Posts Tagged ‘PPC management’

Once a PPC account is set up and running, a good account manager is always looking for ways to improve results to better reach the account’s marketing goals.  One such way is to test different types of ad messages to gain insights into what attracts your industry’s customers to your products/services so that you can better understand and communicate with them.

Some of these message types include: Click here to keep learning

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.

The marketing goals for your company should guide you into the correct account organization for your PPC campaigns. Click here to keep learning

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.

First, your account should be organized based upon your marketing objectives.  Therefore, before you create your campaigns (or if they’ve been running for a while now), lay out specifically what it is you’re are trying to accomplish. Click here to keep learning

Here’s a statement that might shock some PPC managers:

If it is an appropriate time of the day for your ads to show, you never want them to be shut off because your account has hit its budget. If this is happening, you are not spending your money as wisely as you could be.

Let me say that another way: you don’t want your campaigns to hit their daily budget.

Now you’re thinking questions like…”Huh, don’t I want to spend my money to get visitors to my website? Isn’t that the point of PPC advertising?  If I don’t have a budget, how do I keep from spending too much?”  The short answer is bid less.  Let me explain the longer answer with a very general description.

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