Friday, January 23, 2009

How To Increase Conversions With Google Adwords Campaigns

By Donald D. Davis

Are you new in the pay-per-click advertising business? Do you know the best ways in reaching out to your intended market? If you are a beginner, chances are, these questions sound somewhat complicated. And even with the assumption that you understand your target's information needs, there is no guarantee that they will instantly take action on your product or service offered. But you can get high quality, first rate traffic to your website and increase your campaign's conversion rates with six effective ways that will be discussed here.

Perry Marshall, Google Adwords pioneer and guru suggests maximizing Google Adwords by assessing various ads. Identifying keywords that convert becomes possible through innovative research techniques and writing effective ads that create impact to the readers.

Improve your keywords conversion potential with these six important ways:

1. Use the 'dynamic keyword' feature to let Google write your headline. If you're not sure how to write your headline, or what keywords to use, select the 'Dynamic Keywords' feature when writing your add where Google will place the search term your visitor type din the search box as the headline. This ad may stand out to a reader who typed in that particular word or phrase, instantly making the ad more 'relevant' to them.

2. Track conversions by changing only ONE word whenever testing ads against each other. As suggested by Perry Marshall, you can separate test ads to monitor their conversion rates. After the assessment, you can confidently point out the most effective ad. By means of modifying one word in the body copy's headline or keyword, you can find out what interests your visitors the most.

3. Don't run your ads on the Content network right away. The Content search may not help you get the targeted traffic you want right away, so turn this feature off when you first start out and focus instead on the basic search results pages.

4. Apply the geographic targeting feature. If your goal is to sell products or services locally, then this feature helps you achieve just that. This allows you to reach out to the target market based on their location. Take note that a good number of businesses do not have a target market at international or global level hence advertising may not be applicable in that. In addition, you will definitely have a soaring number of traffic to your website once you refine your Adword reach.

5. Do not type 'www' in your URL link. Reserve those extra characters for the extension of your website. You don't have to use 'www' all the time for a couple of reasons: firstly, there will be more clickthroughs from the viewers because they fairly have an idea of what to read on your site, and secondly, it looks better visually. However, for you to close a sale, you have to ensure that the link goes to a valid landing page or sales page.

6. Write your ad using the headline style. Capitalize the first letters throughout the ad for readability purposes. As you may well know, the headline is among the most important parts of your ad since it is usually the first thing read by visitors. In the same way, you create visual appeal and render your ad more professional by using capital letters on the ad copy.

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