Hi Guys, I'll be advertising via Google Adwords shortly, and I need some basic tips in order to maximize my return on investment. I used Adwords several times but not in depth, I want to ensure this time I use every penny wisely. Regards
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Hi, I hope these tips are helpful for you. Understand the link between keywords, your ads and your website. This is the golden rule for Adwords. Google is all about relevancy. Google wants to be sure that when one of its customers searches for something that they find websites that are relevant to that search. So you need to make sure that your list of keywords in your adgroup work well with the ads you have set for that adgroup AND that the page you send visitors to when they click on you ad also has relevancy to the list of keywords. Keep this rule at the front of your mind when you set up your campaigns. Take care with Broad Searches When you set up your keywords for Google Adwords, the default setting is Broad Match. What this means is that Google will match your keywords against a search if your words are present in the search regardless of the order of the words, whether they appear together, are plurals, etc. As an example if you use the term used shoes as a broad match then the following searches in Google would match to your keywords used shoes used shoes shop used horse shoes shoes used in modern dance new and not used shoes As you can see this can give quite a few matches that may not be relevant to your website. You should avoid broad searches and target you keywords with phrased and exact matches. A phrased match is one where the keywords will only match if they are used in the exact sequence of your keyword. You enter a phrased keyword by putting quotes “†around your keyword. So for our example, if I used “used shoes†then used shoes used shoes shop would match but used horse shoes shoes used in modern dance new and not used shoes would not. An exact match is one where the keywords will match only if that exact phrase is entered and no other words are used for the search. You enter an exact keyword by putting a square bracket [] around your keyword. So for our example, if I used [used shoes] then used shoes would match but used shoes shop used horse shoes shoes used in modern dance new and not used shoes would not. Avoid using the Content network. You can set up your campaigns so that you ads appear on both Google’s search network and its content network. The content network consists of websites that allow Google ads to appear. I recommend turning off the content option when you set up your campaign because you ad may not always appear on websites that a very relevant to the ad you are running. Only advertise to locations that it makes sense to. When you set up your campaigns you can select which countries you want your adverts to appear to. So for example, if you sell a product in the USA that you would not ship outside then there is little point for your ad to appear to people in Europe or China for example. Pick the times you want your adverts to appear You can select what time of day you want your ads to appear. So if you are trying to advertise to UK buyers who are surfing during the evening, then those are the times you should be setting your ads to appear. Organise your ad groups and campaigns One campaign with one adgroup and one massive list of keywords is doomed. This is the one single mistake that many first time users of Google Adwords make. Before you start using Adwords, I strongly recommend you sit down with pen and paper to plan out your campaign and adgroup structure. What works best does tend to vary based on what you are trying to sell. However as a guide for each campaign you should aim for no more than four or five adgroups each with ten to twenty good keywords. This will give you a set of campaigns which are easy to maintain and the keywords in each adgroup can be targeted effectively. This is only a guideline though. I’ve actually had an adgroup with only one keyword and it performed wonderfully. Use Landing Pages So many people make the serious mistake of sending their visitors to their home page when they click on their ads. You really want to send then directly to the page that is relevant to the ad you are running. So for example, if you have an online clothes shop then for any adverts you are running for men’s gloves, you really want to send them directly to the page for men’s gloves. So, don’t use your home page unless it makes sense. Send your visitors to land on a page that is relevant to the advert they clicked on. If you don’t have a page that is relevant to the advert, then why are you running that advert! Use more that one Advert and TEST! Always, always have more than one advert running for an adgroup. This allows you to see which advert is getting the best clicks through rate. You can then change the lower performing adverts and try to beat your best one. You will soon find that you have some very effective adverts. However to test properly, you need to set the adverts to rotate evenly. This is set in the campaign settings. In the ad serving option under the advanced settings, make sure you select the radio button for Rotate: Show ads more evenly.
Good post mikesed. I have tried adwords just for a test run on my adsense investing info site. Well it brought me traffic but i spent like $50 and made $15. I dont know anything about selecting the keywords. For example i picked like stock market and invest investing and such. Do i just pick one key work or a bunch of them? I think the least bid was like .63 a click so kind of go expensive with nothing much coming in. I need to research this further
Excelent post Mikesed. I would ad that the best keywords should be in the ad and in the landing page for better result at lower cost.
excelent post Mikesed. but one thing that i am not agree with you, i am working with adwords from past 6 months, and mostly of my traffic is coming from content network, and in very cheap, say, i am getting 1000 clicks in 2 $, and in return i am getting easily 100$ business. so 2$ looks cheap against. any way you must also test a content network, as it has low return no doubt, but it is also cheapest solution. as you know more visitors come to your site and the more business chances you will have. thanks mikesed, you also helped me.
Many thanks mikesed, your post was very helpful to me. In my first campaign using AdWords, I got very little bang for my buck and I was very disappointed but I see where I made a few mistakes in my original setup.
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I must agree... mikesed did an excellent post here... Just 2 bits of advice 1. Dont group your match types within the same adgroup. Seperate match types and use all of what mikesed recommended and you will have a killer campaign 2. When you enter the market, bid high and backoff slow. Starting low and increasing bids overtime has a higher chance of being slapped.