Friday, May 2, 2008

Big Hints For Success In Adwords Campaign Management

By Kirt Christensen

The reports you hear on the TV on making big bucks in one day by using Google Adwords, the ones that say it take little time and effort. They are feeding you a line.

When they say this, they aren't telling you everything. The truth is that they have spent many, many hours in research for establishing these profitable campaigns. The other truth is that because they are well organized they are making a profit.

Do not let this introduction to AdWords fool you. The concept behind AdWords is a brilliant one; you provide the creative ideas and the search engine will do all of the legwork for you. It is possible to make a tremendous amount of money with AdWords if you know the proper technique.

The most important factor relating to setting up a profitable Adwords campaign is keywords that are chosen with care.

An ideal keyword will be one that is general enough to allow a consumer who has not been previously exposed to your product to locate it in a search but specific enough that it is not going to yield a tremendous number of false leads; remember, the search engine that is facilitating your pay per click campaign is going to charge you for the number of times that the link in your advertisement was followed, regardless of the profit it may or may not have brought in.

AdWords has several tools to assist marketers in the selection of the keywords for their advertisements. These tools will help them to locate the words which are the most popular on the internet today (the keywords which are being entered into the search engine during searches with the greatest frequency) as well as assisting them to find synonyms to these words to either expand their current advertising campaign or to hold in store for later campaigns.

A further key point in successfully managing an Adwords Campaign is the amount of cash the marketer has that he can offer when someone selects their ad

A normal web surfer won't keep searching for the information he wants past the first 5-10 pages of search results. So, for the ad to attract the largest buying pool it must show up in those first 5-10 pages.

Search engines organize pay per click advertisements on a highest to lowest basis; that is, the ads which bring them the highest amount of profit to the ads which bring them the lowest. The more you are willing to pay per click the higher in the rankings your ad will fall and the more visible it will be.

Lastly, when you have selected keywords and set up your bids you need to watch what happens with the ads you set up. Are they successful or are they failing. Ads that aren't bringing in any sales will need to be reworked and if one is bringing in good leads and sales may need a higher bid to bring it even more exposure.

Diligently managing your AdWords campaign pre-launch and post-launch presents you with the most probability of success.

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