Managing Google AdWords Campaigns - Wrong v Right
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Most mistakes people make in their Google AdWords campaign managements are pretty common, and 90 percent of Google campaigns can be greatly improved with less than an hour of effort. You can save yourself hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars in the hour you spend following our instructions in this article.
Want to know what the number-one mistake people make is in Google AdWords campaign management? Improperly organized campaigns. Badly organized ads and keywords cripple your Google campaigns and cost you a ton of money.
When your campaign is organized right you will get the effect you are looking for right off and adjustments and optimization are a snap. This will make all the difference over the long haul.
In your optimum campaign, you would have 1 perfect ad for each keyword that is searched for. With each different keyword you would have a different add. With 2,200 keywords you would then need to write 2,200 ads.
In the real world, that's kind of impractical. So you cluster similar keywords together with a single ad.
An ad campaign is the file cabinet that holds all your ad groups, it's topic is general. An ad group is the smallest unit that has keywords and ads in it. Your ad campaign should always have more than one adgroup.
In a single Google account, you can have as many campaigns as you want. Some of the campaigns in your account may be on a completely different topic, selling completely different services, and sending traffic to a completely different web site.
The way you divide up your campaigns is your choice, but the in which you divide up your ad groups is not. There is the right way and the wrong way to do it.
Most beginners set up their campaigns to look something like this:
Smith's Telecommunications
Vital Solutions for
Your Every Voice Mail Need
www.smithtelecom.com
This is what their ad looks like, with keywords such as these:
auto attendant
business telephone systems
call management systems
voice mail
voice mail equipment
voice mail service
voice mail systems
Then they send all the visitors to the home page, which has a bunch of different links to "Services," "Equipment," "Q&A," "About Us," "Contact Us," etc. What's wrong with this kind of Google AdWords campaign management?
Number one is the variety in the keyword list is too wide. Each of those words should be put into its own adgroup adding in a shortlist of similar keywords/phrases.
The ad doesn't match the keywords, and it can't, because there are too many different kinds of keywords in the group.
Using the name of the business, Smith Telecommunications, in the headline is a no-no in this case and for almost all businesses. Your click-through-rate is going to be lousy, which will drive up your bid price.
This ad appears to be about Smith Telecommunications, probably not what the clients are looking for. You should customize your ad to address what your clients are looking for.
When searching for 'voice mail service' a person wants to go to a page whose topic is voice mail service. Likewise someone looking for equipment will want one on voice mail equipment not voice mail services. By making someone scour your page for the information they want you are making them work too hard and they may leave before they find what they are looking for.
Structuring your campaign correctly from the start will help this to work out more easily. Proper structuring starts with Wordtracker (www.wordtracker.info) or Overture (http://inventory.overture.com) to get them laid out in small groups of closely related terms. This is how they might look:
Voice Mail Services (adgroup)
voice mail provider
voice mail service
voice mail service provider
voice mail services
Voice Mail System (adgroup)
voice mail systems
voice mail systems for realtors
telemarketing and voice mail systems
phone systems voice mail
home office voice mail systems
home office telephone voice mail systems
Auto Attendant (adgroup)
answering attendant auto system
auto attendant voice mail services
auto attendant
auto attendant phone system
auto attendant software
auto attendant system
auto attendant voice mail
phone auto attendant
There's another step we need to take before pasting this into a campaign: Consider negative keywords. Here's a list of keywords that come from "Voice Mail Software."
voice mail software
voice mail business software
voice mail software for panasonic
voice mail broadcasting software
voice mail business software
multiple voice mail software
mac voice mail software
multi-line voice mail system software vru
norstar voice mail software
software to record voice mail
free voice mail software
Visitors looking for something free are probably not going to buy from you. Does you company even do voice broadcasting. What about things related to Macintosh computers. These words would comprise your list of negative keywords when you add a minus sign to the front of them. Your list would then appear this way:
voice mail software
voice mail business software
voice mail software for panasonic
voice mail business software
multiple voice mail software
multi-line voice mail system software vru
norstar voice mail software
software to record voice mail
Negative Keywords:
free
mac
macintosh
broadcast
broadcasting
So when you set up your ad campaigns, each one of these keyword lists is going to go into a different group with its own set of ads.
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Need to optimize or "fix" your Adwords & PPC campaigns? Kirt Christensen manages over $600k in PPC spending & knows what it takes to make your account hum! When it comes to adwords account management, he's the man!
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