Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Optimize Your Google Adwords Ads and Increase Conversions

Setting up and working with your Google Adwords campaign isn’t a one-time project, and many people who just set up their initial campaign and then ‘wait’for results fail to make use of the true potential behind the Google Adwords system.

Many experts and professionals in this area have already mastered the techniques, which is why it is without a doubt that every ad published becomes a hit; however, making an ad with the best combination of keywords and copy do not neccessarily require similar expertise from you but it calls for understanding the campaign’s optimization.

The good news is, you can now have a solid basis on what to do with your ad campaign as Perry Marshall (author of The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords) shares some techniques and strategies for monitoring, tracking, and analyzing the result of your campaigns. The hard work has already been done; many Pay Per Click masters have shared their tips and strategies for optimizing campaigns and there is a very simple process to getting started on optimizing your own Adwords program.

You can begin by creating content-rich landing pages. The first step in encouraging more visitors to click on your ads is to put plenty of quality information on your page, meaning, it has to contain relevant keywords and keyphrases to your ad’s featured or offered incentive. This allows you to keep cost-per-click for your keywords at a minimum and people will not have a hard time looking for your page in the Google search results.

Second, check your usage of any negative keywords in your campaign ad. These negative keywords pertain to those that usually send in your site unnecessary or wrong kind of traffic. For example, if you are in the business of selling gardening tools and books about gardening, you are not interested in attracting people looking for ‘free gardening tips’ or ‘gardening events’ (unless you offer these on your site). Eliminating the words ‘free’ and ‘events’ from your list when using the Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool will ensure your results are highly targeted and relevant to the market you are trying to reach.

Next, it pays to regularly track your competitor’s activities by reading their ads. Making sure your ad stands apart from the competition is essential for a successful campaign; if your ad sounds or looks too similar to your competitor’s ad campaign, you could be missing a large portion of qualified traffic.

Finally, in presenting a similar information, you may conceptualize a creative ad copy and present this using a distinct angle; a good way to do this is through the use of action-oriented words in the headline wherein main words are typed in all-caps to ensure impact from the readers. Monitoring your competition’s ads regularly gives you another advantage; this strategy can help you drill down which keywords may be performing better than others.

Google Adwords campaign is an important and on-going process that produces more click-through rates (compared to your competitors) with proper optimization and fine-tuning strategies. Likewise, apply all these strategies and you will never go wrong in getting results with Google Adwords campaign.

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