Friday, January 23, 2009

How To Manage A Successful AdWords Campaign

By Brian Basch

It is not hard to begin an Adwords campaign, but running a successful one is an entirely different matter. There is a world of difference between an Adword campaign that is going nowhere and one that is successful. The difference can be translated into one word, money! It is an undeniable fact that a failing campaign can cost you a lot of money, which would otherwise have been spent on developing your business.

How can you stop your hard earned money from being eaten up? The answer is transparent; you will need to pay attention to every detail of your Adwords campaign. Firstly you will need to take care when you choose your keywords, secondly be careful when you bid. But above all you will need to micro-manage your campaigns.

To choose a keyword is not as easy as it looks. The aim of every keyword is to pull a certain quantity of general traffic but it must also be able to reach your specific market. Of course your ad must be able to produce sales for you, or you will find yourself seriously out of pocket.

You will find many resources and tools at the Googgle Adwords site, to assist you with your keywords for your Adwords campaign. Marketers will be able to discover in demand keywords, and a wide variety of different related keywords to help with their advertising campaigns.

Many marketers do not know that pay per click marketing is really just like a large auction, with the person placing the highest bid winning the prize. The advertiser, will offer the best price for a keyword and be the highest bidder. In this case the prize is the best position, which will gain the most exposure.

It is common knowledge that searchers have short attention spans. Because of this you will need to create and ad that is simple to read, gets your message across and is in a premier position. If your ad is just one of many in the search results then you will see little or no results. However even if an ad draws a lot of traffic, it can still only bring in useless leads, which makes it equally ineffective. The main idea is to try to maintain a precise balance.

Monitoring your campaign is the key to the success of your Adwords campaign. Thisis made easier by the fact that Google provides tracking tools to do this. You can track the traffic and even sales that are generated by each keyword in your campaign. this makes adjustments to your campaign easy to do.

Be sure to manage your campaign carefully, from the very beginning. Especially be aware of sales conversions. Be alert and ready to make changes quickly to avoid later problems. You can also co-ordinate your campaign results with your website tracking software, to check sales and traffic. The way to see real profits is to manage your campaign well. - 16069

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