Sunday, November 14, 2010

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Creating a Google Adwords Campaign

Making a highly effective Google Adwords campaign can be very demanding for both beginners and experts, especially if you're just going into a completely new niche or perhaps addressing your target audience for the very first time. While you could very well invest days and weeks closely monitoring the market as well as observing the activities of your competitors, the actual lessons are learned as soon as you produce an ad and then concentrate on perfecting the same for performance. All the same, such a tactic can still make it effortless to commit errors - and some that can be very costly.

Perry Marshall offers several helpful advice, as well as tips and strategies about creating an adwords campaign which guarantees success in his book The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords, however a lot of individuals still make some errors when they are conducting keyword research as well as they make efforts to optimize their ad promotions.

If you need to build an effective Google Adwords campaign - one which creates a large amount of top quality visitors and in fact gets to your target audience - you have to make sure that you are not committing even a single one of these 5 common mistakes:

1. Not having keywords when creating ad copy. A lot of Adwords campaign managers commit the error of using the keyword only in the beginning, instead of spreading the keywords throughout the ad. You need to make sure that your ad copy is as focused and as rich in keywords as they possibly can, therefore feel free to make use of a minimum of 1 to 2 key phrases in your ad for more advantage.

2. Sending visitors to the homepage. You will yield a lot more interest and perhaps higher rates of conversion if the link you provide in the ad is straight to a page within the site that has the promotion instead of just a homepage.

3. Relying on Google's Adwords Keyword Selector Tool to do all the work for you. Google's Adwords Keyword Selector Tool's 'broad match' feature only gives you an idea of useful keywords and phrases for your niche, however you do can make use of some other options. Make use of the other features, such as the 'phrase match' and the 'exact match' in the tool to generate a good set of keywords and phrases that you should use for your site and your ads.

4. Making use of low-performing keywords. Understanding exactly what your target market searches for will take some time, and you can't always assume that people will be browsing for your services or products with the use of the same search phrases that you are using in your ads. You will have to to get a list of related and similar keywords and phrases with the use of the 'synonyms' feature to drill down search results and generally maximize your campaign.

5. Giving your offer only in the ad body's copy. You should emphasize the main benefit immediately in the headline of your copy. You should take into account the possibility that your viewer is most likely only going to read the headlines; would that one line be enough that they are intrigued enough to see details of your ad or perhaps read through the remainder of the ad's copy? Though Google Adwords ads are comprised of only 3 to 4 short statements, most people read even these brief ads and will only respond whenever they see something very unique - this then is your chance to take hold of their attention.