March 17, 2014

Back To Basics Paid Search Tips: Seven from the Hip Pocket

Some businesses still struggle with basic starting point to using Bing Ads or Adwords. we covered a few in this Prince-inspired post.  Here are a view ideas for deciding where an ad should be placed and what

1. Target your ad to a location in which your business serves or decide on a specific product that you want to run in your ad words campaign.

Many businesses mistakenly use page search as a general ad. Instead of the need to plan your ads according to the products and services at the offer.  Adword groups can then be planned around a product permitting you to select keywords appropriately.

2. For location, take a look at where your traffic to your website reflects branding .

This should include looking at branded keywords and search, as well as direct traffic since this for flex a branding of your business.

3. Set your budget against your product margins as a starting guide to value your ad.

Most paid search managers use automatic or manual settings for the maximum amount of daily spend. Consider your product that you advertise again suspend. The margin on each product in the ad can be an indicator of how much value your getting from the spend. For example if your product margin is $5, it means that a spend above $5 may not giving value; You've spent more in your campaign click to gain that $5 margin from a sales.

4. For Effective Bing Ads and Adwords, Improve Your Quality Score 

Quality Score is essentially a means to monitor keyword reputation.  The Quality Score is based on four key factors:

  • The historic CTR of a keyword
  • Account history in geographic area
  • Relevance of keywords
  • Landing Page Quality

To increase quality score, you should look to optimize keywords, focusing on optimizing the ad groups to improve ad text. For Adwords, use the Keyword planner to aid choice in what to use in a landing page content and associated ad.

5. Write ads according to the platform associated with the campaign group. That may sound too basic, but media platforms have nuances that dictate how an add should be written. For example Facebook ads appear based on a user activity preferences in the profile. So a Facebook user who like skiing will probably see an ad for ski. This differed from Bing and Adword ads, which appear based on keywords in a search query.

6. Start with metric basics
Metrics that are typical in a paid search campaign are:

  • CPM
  • CTR
  • CPC
  • Campaign Cost = CPC x Clicks
  • Unique Visitors from a campaign
  • Goals achieved from campaigns.  This metric is expressed a conversion rate: Goals / clicks

6. Finally, consider your campaign objectives. Objectives from a campaign can range from increasing site traffic, increasing brand awareness, and increasing ROI for site conversion goals such as e-commerce or downloads

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