inhabitLiving.com is proud to announce the expansion of their product offering from home goods to functional and fashionable lifestyle products. A new unique collection of handbags and new Wall Flat styles are now available. inhabit took it one step further by making all modern graphic pillows available in outdoor fabrics, as well as for the home, and 30+ hand-carved wool rugs coming soon.

The affiliate management team of Paulson Management Group, Inc. is proud to represent the inhabitLiving affiliate program. Affiliates will earn 11% – 15% per sale with No Keyword Restrictions and datafeed available. Join Now!

Women are sure to love the all new, nature-inspired modern handbags from inhabit. Proudly handmade in the USA from 90% certified recycled materials and keeping with inhabit’s trademarked style; color, pattern, bold graphics, and texture define the line.

Help your walls talk back with one of the new Wall Flat styles, which are made from 100% pre-consumer sugarcane waste. New Wall Flat styles include LUNA – a mid-century style, DRIFT – a stylish patterning, and HIVE with organic texture.

Wall Flats are inhabit’s take on a modern, eco-friendly wallpaper. A modern embossed three-dimensional wall-covering that is good for the environment. Wall Flats are made from 100% bagasse, one of the world’s most renewable resources. No trees were harmed in the making of this product. They are a sustainable wall-covering that is free of chemicals and will not be a burden to the environment at the end of it’s life-cycle, since the tiles are 100% bio-degradable.

Spice things up with a modern graphic pillow, which are now available in outdoor fabrics with 175 designs to choose from. Modern pillows can change the way a room feels quicker than almost any other accessory. It can change the environment also. inhabit pillows are hand-printed in the USA using environmentally-friendly, VOC free inks. Fabrics are derived from certified recycled post-consumer waste and all paper from the printing process is shredded and re-purposed as packing material. inhabit continues to be the name in modern pillows for the home.

While shopping inhabitLiving.com, be sure to snag a deal at the Outlet. inhabit is having a clearance sale with their over-stock, one-off designs and discontinued merchandise. You can grab them for a limited time at a substantial discount. Availability varies daily and these items are offered in limited quantities. The sooner you go check it out, the more you will have to choose from. Shop Now!

inhabit has been featured in the pages of InStyle Magazine, Dwell Magazine, The New York Times and Interior Design Magazine. Their products have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, W Hotels, MTV (TRL and The Real World), and much more.

Consumers get a Free Subscription to Dwell Magazine with any purchase at inhabitLiving.com! Free Shipping on orders over $50 (within the US). Also Shipping Worldwide.

Become an inhabitLiving.com affiliate today and earn up to 15% commission per sale. Inhabit’s average order value is really high around $300. Enjoy No PPC restrictions and a generous 65 day cookie and Datafeed available. Help the environment and earn some cash with the inhabitLiving.com affiliate program!

PMG is always doing fun Affiliate Giveaways! Currently we are giving away two GoodLifeBottles!

You can win a bottle one of two ways. The first affiliate to email me a link to a GoodLife blog post and the first affiliate to email me a url with a Goodlife ad homepage placement will receive a GoodLife Bottle of their own! See details in the ABestWeb Forum Post!

The GoodLifeBottles.com affiliate program in Commission Junction is doing really well! Paulson Management Group, Inc is excited to have super affiliates sign up and start marketing the fantastic eco friendly, 100% BPA free bottles that consumers love!

Paid search affiliates, blogger affiliates, and coupon affiliates will LOVE this program; we even have emailer creative for our emailer affiliates out there! Sign up as an Affiliate to start earning commissions today! GoodLifeBottles believes in making the finest contemporary drinkware for the finest contemporary lifestyles. Our products are inspired by raw ingenuity, individual style, unsurpassed quality & those who strive to get the best out of life. Sign up today and start earning 15% Commission per sale with a 90 day cookie!

Blogger Affiliates and Media Affiliates! You are welcome to use any images off of the site for your blog posts and media postings. The PaulsonManagementGroup.com affiliate team has also added blogger affiliate media and banners within the Commission Junction network, once you are approved for this affiliate program you will have access to all of the affiliate banners, affiliate text links, and other materials to get you moving forward fast!

The GoodLifeBottles.com affiliate program now has an affiliate video for affiliates to place on their websites as well as blogs. Sign up for the GoodLifeBottles.com affiliate program and start earning 15% commission on each sale all with a fantastic 90 day cookie! Sign up here today!

What makes GoodLifeBottles.com such a popular product?

• 100% BPA-free, non-leaching & toxin-free
• Unique Dual walls with vacuum-seal cap keeps liquid hot or cold for up to 24 hours!
• High-quality food grade 18/304 stainless steel
• Eco-friendly alternative to plastic bottles
• Stylish custom design & craftsmanship
• Durable, lightweight, reusable and 100% recyclable

No, really!

Depending on what you sell, you can earn 3%, 5%, 10%, or 15%! Check out the items offered in each commission tier on the Dyscern.com/affiliates page. You can also see how many of each item is left in stock so those of you doing paid search campaigns know where best to focus your efforts. Right now, the 10% tier has a sweet little Motorola phone just begging to be promoted. But check back often, as the stock is always changing!

Those of you frustrated with that changing stock should really consider promoting the Deal of the Day page — we created it just for YOU! This dynamic landing page features a different item everyday, taking the guesswork out of what to promote. Couldn’t be easier! You can either host the page or link to it, AND it’s the highest converting page for Dyscern.com. Learn more about it with our easy tutorial.

If you’re not an affiliate for the Dyscern.com program, sign up here — we’d love to have you!

The audio interview of Keith grilling Larry and Amish, for 42 minutes, on the phone, asking all the questions is highly fit to broadcast… from newbie stuff to specifics that only PPC pros would ask… HexaTrack is creating waves in the affiliate world, allowing anyone in paid search marketing to obtain details about competitor paid search accounts as well as allowing ppc tracking through affiliate programs.

Spider Test Tool – Shows the source code of a page, all outbound links and also some common words and phrases.

Google SiteMaps Generator - Free for websites up to 500 pages .xml sitemap generator for you to use!

ISAPI Rewrite – Similar to Apaches mod_rewrite however this one is designed specifically for Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS)

Yahoo! Site Explorer – Find all of your indexed website pages in Yahoo as well as see backlinks.

Google Webmaster Central – access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues and add your Google sitemap and more.

WordTracker - Keyword research tool, this one is free but for long tail generation I suggest you use this tool.

SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool - When I need to forecast, segment keywords by category and research a vertical this is my favorite tool. The inventory volumes are respectable concerning their accurateness, easily apply your results to excel and create a massive calculator that can help you project your PPC spend.

Google Traffic Estimator - I still use this to quickly check PPC – CPC’s – helps verify daily budgetary projections.

Symantic Web Tool - Yes this is an easy one, many of you might remember it, it is called a thesaurus. Find semantically related keyword terms.

Google Hot Trends – For you PPC folks out there that are bidding on low CPC keywords to pull in huge volumes of traffic, put down the newspaper looking for what’s hot in newsworthy events and check this out.

Yahoo! Buzz Index- Similar to Google Hot Trends – I like this one for monitoring trend movement has a nice percentage indicator based on time indicators.

KeyCompete - Download competitors keywords and adwords (hee hee)- Yeah we get guerrilla like that!

SpyFu – Shows competitor rankings and what keywords they are buying, only scrapes Google as far as I know.

Keyword Typo Generator – www.Tools.SEOBook.com has some great tools, this one is fast and pulls back mega lists. Do not discount typos they still pull in converting traffic!

Backlink Analyzer – Love this, shows whois, IP addresses, segments .edu’s only pulls for Yahoo and MSN but it is a worthy tool. Since Link Harvester uses the Yahoo! API it is limited to 5,000 daily uses per IP address (SEOBOOK.com tool) so if you get an error page come back to it later.

BackLink Watch – Shows the anchor text in the links, also shows link PR (Page Rank) so hunting is pretty fast also shows if there is a no follow in the link and all site OBL’s (Out bound Links).

KeyWordDiscovery.com – This Trellian tool is becoming very popular, the price is good and well worth it for keyword research and long tail term research.

http://www.longtailadwords.com *new*

http://www.keycompete.com/ *new*

Competitive Research Tools

Compete.com – Lets you see traffic trends of competing websites, demographic information as well as other important predictors.

quantcast.com – I verified on three sites the monthly uniques are pretty close, good tool for competitive intelligence.

Xinu.com – This one is my new favorite – This tool will be very important as the new Google Universal search is being slowly integrated over the next 6 months. Check it out.

http://www.WebCEO.com *New*

 
Where Content Ads appear
Ad groups expanded for contextual distribution will display on relevant WebPages on the quality Microsoft network, including MSN^® Tech & Gadgets, Money, Real Estate, Education, and Windows^® Marketplace, as well as partner websites.

 
For an incredibly educational Webnar from Jeanie Dumont Microsoft Community Manager click here and learn more about this great opportunity for US advertisers to jump in on the new Microsoft AdCenter Content Ads Beta. Microsoft’s network I can attest has some very high traffic that converts; this is a much anticipated advertising venue for those of us in the know. Yeah..

 
Now reaching 96 million unique users per month through the MSN is available to us, these pages have high readability and I am a little (OK VERY) excited about this.

Yahoo’s Overview of Quality Index

The quality index is a relative measure of your ad’s performance.

• The quality index takes into account the click-through rate and other relevance factors.
• It tells you how well your ad is performing, on average, for all keywords in an ad group for which it is displayed.
• It reflects your ad’s ability to meet the needs of users by looking at your click-through rate, as well as other relevance factors.

How The Yahoo Quality Index Works.

1. Each ad has quality index displayed as one to five bars (1 = poor and 5 = good).
2. When you create a new ad, your quality index score is based on various relevance factors.
3. As impressions and clicks accumulate, your click-through rate becomes the primary factor in calculating your quality index score.

Example of a good quality index score (5 bars):

TVs from Electronics Planet
Plasma, flat screen, HDTV and more. Free shipping on select models of TVs.
www.electronics-planet.com

Example of a low quality index score (1 bar):

Super Hot Savings
Hot deals on the best of the best! Click here for savings!
www.electronics-planet.com

Your Yahoo ad’s quality is determined by:

• The ad’s historical performance-determined by its click-through rate relative to its position on the page.
• The ad’s expected performance, relative to competing ads displayed at the same time-determined by various relevance factors considered by Yahoo! Search Marketing’s ranking algorithms.

Yahoo Strategies for gaining a higher quality ad index

1. Include keywords in your ad (use our Insert Keyword feature).
2. Choose keywords for each ad group carefully.
3. Use ad testing.
4. Use our Excluded Keyword feature to optimize your advanced match type.
5. Review your current bids and set a campaign budget to meet your business goals.

http://www.payperclickformula.com/speedppc/speedppc.mp3

OK, the SpeedPPC install was a breeze the interface is really simple and understandable by anyone experienced in Paid Search. .

This is what I see…

Tab 1

Field 1. Campaign Name

In the campaign name field simply enter the campaign name for your typical Google campaign name field, I chose the term Dating as a campaign name, so my keywords for the Dating campaign will target dating terms for the cities in the United States (I want to see how SpeedPPC distributes and delaminates the terms by city within city specific ad groups).

Field 2. Cost Set – Up

I entered my bid sets within in field 2 which is simple enough and the fact that we can preset our bid costs by phrase type is excellent. SpeedPPC has three bid level sets which are great as it allows us to set our costs based on phrase match type.

Tip- One of my tricks whenever I launch a new Google or Panama search campaign is to go “all out” with my bid rates and budget the first 2 days (I shoot for 1-3 top level ad placement), I go for a high CTR which increases my quality score then I scale back my CPC day after day to see if I can stick my top level search placement while still scaling back CPC, I have tested this again and again with very large budgets and it works for me. Shhhh…

Tip – I chose to increase my exact match type CPC cost as those keywords are normally more highly targeted to my consumer base. Having a higher bid on your broad terms could slaughter your targeting, your CTR, and your costs.

Field 3. Grouping

Grouping within SpeedPPC is where you can choose to sub segment your campaign (turn into highly targeted ad groups) your keywords will be grouped based on your expansion choice, I chose to group my keyword by US Cities I am hoping to get segmented ad groups based on US cities for my Dating keywords. Notice that you can also include keywords to group by. (The choices here are endless)

Field 4. and 5. Expansion & Mix Type

I am choosing to expand or create phrases of my base “seed” keywords with the output of the city names using the Mix Type before the keywords. (You can choose before, after, or both) so my keywords will turn out like.

Seattle dating sites or Seattle dating or Portland Dating Sites, Portland Dating.. Yada, Yada.

Field 6. URL Template

YEAH< FREAKING YEAH! Concatenate functions not needed here.. If you see on the bottom (5b) you will note Tokens which are the attributes applied to your destination URL from the include fields they have within them (Tokens pull in the “seed” keyword, the Expansion text “adGroup name” and the final keyword phrase mix output.), Also notice how you can insert your parameters for tracking within the url template that will be applied to each keyword as a unique url. (I used a hypothetical URL as the example below)

Tab 2 Ad Text Set Up

Field 1. Ad Text creation

Ad text it appears can be customized at the expansion level so you can use again the {Expansion} token in place of the {KeyWord} include file in any of the ad copy fields, you can also capitalize the word Expansion or use a lower case – e within expansion to create the effect of the keyword include being either upper or lower case, in my test which is the US cities within each expansion field in the title I chose to use the capital E in {Expansion}. (Not sure how this will pan out for the param function includes MSN uses?) We will see.

I like is the line character numbering showing you how many characters you have left.

Ok I am making my adcopy – One note you can also add the {expansion} token into the display url to achieve that extended url that we all adore.

Next Step: Update Output

Now that I have chosen and applied my seed keywords, created my expansion type to the US City level to be applied before those seed keywords, and have made my preferred two ad groups copies using the {expansion} token I am ready to hit Update output.

BAM!

This is what I get

Excellent, saved me a lot of time on creating multiple concatenate functions to create this size of a bulksheet this organized and well laid out.

Now you can simply download as a .csv file or copy the contents and using the Google Adwords editor upload your content into your Google Adwords account. What’s nice about how SpeedPPC outputs your content is that it is bulk ready with the proper alignment and comma delimitated to conform to a bulk upload using the Google Adwords editor.

AND GUESS WHAT! The MSN output includes the proper attribution of the param includes within the output content. Heavens to betsy!!

I will be buying and will be using SpeedPPC.com

** When this launches I suggest watching their video instructions on using this application this is not for SEM beginners. Also you’ll need to ensure you have .NET installed on your Windows machine to use SpeedPPC you can get it here.

I am working with the SpeedPPC software now… 5 minutes in and I see a seed keyword field that can expand based on regional parameters.. Also appending to the destination url is possible.. yup they have the keyword segmentation appendage to ad groups which they are calling “group by seed”. They also have a “mix style” (before or after keyword or both) for phrase building.

Ok, I am going to play with this back in a moment..

Note – First thing I noticed on the install is that I had to download the Microsoft .Net framework. The download can be found here.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa731542.aspx

Note – Jay Stockwell is also co-owner of AssociatePrograms.com with Allan Gardyne. Jay Stockwell is part of the online marketing team at MarketingFanatics.com. Marketing Fanatics owns major online properties such as AssociatePrograms.com, PayPerClickSearchEngines.com, and KeywordWorkshop.com as well as many niche sites.