You bet. I’ll take free traffic over paid traffic anyday in most markets. HOWEVER, I have experienced way higher conversions with paid traffic than SEO traffic so that’s something to keep in mind. Like you said, at least if you are already converting (making sales) with your keywords that have already been qualified with PPC, it’s still worth your while to SEO them. No sense in wasting ANY time SEO’ing keywords that you think “might” convert or are based purely on search numbers – always go where the money is and has been proven to exist.

Lol, Google still sends me Adsense cheques every month, so I’m not complaining That is a whole different ball of wax – but definitely gone are the days of traffic equalizer farms and MFA sites. I am still impressed (often surprised) at the click value I get on some of my sites (like $2.00 a click on some things) – more a function of putting adsense on your site somewhat tastefully as opposed to a totally blatant MFA site.

Unfortunately, not going to ASE – despite numerous invites and I’m wishing I had the time to go!

catch up with ya soon.
Tav.

AdSense is honestly a waste a time (and money).

PS: Are you going to ASE?

Thanks for dropping by.

My “mastermind” is something I’m forming mainly because it seems 90% of the people out there are also “beginners” (relative term) and you are being bombarded with so much crap, you don’t know where to begin or where to focus to get off of first base.

I will say that this business is not easy – it takes a lot of concentrated and focussed effort for at least 90 days doing ONE thing. Fact remains, NOBODY – or very very very few people – are actually able to stick to ONE thing because they get presented with a new opportunity every other day – the viscious cycle continues.

So long story short, my forum will be focussed on keeping people on ONE beaten path – hell, if thousands of others before us have been successful doing it, why can’t we? That path is going to be guided by extremely detailed market research, careful campaign launch execution and intelligent budget allocation – a good chunk of this will be determined by PPC bully for the PPC side of things as well as for the SEO stuff like I mentioned.

I expect the number of people to be very limited, I’d be susprised if I have more than 5 to 10 people in my forum – I could be surprised, but since I’m not offering the traditional “bundled package of extra crap” that everyone seems to want, I’m hoping I only end up working with people that are dedicated and focussed – regardless of experience.

Look forward to speaking with you soon!
cheers