January 12th, 2010
Let’s continue our optimization process to improve PPC campaigns’ performance:
Go Vertical
Going vertical is an effective method to lower your cost per click (CPC) and to improve the overall traffic quality. The quality also tends to be better because of the increased propensity for the buyers to use vertical search engines in their purchase decision process. This gives a greater opportunity for those who are with limited budgets to more effectively spend their money online and to get higher ROI.
Keyword Research
While doing the keyword research we debate constantly on what to use with regards to long tail keywords or the head phrases and which would perform better and get more results. Head phrases are generic and broad keywords. The search volumes ...
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December 23rd, 2009
Quality Score is based on the relevance to users search query and user experience in your website or landing page. As per Google bid price policy, the higher your quality score is, the lower you pay for your clicks and the higher you can get in position in PPC ads.
Below are the ways to improve the quality score
- Increase your click-through rates. Always try testing your ads to improve click through rates. Always keep the ad settings to rotate while you are testing ads. This will allow the search engines not to show well-performing ad over the other, but instead they ... Read more...
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October 23rd, 2009
In the PPC world, a Quality Score is a measure which tells you the relevance of your keyword to the users search query. Specifically, Quality Score is a score given to a particular keyword taking historical data of the keyword’s Click Through Rate, quality of the landing pages, relevance of the ad with the keyword and several other factors.
Why Quality Score is important for a PPC professional? Not because it gives a rating on a scale of ten but as a score which reduces your CPC when your Quality Score moves up, which affects your First Page Bid Estimates and your Ad Position.
Today I would be breaking 5 myths about Quality Score.
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August 20th, 2009
Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI) allows you to insert any one of your keywords into your advertisement text. You need to use the following syntax in your ads {KeyWord:
default term}. The default term is used by Google AdWords when the keyword is not allowed to be inserted (For example, if it exceeds the character limit).
Certain facts about Dynamic Keyword Insertion
- Note that Google AdWords adds keyword, but not necessarily the search term. If you are using Broad Match, the advertisement may not be very relevant.Google actually inserts the keyword that is triggered by the user's query. For instance, if the keyword in your account is "tour package" and the query is "tour package Thailand" and you've elected dynamic keyword insertion in your ... Read more...
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