Meet Your New Certified Google Partner

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My name is Steven and I’m a Google Certified Partner. I felt good just to write this. Here’s a little story for you.

A few months ago I was minding my own business when an opportunity knocked at my door. I took a training, passed all my course and because an official Google Certified Partner. I didn’t think much of it at first because I’m that kind of nerd will spend 100 hours working on something just because I want to figure it out.

I had heard about people using Ad Words to advertise before and when I even tried it one of my websites in the past but I didn’t think much of it because I didn’t know what I was doing and ended up wasting my money.

My first experience with Google AdWords went like this. I logged on my MaxBounty account and chose one ad. It was a great ad for a product I use to backup my files. Although I didn’t know what I was doing I still went for a product that I believed in. The concept was simple. If someone clicked on my ad on Google and paid for the service, then I would get a commission for it.

I spend $200 in Google Ads, did put a daily limit and used some lousy keywords and forgot about it. A few days later I came back to my ad for for this product. I had a few clicks and my Google AdWords account was down to $5.41 dollars and I had made 0$ in commission.

I Was Pissed!! 

Not only was I pissed. I literally felt robbed. So many people were talking about making money only and how easy it was and so on and so on. All you needed was a great product and some traffic. Yeah right!!

I learned the hard way, got traumatized and went back to making websites. That was years ago and a lot changed since. Before making a single dollar online I had to learn search engine optimization (SEO), improve  my marketing skills and learn more about Ad Networks like Maxbounty so I could succeed in promoting different products.

Everything was going well but we all know that not much is possible online these days without using Google directly or indirectly. The last obstacle for me to be able to successfully promote online using paid ads was to understand how to use Google AdWords effectively.

I’m proud to say that I’ve overcame this obstacle by becoming a certified Google Partner and it shows in the results that I get online for my clients when I run ads for them on the Google Network.

I don’t know if I will be teaching this here because I spent over 100 hours (evening and weekends) on this but I just wanted to let you know that I’m available to help you setup your first ads on Google (the number one website ever visited).

I’m not selling, just sharing this personal story with you. Who knows, this information may be more useful to you than it will to me. You will particularly enjoy this information if you’re on my mailing list because I will be giving away $2000 worth of ads.

My mailing list is currently close but I will open it shortly when my $1 dollar deal is ready. Hopefully fully you can take advantage of some of this opportunity to spend someone else’s money without losing money like I did a few years back.

If you have any questions about anything, contact me. I read and reply to all email.

SEO Services Don’t Cost $20 Per Month

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Last year I was browsing a popular classified website called Kijiji. I had some time on my hands and I wanted to see if anyone could you my search engine optimization expertise so I did a search for SEO.

I quickly found out that people weren’t really serious about their SEO efforts on this website.

I made a screen capture of the image to remind me of this ridiculousness.

Today I decided to share this with you in this blog post.

When I started getting interested in Search Engine Optimization most people didn’t even know what it meant. I was able to make websites rank number 1 in Google for competitive keywords very quickly.

However I was only able to do it because I had the right tools and the right mindset.

SEO changed a lot over the years and big players like Google influenced this game a lot but some of the key principals of SEO still remain and that’s why SEO often cost more than the website itself in most cases because it takes a lot of efforts to achieve great SEO results.

First you got to study your competition, then you have to research different keywords using tools like Google Key Words Market Samurai (which is what I use).

These tools can be quite helpful but you have to know how to use them to be able to achieve the results that you want without being band from Google.

Every time someone talks to me about SEO I know I will have to do some extensive research to be able to improve their ranking. The search alone and the reporting can cost a few hundreds. Then once the research is completed a SEO action plan needs to be establish and implemented.

This is essentially the reason why I always laugh when I see things like “my budget is $20″.

In my honest opinion, someone with $20 shouldn’t be looking for SEO services. That’s kind of insulting.

Would you go to the dealership and ask for a brand new Lexus for 10k? Of course not. Stop embarrassing yourself and think before you talk or write stuff like that.

If you’re an SEO provider and someone approaches you with such a request people take the time to educate them on what SEO is, why SEO is important and how much it cost.

SEO is very valuable and profitable art. Don’t waste your skills and your time on people who don’t respect your knowledge.

You may be starting and may need something to add to your portfolio but “SEO at $20 per month” is not what you want to add to your resume or your portfolio.

All these hours spend learning, the courses that you may have taken, your computer, your bandwidth, your Market Samurai license and the electricity you spend needs to be accounted for.

Let’s go gang! The power is in your hands! You have the knowledge, don’t waste it.

You’ll Never Be Able To Do So Much With A Dollar

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As you probably know by now I decided to make this year about helping people get more done online. I decided to work on less website and provide more tips for people who want to learn how to do a few things on their own.
One of the best ways I know to create income online is to create a website or a blog. However the lack of knowledge got a lot of people investing with the wrong people or losing a lot of money before they could understand the game. Not everyone will make millions online I never said that but if you want to have a chance of making your first few dollars you will need a professional website with your own .com domain name and a good hosting company to host your website and support you in the process of getting started online. Continue reading →

My Top 5 Real Estate Tips

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I few weeks ago I told you that I wanted to become a better writer. In order to be able to improve on my skills I had decided to join Info Barrel and submit articles once in a while.

I just wanted to come back with some great news. I submitted my first article and you can read it here. I’m very proud of it because this one is about real estate which is a topic that I rarely right about. I know a thing or two about real estate I just never took the time to write or to teach about it.

In this article I talk about ways to save for a down payment on a house. In the article I gave 5 real-life examples that can be used to save money to buy a house. I’m looking forward to see what people think about it and I hope it will help others save a big down payment for themselves.

I’m planning to write another article for Info Barrel in two to three weeks. If you want me to review your site or your service I can hook you up with a free review. This way I get to write about different things and improve my on my writing skills even faster. This is a cool deal for you too because you get a free review that you can use to showcase your business or your websites.
If you like what I do and you want to support my work contact me to discuss opportunities.