“As for SpeedPPC I’ll cover how I use it later. I see what your saying about the keyword groups Franklin. Generally for CPA Offers I dont group this way but I do for retail. I’ll go deeper into my discussion and also reveal a lot more tools as I am sure they will answer a lot of the technical searching and grouping aspects for us.”

Where I am going next relies on tracking but I use PHP. I’ll list what I know is out there but for the most part my tracking is in-house. And actually I like pixels being placed on merchant pages but if you got a dirty merchant then it’s best to be extremely careful on your end.

As far as Yahoo is concerned, I will be saying my peace very soon. But when you setup tests this way like I have shown on the content network, typically it would be irrational to think you would burn thru even a quarter of that by stopping the campaign if your monitoring it. If you lose money like that there is no to blame but ourselves. And having a budget a in the first place is important because honestly, there will be mishaps most likely.

My biggest two mishaps cost me $2100+ and $1400+. The first occured in a 3 day span and the second in a one day span. But Franklin your right about those niches, that can surely happen.

As for SpeedPPC I’ll cover how I use it later. I see what your saying about the keyword groups Franklin. Generally for CPA Offers I dont group this way but I do for retail. I’ll go deeper into my discussion and also reveal a lot more tools as I am sure they will answer a lot of the technical searching and grouping aspects for us.

But for the sake of this series I am only focusing on a small margin payout and am very methodical in longtail keyword groups and domain variations.

What I want is for a tool to accept, say, a list of 100 keywords, and then it automatically returns similar terms in logical groups. So far the only tools that I know can do this are the Google Adwords Editor, and also Rapid Keyword, but they’re not always 100% accurate, so if anyone knows other solution(s), they’re more than welcome to share =).

@Collin all depends how popular the KW you are going after and how many impressions you get on it. So ya possibly you could go threw you daily budget .Keep you eyes on it ,Even if ya pause it it can take a few hours to get it turned off. So if ya have it at 500 and you watching it and it’s near what you really want for your limit then pause it.But then again you might not get a good feel for the KW if it not a keeper or not.

In an earlier post you said “Typically I set my content budget at $500/day. Now you may not want to do this but as I have stated that their is something unspoken on the content network.”

I agree with you….$500/day is something that definitely most newbies are not willing to go for. After 3 days, that translates to $1500 which is quite a big chunk of money. Plus, it’s a proven fact that out of 10 test campaigns, probably only 1 or 2 will come out as winners, so after many trial and errors, that $1500 could turn to tens of thousands of dollars, and I don’t think any newbies can afford that…
But on the other hand, if we set the budget too low, then we can’t really make educated decisions, just as you mentioned that if we budget below $100/day, the content network won’t yield in many clicks. Yet $100/day still sounds quite a lot? Or?
What do we do then? Test in cheaper engines such as Yahoo perhaps?

Another question: do you manually group keywords, or do you use a certain software to automate it?

I LOVE this series…..

At the end of the series (may be many weeks from now), would you be so kind to compile everything and put them in a PDF?

Can I give feedbacks and suggestions later on? Or do you already have fixed plans about what you’re going to write?

Take care!