly wanted to target Google.com since they are the biggest and the article website Google likes best is EzineArticles.com.

I decided I would try to write articles on Google AdWords and see if any of the articles produce a sale for my ebook. Since my ebook Google Money Pro isn’t cheap, it would give me a good idea of the quality of traffic coming from this technique.
Step 1) Finding The Keywords
Finding the right keywords to use with Bum marketing was more tricky that I thought. Yes, Google loves EzineArticles.com, but only enough to rank your article on the first page of Google search results if there are less than 10,000 pages found by Google for that particular keyword. This was a bit tricky for me since there are a lot of articles about Google AdWords. The hardest part was to find keywords that gave less than 10,000 webpage results but gave enough traffic to make a sale. The technique I used to find these keywords was a combination of WordTracker and Google’s Keyword Tool. Most of the guides recommended purchasing a tool to find the keyword for you, but I wanted to do the whole thing for free. I mean, isn’t that what Bum marketing is about?

My technique for finding the keywords was a balance between WordTracker’s free tool and Google’s Keyword Tool. I would use both tools to find keywords to use, then I would use Google’s Traffic Estimates tool to estimate the number of searches in the USA, because my article would be in the USA search results. Overall it took me about 2 hours to find 5 keywords to use. At the end I was wishing that I had bought the keyword tool the guides recommended. I think that if I seriously pursued this, I would have found a good technique for locating the keywords more quickly.
Step 2) Writing The Articles
This is another tricky part of this technique. This part requires writing a good article centered around the keyword you chose. But it has to be more than 250 words, convince the reader to click on the link to view your product, give accurate information, and be solely about the keyword you’re using.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention if the keyword you chose is used too much in your article then your article will be rejected by EzineArticles.com and Google won’t give you a very high ranking.

So my technique for this was to keep my keyword within the 10-15% range, meaning that 10-15% of the words in my article would be or be similar to the keyword of my choice.

It probably took me about 20 minutes to write the article and about 5 minutes to get a good title. You want your title to contain your keyword and make people want to read your article. The title of your article will be what people will see on Google. This sounds easy, but it can be a little tricky if your keyword is “AdWord Google Profit”.

Once I completed the two steps above I submitted my article for review and waited for it to be accepted by EzineArticles.com

So far I had spent about 5 hours total on Bum marketing. This includes writing the articles, developing a strategy, and finding the keywords to use.
My next post about Bum marketing will give the results of my experiment.

Probably not, but maybe some of you have. Basically bum marketing is a technique used to get free quality traffic to a website or product. There is a lot of information on bum marketing online and most of it is accurate, although some of it is inaccurate.

First, I’ll give you the no-fluff background information of bum marketing. Bum marketing techniques get all the traffic from Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but unlike most SEO techniques, you don’t use your own website. Basically you use article/directory websites which are websites where people write articles on various subjects so they can get noticed, have their article used in a reputable website, or get free traffic from the article.

Here’s how it works. Google and other search engines like high content websites, and these article websites contain thousands of different articles on various subject, so of course the search engines love them. So the idea is you write an article for a very specific subject and the search engine then lists your article at the top of the search results for the main keyword covered in your subject. This will generate traffic for your article. Your article’s purpose then is to convince your readers to click on the link at the bottom of your article to visit a product that you recommend.
So I started reading articles on Bum Marketing and got a general idea of how it works and I decided to give it a try to see if it’s worth everything people are promoting it to be. After all people are claiming to be making $200+ per day by doing this. So over the next few days I will post my experiences with bum marketing and I will tell you my strategy as well as my results.

In the past one of the big pay per click advertising strategies was to use common misspelled keywords. The idea was that while some advertisers were paying big bucks for first page positions for the most popular keywords, they were leaving the misspelled versions of those keywords untouched. This meant advertising using common misspellings of the keyword(s) was a new niche.

So does this still work?
Yes and no. First off, there are hundreds of ways you can misspell any word and attempting to find the correct misspelling is as hard as finding a new keyword niche yourself. Also, a majority of the search engines now automatically re-direct a misspelled keyword search to the correct spelled version without telling the web surfer. There are a few exceptions, like very common misspellings are still not corrected by the search engines, but they are common enough misspellings that most advertisers already have ads on them.

Generally when I’m creating a keyword list, I don’t use any misspelled versions of the keywords (unless they are very common misspellings). I feel that if your text ad contains misspelled words it can make your product look unprofessional, plus I don’t want to fill my keyword lists with hundreds of misspelled words. Probably the best search engines to try this technique on currently are the smaller search