Strategies for Trimming-Down Costs and Improving the Effectiveness of Your Google Adwords Search Engine Ad Campaign

Pay-per-click ads like those available through Google Adwords can be a powerful, regular source of prospects for your products and services. However, whenever new clients have asked me to look at their Google Adwords campaigns, I begin to understand one element in Google’s growth to more than a $6 billion market value.

Business people frequently miss out on optimizing their search engine advertisements by merely not accessing Google features for targeted marketing. Consequently, they pay unnecessary costs for exposure to disinterested online visitors. This leads to lower returns on investments. Despite this condition, some advertisers continue to run the same ineffective ads just because they do not have alternative ideas for improving them.

Don’t let it happen to you! Use these tips to keep your costs down and your rewards high.

1. Eliminate countries and languages that do not match what you offer. For instance, if you sell U.S. foreclosure listings, your ads should show only to Google users in the United States and probably only in English. On the other hand, if you have a translation service whose clients can live anywhere in the world, define the countries and languages your ad gets shown to much more widely.

2. Activate Google’s ad tracking. It costs you nothing, and enables you to keep an eye on not only your cost per click and click-through ratio, but also which keywords and which ads best lead to your desired result, whether that’s a sale, an inquiry for your services or a signup for your newsletter. That way, you can eliminate or try to improve elements that get a lot of clicks or cost a lot but do not get results.

3. Make use of Google’s negative keyword feature. For example, if you classify the word “free” as a negative keyword, press on the dedicated Google button for this feature, and you can prevent a lot of freebie seekers from adding to your pay-per-click costs.

Equally important, think through alternate and unwanted meanings of your keywords and add negative keywords to prevent your ads from showing to wildly inappropriate visitors. For instance, type “cattle branding” into Google and you’ll see ads for business branding services. Those advertisers’ click-through rates will improve when they add “cattle” as a negative keyword.

4. Delete keywords and ads that are not working. Because Google’s system rewards a better click-through rate with higher ad placement and lower costs, you are paying Google more than necessary when you leave poorly performing elements running. Periodically clean out your losers.

5. Send people to a landing page that makes perfect sense. People click on search engine ads to learn more about whatever was featured in the ad. It seems logical that they’d look around from your home page for whatever interested them in the ad, but that’s wrong. Searchers are impatient. So if your search engine ad mentions a software demo, do not send them to your company’s home page. Send them to the exact page from which they can access the demo.

Try out these tips on your Google Adwords campaigns and you will notice a significant improvement on your advertising costs and returns on investments.

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