Are you sick and tired of dealing with Google AdWords? If so, you're in good company-very good company. Businesses and affiliate marketers all over the world are getting sick and tired of the games and tricks that Google AdWords plays, sucking their marketing budget dry without providing the results they've been looking for. Cheer up! Beating AdWords isn't as hard as you think.

If you've already invested hundreds or even thousands of dollars of your indubitably already stretched far too thin marketing budget in your AdWords campaign you're probably ready to throw in the towel-regardless of what anyone has to tell you. Relax. Beating AdWords isn't a tremendous feat of strength, and you don't have to have an MBA to figure it out.

All you have to do is figure out how AdWords works, and you're already well on your way to beating AdWords and reaping the AdWords rewards you've been looking for.

How does AdWords work? There are three things you need to know about AdWords that Google's never, ever going to tell you, and those three things are the secret to your success.

1. Today's hottest keywords are going to be tomorrow's rejects at the bottom of the pile, so don't build your entire campaign around a keyword just because it's on Google's hot list. Not only will this leave you in the dumps when the situation changes, it may also earn you a Google Slap for not being careful. When you're choosing your keywords, be sure you're choosing ones that will apply to your business today, tomorrow and every day after that.

2. Web content counts. Every time Google posts your ads they're putting their reputation on the line right along with yours, and a major conglomerate like that isn't going to go into anything blind. They're going to take the time to make sure your landing page and website content can take the heat. Make sure it does, by creating a fun, information filled page that's as relevant to your business and products as possible.

3. The true secret to beating AdWords is to learn all of Google's dirty little secrets. How do they decide who will fall at the top of the list? What AdWords tips are they deliberately not telling you in an effort to keep their profit margin high? How are they changing their search criteria and the way they rank their websites and ads? What's going to be the next step they take to bump you off the top of the search engine list? It's page one, not page one hundred, that sees hundreds of millions of visitors every day, and you want to make sure that your ad is front and center.

Beating AdWords isn't impossible. It's not even hard. All you have to do is be willing to do your homework and put together an AdWords campaign that's designed for you and your business, not Google and theirs. It won't be long before you're running the top-notch PPC marketing campaign you've been dreaming of.