In my last post, we took a look at a good reason for an account manager to make separate campaigns in an AdWords account. If you have a similar product with different profit margins and total profit, then you want to control how much you’re spending on each. In this post, we’ll explore more of the reasons to separate campaigns.
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Google, Yahoo and Bing have made setting up pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns fairly easy and painless. Within hours you can have your ads up and running, and delivering traffic to your website for a small fee per click. Unfortunately, the ease in which a campaign can be set up often convinces business owners that they can…
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Most of the PPC accounts I look at do not take advantage of all of the different options that AdWords offers to organize your account for maximum success. Most of them simply organize their campaigns based upon keywords. They’ll separate keywords into separate campaigns just because they’re different keywords. Or, they’ll keep all different kinds of keywords for all different kinds of products with all different kinds of marketing goals in the same campaign. But, AdWords has given us the flexibility to have much more control over how we are spending our money so that every dollar can be maximized.
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Once again, we’ve eliminated more wasted clicks from the mix. Therefore, we should see our conversion rate and cost per conversion metrics in these ad groups improve as we continue to focus on getting only the most relevant visitors to our website and more intelligently spending our precious PPC budget.
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What’s the best keyword research tool out there? Google’s? WordTracker? Keyword Discovery? Actually, none of them. The best keyword research tool is a broad match keyword in a PPC account.
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“There will be fat years and there will be lean years. But it is going to rain.” –Don Draper, Creative Director, Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency The fictional character on the TV show Mad Men, when speaking to the executives of London Fog, makers of rain coats, made this very astute assessment of their business. In…
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