Friday, November 18, 2011

How to Set Up a PPC Campaign Correctly

By Wyatt Pickford


PPC advertising is similar to other advertising and marketing methods in that what you do upfront as preparation can have a dramatic impact. As a matter of fact, you can either do well or bomb based upon what was done in the preparation stages. This may be putting on a dramatic act, but it is not an act. This is because of something that is personally tried and true. If you do not know how to manage a PPC campaign, then you probably are missing a very essential piece of the puzzle. You might find that the first ones that you do are not that good and will take longer to finally go live. But as you continue to gain experience you will become more efficient.

Many people have chimed in and said that the spending limit can send a very solid message to the search engine about your intentions. You will get the chance to say what you want the CPC to be for every last one of your keywords. We think that you should set these costs to be more than you would ordinarily pay. You also have to keep in mind that you must closely monitor your campaign for the first few days. The reason for making the CPC more is so that it will not be that hard to change it downward and not upward. A lot of times we have experienced difficulty trying to get anywhere with a keyword that has a high CPC. You can always adjust your price once you know what you want to do. While you've no doubt read and heard lots of fantastic reviews about Google, don't let yourself become too dependent upon the keyword research tool offered by AdWords. There are a lot of reasons for this and the primary reason is that it is not all that reliable. This has been proven over and over again and there are all sorts of experiences and complaints that you can read about online. Most of the time the monthly volume numbers are exaggerated, and much less so are they under-reported. It's better to combine the keywords you come up with yourself and other tools like Wordtracker.

One thing that is no longer welcomed at Google AdWords are destination sites that only have a few pages. The only reason for that is Google wants to give the end user a better experience. Oftentimes it is preferred to learn from the wisdom of people who have been doing this. However at least there is comfort in knowing that you can get away with much less than you expect. Remember that Google is really trying to crack down on where you place your optin box. Sometimes you can really pay attention to the estimated traffic, especially with Google traffic. Everyone knows that the AdWords traffic estimator does a horrible job at getting the right amount of traffic. We have consistently seen it to be a sometimes gross overestimation. So make sure that you utilize more than one resource to check your traffic estimates. By doing so, you will have a clearer picture of your market and be able to make better decisions.

But just do not place Adsense or anything else on that page if it is an add. If you are trying to build a list, then you need people to like your content and optin. Your continued work toward marketing your newsletter is one of your goals, here. So obviously you can work to hurt that effort because the visitor attention will be diluted with other eye-catchers such as ads. If you already have a good site made for this, then you just need to tweak the landing page. You will be choosing a page on your site for the landing page, and then just be aware of not making it too busy. You will receive feedback from Google in the form of your quality score, so you can use that information. But what that tells Google is that your site is not trying to get an optin at the expense of good content.

You do know as well that your landing page has to be taken into consideration. An effective PPC campaign will be relevant from the top to the bottom when they end-up on your landing page. Google tracks just about everything including how long people stay on your site.




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