Google made changes to their Keyword Tool recently that broke some of the Keyword Research functionality and this release resolves that issue.

We also had a few bug fixes for the Legacy Campaign builder, so that should be working 100% again for everyone.

We added a few optimizations to improve performance during the campaign building process, specifically the expansion of keywords.

This version should make Keyword Rockstar much more rock solid as we work out the final kinks in all the new functionality introduced in version 2.5

Best wishes,

Jon

Now, you can use tokens in your Content & Placement campaigns just like you can in your Search Campaigns.

This is great for dynamic landing pages or getting the keyword in your text ads.

NOTE: The tokens only work in the Text Ads not the Image Ads. We are working on a solution for possibly implementing that, but we wanted to go ahead and give you the Text Ad Token capability.

Best wishes,

Jon

Now, you can simply click the button inside the application to launch the community site in your default web browser.

We wanted to make sure everyone had easy access to the forum, case studies, and member blogs.

Best wishes,

Jon

This version has some fantastic improvements and completely automates the proxy management for you.

Now you can just create a project and hit the start button and we will automatically use proxies for you. I think you are going to love it!

Make sure you get the latest version by starting Keyword Rockstar and clicking the “Ok” button when it asks you to download the new version.

There are a lot of minor improvements, speed enhancements, cpu resource reduction and overall bug fixes.

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We are hard at work building a community site that should be ready next week if all goes well.

We have great plans for that and are really looking forward to everyone getting involved, learning, sharing and growing!

Also, I have a case study for a clickbank product that I am going to share with everyone next week. I am leaving nothing out, you will see everything, including the landing page, PPC campaigns, and how I used KR to build them.

The next release towards the end of the month will contain the best Image Ad builder you could ever want. We are working hard so that Google will love these ads and you will too!

Finally, if anyone is interested in running CPA offers and would like an auto-approved account (on a Trial basis) with a private CPA network, let me know.

Also, I spoke with Ryan today from Elite Clicks Media and he said that a few of our Keyword Rockstar family members have already been put on weekly payments and they just started this week! You have do at least $1,000 in commissions to get put on weeklies, so for those that made that, WAY TO GO!!

My goal is to teach as many of you how to do that as I can over the next few months and I plan on doing at least one case study per month that will be absolutely free and step-by-step.

That brings me to my final point. I apologize for not responding personally to a lot of the emails I have gotten this week. You can imagine that with the new release and everything that I’m trying to do for
everyone, it is quite a busy time here and very difficult to be as responsive as I would like to be.

So, please forgive me, I will try to get back to everyone that sent me an email these last few days by the end of the weekend.

Just as a recap:

1) Forum/Community Site coming soon!
2) New Image Ads in next major release!
3) Monthly Case Studies Starting!
4) Email me for Trial CPA Account
5) Sorry for the delay in responding!

Best wishes,

Jon

This is the first version in the direction we are taking to remove the manual proxy maintenance and to automate it.

Here are the changes:

• Filtering Section, Step 7 – Now you can pre-filter your additional stats collection based on the initial stats of the keywords returned by the Google Keyword Tool.  This allows you to only get data for the keywords that meet a minimum criteria you specify.
• Proxies are global – Proxies are now global across all projects and are only tested the first time KR is launched and a project is started.  They are not tested on each project like before, you now only select which country you want to filter the proxies to in Step 8 of the project settings.

Bug Fixes

• Image Ads should work for all text entered now.
• Yahoo & MSN campaigns work for Content Network Campaigns (no more missing keywords)
• Project Running but no data being returned
• URL Seeds return data

This version has a good bit of improvements in speed and also general bug fixes based on the feedback we have gotten from you.

Looking forward to releasing more improvements over the next few weeks.

Best Wishes,

Jon

This version includes several new features that will tremendously improve the speed at which you generate PPC campaigns.

It also includes a few bug fixes and a change to the output of the Generated Campaigns.

New Features

1) Super Powerful Adwords Search Campaign Generator

2) Generate Content Network Campaigns and Create Adgroups Based on the original Seed for the keyword

Bug Fixes

1) The generated image ads should work much better now for various length text ads.

Output Change

1) All of the generated campaign output is now “Tab” delimited instead of “Comma” delimited so that you can use commas in your ads without causing a problem.

Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to make the training videos for the new features yet.  But they will be ready early next week.

Here are just a few of the ways you can use the new Powerful Search Generator:

1) Append keywords to original keywords

2) Prepend keywords to original keywords

3) Both Prepend and Append keywords to original keywords

4) Pair Keywords

5) Auto-Generate Domain Name variations from keywords

6) Auto-Generate Misspellings for Keywords

7) Include Auto-Generated Tracking Id’s for keywords

Include Tracking 202 Pro Parameters Automatically for Destination Urls.

9) Use Tokens to build ads and destination urls from your original or final keywords

10) Creates .csv text for all keywords and their tracking id’s

11) Specify how many keywords you want in each adgroup

12) Specify how many adgroups you want in each campaign

13) Includes 50 pre-populated lists to quickly generate Geo-Targeted or Industry Targeted Campaigns, such as US Cities, UK Cities, Australia Cities, Top 1000 Actors, Top 1000 Movies, Occupations, Baby Products, etc..

14) Specify individual bid prices for Broad, Phrase, & Match types.

15) Much More!!

I can’t even do it justice in this blog post.  It is so flexible and powerful, you will be amazed!

We’ll have the videos up next week.  We would get them up sooner, but we are going to PPC Classroom Live in Las Vegas this weekend to share some Keyword Rockstar love!

If any of you are there, be sure to look for me.  I’ll be easy to spot with my Keyword Rockstar shirt on.

Best Wishes,

Jon

This version fixes several bugs that were affecting our International customers.

It was strictly a maintenance release with no new functionality.

The next release will contain new functionality.

Best Wishes,

Jon

Here is a list of improvements:

1) Content Campaign Generator now allows you to specify multiple themes for an adgroup. Simply separate the themes by a comma on the same line.

2) Content Campaign Generator now allows you to specify the number of keywords per adgroup, the number of adgroups per campaign and whether you want to separate the text ads and image ads into different adgroups or campaigns.

3) Placement Campaign Generator now allows you to specify the number of adgroups per campaign and whether you want to separate the text ads and image ads into different adgroups or campaigns.

4) Major enhancement in memory usage.  You should notice a significant decrease in memory usage for long running projects.  We are working on even more optimization in this area, but this release contains a major improvement.

5) Results grid will now return you to the same spot after you hit the refresh button. No more ending up in a different match type after refreshing.

6) You can now “Save” your grid layout and “Restore” to the default layout.  If you want to hide columns and save that layout for all projects, then simply hit the “Save Layout” button and it will remember which columns to view across all projects.  You can also hit “Restore Layout” button if you want to return to the default layout.

7) Deleting Keywords – You now have the ability to delete just the selected keywords or all match types of the selected keywords (or cancel and not delete any).

There were also various bug fixes in the context menus to prevent the program crashing if grouping rows were selected.

We will have another release next week that will include the Search Campaign Generator.  It is very close to being finished.

Best Wishes,

Jon

This version includes some major enhancements to the Google Content Network Campaign Generator, including automatic grouping of adgroups around theme seed keywords.

It also includes a new Google Placement Targeted Campaign Generator.

Both of these generators are able to now automatically generate Image Text Ads in all the sizes that Google accepts for banner advertising.  You can also include your own banners in the campaign generation.

Please watch the new advanced training videos at http://www.keywordrockstar.com/videos.php

Other Features/Bug Fixes include:

• Delete Button on Keyboard will now delete selected keywords in Results Grid
• Duplicate Keywords Returned by Google for a project are automatically filtered out
• Duplicate Placements are automatically filtered out
• Log To File Functionality to Help Us Trace Individual Problems More Easily
• Selecting All Results in Grid using Ctrl-A and Then Copy to Clipboard Menu Option Bug Fixed

NOTE: The next version released will contain a Search Campaign Generator to complete all PPC Campaign Generation functionality.

Best Wishes,

Jon

This release was more of a maintenance release to address a few issues with the database timeout that some of our customers were experiencing.

However, we did add a couple of features to make it easier for you.

New Features

1. Import Proxies from text file
2. Content Network Campaign settings automatically save

Bug Fixes

1. Database Timeout too short

We are working on some great new features that should be released towards the end of this week/weekend, along with video examples of how to use them to make money with PPC.

Best Wishes,

Jon