May 6th, 2009
Version 1.0.5.3 of Keyword Rockstar was released.
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
Tags: Best Wishes, Bug Fixes, Bugs, Functionality, International Customers, Keyword, Maintenance Release, Rockstar, Version Fixes
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April 17th, 2009
Perry Marshall has a great blog post that you need to read/watch the video. The video is from a friend of his named Byron Walker and it is only about 5 minutes long, but extremely enlightening. You can check it out by going to http://www.perrymarshall.com/google-quality-score-comparison/
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
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April 1st, 2009
Version 1.0.5.0 of Keyword Rockstar is now released.
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
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March 20th, 2009
We released version 1.0.4.9 of Keyword Rockstar to address two issues some customers were having.
1) Some customers were locking up when doing an “AllInTitle” search and we think we have corrected this issue with this release.
2) Some customers were reporting having problems with the data not returning when hitting the refresh button. We also think we have corrected this issue in this release.
Due to the two releases this week, we will have to hold off on the new features that we are adding until early next week when we release version 1.0.5.0.
Best Wishes,
Jon
Tags: Address, Best Wishes, Keyword, Maintenance Version, New Features, Rockstar
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March 17th, 2009
We released version 1.0.4.8 of Keyword Rockstar today.
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
- Import Proxies from text file
- Content Network Campaign settings automatically save
Bug Fixes
- 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
Tags: Address, Best Wishes, Bug Fixes, Campaign Settings, Content Network, Keyword, Maintenance Release, Money, Network Settings, New Features, Proxies, Rockstar, Timeout, Video Examples
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