How to Make “Get Google Ads for Free” Work for You

June 23, 2008 | By JoLynn In Adwords, Make Money Online |

$\"crime scene\"$ I got a copy of “Get Google Ads for Free” several months ago and I was inspired. I spend money every month on Adwords like a lot of other people and I get more traffic and make more sales as a result.

However, “Get Google Ads for Free” will take it to a whole new level. It’s not rocket science by any means. You’re still buying Adwords however, you’re more than covering the costs, in many cases 3-times the amount because you’re wisely using your website as VRE (Virtual Real Estate) and it has value. You’re selling ad space to folks with related items and they make weekly or monthly payments to YOU.

However, you can’t just slap up a website and expect to sell advertising space. You need two basic magical things before people will buy ads from you. Why should they buy ad space from you if you don’t have traffic?

You need to build traffic first and foremost and it starts with making your landing page simple and to the point. You’re just building up a mailing list of people through your main page and you’re giving something away. In my case, I was giving away a report on the garbage that is in commercial cat food. No strings attached, people just fill out their email addresses and bam! They got the report in their email box delivered by my autoresponder.

Get Good, Reliable, Affordable Web Hosting
First of all, if you’re going to do this - be smart and don’t pay an arm and a leg for a domain. You can get a great deal on a web hosting account at www.webhostgiant.com .
Go for the reseller account, That way you get UNLIMITED domains for $4.79 a month and these are fully functional servers with all the bells and whistles. Each domain name you want to register will cost you $7.95 per year.

This is Your Online Business, Promote the Heck Out of It!
Remember, you’re going to be selling ad space on your site, make the traffic enough that it will entice buyers to want to advertise their own businesses and products on your web site. But How?
Promotion, my friend - sheer unadulterated promotion. This will also make you popular with the search engines too.

You can help the page rank of your site rise quickly by linking TO your webpage from other source. The base domain of such sites like Blogger.com and others will help give your page weight.This takes a little effort on your part, but the it’s extremely easy to maintain.

1- Set up a blog at www.blogger.com. Make it a review of your site. For mine for example, it would be, “The Cat Food Report Review” and I have on overview of what the site is about in a post. Talk about cat food, cat health, and just make 3-5 posts initially to ads some good content. Link to your page in the article as well as on the blog itself in the sidebar.

2-Set up a www.tumblr.com account and link back to your website from there. Tumblr gets good traffic and is much loved by the search engines.

3- Put the feed of your blogger blog or if you’re using Wordpress to build your main site, that’s cool too, either way put a feed in “My Yahoo”.

4-Make a page at pages.Google.com and publish it.

5- Go to Linkmetro.com and Rankready.com - use the free service and set up some link exchanges with websites that are in your own genre.

6- Find some forums in the genre of your site and answer a few posts and have a link to your own page. This will encourage people to visit as well as help your page rank.

7- Use www.socialmarker.com to submit your site to social networking sites . At the time of this writing you can submit to about 30 of them and for free.

Optional but Good -
1- Make a page at Myspace.com, Facebook.com and a Squidoo Lens and link all of them back to your site.

And in all the above places - promote the fact you’re giving away something FREE - because you are. Everyone loves free stuff, they will come to your site to get it.

Very Optional but Fantastic
If you want to really send traffic to your page in a short period of time. A press release will do it. Create news, write about your new venture and free report - people will come! You PR will get picked up by blogs, RSS feeds and more all over the net - it’s a great way to do viral marketing. Go to www.prweb.com and you’ll see really quickly what makes up a good PR.
Tips -
Don’t use the same phrase to link to your site, vary it a little bit - so instead of “cat food report” you can use theme sentences such as “what your cat is eating” or “ingredients in commercial cat food” as optional link wording.

Don’t put the same wording on every page - vary them so they are exclusive content or everything you just did go in the proverbial sandbox at Google and other search engines and your website won’t stand out from the crowd with any authority.

There are a lot of other places to promote your site and you’ll certainly get your favorites going. The key is to DO IT. Once you get a game place going - it will take you about 1-2 hours at the very most to set up a site and get it going.

If you can find an affiliate marketing product that corresponds to your genre, put that on your Thank you page where your ads are. Keep it at one for best results, two at the very most.

Updating
You’ll need to update your blog pages once a month - just a single post with something about your site with a link. Use something current in the news about whatever your subject is and write about that. Also hit Link Metro and Rank Ready and continue to add a few links per month.
And that’s it in a nutshell!

“Get Google Ads for Free” already has a layout for how to figure your ad costs, how to do your Google Adwords and how to target your traffic. I just showed you how to get even more.