MindValley Labs Internet Marketing Blog

Never let anyone tell you click-thru rate is the be-all end-all of AdWords analysis. Smile and notify them that they're not seeing the entire picture.
Clicks are great, but if your traffic doesn't perform your most wanted response (MWR), then you just lost money. I know of few marketers who want to pay Google to give [...]

Is this Big Ticket Item Worth The Cost? We Studied Yanik's At Home Internet Copy Writing Work Shop and Here's What We Found.
Can you learn copywriting at home? Yanik thinks he can teach you to be an expert.
Copywriting. The unsung hero. This oft-silent aspect of your website is usually dwarfed by desires for flashy designs [...]

We got some nice feedback since launching our holiday challenge. Here's what Kris from NY had to say:
Hi Vishen, Kris here from NY... thought I should drop you an email prior to my intensity of delight drops down.
I signed up for your course last hour and I realized the value [...]

Patrick rightfully notes that the week between Christmas and New Years is only as slow as you make it. We only have 52 weeks each year, so don't let this one slip through your grasp. Unless you're vacationing.
We've taken that message to heart, and to prove it we're opening ourselves up to a little [...]

The beauty of online marketing is the speed and ease of testing ads. There's no real reason to leave any idea untested; if it is terrible you'll know soon and with minimal damage, and if it's terrific you can quickly implement it on a wide scale.
The results of one such test here fell into the [...]

How to use the Search Query Report in Google AdWords to Find New Keywords
Did you ever wonder what keywords trigger your ads when you select "broad" matching in Google AdWords?
Now you can find the answer.  Just use the "Search Query Performance" report in Google AdWords to find the answer. 
As you may already know, when [...]

If you're still questioning our riffs about headline and sub-headline writing, take a look at this:

2 words.
87% difference.
Convinced yet?
Learn how to write them in our AdWords System Exposed Guide.

Powerful keyword matching tips:
I am working on a new AdWords Optimizer and one of the modules I am developing is around keyword matching.  I have noticed that MOST beginning AdWords users do not use keyword matching correctly so I wanted to come up with some simple tips and rules to follow.
While there are many ways [...]

While managing several AdWords campaigns and/or tons of keyword groups (which are hopefully as tight as possible), it can be easy to fall complacent over ads performing at a so-called satisfactory level. You look at your under-performing ones and get cornered into thinking your mental resources should go towards improving those.
Not so.
In fact, this is [...]

SuperAffiliates is a product in a crowded market, so we reviewed how it compares to others.
Does the product stack up? Let the review do the talking...
There's a plethora of tools out there trying to serve the affiliate marketing industry, which makes it difficult for new marketers to find the quality products out there. With that [...]