Sunday, November 30, 2008

Learning How To Bid On Keywords

By Brian Basch

When you are creating ads for your Google Adwords campaign you will need to build them carefully around the right keywords. This seems like commonsense and many marketers have perfected this art. They do the proper research to find the best 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.

This means your ad must be placed among these pages in order to be seen. How do you manage to do this? Well it all boils down to the almighty dollar.

For the savvy marketer this section is merely repeating what you already know. However if you are new to the game you might find this information helpful. Simply put Adwords is similar to a large auction. There is usually fierce competition for a keyword especially if it is popular. Only if you are dealing with very obscure keywords will you have less competition, but you will also have very few 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 can be time consuming finding the right blend of bids and keywords, it might take some profits and losses as you experiment. Not every click will produce sales; in fact conversions are often only 10% of the click ratio. Price of product should be taken into account and of course your budget, when deciding how much to bid.

Bidding is almost as important as choosing the right keywords for your campaign. This is because if you do not have a good placement for your ad you will not draw enough traffic or sales. The road to a successful campaign is to take your time when you bid.

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. - 15634

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