Keyword Country 5 Opens it doors for free – Beta Testers Invited For Pre-Release Test

[Keyword Country->] 5 is finally here.   ( note:  The * Beta * Link is on the far right of the navigation bar at the top of the page )
 
And in a world of stale and sort of unexciting keyword tools, I must say – I’m pretty excited at what [keyword  country->] is bringing to the table  – and for a limited time while in Beta  test, for free!

KC is still a pretty obscure tool in the ever important online popularity contest, and I’ve got to say – I’m glad that they’ve managed to fly under the radar for as long as they have.  Yes, true enough – lots of people use it, but compared to Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery, et al – it still has kept a generally low profile compared to the bigger players in the marketplace.  But what it does ( and the Beta V5 version just  takes this to a completely new level of proficiency  ) is find the keywords that are the most powerful and most profitable and allow you to quickly and easily organize them and incorporate them into your web pages and promotions. 

Very simply – Keyword Country identifies the very best Adsense Keywords to include on your pages.  It does this by not only giving you the highest CPC ( Cost Per Click )for the words that you are targeting for your pages if you are an adsense publisher –  it also ( and much more importantly ) includes the ACPC ( Average Cost Per Click ) for those very same words. 

Why is that important? 

Well – if  like me – you used to build pages around very targeted niches with high  Google CPC figures, only to discover that the actual adsense revenue those exact same clicks were paying was only a fraction of the promised premium payouts……It’s a pretty aggravating process to say the least.    But, common sense would dictate that just because a phrase promises a high CPC – if there are limited advertisers on that phrase, even if the advertiser sets a maximum bid of $100 – the actual amount that advertiser is paying could be 1.20 – or 90 cents – or really any amount for that matter.

Think you are going to make 50 bucks when that ad is clicked on your niche website?

Think again.

So again – where [keyword country->] stands out as a contextual advertisers best friend – is by giving you depth and breadth in it’s analysis  of the keyword marketplace.  For example – it provides CPC and ACPC data for a much better analysis of potential payout, plus – number of clicks per month, advertisers, competition, monthly searches, KEI, R/S ratio and a whole hell of alot more.

I love it – and have paid close to a hundred bucks of month in the past to get my hands on what I ( and lots of others ) think is the absolute  best underground tool for contextual ad publishers looking to properly monetize their adsense empires.

But since Saturday – I’ve been using the turbo charged  KC Version 5 Beta for free and if you act fast – so can you!  Because they are asking for people to test out the newest version which adds a whole bunch of layers of form, function and pure potential madness to the previous set of features ( some listed below from KC’s beta page) – you can get your hands on it for free as well while it  remains in beta mode.  No Credit Card – no 14 day trial – no bait and switch bullshit of any kind…..  Just a great offer for a great tool I would recommend paying for if it wasn’t free!

[go  get it->keyword country]!    ( note:  The * Beta * Link is on the far right of the navigation bar at the top of the page )

Here are some features  from their promotional page:

More powerful Keyword Search Engine – Introducing Live Research
Now, find Unlimited number of profitable keywords, traffic attracting keywords from any niche you ever imagined. You can research in KC Database as well as Search it LIVE on Internet. Live Search empowers you with many more keywords, niche ideas and most updated Data. LIVE Search puts you in control of your research.

KC Database doubled to 14 Million keywords – Coming Soon!
Experience the advantage of searching in 14 Million premium keywords and step-up from database of 6.5 million keywords.

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Get in on the free action before they shut  the Beta Tester Program down  [keyword country->]

 ( note:  The * Beta * Link is on the far right of the navigation bar at the top of the page )

I love sports.  I always have, and probably always will.  I dont’ always love the players, or the money, or the stuff that sort of surrounds the game – but I love the metaphors – the symbology and the incredibly tranformative effect that sharing a rooting interest can have on a community.  And with that – I love this story.  No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, this certainly is a tidbit of suprising hope in an otherwise barren and dim landscape of sorrow.  I find it’s power and simplicity so moving that it’s hard to really put into words.  May we all cheer for the Iraqi National Soccer team – and may they win many, many more games for all of us..:-)  You can read the full story and the link below:

Anita, an interpreter with the U.S. military, screamed into the microphone over the celebration racket after Iraq won the Asia Cup this weekend.I had a ridiculous grin plastered across my face during our coverage. I kept turning toward the screen whenever the room erupted, not wanting to miss a moment, forgetting that I was live on air.For the Iraqis, faces covered in paint, and the Americans who joined them in jubilation — some even sporting Iraqi sports uniforms — the victory was a moment the country never expected to enjoy. Video Watch Arwa Damon report amid jubilant Iraqis »It was as if in that moment when the clock ran out and Iraq won the championship, all the pain and agony of war was forgotten. It was a moment of optimism and joy, a respite from the black humor that dominates life here.”When was the last time you were this happy?” I asked Anita.”A long time; it’s been a long time!” she shouted.One of the American soldiers lifted an Iraqi on his shoulders. Anita couldn’t stop dancing, and I couldn’t believe I was finally seeing Iraq happy.

Rare jubilation for a war-torn nation – CNN.com

technorati tags:iraq, business, marketing

If you are using the Internet to market yourself, your company or your service, you certainly know there is no  lack of expensive tools being promoted promising you a flood of free traffic simply by turning them "on".

We all get the same emails, from the same relatively small group of "Gurus", promoting the next " Secret Weapon" that you need to add to your internet marketing arsenal if you have any expectation of making big money online. And of course, we all know how the story ends – you are out 27, 47 or 67 bucks, ( or much more ) and the fantastic piece of promised software doesn’t work at all, or as advertised, or rarely, DOES work well but 3 months later is discounted by the search engines and all of your sites are de-indexed and you are back to square one.

The truth is – for those of us in the know – other than a few requisite must have tools – most of the things you really need to effectively market your product, service or site can be found for free.

The three tools below are just a few of those resources – I picked one from each major search engine to illustrate just how much competitive intelligence you can get – for nothing – if you know where to look!

1) http://adlab.microsoft.com/searchfunnel/

This is a bit of a buggy, beta tool from MSN – but it is really a gift if you are trying to quickly identify search funnel
patterns in your niche or chosen industry. Essentially – you type in your keyword phrase and tell the tool whether you are trying to identify "incoming" or "outgoing" funnels – and MSN will query their database and give you the search patterns that identify words that either precede the search or follow it. For example, want to know what people search for after immediately after typing in " dog food" ? All you need to do is type in "dog food" and MSN will spit back out a nice little funnel tree, showing you logical progression that their users follow after keying in your seed word! You can * dig* down or out several levels deep with this great free tool to get into the mindset of your potential customer or website visitor. It’s amazing and powerful stuff as not only does it illuminate the key word map as your potential site visitor "finds" you and your site, it also gives the strategic marketer a window into the mindset that gets them there. Still a beta tool ( meaning it’s reliability might not be as good as it’s going to get ) but get in on this now, before your competition does!

2)http://www.google.com/trends/

Google offers a great free service that follows the trends and patterns of different markets, regions and volume. This is a finger on the pulse tool – keeping you abreast of what is hot now – what was hot then – and what will be hot when. Want to compare two different power phrases for your market – to see which ones are hot during which seasons? Google trends will give you that kind of targeted seasonal related information. Want to know what specific geographical areas are most likely to be seraching for your product or service? You got it. And again – for free. How about what what is popular right now – keywords, news and blogs? It’s all right there for you to jump on. Compare what news is hot on the wire and compare that against the blogs that are editorializing the same stories side by side. Really powerful stuff. Graphs showing historical trends on your keyword topic and industry, with newstories iluminating the high points on the spikes so you can see live links that successfully drove momentum in the market. If you are a proactive sort of person and want to zero in on exactly the what and when of your market, if you use Press Releases and Articles in your online marketing, this is a must have free tool to add to your marketing mix.

3)http://buzz.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Buzz is like a professional bloggers fantasy – a hyperlinked heaven of everything buzz worthy in the blogosphere. If you havea blog, and you have readers, well – you need to be checking out yahoo buzz. It will tell you what is popular today, right now – what is related to what is popular today and how you can get in on the action. Looking for some easy low hanging fruit in your keyword search universe? Well – using a little bit of simple ingenuity and creativity you can get major traffic surges to your  blog or website simply by *posting* and joining the conversation on any number of popular topics. Yahoo Buzz will show you how to leverage the related points on interest within the blog universe so you can hone in and jump on a popular topic by keying in on  tangential, but highly related keywords. For example, as of this writing in July of 2007, "the Transformers" is the topic Du  Jour in the blog universe. Not going to be too easy to rank for that, right? Megan Fox, one of the stars of the movie, trails
just a little behind in popular searches. Not going to be easy to rank well for her either. But – did you know she is engaged to Brian Austin Greene ( of Beverly Hills 90210 fame)? I didn’t – ( until I logged into Buzz this morning) and It’s not going to be too tough to rank well for him..;-) Further, because according to Yahoo Buzz, you know that his search popularity has gone up over 200% since the movie has been released, a little creativity and effort should give your blog a huge boost if you can say something funny or topical ( how about – what could she possibly be thinking – or even better – post a video on Youtubeof that terrible Vanilla Ice-esqe rap album he released a few years back branded back to your site – maybe with a recent picture of the two of them at the movie Premiere..;-) and if you running contextual ads on your site, your bank account will thank you ( and yahoo) for the effort!

Remember – there are lots of free tools out there if you know where to look. You don’t need to settle for the ones that the "Gurus" would have you believe you need to make a living online.  Dont’ forget to add us to your favorites – as in the coming days and weeks I will be covering many more tools that you can utilize to grow your business for free – which – as we know – is the best sort of growth there is..:-)

Happy 4th of July…!

And In celebration of Independence Day  – the first installment in my "Article Marketing Mastery" segment is up..:-)

Metaphorically speaking, I believe that mastering the skill of writing effective and persuasive articles will create it’s own unique form of "independence" for you if you choose to apply it.

http://karma2.mystagingwebsite.com/article-marketing-simple-strategies-for-free-traffic/article-marketing-mastery-part-1-understanding-the-fundamentals/

The first piece of the puzzle is just a simple overview of the benefits of submitting articles for free traffic, backlinks and site authority.  The second installment – Sourcing and SEO should be posted within the next 24 hours and will begin to cover a few more intermediate tactics for optimizing your articles for Search Engine Optimization as well as some of the sneaky *secret* sources I use to create articles that I know are going to be effective and popular before I even write them.   

The first installment can be found below:

http://karma2.mystagingwebsite.com/article-marketing-simple-strategies-for-free-traffic/article-marketing-mastery-part-1-understanding-the-fundamentals/