PPC is particularly good for split testing as it allows your strategies to fail much faster, saving you time and money in the long run. While it seems like strange advice, knowing what terms not to go for can be more important in some ways than figuring out which search terms are best, as creating content is expensive and time consuming. If you don’t have it right, you will waste a lot of time and resources.
2. Importance of PPC
Introduction to PPC.
A Paid Search to Complement Your Inbound Marketing.
Your website traffic is the lifeblood of your online business.
3. PPC vs SEO differences
Pay Per Click is paid vs Search Engine Optimization is unpaid or organic.
Both appear on the search engine.
They are displayed in different locations on the page.
70% of people click on the organic search results.
Only 30% are likely to click on the paid links.
4. PPC Metrics
Impressions - The number of times your ad was displayed in a search results page. Importance is brand
awareness. Clicks/CTR.
Clicks - The number of times someone clicked on your ads. Imp*Clicks.
CTR - Click through rate. Percentage of impressions that turn into clicks. The percentage of clicks divided
by Impressions * 100. Clicks/Impression*100.
CPC – Cost per Click. Amount of money spent on each click. Total cost divided by the total number of
clicks. Cost/Clicks.
Cost - The total cost for all clicks. Clicks*CPC
Conversion(e-commerce/leads) - The number of times someone clicked on an ad and completed an
action as a conversion within a specific period of time. CR%*Clicks.
Conversion rate - Total conversions divided by the total number of clicks. CPC/CPA. Cost per Clicks/Cost
per Acquisition.
CPA – Cost per Acquisition. Amount of money spent on each conversion. Cost/Conversion.
CPM – Cost per thousand impressions.
Quality Score - Increase performance and reduce costs.
5. Keyword Match type
Broad - Words in your keyword, in any order, as well as words closely related to your
keyword. Importance is Spend less time building keyword lists. Spend your money on
keywords that work.
Broad match modifier - The word with the broad match modifier "+" must be in the search
query. Importance, it can increase campaign clicks and conversions, while providing more
precise control than broad match.
Phrase - Shows only for searches that include the exact phrase, or close variations of that
exact phrase, with additional words before or after. Importance is create ads with the
same keywords your customers search on. Increase your click through rate.
Exact - Show only for searches that use that exact phrase, or close variations of that exact
phrase, and no other words. The importance is to limit who sees your ad to only those who
search for your exact keywords or close variants of your exact keywords.
Negative - Ensures that your ad doesn't show for any search that includes that term.
Importance, reach the most interested customers, reduce your costs, and increase your
return on investment (ROI).
6. Campaign Structuring
Campaign settings let you control where and when your ads appear and
how much you want to spend. Importance, take advantage of advanced
features that help you save time and can boost your ad performance.
Include your budget, network, bidding options and adjustments, location
targeting, campaign end date, etc.
Campaign name: Edit the name of a particular campaign.
Campaign type: Determines which of the settings and options below you'll
see as you customize your campaign.
Locations: Target your ads to almost any geographic area. Specify
countries, territories, regions, & cities.
7. Cont…….
Networks: Determine where on the Internet your ads will show. Ads can
appear on Google's Search Network or Display Network, or both.
Devices: By default, enhanced campaigns target all types of devices.
Bidding option: Choose automatic or manual bidding for ad clicks (Max.
CPC, CPA,CPM bidding)
Budget: Adjust your campaign's daily budget at any time.
Delivery method: Choose either standard or accelerated delivery for your
daily budget to determine how quickly your ads are shown each day if
your campaign is limited by budget.
Languages: Target your ads by your customers' language preference.
8. Advanced Campaign Settings
Ad extensions: Show relevant business information (such as a phone number)
with your text ads.
Schedule: Start date, end date, ad scheduling: Specify certain hours or days of
the week when you want your AdWords ads to appear. You can also adjust
bids for your ads during certain time periods.
Ad delivery: Ad rotation, frequency capping: Your ad rotation selection
determines how often we deliver your active ads in relation to one another
within an ad group. Frequency capping limits the number of times your ads
appear on the Google Display Network to a unique user.
Automatic campaign optimization (Display Network only): By default, your
campaign is optimized based on the targeting elements you've selected, such
as keywords, audiences, or placements.
Experiment (BETA): Make experimental changes to your bids, keywords, and ad
groups in your campaign. As traffic accumulates on your experiment, statistical
differences may emerge. Evaluate and apply changes based on your tests.
9. Seed Keyword Generation
Site title, description tag, body text, important tags.
The Keyword Tool automatically identifies a list of queries made on the
search engine Google.
Get Meta Keyword Generator Info From Multiple Search Engines
10. Keyword Planner Tool
Keywords are words or phrases you choose to match your ads with corresponding user
search terms.
The tool gives you greater insight into which keywords, ad groups, bids, and budgets you
may want to use.
Search for new keyword and ad group ideas
Get estimates and review plan
Get traffic estimates for a list of keywords
Multiply keyword lists - Save the time of manually combining keywords by multiplying two
or more lists of keywords.
You can use it to spy and swipe your competitor's keywords
You can find local keywords a lot faster
Create AdWords campaigns easily
Use it as a guide to create a silo structure for your site
11. Display planner tool
Display Planner generates ideas for all the ways you can target the Display
Network.
Include keywords, placements (websites, videos, mobile apps, mobile app
categories), topics, interests (affinities, in-market segments), demographics
(age, gender), and remarketing.
Get ideas and estimates
Find top placements by location
Show only estimates for my targeting criteria
Contextual Targeting Tool.
12. Cont……
Each idea comes with impression estimates and historical costs.
Finds and suggests thousands of websites, mobile applications and video
channels for your ads across the online world.
Tells you, with estimates and historical data to back it up.
Designed to help you set up display campaigns for maximum efficiency
and performance.
13. AdCopy Explanation
AdCopy plays a vital role in the success of your PPC campaign.
It has much less technicality and if you can keep it plain and simple, it
would probably work best for you.
Incorporate the right keywords into your copy.
Make sure that your ad is not filled with useless information.
Check spelling and grammar! Many ads are put up carelessly on the
search engines.
14. AdCopy Creation
Be Specific: Don’t write a generic Ad copy for all your keywords.
Highlight your Unique Value Proposition (UVP): How different are you from your
competitor? What makes your product or service unique? What benefit would
the customer get after buying what you sell?
Don’t forget your keywords: Advertisers often try to make their Ad copies very
creative. But sadly very few of them do well in terms of Click-through-rate and
conversion.
Include A Call to Action: Many advertisers forget to include a call to action in
their Ads. Having a good call to action can increase your CTR and also increase
your campaigns effectiveness.
Stand Out from your Competitors: Many advertisers believe that copying Ads of
the top performing advertisers can make your PPC campaign a success.
15. Cont……
Get Right To the Point: Leave the Mumbo-Jumbo out! You don’t have the luxury
of a lot of space to write your PPC Advertisement. Google Adwords only allows
25 characters in your Title and 35 characters each in Description Line 1 & 2.
Ad Formatting is Important – Make sure your ad is formatted properly with
correct casing & spelling.
Your Display URL is a part of your Ad Copy. Use It wisely: Many advertisers don’t
pay any attention to their display URL. But display URL does play a huge role in
your Ad’s effectiveness & click-through-ratio.
Test…Test & Test: The entire success of your campaign depends on how far can
you test and implement the change that brings you a positive ROI.
Correlation between Your ad copy and your Landing Page: On most of the
cases your landing page will be prepared first, before you get on to write your
Ad copy.
16. Account Set-Up
Need commitment to PPC advertising.
Need to have a website.
Need to have a PPC Strategy in place.
Creating An Initial PPC Keyword List
Keyword research is the foundation
Step One: Target your Customers (check!)
Step Two: Create your Ads (check!)
Step Three: Set your Pricing (check!)
Step Four: Sign up (and here we are…)
Payment Options
Tracking Your Performance.
17. Search vs Display Campaign
Ad placement
SEARCH
Standard & All
features
DISPLAY
Standard & All features
Google search
results
Google search results,
Search partner
sites
Search partner sites,
Google Display Network
sites and video
18. Cont……
Ad formats
SEARCH
Standard
DISPLAY
Standard
Text ads Text ads
All features All features
Text ads Text ads
Product listing ads Image ads
Dynamic search ads Display ad builder ads
App / digital content ads
WAP mobile ads
Product listing ads
Dynamic search ads
20. Cont….
Bidding Standard & All features Standard & All features
Manual and
automated
bidding for the Search
Network.
Manual and automated
bidding for the Search
Network.
Automated bidding for the
Display Network.
21. Account campaign creation
Understanding your customers - Words and phrases they use to search online.
Types of websites they visit. Geographical location. How they contact you.
Setting your budget - Once you understand who your customers are, think
about how much you want to spend to reach them with your ads, and what
results you're expecting for your campaign to be a success.
Organizing your campaign - AdWords is organized into three layers: account,
campaigns, and ad groups.
Your account is associated with a unique email address, password, and billing
information. Each ad campaign has its own budget and settings that determine
where your ads appear.
Your ad group contains a set of similar ads and the words and phrases, known
as keywords, that trigger your ads to show.
22. AdWords Editor
AdWords Editor is a free, downloadable application, download one or
more accounts, make changes offline, then upload the changes to
AdWords.
Especially, useful for accounts with multiple campaigns and long lists of
keywords or ads.
23. AdWords interface explanation
AdWords (Google AdWords) is an advertising service by Google for
businesses wanting to display ads on Google and its advertising network.
Enables businesses to set a budget for advertising and only pay when
people click the ads.
The ad service is largely focused on keywords.
Reach people at the precise moment they’re searching for what you offer.
Control your budget.
See exactly what's working in your ad, and build on it.
24. Display Advertising
Online display advertising is a great way of getting traffic to your website,
social media page, blog or to raise awareness of anything else you want to
promote.
Display advertising for local businesses are far reaching.
Hitting your target audience.
Stimulating consumer interest.
25. Remarketing campaigns
Remarketing in Google AdWords consists of static image, animated image,
video and text ads that are placed on the Google Display network.
Remarketing is a powerful way to stay engaged with your target audience
Can radically improve ROI.
Achieve even higher conversions by combining other targeting methods,
such as interest categories, demographics, or keyword campaigns.
Remarketing lets you show ads to users who've previously visited your
website as they browse the Web.
26. Google Adwords Editorial Guidelines
Disapproval reason What does it mean? What do I do now?
Editorial standards Your ad text uses non-
standard, gimmicky, or
unnecessary punctuation,
numbers, letters, symbols,
capitalization, or
repeated words or
phrases; incorrect
grammar or spelling; or
inappropriate spacing
between words or
punctuation.
Edit your ad by removing
any non-standard,
gimmicky, or unnecessary
punctuation, numbers,
letters, symbols,
capitalization, or
repetition of words or
phrases; incorrect
grammar or spelling; or
inappropriate spacing
between words or
punctuation, per this
policy.
27. Optimization techniques
Focus on phrase and exact match.
Avoid having too many campaigns.
Segment ad groups by match type.
Breakout your poor performers.
Leverage branded campaigns when possible.
Target the most profitable geo locations.
Utilize day-parting data.
Target lower ad positions.
Pay close attention to Quality Scores.
Continually reassess campaign budgets.
Launch new campaigns with negative keywords.
28. Thank You
Ranjan Jena – Digital Marketer | Speaker | Trainer
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