Saturday, June 23, 2012

Use AdWords More Effectively Even as a Beginner

By Amparo Dillon


Every webmaster and blogger knows the value of driving targeted traffic to their website. If you're not getting relevant visitors to your site, then you're obviously not making any progress. There is a wide range of methods you can use to drive traffic to your site, and some of these are paid while others are free, including pay per click marketing. Google AdWords is the leader when it comes to PPC and despite competing with giants like Microsoft, they are still holding strong in position number one. So, if you intend to generate traffic using AdWords, read on to learn more about this system.

The types of keywords you select will play a vital role in the success or failure of your AdWords campaign. You shouldn't make the mistake of using highly searched, broad keywords simply because they seem appealing because they appear to be able to generate a lot of traffic. Why? You will find that conversion levels will drop significantly when you use broad keywords. You will pay a lot for each click and your return won't be good at all, even if you do get a lot of traffic. A wiser approach is to choose more specific keywords that can help you generate clicks that lead to conversions. Every click your campaign generates is important because it costs you money. Thus, make sure you are only using targeted and relevant keywords. A good rule to remember is to target only affordable keywords.

You need to create and test out different ad groups for each keyword to optimize your campaigns to the fullest. It is essential that you only focus on a single keyword or phrase for each ad. Setting up different ad groups for various individual keywords can be accomplished with relative ease. It takes most of the guess work out of ranking your ads and basically streamlines the entire task. Even in the case where there are minor differences between one keyword and another, you should still separate them into their own ad groups and ensure that the ads read properly.

Do not try to depend upon things you already know, when you need to, you should make use of the Google help center. Go through the information provided by Google before you run a campaign and be sure of what you're doing before taking any steps, otherwise you may end up losing money.

Pay-per-click advertising is a huge market place and continues to grow every year, but Google is still the best at delivering a high return for its advertisers. Google put PPC on the map and perfected it to a science and that is why no one can come close to producing the same kind of results. As someone new to Adwords, you will need to take caution that you set-up your campaigns the right way, otherwise the competition will eat you alive.




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