Posts Tagged ‘Google Adwords’

Managing PPC campaigns

Friday, October 31st, 2008

One of the best things you can do with AdWords is to understand that managing your PPC campaign is a step by step process which each step designed to accomplish a specific objective, and with all steps linked, leading your prospect from the start (where they search for the key terms you’re bidding on) to the end (where they ‘convert’ either into buyers or leads or subscribers). Writing ads, then, is just one step of this process. But before we dive into the specifics, I want to discuss something that is at the heart of any successful Google AdWords campaign:

It is absolutely critical that you break down your main keyword lists into smaller lists that are focused around subtopics. If your ads are not targeted to your keywords (i.e. a generalpurpose ad on insurance showing up for someone who is searching for car insurance) they might not click on your ads. Worse, if your site does not offer a particular type of product (you are targeting custom home theater systems when you don’t offer any customisation), all those clicks will be wasted.  And that’s the single biggest problem with most AdWords campaigns -alack of focus. Start off with a basic list, and then expand it into specific subtopic lists as you refine your campaign. One of the ways to do this is the ‘Peel and Stick’ method.

Then, on to writing ads. Focused Keyword Lists “How to Write Ads that Attract Clicks, when I break down AdWords (or keyword research, or SEO, or sales writing basically, any skill) into small steps like this, people instantly find it a lot easier to understand what’s going on.

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Pay-per-click advertising

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Pay-per-click advertising operates on two simple premises:Your ads are displayed in the search engines according to what people are searching / looking for. (i.e. If someone searches for “weight loss” and you’re bidding on the term “weight loss”, your ad will be displayed when someone searches for that phrase.)

There are two major PPC ad engines:

1.) Google AdWords

2.) Yahoo Search Marketing

You pay only for visitors that come to your site (no upfront costs - every “click” while being an expense is also a chance for you to convert that visitor into a customer). You pay a certain amount “per click” on your ad. If nobody clicks on your ad, you don’t pay a dime… and also get no visitors. The goal is to get many visitors, while paying as little as possible per click.

Having said that, I don’t discourage you from using YSM. In certain niche markets the YSM network is still not hyper-saturated (unlike AdWords, where the competition is higher) and you may be able to realize serious short-term gains if you play the PPC game right.

What I would discourage you from is to using a PPC ad network other than AdWords or YSM. Beyond these two the situation is pretty bleak with poor traffic quality, click fraud and lack of asizeable user base all contributing to an abject failure. 

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