Sunday, January 25, 2009

AdWords Marketing Tips - 5 Top Mistakes to Avoid in AdWords Marketing

The process of AdWords marketing is highly competitive but offers great returns. No wonder so many people have jumped on the AdWords bandwagon, and what's more are doing good business. There are a few mistakes that people commonly make and these need to be avoided if you want success in your marketing efforts.

1. No Budget

You simply must have an advertising budget. Not having one will be a big mistake. For every purchase in life, we need a budget and internet marketing is no different.

2. Not Keeping Track

How do you know whether the AdWords Marketing campaign is successful or not? What is the conversion rate of the website? Are your high priced words bringing in the results? Therefore, you need to keep track and must know the feasibility of continuing with the plan adopted.

3. No Research

Research is the key to success. You must undertake keyword research but with a lot of forethought. Don't just use the common keyword tools available but apply your mind. This will help you steal a march over your competition.

4. Not Spending Enough Time and Effort

You need to think and implement. This requires effort and time. Trying to speed up the process is one of the biggest mistakes that you can make. When you write you ads, you need to think from the customer's perspective.

5. Not Choosing the Right Products

The right product, that is quality products, is necessary for business success. AdWords marketing is all very well, but without the right products it is futile. So research the market well.

Friday, December 26, 2008

AdWords Tips - Here Are 3 Tips to Have You Running Profitably in Less Than 7 Days!

Google is seen as a leader in search engine industry and now a leader in advertising. Many of their competitors are trying their best to topple Google with different advertising models to generate more revenue. But Google's AdWords is still the undisputed king of advertising. Advertisers prefer this from any other tool because it easy, inexpensive and very effective. Here are some tips that you could use:
1. Test different positions and creative
How much difference will there be in your net profit being in the first, second or third position? It all depends on your industry, creative and other people bidding on your keywords. Test your creativity in different positions and the most effective one with respect to ROI. You can also test your creativity by writing different ads and running them evenly. Go with the creative that gives the highest ROI.
2. Optimize your landing page
Do not use your homepage as landing page unless you sell your products in your homepage. Always opt for direct link to a page where they can directly buy your product. Make your landing page relevant and reflect the personality of your business.
3. Optimize your creative
This is easy to do when you know what you are doing. Choose words that are compelling to your niche market. Use all the superlatives that you can think of. You can even capitalize some words, but go slow with all caps - it doesn't mesh well with other people. Keep all ad copy relevant, because otherwise you could make people angry if they end up not finding what they are looking for.

Monday, November 17, 2008

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

10 Powerful Tips to Optimize your Google AdWords Campaigns

Google announced in January 2005 significant changes in their popular AdWords Pay-per-Click System (PPC). In future only unique URLs per page will be displayed. If several advertisers uses the same URL (i.e affiliates of the same program), only the one with the best Ad will be displayed.

It is obvious that Google is trying to maximize the diversity in their AdWords results. Very popular Affiliate Programs, like Amazon.com, lead to hundreds of affiliates showing the same product with different Ads. For the affiliates using this system the "easy way to get money with affiliate programs" is now over, since it will be practically impossible to advertise just the affiliate link. Significant more effort, but also significant changes are the consequence.

The following tips can help you to get maximum benefit of your AdWords Campaigns.

1) Build your own unique "landing page" for your product. Remember that 99% of Internet users are looking for Information and thus, expect unique content from your side. Include Product pictures, Product reviews and interesting content related with your product. Use illustrative images of your product, trying to keep the load time of your "landing page" low.

2) Include a form allowing the visitor to enter his/her e-mail address in order to get more information about the product or service you are selling. Do not sell, pre-sell. Try to build a long term "trused relationship" with your visitor. Offer free gifts or freebies to motivate your visitor to enter his/her e-mail address. Of course, consider this information confidentially. Use an autoresponder to follow-up your potential customer. You could dedicate one e-mail to describe your product or service in detail, enhancing the value for your potential customer. Explain why this product or service will add value.

3) User Ad Groups to manage "keyword families". Each Ad Group should be dedicated only to one Keyword family, i.e. all variants of a Keyword choosen to advertise your product. Example, if your Keyword is "shoes", try a Ad Group with "Blue Shoes", "Red Shoes", "Mountain shoes" and so on. Use Wordtracker.com to find Keyword families. Use a high number of negative keywords to avoids clicks with no sales (i.e. -free to prevent freebies seekers to click on your ad). With the time, create a good number of selected negative keywords for your campaign.

4) Include in the text of your Ad the Keyword choosen in 3) This (key)word will be printed highlighted and will lead to a higher CTR (Click Thru Rate), lowering your costs.

5) Include in the text of your Ad a line for the Benefit of your Product, i.e. Discount, short term opportunity. Explain in few words why the customer should click your Ad.

6) Mention explicitely the price of your product or service. This will prevent freebies seekers to click on your Ad and generate costs and no sales

7) Create at least 20 different Ad versions per Keyword Group. Monitor the CTR of each ad and finally delete all versions with low CTR, keeping the most successful Ad versions. Experts create usually hundred of variations. Experiment, test, evaluate, change and keep only the best results.

8) Exclude the "content search" option to reach highly targeted traffic. Only in the case you have an amazing conversion rate, activate this option to maximize your profits.

9) Calculate the value per visitor on a regular basis. Just divide the achieved earnings in a given period (i.e. weekly) thru the clicks in the same period. This is your maxium CPC (Cost per Click). Adjust your maximum bid accordingly. Try to maximize profits, not just to lower the CPC.

10) Track your ads carefully. Google provides a tracking facility you can ad in your "thank you" page after each sale. Monitor closely which keywords convert and which not. Delete Keywords which obviously do not convert.

If you monitor your Ads on a regular basis and take care of the topics mentioned here, you may have a great benefit also from the new system used by Google. Try to differentiate yourself with high quality and content from your competition and enjoy your profits!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Inside AdWords: Conversion tracking Site Stats logo is now optional

Inside AdWords: Conversion tracking Site Stats logo is now optional

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