Pay Per Click Advertising
Pay per click advertising consists of ads (when you do a
Google search, they show up on the top of the page and the right hand side of the page) that are written by
advertisers to be triggered when certain keywords or phrases are searched on. Each time a person clicks on the ad,
they are sent to the advertiser’s website, and the advertiser is charged for that “click”.
Pay per click advertising can be a VERY profitable way to
increase sales and leads (if done correctly).
-It’s
fast – you can have a campaign up and running in less than 30
minutes. Getting your site into the search engine listings can take weeks or
even many months depending on the competition level.
-If you
understand how to manage a pay per click campaign, you can have
immediate feedback and metrics to determine the return on your investment. You
can see exactly how much money you’re spending, what your potential customers are doing online, and what sales you’ve made. If you think about advertising in the Yellow pages, it’s the
exact opposite…with the Yellow Pages, you never even know if anyone sees your
ad!
-It can
tell you what the money terms are! How do you even know what
search terms you want to optimize your site for? You can test them quickly and
easily with a pay per click campaign, and then apply that knowledge to your search engine optimization efforts.
Pay per click advertising needs to be a part of every
business owners’ Internet advertising campaign. Unfortunately, managing even a small pay per click campaign can be
complex and require very specialized knowledge and experience. There are several problems that the novice
advertiser runs into.
-Google’s
rules and tips and tricks to work within them – Google doesn’t
make it easy to advertise. There are lots of unwritten rules for how
Google likes campaigns to be set up and run. These rules have a direct impact on how much you’ll pay for the advertising. If not respected and understood, many campaigns
are doomed to be unprofitable. These rules include:
- Keyword grouping
- Quality score
- Ad relevancy
- Click through rate management
- Bid pricing
- And many more…
- Keyword
research – I guarantee that if you’re already using
adwords, you’re leaving out important keywords in your campaign. If you have 10-30 keywords currently,
you should most likely be bidding on 1,000-3,000. It’s that big of a difference when you have access to
the right tools and strategies.
- Conversion
tracking – Most business owners don’t know how to
track whether a dollar spent on advertising generated any sales.
Obviously, without this information, you’re flying blind.
- Ad testing – If you’re not split testing (comparing a control to a candidate, or a different ad to
see which is better), you’re most likely getting only ½ the visitors to your site than you should
be.
- Tools – There are several very important tools in the market to help create and manage pay
per click campaigns. The problem is that they are expensive, and don’t make financial sense for one business
owner managing one campaign.
- Only sending visitors to the home
page – There are probably many different types of potential
customers for your products and services. Sending them all to a generic
home page isn’t nearly as effective as sending them to a targeted page that tells them exactly how you can
solve their particular problem.
Our services our designed to help you manage your pay per
click campaign. Check out or strategy on how to dominate your market to see what we can do to use pay per
click advertising to boost your profits today!
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