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Online Advertising: Save Money
Mar 27th
Often when taking over a clients Google Adwords campaign, I find that they load one Ad Group with all their keywords. If this is you, I highly suggest you go PAUSE your campaign right now!
Before we get into how to setup your account to lower your costs, we will go over how Google decides your bid price. If you go into your “Keywords” area, and hover your mouse over the magnifying glass to the right of the keyword you'll see a Quality Score.
What is 'Quality Score' and how is it calculated?
The AdWords system calculates a 'Quality Score' for each of your keywords. It looks at a variety of factors to measure how relevant your keyword is to your ad text and to a user's search query. A keyword's Quality Score updates frequently and is closely related to its performance. In general, a high Quality Score means that your keyword will trigger ads in a higher position and at a lower cost-per-click (CPC).
-adwords.google.com
A lot of people are losing money on Google Adwords because their ads get a “Google Slap”. A Google Slap is a bad quality score. When Google Slaps your account you'll have to pay more money to be able to have your ad show at the same spot that it was… say a week ago. Having a bad quality score can cause your cost per click (cpc) to go from (this is a real example!) $0.12 a click to $1.00 a click.
So the obvious route is to increase your Google Adwords Quality Score! Now the fun part:
Instead of having that massive list of keywords you've researched (or just selected from Google) we're going to bring that up into multiple Ad Groups. For our example we'll use is a company that sells blue widgets in Miami, Florida.
We need to break up that large list of keywords into related Ad Groups. For example, the first Ad Group will be “Miami Blue Widgets” within this ad group we place all keywords with the words Miami, Blue and Widgets.
Miami Blue Widgets
Buy Miami Blue Widgets
Affordable Blue Widgets
etc.
Now the part that will help increase our quality score, ads tailored to our keywords. This will help us in two ways one increase quality score and two bold the keywords searched. We want the words “Miami Blue Widgets” in our headline and in our product description, if nothing else at least the headline.
Miami Blue Widgets
Make sure to check our store
before you buy Blue Widgets!
You should make three or four different ads to test which converts the best, we'll save that for another lesson!
Now go through the rest of your keywords and lump them base on similar keywords to take advantage of keywords within your ad to boost your quality score.
If want to boost your score even more there is one more thing you can do. Design a landing page for each Ad Group. A good idea would be something like: www.domain.com/miami-blue-widgets.html. On this landing page make sure to have the title and h1 tags have your keyword in it.
It may seem like a lot, but in the end these simple steps can save you hundreds of dollars. Having targeted landing pages can also increase conversions (another post).
-Guy
About Ryan Perry
Ryan Perry has taken his 10+ years of business ownership and hands-on marketing skills and focused them on online marketing. In April of 2009, he started Simple Biz Support with an emphasis on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Ryan is propelling local business websites to the top of Google, Yahoo and Bing resulting in increased market exposure and revenue for his clients using a variety of internet marketing tools including blogs, article submissions and video. Additionally, Ryan speaks and vlogs (video blogs) about internet marketing, educating business owners how to effectively use various SEO tools and techniques to promote their business on the internet. Connect with Ryan on Google+
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Mar 23rd
Using Google Adwords Pay Per Click marketing services is one of the simplest methods of driving traffic to your site, regardless of your sites market, theme, or topic. Google Adwords promises big revenue pay outs and it can deliver them — if you know know to optimize your accounts. If you just jump in without knowing the proper tactics, you run the risk of expending all your marketing funds for little to no result. Both some hard work and a time commitment will be required of it in order to make PPC marketing beneficial. To ensure maximum profit, you need to expend time testing the market, analyzing your test results, and optimizing your campaign. Even after your campaign takes off, you still need to keep an eye on it. You’ll need to test it and tweak it from time to time to keep it fresh, exciting and earning at full capacity. It need constant supervision so that you may reap the maximum benefits. With some practice and proper advice, it won’t be like before you become a PPC expert with the marketing prowess and know ho to make huge strides in site traffic. When dealing with Adwords there are 3 common and costly marketing blunders you will want to avoid.
Preventing disaster means having the best Pay Per Click Tools in your arsenal!
1) Failing To Fully Research Your Market
You can become a victim of serious advertising errors while attempting to use Google Adwords for your advertising. This is the result of trying to do things by yourself, and trying to perfect them. The good news is that you don’t have to get lost in your mistakes. On the internet, there are numerous people with web businesses who have made their businesses profitable. So do your research and spy on your competition, look out for other marketers in your market who are placing similar ads. Anytime you spy an ad that has been around for a while, several weeks for example, that is a good indication that the ad is driving traffic and making money or else it would have been changed or deleted. There’s a big difference between copying and adapting, you should adapt a successful ad and make it yours. Use those ads as your inspiration and you should see your conversion rate increase.
Huge conversions means tracking keywords with the best Pay Per Click Tools!
2) Displaying Ads on Google’s Content Network
Most people just jump into using Google Adwords and end up losing a bunch of money. After a while they throw in the towel and move on. The good new is if you track effectively, you can prevent this from happening. It is crucial that you keep track of your keywords and your landing page if you want to be in control of your success. If you don’t track your keywords, you wouldn’t know which ones are converting and are profitable. Once you are able to determine what is working for you, you will be able to produce high quality traffic and prevent losing your profits. In essence you have to sort out the keywords that bring sale from those that aren’t great performers. Compiling that information and using it to help design your next venture will promise you a higher level of profit since you already know what works. So just remember how important tracking is to your overall success.
Mistake #3: Setting Your Daily Budget Too Low
This is a common mistake made by people new to Adwords; they get excited and don’t look at the consequences. They look at the numbers in their market, see the potential and calculate that they will be able to get 10,000 visitors in a month and make lots of money. Unfortunately, 10,000 visitors will not translate to 10,000 conversions, especially for an untested ad. The click through site traffic must first convert. This is best achieved by acquiring a small traffic base and then growth may continue once the conversion rates do. This is the process you have to follow if you want to get the most profits out of Adwords.
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About Ryan Perry
Ryan Perry has taken his 10+ years of business ownership and hands-on marketing skills and focused them on online marketing. In April of 2009, he started Simple Biz Support with an emphasis on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Ryan is propelling local business websites to the top of Google, Yahoo and Bing resulting in increased market exposure and revenue for his clients using a variety of internet marketing tools including blogs, article submissions and video. Additionally, Ryan speaks and vlogs (video blogs) about internet marketing, educating business owners how to effectively use various SEO tools and techniques to promote their business on the internet. Connect with Ryan on Google+
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