I know I know it’s been a while since I’ve talked about the update. But it’s not because I haven’t been working on it. Instead it’s because I went a little overboard with the update. You see initially I wanted it to include some of the new things I had discovered in my AdWords accounts, but I kept expanding from that and adding to the list of stuff to include in the GMP update.

Anyway, I plan to finally finish the update by tomorrow and have it out to everyone by tomorrow evening or Friday morning. As of now I have removed about 10 pages of outdated information from the previous GMP version and have added 30 pages of new information. I’ve also re-arranged the order in which you should do things within your account upon creation and have changed a few of the techniques to make the overall process faster and easier to do.

The biggest changes within the update are dealing with writing text advertisements and quality score information. You can look at the screenshot below to see what type of results I’ve gotten from the information I’ve put into the update.

Text Ads
With text ads I show you exactly what to do to get your CTR to astonishing levels and by the way I’m not using dynamic keyword insertion with any of the keywords in the picture above.

Quality Score
I’m sure most of you will love the new section I’ve added about the Quality Score and Inactive Keywords. This is where I spent most the past 2 months testing different approaches. Anyway I have broken everything down and show you exactly how to understand why your minimum bid is what it is and I also tell you what to do to fix it (if it’s too high).

For example, if your keywords minimum bids shoot up from $0.15 to $0.30 in one night; the update will tell you why and will tell you how to fix it.
As far as the other information I’m adding, I’ve tried to add everything that was requested. I’m having a little trouble with the landing page template, but it should be finished in time for this update.

Keep in mind that it’s very hard to make an update to an informational book that’s 170+ pages in length and I know that there will probably be a few sections where I’ve missed some typo’s or left out a clickable link. If you find any of these sections please let me know.

Most of you have probably already assumed this, but some of you may have not. Since ClickBank offers a lot of different seasonal products I thought it would be best to explain how to recognize a seasonal product and how to make more money from it.

First off, a seasonal product is any type of product that has a peak sales period in the year. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the product won’t sell at any other time of the year (although this can happen).

One good way to find out if a product’s seasonal or not is to use common sense. If you’re selling a product on birds, remember that this product won’t sell well at all in the winter because birds hibernate. This is also true with most wild animal or outdoors products. You should also know that entertainment type product sell best during the holiday season, while make money product sell best before and after the holiday season (go figure).

If you can’t figure out if the product you’re promoting is seasonal or not based on the product theme, another good way to see if it’s seasonal or not is to look at the trends. To view the product trends I recommend using Google’s Trend tool http://www.google.com/trends
Below is a picture of three trends.

The blue trend is for the keyword “hummingbird”. You can see that hummingbird searches peak in the summer months, but decline in the winter months. This means you will make the most money with humming bird products in summer.

The red trends is for the keyword “skunk”. You can see that this subject is searched steadily year round, which means that this type of product will make consistent profits year round.

The orange trend is for “copy dvd”. You can see that this subject is searched most often during the holiday season, meaning that you will make the highest profits during winter.