5 Ways to Reduce Adwords Costs

September 6th, 2008

Trial and error can help you to create and implement successful Google Adwords campaigns, but you can have an even higher success rate and lower campaign costs when you take advantage of the following useful tips from Adwords experts.

Learn how to maximize your copywriting abilities

Either learn how to write a compelling ad yourself, or be prepared to pay a competent copywriter to do so.  It is the strength of the ad that will bring customers to your web site.  The cost of the campaign is based on the number of clickthroughs generated, so you may as well take advantage of strong and compelling copywriting terms.

Structure compact packages of your key words

Don’t make the mistake of trying to fit dozens of keyword phrases into your Google Adwords campaigns.  This is only a recipe for failure of the entire campaign.  Instead, pick a few closely related keyword phrases and make these the basis of the campaign.  This concept of tightly structured groups of keywords will make your campaign effective and result in better click through rates.

One ad per keyword group only

Prior to the publication of your ad, Google reviews and prices your bid.  They will be looking for relevancy of your keyword phrases.  You will find that you cannot use a wide spectrum of phrases and still be able to write a focused and compelling ad.  Google’s relevancy test requires the usage of the keyword phrase from your group of keywords. So, pick a small and compact group of keywords and write one ad which uses that group effectively and you will have a more successful campaign.

Each campaign should have multiple ads

Improvement of the ad click through rates is easy and effective when you prepare a second or third ad for each Google Adwords campaign.  After the ads are published on Google, you can follow the click through percentages for each copy writing effort, since Google rotates each of the ads to be seen by the visitors to the ad website. Then, as you determine the relative strength of each ad in engendering click throughs, you replace the lower ranked ad or ads and replace them with yet another ad in the same campaign.  By using this method you improve your ad effectiveness and lower the cost of your overall advertising budget accordingly.

Take advantage of less competitive keywords and phrases

This aspect of your Google Adwords campaign is the one which required the most work and attention as you must persevere in locating the less costly key words and phrases that still provide a level of traffic that you can be satisfied with. Concentrate on the three to five word phrases related to the market you are targeting.  These so-called long-tail phrases are the least costly, but also have the lowest traffic expectations. You can also specify product names and the names of experts in your ad campaigns.  These words typically cost pennies but reap strong results since people search for these names constantly.

Remember, practice makes profit in the case of writing and utilizing effective Adwords campaigns on Google.

3 SEO Tips in 2008

August 31st, 2008

Tip #1 - Use Google Alerts as a Reconnaissance Officer Online

Using Google Alerts provides the best possible source of search engine optimization insider reports.  Google provides email updates for current relevant news, web sites and blogs to you based on your requested topics.  You can take advantage of these Google Alerts in several ways.

 

l        Keep track of breaking news stories

l        Stay up to date on what is happening with your competitors or with your market niche

l        Find out the latest scoop about a celebrity or a happening

l        Keep posted on the activities of your favorite sports teams

 

The Google Alerts work by flagging any references to your subject or queries and sending you an email notification with the details. This espionage assistant online ensures that your competitors aren’t reaping benefits from your protected keywords such as your company name and business names that are trademarked and thus protected.

 

You can use Google Alerts to keep track of your own product mentions online or to be notified of new trends in your business so that you can come up with ways to take advantage of the information. Identifying competitor’s dirty tricks is easy when you use Google Alerts.  It is fast, free and available 24/7.  Just go to Google Alerts at http://www.google.com/alerts to take advantage of the tedious part of the keeping track of happenings on the internet.

 

Tip #2: Don’t Ignore the Value of the 404 Page

 

Instead of pulling your hair in frustration, make use of the “Error 404: Page Not Found” message to redirect the visitor to an appropriate page while at the same time optimizing your web page.  Here are five ways to use this former negative page effectively in attracting customers:

 

l        Use the main key word in the page title followed by a pipe and one of the second tier keywords above the Enter key.

l        On the 404 page, add a few words of keyword rich content with one or two keywords.  The first usage should be in bold letters and subsequent uses in italics.  The idea of this page is to let your visitors know the general subject matter of your site and influence them to check out your site further.

l        Include the standard navigation system for your site

l        The 404 page should match the look and feel of the main site as nearly as possible. 

l        Include a site map page link that is easy to find on the 404 page.

 

Setting up a customized 404 page is easy to do and well worth the time and effort involved in improved visitor counts.

 

Tip #3: Make Serious Linking Efforts

 

Finally, make your site #1 on Google by:

 

l        Locate the top page rank sites that link to your own and your competitors’ sites

l        Each month, prepare a campaign to grab the best of these web sites

l        Regularly verify the pages that are still active links to your site and make certain that they are still treating your site as a high page rank site.

l        Remove any penalized sites links quickly

l        Check the key word ranking each week for your keywords and those of your competitors on each of the major search engines.

Hello world!

May 31st, 2008

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!