Sunday, May 4, 2008

How to Manage Your AdWords Campaign With Success

By Kirt Christensen

Yeah, right, and Adwords ad campaign can be put together and directed by most anyone, but do they have the tools to make a success of that Adwords campaign?

The thing that differentiates an Adwords campaign from a successful Adwords campaign is the money, many times, 100's of dollars. Ad campaigns that are not successful can bring about a loss of 100's of dollars in lost advertising budget that could have been used another place.

How can keep yourself from throwing away you valuable advertising dollars?

That's a no brainer. You will want every asset in use to administer all of the steps in creating and running your AdWord campaign. Your keyword list and bids will be carefully considered. After the campaign is in motion careful observation of the activities of both keywords and ad will be required to perform optimally.

The selection of keywords can be a tricky proposition.

Profitable keywords are broad enough that the uninitiated could come up with it to enter into the search engine but it needs to be specific enough that it doesn't get too much unproductive activity. The main idea with advertising is to get sales; how else are you going to get back your investment money.

You can look to the Google AdWord site for tools that can help when choosing your keywords for use in your ad campaigns. Google's tools will help an advertiser to locate keywords that are often searched after and they will also help to locate appropriate synonyms and other words relative to your subject.

An advertiser may not recognize that, at heart, pay per click advertising, such as Adwords, is just a huge auction and the best prizes go to the high bidder. What that means is the advertiser who bids highest on a keyword is going to walk away with the most exposure because he will appear in a top position in the "sponsored links" area of a search results page.

Internet browsers are well-known for their lack of attention span (imagine a child with a-d-d) so when they are searching for information the ads that get their limited attention are the ones that are pointed, direct and easy to understand.

Ads that are hidden in back of pages of results is not going to get the searchers attention like the one that is on the top. However one at the top that gets a lot of unprofitable and idle browsers isn't helpful either. The balance between the two is tricky.

When ad campaigns are set up a contrast must be made between profits realized from the campaign and costs of running the campaign. Alterations to the campaign or removal altogether of an ad may be necessary if they are not showing a profit.

Adwords is set up so you can keep tabs on the traffic going to your website from your ads. You should also use software to find out where the customers that are making purchases are coming from.

Carefully managing your ads will lead to successes that are all but guaranteed, at the very least losses prior to adjustments will be seriously minimized.

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