Thursday, September 11, 2008

How To Discover The ABCs Of AdWords

By Brian Basch


Making your Adwords campaign successful is as elementary as ABC

A) When you choose keywords be sure that they are targeted to your niche market, or product. Sometimes you might just be tempted to go into the search engine database and choose a few top keywords. This is not a good idea, as these keywords will not usually attract your niche market. Instead think about directing your campaigns so that they will attract potential customers for your products and services.

B) Choose your keywords wisely. It must be general enough to attract enough traffic to your ad but at the same time be specific enough to allow you to make sales. Remember you will be paying regardless of whether you make a sale. This is pay per click advertising after all. If your ad is drawing traffic but no sales, you will soon drain your advertising budget.

C) You will need to know how much you are able to spend when you bid for keywords. Search Engines know what they are doing and of course understand the value of high bids. Because of this fact they will make sure that the highest bids will appear at the start of the "Sponsored Lists," where they will receive the most views. Of course the more views they get the better your traffic. Ideally this would work well for everyone. You will profit from sales and the search engine will make money from clicks.

Realistically this is not always so. Sales must always cover costs and if you are paying premium price you must make enough sales to pay for it. This is why you must have the right blend of targeted and general keywords.

D) Monitoring your campaign carefully is important. Detailed tracking is a must. You can use Adwords tracking tools for this. In this way you can get a good idea of your clicks to sales ratio and how much traffic is being produced by a certain keyword.

Running a Google campaign is not quite as easy as you might presume. It can sometimes be difficult to comprehend concepts like bidding and keywords. However when you are prepared to take the challenge you can succeed.

Intelligent marketers will remember to manage their campaigns and pay attention to details. You need to adjust small problems quickly to prevent loss of money and time. A small investment of time will give you greater profits in the long run.

These are the important points to remember, when you run your advertising campaign. It is wise to understand and implement these lessons. In this way you will indeed be able to make the huge profits that all the ads boast of with Adwords and be a successful Internet marketer.

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