Saturday, November 29, 2008

Discovering How To Bid On Keywords

By Brian Basch

Always create your Google Adwords campaign ads around the correct keywords. This is the sensible thing to do and many marketers have been able to do this well. It is just a question of doing the right research to find productive keywords.

There are other factors, apart from keywords, which will make or break your pay per click advertising campaign. A factor that should be addressed is the fact that surfers have even less attention span than consumers listening to TV ads. This means that they will not look beyond the first 5-10 pages of search results.

In order to be seen an ad must be positioned within the first 5-10 pages of the search results. How can you do this? By paying more money.

This section may be boring for the experienced marketer, but the new businessperson may find it interesting. Adwords can be compared to a huge auction. There is a lot of competition on certain popular keywords. By contrast there is little if any competition on obscure key words, but there are also minimal searches.

In essence this means that you could have many people competing against you for a keyword. This makes it difficult for search engines to place ads. It is really quite simple, the advertiser who pays the largest amount of money will get the coveted top position. This is good for the search engines who see this as a chance to make good money.

It does take time to find the correct mix for keywords and bids, as you test and try new things you will probably take some losses. Always remember that conversions are usually only 10% of your clicks and not every one of the clicks.

Keyword research is one of the main elements of your campaign but bidding is also equally important. Without a good position for your ad, you will not gain any traffic let alone sales. Take some time to understand the bidding process so that you can make a lucrative campaign.

While working out the details of your Adword campaign be sure to keep these tactics in mind. Consider this, when you build a great pulling ad it is no good condemning it into oblivion. That is just a waste of time and money. - 16089

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