Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Sure-Fire Tips That Will Keep Your PPC Campaign Going Strong

By Brian Basch

So, you've finally gotten your PPC campaign going. You've found your keywords, including all the relevant synonyms and related phrases, and everything's set up for six months. Should you just sit back and let it run? Not if you want to keep everything working well - many people forget that their PPC campaign needs good management if it's going to be effective.

Tracking the activity on each ad to see if it is productive and efficient is important. You can use tools like AdWords to help calculate the traffic percentage brought in by each advertising. You can then check information from your web host to find out what traffic makes sales. A click sometimes does not make a sale and, if that's the case, could be viewed as just a waste of money.

For every click, you will pay for it even if it did not produce a sale for you. keyword advertising that is not effective at producing sales are draining your resources. Idle keywords should be replaced with another keyword that is more useful. Keywords that are sending you click traffic only will cost money without giving you a sale.

You should quickly examine ineffective ads. Check the ad is put together correctly, first. Then Do a quick search and see if it's in the first five to ten pages of a search. If it's not, you need to take that ad back to the drawing board. If it is showing up on the search, see if the keyword is the issue- you might have a dud keyword!

Most of us start out wanting more popular keywords - after all, they bring in more visitors. The problem is that these keywords tend to be quite nonspecific. They're the words used to start a search, not the ones that end it with a sale. People using popular keywords usually aren't sure just what they're looking for, and they'll look at many different sites before buying.

A good ad keyword, on the other hand, is general enough to be thought of by the average person, but specific enough to reach someone who's definitely going to buy. Think about searching for your own keywords, to see what other ads and sites come up for them. Look at the other competitors for a word, then check out their sites. Are they the sort of site you'd like to be associated with? If not, it might be time to make some adjustments to your strategy.

It is important to pay close attention to your PPC campaign if you are going to succeed. By carefully overseeing your results, statistics will tell you which keywords need replacing with an effective one and, which ones are doing their jobs. Choosing the exact words that will drive your products sales skyward is important as well as bringing in traffic.

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