Sunday, April 27, 2008

What Makes Proper Keywords so Vital in a Google AdWords Campaign

By Kirt Christensen

When you searching on the internet for some bit of information what do you do first? Are you able to go right to just the place you need to be, guided there by some force that helped you know where to go?

No way! You, and every other of the more than million searchers around the world, head straight to your favorite search engine to get help. With a few words or phrases, or maybe even a whole sentence that you type in, you have the search engine doing all the work for you. It guides you, as if by magic, to various web pages that will probably have what you need.

The words that people type into the search engines are what we are talking about when we talk about keywords. They are the way you guide those people searching for what you have to offer to your particular website. They are what you need to use in your AdWords campaign. You want to aim at potential clients while not leaving out those people who may no know that your precise service or product is in existence.

Without the proper keywords your AdWords campaign is doomed to failure from the very beginning. An AdWords campaign is a pay per click marketing venture; Google will charge you a fee for every occasion upon which your advertisement is selected, whether it leads to a sale or not.

With the wrong keywords, that means that you won't get to the folks you really want to reach and they won't be exposed to your ad and you won't have the opportunity to entice them to your site, instead you will get multitudes of the wrong people, people who don't want what you have to offer and only used one of your keywords, clicking on your ad and making the costs of your advertising campaign skyrocket until you have no option but to shut down your Adwords campaigns..

You can go about selecting your proper keywords for your google campaign in several ways. Primarily the marketer should step back and think about the product/service and the market for it. What is the client desiring from this product/service? What needs will it fill? These should be included in the ad. If there is no need the product/service wouldn't be marketed.

When the advertisers have narrowed down their field of keywords to ones that will help them get traffic to their AdWords ad, they can head on over to Google's adwords site at www.adwords.google.com where they can get help discovering synonyms and other related words to get their ads to the most specific group possible. They can then enjoy the profitable nature of their ads.

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