Filed under Internet Marketing by on May 31, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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by Kirt Christensen
Most mistakes people make in their Google AdWords campaign managements are pretty common, and 90 percent of Google campaigns can be greatly improved with less than an hour of effort. You can save yourself hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars in the hour you spend following our instructions in this article.
Can you guess the biggest mistake made by advertisers on Google AdWords campaigns? That would be Campaigns that are not properly organized. Ads and keywords that are not organized will damage your campaigns and end up costing you big money.
Properly organized campaigns get results from the beginning and are easy to adjust and optimize. Over time this makes a huge difference.
In a perfect world, you’d serve up a perfect ad for every single keyword someone types in. Since each keyword is different, each ad would be different, too. If you had 2,000 keywords, then you’d have to write 2,000 ads, too.
However we don’t live in an optimum world. We can get a good result by clustering keywords that are alike with an appropriate ad.
An ad campaign is the file cabinet that holds all your ad groups, it’s topic is general. An ad group is the smallest unit that has keywords and ads in it. Your ad campaign should always have more than one adgroup.
In one Google account, you can have nearly unlimited campaigns. You may be selling many different services on completely different topics, at totally different websites. All from your one Google account.
The way you divide up your campaigns is your choice, but the in which you divide up your ad groups is not. There is the right way and the wrong way to do it.
Most beginners set up their campaigns to look something like this:
Smith’s Telecommunications
Robust Solutions for
Your Total Voice Mail Needs
www.smithtelecom.com
This is what their ad looks like, with keywords such as these:
auto attendant
business telephone systems
call management systems
voice mail
voice mail equipment
voice mail service
voice mail systems
When the prospective clients click, they are all directed to the same homepage. This page has a variety of links to pages with titles from Contact Us to Equipment. What is the problem with this type of AdWords management?
The first problem is that the keyword list is too varied. Keywords should be divided into AdWord groups with only similar keywords or phrases.
Secondly, the keywords and ads don’t match-up because of the problem listed above.
“Smith Telecommunications,” or the name of almost any business, is a lousy headline. The clickthrough rate (CTR) is going to be very low, and therefore the bid prices will be higher.
The ad is about Smith Telecommunications, not what the customer really wants. Your ads need to be about your customer, not about yourself!
When searching for ‘voice mail service’ a person wants to go to a page whose topic is voice mail service. Likewise someone looking for equipment will want one on voice mail equipment not voice mail services. By making someone scour your page for the information they want you are making them work too hard and they may leave before they find what they are looking for.
Structuring your campaign correctly from the start will help this to work out more easily. Proper structuring starts with Wordtracker (www.wordtracker.info) or Overture (http://inventory.overture.com) to get them laid out in small groups of closely related terms. This is how they might look:
Voice Mail Services (adgroup)
voice mail provider
voice mail service
voice mail service provider
voice mail services
Voice Mail System (adgroup)
voice mail systems
voice mail systems for realtors
telemarketing and voice mail systems
phone systems voice mail
home office voice mail systems
home office telephone voice mail systems
Auto Attendant (adgroup)
answering attendant auto system
auto attendant voice mail services
auto attendant
auto attendant phone system
auto attendant software
auto attendant system
auto attendant voice mail
phone auto attendant
There’s another step we need to take before pasting this into a campaign: Consider negative keywords. Here’s a list of keywords that come from “Voice Mail Software.”
voice mail software
voice mail business software
voice mail software for panasonic
voice mail broadcasting software
voice mail business software
multiple voice mail software
mac voice mail software
multi-line voice mail system software vru
norstar voice mail software
software to record voice mail
free voice mail software
You really aren’t wanting to have visitors looking for free stuff. You also don’t have anything to do with voice broadcasting or even Macintosh computers. This is a good start on your negative keyword list. You do this by putting a minus sign in front of each of the words on your negative keyword list. This is how your list will now look:
voice mail software
voice mail business software
voice mail software for panasonic
voice mail business software
multiple voice mail software
multi-line voice mail system software vru
norstar voice mail software
software to record voice mail
Negative Keywords:
free
mac
macintosh
broadcast
broadcasting
So when you set up your ad campaigns, each one of these keyword lists is going to go into a different group with its own set of ads.
About the Author:
Need to optimize or “fix” your Adwords & PPC campaigns?
Kirt Christensen manages over $600k in PPC spending & knows what it takes to make your account hum! When it comes to
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Filed under Internet Marketing by on May 31, 2008 at 8:46 pm
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by Kirt Christensen
Adwords is a phenomenal way to get laser-targeted traffic to your site quickly, but it does have a steep learning curve…
…And that’s a ton of pressure when it’s your credit card being billed for every click!
So, here’s some important advice from a decade-long veteran of pay per click marketing, and an easy way to boost your profits from your Adwords investment:
A crucial element of Adwords account is how well you have your Adgroups organized.
Don’t fall into the vicious mistake of only creating a few of adgroups per campaign and then stuffing them withthousands of keyword phrases and hoping for the best.
If you do this, you’re asking for trouble!
Trouble in that you’re be playing Adwords like an amateur, and end up “rack rate” for your clicks instead of “wholesale”, you’ll suffer from lower CTR’s due to poor relevance of your ads, and most likely you’ll be nailed with poor quality scores.
Remember always, “relevance” is the key to unlocking Adwords!
Since it’s virtually impossible to write ads that are targeted, specific and “relevant” for hundreds or thousands of different keywords all in the same adgroup, you need to “break out” keywords into their very own adgroups.
For keywords with a lot of clicks, this might mean one keyword (with it’s three different match-types) per adgroup, and that’s all!
Even for lower traffic keywords, have no more than 15 to 21 keywords per adgroup.
After you “break out” the keywords into their own new adgroups, notice how much easier it is to write focused ads, using the keywords as much as possible in the ads.
Your CTRs will instantly raise across the board, along with lowering your per click cost!
About the Author:
Need to optimize or “fix” your Adwords & PPC campaigns?
Kirt Christensen manages over $600k in PPC spending & knows what it takes to make your account hum! When it comes to
google adwords consultant, he’s the man!
Filed under Internet Marketing by on May 31, 2008 at 7:50 pm
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by Kirt Christensen
Get your customers to stay with you three times as long by using email correctly. Email is the most personal way to contact someone on the internet. Using email you can build trust and create and a whole business based on your personality, and sell to your clients repeatedly.
Discussions about AdWords are not complete without talking about how to make a lasting relationship out of that costly fraction-of-a-second click. When a person clicks on your Google ad, you are charged fifty cents no matter what happens next. If that person stays on your page less than 5 seconds, he is out of there and you most likely won’t see him again without another costly click.
You are paying 50 cents for five seconds of this guys time-WOW, that works up to be $600 per hour! That way of looking at it could be depressing, but, if that individual leaves their email address, you can correspond with them on an ongoing basis for a fraction of that 50 cents, or for free. With a choice between buying your $1,000 product and giving you his email address which is more likely? You can still sell him your product later.
When your sales process is more involved, there is a greater need to divide it into more manageable steps.
The Effectiveness Of Email Use Relies on Being Personal
Ordinary advertisers have diminished understanding of the intimate qualities of email. They don’t grasp that by violating that intimate quality they can drive away prospective clients, ones who might otherwise have been receptive.
You need to write to the person as one person. Unless the person you’re writing to is part of a group where he or she personally knows each of the other members, then the last thing you want to do is write as though you’re talking to a crowd. Talk to your customer, an individual.
1. A “From” Field that Shows You’re a Real Person
It is likely that if the person-to-person style was effective in the body of your email, than it will also be effective in other aspects of your email. For instance, in your “from”. Think about the different feelings these “from” lines evoke:
Bill Kastl
William Kastl
William D. Kastl
Nakatomi Corporation
William D. Kastl, Nakatomi Corporation
Nakatomi Sales Department
Bill Kastl, Nakatomi Sales
You want to be warm and personal without looking like spam. This is a challenge because spammers are themselves always trying to make their messages look like they’re from some forgotten old friend. The key is to say something that is so specific to their particular interests they know no spammer would ever come up with it.
Choose your “from” field so that your clients can identify with you and stay with you.
2. A Provocative Subject Line
The most important thing about e-mail is that its success or failure is all about context. E-mail subject lines work not because they follow standard copywriting formulas but because they tap into what specific people are interested in at a particular time.
If I were to show you ordinary samples of email subject lines, it would be virtually impossible for them not to sound like spam. So lets get a specific subject that you will understand: Google AdWords
When Google is NOT the Best Way to Get a Customer
Are Google Employees Spying on You?
Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ and all that
Five Insidious Lies About Selling On The Web
These are no cheep sounding promotional that stab at the recipient, rather they suggest that there is a story to be told, making the reader want to find what that story is.
About the Author:
Need to optimize or “fix” your Adwords & PPC campaigns?
Kirt Christensen manages over $600k in PPC spending & knows what it takes to make your account hum! When you need a real
adwords professional, he’s the man!
Filed under Internet Marketing by on May 31, 2008 at 3:22 pm
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by E Walker
For years now, internet banner advertising has captured the World Wide Web for it has become a large help in saving an amount of money while reaching beyond territories. Affiliate Marketing banner advertising played a major part in market trafficking all over the internet and many individuals and companies have bought themselves these cheap internet banner advertising. Some made use of it financially; others have no idea on what to do with it.
Internet Banner Advertising
With your cheap internet affiliate marketing banner advertisement, would you just sit in front of your computer and wait for people to notice you? Would you let your company get trampled by other company’s marketing strategies?
banner advertisingOkay, so you admit you bought internet banner advertising, but does that mean you won’t do anything about it because it costs cheap?
These following steps will help you get up on your feet and make your cheap internet banner advertising priceless. With these simple instructions, there will always have traffic on your website.
First, to be able to capture the attention of your target audience, your title and topic should be thought of with concern. You have to make the people believe that your cheap internet banner advertising is worthy of their time. The affiliate marketing advertisement has to meet the audience’s need.
For the people to bring attention to your internet banner advertising, you should be able to raise the curiosity and convince the people. You should be able to deliver your internet marketing products or services with strong words that may lead the target audience at deciding.
You should be able to constructs words on your advertisements that could lead the target audience that you are directly talking to them to give a sense of familiarity on your services.
As you persuade the people by calling for them and directing them to buy or entail your services, they give importance to your business proposal. Your cheap internet-based banner advertising will become one of the sought for ads there are.
Make sure to present your ads to the global community repeatedly to get them familiar with you and your services.
Always remember that having a website doesn’t mean it could sell products by itself. You must be sure to accompany it with internet marketing strategies. By buying banner advertising, you or your company would save time and money as well as making money online while achieving market sales. These internet banners advertising may come cheap, but it could lead you or your company to riches.
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Filed under Internet Marketing by on May 27, 2008 at 9:24 am
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by Debra Unplugged
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