How to Stay Away from Costly Google Adwords Mistakes
Written by Announcement Author on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 in Web Design, Marketing and Development.
Creating an effective Google Adwords campaign can be challenging for both the beginner and the expert, especially if you are just entering a new niche or approaching your target market for the first time. More often than not, people would allot a big chunk of their time and effort monitoring the market and their competitors, but it’s the creation of ads and their optimization that provide the real essence. However, this technique is not free from any lapses or mistakes and can entail loss on your part.
Several ways and techniques to developing Adwords campaign that get results are suggested by Perry Marshall in his publication The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords, yet there are still some who commit mistakes when doing keyword research and in attempting to achieve maximum efficiency in their campaigns.
Building your Google Adwords campaign and ensuring that quality traffic is generated requires that you avoid the following common mistakes:
1. Creating an ad copy that has no keywords. Many Adwords campaign managers make the mistake of only using the keyword in the headline, and then nowhere else within the ad. The keywords used and their relevance are some of the factors that affect the outcome of your ad campaign, so make sure that your ad contains at least one or two keywords or keyphrases.
2. Leading the visitors to go to your page. You’ll generate much more attention and even higher conversion rates when the URL you use within your ad goes directly to a landing page with the offer or incentive, and not just your homepage.
3. Using only the ‘broad match’ feature of the Keyword Selector Tool. There are other options apart from the ‘broad match’ feature that allows you to have a basic idea on the keywords you can use in your niche or market. Use the ‘phrase match’ and ‘exact match’ features in the tool to generate a highly targeted list of keywords that you can use both for your ads and your website copy.
4. Using a set of keywords that do not actually give results. Assuming that people will be searching for your products or services using keywords you used online may not hold water all the time; hence, you must interpret what your target market’s needs are, though it may take some time to do so. You will need to generate a list of relevant and similar keywords using the ‘synonyms’ feature on the Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool to drill down search results and optimize your campaign.
5. Showing your offer only in the body copy. Make sure you emphasize the ‘ultimate benefit’ right away in the headline of your copy. Apply a visualization technique about your viewer or reader looking at your headlines; do they have enough reasons to click through your copy’s content? Viewers scan even the smallest of details even though Google Adwords ads have only 3 to 4 lines, but what is good to note is that they only react when something presented grabs their attention, your opportunity to do this lies right in your headline.