This version resolves some issues due to changes made by Google and other data providers that caused some of the data retrieval to fail.

We have also enhanced the Domain Search functionality to allow for more domains to be searched, which has been requested by many users.

Best wishes,

Jon

This version is a maintenance release that resolves some issues with the stats not being retrieved due to recent Google changes.

All stats should be working now.

Best wishes,

Jon

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

This version marks a significant improvement in the software’s Campaign Building functionality and introduces an easy to use Wizard for building campaigns.

All previous campaign building functionality was left in the application as Legacy Functionality.

Here is a breakdown of all the functionality now found in Keyword Rockstar:

Keyword Research

• Search Volume Stats, Estimated Clicks Per Day
• Advertising Competition – Actual Number of Ads
• Competing Page Count
• AllInTitle Page Count
• Commercial Intent Value
• Actual First Page Ads For Keyword
• Placement Targeted Campaign Locations

Domain Availability Research

• Research Thousands of Keywords at once to determine if they are available as domains (with or without hyphens between the keywords)
• Quickly Sort By Search Volume
• Extensions include .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ, .US, .MOBI

PPC Search Network Campaign Builder

• Works On Google, MSN, & Yahoo
• Advanced Keyword Expansion and Modification
• Domain Variations – All TLD’s
• Misspellings
• 50 Pre-Built Expansion Lists Including Action and Buy Keywords
• Built In Tracking or Use Tracking 202 Pro
• Dynamic Token Insertion in Text Ads
• Dynamic Token Insertion in Destination Urls
• Auto-generation of Adgroups
• Advanced Adgroup Builder Based on Word Frequency
• Dynamic Sizing of Adgroups
• Dynamic Sizing of Campaigns
• Drag & Drop Adgroup Building
• Long Tail Keyword Suggestion
• Text Ad Suggestion
• Separate Bid Pricing for Google, Yahoo and MSN
• Multi Edit of Text Ads
• 1 File Upload to Google, Yahoo and MSN for Campaigns Generated

Google Adwords Placement Targeted Campaign Generator

• Quickly Build Massive Placement Targeted Campaigns
• Auto-generated Adgroups
• Text Ads
• Text Ad Suggestion
• Multi Edit Text Ads at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for Text Ads
• .GIF Image Ad Support
• .GIF Image Templates
• WYSIWIG .GIF Editor
• Multi Edit .GIF Image Ads at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for .GIF Image Ads
• Flash Banner Ad Support
• Flash Banner Templates
• WYSIWIG Flash Banner Editor
• Multi Edit Flash Banners at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for Flash Ads
• Include Other Pre-Made Banner Ads
• Built in Tracking or Tracking 202 Pro Ready Campaigns
• 1 File Upload to Google for Campaign Generated

PPC Content Network Campaign Builder

• Works On Google, MSN, & Yahoo
• Text Ads
• Text Ad Suggestion
• Multi Edit Text Ads at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for Text Ads
• .GIF Image Ad Support
• .GIF Image Templates
• WYSIWIG .GIF Editor
• Multi Edit .GIF Image Ads at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for .GIF Image Ads
• Flash Banner Ad Support
• Flash Banner Templates
• WYSIWIG Flash Banner Editor
• Multi Edit Flash Banners at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for Flash Ads
• Include Other Pre-Made Banner Ads
• Tracking 202 Pro Ready Campaigns
• 1 File Upload to Google, Yahoo and MSN for Campaigns Generated

Media Buy Banner Builder

• Keyword Support Used for Dynamic Tokens (Optional)
• .GIF Image Ad Support
• .GIF Image Templates
• WYSIWIG .GIF Editor
• Multi Edit .GIF Image Ads at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for .GIF Image Ads
• Flash Banner Ad Support
• Flash Banner Templates
• WYSIWIG Flash Banner Editor
• Multi Edit Flash Banners at Once
• Dynamic Token Insertion for Flash Ads

PPV

• URL Generation Capability for PPV Campaigns

We are excited to release this new version and can’t wait for our users to see how much easier it is to create winning campaigns with the new Campaign Wizard!

Best wishes,

Jon

We released version 2.0.2.4 of Keyword Rockstar and it adds a lot more fine tuning control for the new Flash Ad functionality.

We also found and resolved the issue with some of the flash ad combination not uploading to Google.  You should have no problems with these ads in all the sizes and combinations.

Be sure to watch the training video I posted to get an idea of how much fun you can have with them and how creative you can get.

We have a lot more planned between now and the end of the year to help you guys work smarter and not harder.

Our entire Keyword Rocsktar team thanks you for being valued members and for your feedback and help in making Keyword Rockstar better.

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

Even though the video is mainly discussing the impact of several factors on Quality score and how that affects your overall performance, I wanted to point out one of the main things I noticed in the video that wasn’t really discussed.

That is the effectiveness and profit potential of Placement Targeted campaigns in Google Adwords.  Let me break it down for you just in case you didn’t notice or didn’t watch the video.

There are 2 guys running identical campaigns for the same clickbank product about a do-it-yourself solar panel. They are both running a search campaign and a placement targeted campaign each. The moral of the video is to show you how the age of an account, domain, etc. affect your quality score which has a direct effect on your profit potential.  However, what I quickly noticed was that there was a HUGE discrepancy between the profits being made from their search campaigns vs. their placement campaigns!

Their best search campaign was making $292 per week, but their best placement campaign was making $5,265 per week.

That is a $5,000 difference in profit potential each week or $20,000 per month!!!

The other points in the video speak for themselves, but I wanted you to understand why we have put so much effort into creating the best Placement Targeted Locator and Campaign Generator available.

You must start using it to quickly scale your campaigns using both text and image ads to see which ones convert.

Remember, it is simply a click of a checkbox to generate image ads for every size Google accepts that look like this:

It might not be common knowledge, but image ads like the one above get some of the highest click through rates, so you definitely need to be split testing with them to improve your CTR.

My prediction is that the Content Network is going to be super hot this year at making people money.

As a Keyword Rockstar member, you already have the advantage over the rest of the competition at both locating the perfect placements and quickly scaling your campaigns taking advantage of both text and image ads.

If you want to see the Placement Campaign Generator in action, watch the Advanced Training videos at http://www.keywordrockstar.com/videos.php

Best Wishes,

Jon

Many of our users have asked for the ability to not expand the seed keywords, but rather just retrieve the data for them.  This is most useful if you already have a keyword list that you just want to get the statistics for.

This version now gives you that option.

If you just want to retrieve the stats for a keyword list and not have that list be expanded by the Google Keyword Tool, simply select Recursion Level 0 when you create your project.

This will prevent the expansion of the seed with synonyms and only retrieve the stats for the keywords you enter into the seed textbox.

This version also addressed an issue that a few people were having with the AllInTitle search.

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