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2015 Google Adwords Training
The document provides a comprehensive guide to Google AdWords, detailing its functionality as an advertising system that allows businesses to bid on keywords for targeted ads. Key concepts include effective keyword selection, account organization, and crafting compelling ads to maximize click-through rates. The document emphasizes the importance of a structured approach in planning campaigns around specific business goals and understanding key metrics such as quality score and ad rank.
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- 1. S Adwords Training Building Successful SearchAdvertising Campaigns Freelance prebo@prebo.co.za
- 2. Where Are WeToday…and Where Are We Going? 1995 2007 2050? Digital Media Non-Digital Media Today
- 3. What is GoogleAdwords What is AdWords? Google AdWords is Google's advertising system in which advertisers bid on certain keywords in order for their clickable ads to appear in Google's search results
- 4. Why AdWords? S TargetedResults S You have Total Control – You set the Budget S Campaigns are Measurable S Pay only for results (ie when your advert is clicked)
- 5. Criteria for Successwith Adverts S Solid and Expansive Keyword Research S Deliver Compelling Adverts that Cause Click-Through (CTR) S Creating Effective Landing Pages (that initiate a “conversion”)
- 6. Organizing Your Account Organizationgives your account a solid framework, making it easier to determine which of your ads, campaigns, and keywords are working, and which aren’t, so you can alter or add campaigns as necessary.
- 7. Organizing Your Account Planyour campaigns around your business needs. When you’re creating your campaigns, ask yourself the following questions to get a better picture of how you should set them up to maximize your Adwords success: S What does your business offer? S How is your business different from your competitors? S What do you want to achieve with your advertising? S How much do you want to spend per month? S Who’s your core audience? S Where do you provide services?
- 8. Once you knowwhat you want to do with your Adwords campaigns, it’s time to put your plan into action. Structure each campaign around just one goal. E.g. S increasing signups S selling more coffee beans Organizing Your Account Stick to one goal per campaign
- 9. Organizing Your Account Stickto one goal per campaign
- 10. Organizing Your Account Spliteach campaign into ad groups. Ad groups let you segment your campaigns into multiple parts to achieve even greater focus and simplicity. Just like campaigns, each ad group should have one common theme
- 11. Key Terms Key Terms: SCampaign: A component of your account that allows you to focus your advertising on specific products or services. Each campaign can contain multiple ad groups. S Ad Group: A collection of ads within a campaign that corresponds to a group of related keywords. S Keyword: A specific word, or combination of words, used to target your ads to potential customers. When a user searches on your keyword, your ad might be shown. S Maximum Cost-per-click (CPC) Bid: The maximum amount you’re willing to pay each time a user clicks on your ad for a particular keyword. You can set the maximum CPC bid at the ad group or keyword level. S Quality Score: The measurement used to determine your ad’s relevance to user searches. Your Quality Score is determined by your keyword’s click-through rate (CTR) on Google and by the relevance of your ad text, keyword, and landing page.
- 12. Choosing the RightKeywords 3% 6% 6% 12% 20% 22% 29% 0% 10% 20% 30% 7 word phrases 6 word phrases 1 word phrases 5 word phrases 4 word phrases 3 word phrases 2 word phrases Average Search Phrase Length 94% of people search with multi-word phrases
- 13. Keyword Picking The RightKeyword Keywords are the guts of your ad campaign. They set the entire advertising process in motion. If users are looking for your product or service, they’ll find you more quickly if you’ve chosen the right keywords. There are three basic steps to building the right keyword list: expand, group, and refine. Start small; you can always add keywords later. Above is an example of brainstorming different keywords that relate to what you offer.
- 14. Keyword Step 1: Expand Yourfirst step is to come up with as many keywords relating to you campaign as possible. What words would someone search for on Google comes to mind. You can refine your list later.
- 15. After you haveselected your keywords, you should move your keywords into the ad groups where they’re most relevant. Remember to structure your ad groups in a way that makes sense and is easy to track. Keyword Step 2: Group
- 16. Keyword Step 3: Refine Getyour erasers or red pens out; it’s time to refine your keyword list. Cut from your list keywords that are too generic, irrelevant, or obscure. Also look to remove keywords that are too specific. Two- and three-word keyword phrases usually work best.
- 18. Broad Match Example SForthe broad-matched keyword used book S used book dealer S buy used book S used and rare book S used book for sale S Cheap used book Ad can appear for any of these queries
- 19. What are NegativeKeywords? Negative Match: -cheap Keyword: used book • Prevent ads from appearing on irrelevant search queries • Eliminate unwanted impressions
- 20. S Key Terms: SImpression: The number of times an ad is displayed on Google or on sites in the Google Network. S Click-through Rate (CTR): The number of clicks your ad receives divided by the number of impressions. CTR helps measure the performance of your ads and keywords. S Placement targeting: Choosing specific websites (or types of websites) as ‘placements’ where your ad will appear. Placement-targeted ads appear only on pages in Google’s content network. S Keyword targeting: Choosing keywords to trigger ads from your ad campaign. Keyword-targeted ads can appear on search results pages, on content pages, and on other properties in the Google Network.
- 21. Writing Targeted Ads Tosee which of your messages resonate with customers, write three or four ads at one time. Then check your clicks. The ads with the highest click-through rates (CTR) are your top performers. Once you know which of your ads work, you can rewrite poorly performing ads so they’re more in line with the good ones.
- 22. Step 1: CreateYour Headline Step 2:Develop your description text. Step 3: Designate display and destination URLs.
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- 26. AD Key Terms: S DisplayURL: The URL displayed in your ad to identify your site to users. It doesn’t have to be the same as your destination URL, but it should match the domain of your landing page. S Destination URL: The web page on which a user will land after clicking on your ad. It doesn’t have to be your site’s main page. Also called a landing page. S Ad Variations: Multiple versions of an ad for a single product or service, all based on the same set of keywords. Variations are a good way to test different versions of the same message to see which work best with potential customers. S Ad Rank: Your ad’s position on a results page. Your ad rank is determined by your maximum CPC bid and your keywords’ Quality Score.
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Editor's Notes
- #5 It is now apparent that there is a difference between the types of visitor to a website: “browsing traffic”, or, visitors that may have found a website in a search engines organic result, behave differently to traffic that comes directly from Google Adwords or “pay per click traffic”. The reason for this is simple: traffic via surfing in organic results is simply often browsing for information where as traffic via pay per click knows that when they are clicking on a ad, it is simply that, an ad and that the advertisement is for something they need and want to buy, whether that be a product or services. Therefore, you don’t necessarily need millions of visitors via browsing, rather than specific targeted visitors via Google Adwords.
- #7 There are two main components to your Adwords account: campaigns and ad groups. An Adwords account can contain up to 25 campaigns; a campaign can have up to 100 ad groups; and ad groups can include hundreds of keywords. You can find all your campaigns, and their component ad groups, in the Campaign Management tab of your Adwords account. When it comes to giving your Adwords account a strong foundation – and making it easier to get the most out of Adwords – taking the following steps is key.
- #8 Before you start building your campaigns, it’s important to develop a plan for your AdWords advertising. Think hard about your business and what you want to accomplish with your ads. For every campaign you create, you get to choose a budget, pick where your ads appear geographically (within a specific country, city, or within a custom-created area that you specify), and select where your ads appear online (on search pages, content pages, or both). When you’re creating your campaigns, ask yourself the following questions to get a better picture of how you should set them up to maximize your AdWords success:
- #9 like increasing signups or selling more coffee beans. We suggest you separate campaigns by theme or product line (such as coffee beans, coffee gifts, teas). Or use the same structure for your campaigns as you do for your website. Remember to keep your audience in mind. Target only the locations where you offer services, and target the language in which your ads are written. If you have an international audience, split your campaigns by country. Finally, give each campaign an appropriate name – such as its goal. This makes tracking and editing your campaigns much easier later on.
- #10 Think quality. Quality defines everything at AdWords, from how much you pay to how your ads perform. AdWords uses a formula called Quality Score to measure your ads’ quality and rank your ads among other ads on a page. Ads that relate to what your customers are looking for and that link to relevant content get higher Quality Scores – and the higher the Quality Score, the less you pay to show on the first page of search results. Develop a well-organized account with relevant keywords and ads, and you’ll have higher Quality Scores. That means more business – and more bucks – for you in the long run.
- #11 Ad groups let you segment your campaigns into multiple parts to achieve even greater focus and simplicity. Just like campaigns, each ad group should have one common theme – for instance, focusing on a single product or service that you offer. This makes it simpler to create focused, effective keywords and ads. You should be able to come up with at least three ad groups per campaign (Often, the process of picking keywords can make it clear what your ad groups should be, so you might want to wait until after you create your keyword list in the next chapter to create your ad groups.)
- #16 For example, place keywords relating to gourmet coffee in one ad group, and keywords relating to flavored coffee in another ad group. The end result should make it easy for you to write ads that correspond to the keywords being searched on.
- #17 Broad Match reaches the most users by showing your ad whenever any variation of your keyword (such as beans for coffee or coffee roast beans, when your keyword is coffee beans) is used in a search. Phrase Match narrows your reach by showing your ad only when the search term contains your keyword. If your keyword is chocolate coffee beans, for instance, your ad will show only on searches that contain that exact phrase, such as swiss chocolate coffee beans and chocolate coffee beans. Exact Match narrows your reach even more by only showing your ad when the search term is exactly the same as your keyword. beans dessert, but not on searches that alter the order of the words in your keyword, like coffee chocolate beans. You choose this option by putting your keyword in quotation marks; for example, “chocolate coffee beans”. If your keyword is coffee beans, for instance, your ad will show only on searches for coffee beans. You choose this option by putting brackets around your keyword; for example, [coffee beans]. Negative Match prevents your ad from showing when a word or phrase you specify is part of a search term. If you specify cheap as a negative match, for instance, your ad won’t show for search terms such as cheap coffee beans. You choose this option by putting a minus sign before your keyword; for instance, –cheap.
- #19 For this example, assume that you have entered the broad-matched keyword “used book”. This keyword could display your ad when Google.com users enter queries like [Animation] used book dealer, [Animation] buy used book, [Animation] used and rare book, [Animation] used book for sale, [Animation] or used book finder. [Animation] As you can see, broad matching is an effective way to target your ads to a wide audience. Our next matching option, called phrase matching is more precise.
- #20 Negative keywords give you control over your advertising by allowing you to even further select your audience. They help eliminate unwanted impressions and prevent your ads from showing on irrelevant searches. In this example, assume that you have included the broad-matched keyword phrase “used book,” and the negative keyword “college” in an Ad Group. These keywords will display the ad on searches such as [Animation] “used book,” or [Animation] “used and rare books.” [Animation] But the ad will not appear for the search “used college books,” since that query includes your negative keyword “college.”
- #22 The text of your ad is what attracts potential customers to check out your business and the products and services you offer. Ads that convince people to click on them are clear, specific, and compelling. The idea is to “target” your audience by convincing your customers that your products or services are what they’re looking for.
- #23 Step 1: Create Your Headline The best headlines relate directly to the keywords being searched; this makes an ad seem especially relevant to the searcher’s interests. So it’s best to include one of your keywords in your headline. Plus, if any of the words in the keyword that triggers your ad are present in your headline or ad copy, they will appear in bold font in your ad. Step 2:Develop your description text. The description should convey both key details and benefits of your product or service. It should also include a call to action. Keep everything as short and simple as you can. To start, list the products or services in a particular ad group that you’re advertising (for example, gourmet coffee beans, specialty coffee). Then add the benefits (for example, bulk discounts, free shipping). Finally, put it all together with a call to action, such as order now or join today. Step 3: Designate display and destination URLs. The display URL (the web address users see when they view your ad). Choose a destination URL that promotes the exact product or service your audience is searching for, rather than your usual home page.