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In a previous post - Call to Action: Add to Cart or Buy Now? - I talked about what text you should use on the buttons which start your website’s checkout process. Briefly, you need to display either Buy Now either a Add to Cart, depending on your business objectives.

Lately, I came across one retailer that displays both call to actions, right next to each other. I have no idea how this is performing in terms of conversion, but for users like me, the tactic works just fine. If I want to buy just one product, I would click … Discover more about Dynamic Text on Call to Action Buttons

Here are some tips to consider when you have already started a pay per click advertising campaign or planning to start a pay per click advertising campaign. Looking at some metrics and determining the value for some metrics will help you make better decisions.

In case you don’t have data to evaluate, run a test campaign focusing on your main keywords for a limited budget to determine your pay per click advertising strategy. Don’t forget to add the conversion tracking code to your website.

Click through rate (CTR): The no. of people who clicked on your ad /Total no. times the ad … Discover more about Improve your Pay per click Campaign

In this article I will discuss how Google uses the quality score to determine

- First page bid estimate
- Ad Rank
- Cost per click

If you want to get an understanding of what is Quality Score then check Google Adwords Quality Score - part 1 .

First page bid estimate

First page bid (previously known as minimum cost per click) is the minimum amount you need to spend per click to show your ads in the first page of search results for the keyword you advertise. Please note that Google Adwords uses … Discover more about Google Adwords Quality Score - part 2

What is Quality Score in Google Adwords?

Quality Score is a value assigned by Google Adwords to your keywords and ads based on their performance and certain relevance factors.

What is Quality Score used for?

Google Adwords uses the Quality Score to determine:

• First page bid estimate (previously known as minimum cost per click)
• Ad Rank
• Cost per Click

What’s in it for you?

In simple terms, the higher the Quality Score you have, the less the amount you will end up paying to Google for each click. So, if you take all measures to improve the Quality Score of your ads and keywords, you will spend … Discover more about Google Adwords Quality Score - part 1

When managing your PPC campaigns, the use of Google Analytics is definitely the most convenient and cheapest way to obtain useful data.

Google Analytics not only can track your transactions, visits, revenue and cost (once appropriate filters are applied ), but it can also be used to discover valuable keywords. Using Google Analytics you can see exactly what keywords people searched to land on your web site.

For example: the search term order books online or purchase books online will trigger your existing ads in … Discover more about Best PPC Practice - Exact Keywords

Google Adwords has lowered the number of conversions required to run conversion optimizer on your Adwords campaign. Previously the criterion was 100 conversions in the last 30 days. But now if you had 50 conversions in the last 30 days, you are eligible to use conversion optimizer. Hurrah!!

But is Adwords conversion optimizer good for you? The answer is it depends.

Pros and Cons are as follows:

Pros:

1. Adwords conversion optimizer recommends Max CPA (maximum cost per acquisition) based on its analysis of your account’s historical data and other factors. You can choose to go with what Adwords suggests … Discover more about Is Adwords Conversion Optimizer good for you?

As we’ve briefly discussed before, there are many advantages of promoting your business with Pay per Click advertising; but at the same time, there are also some catches that PPC newbies should look out for.

How PPC works is that the advertisers have to setup an account with Google and/or Yahoo first. Once the accounts are ready, the advertisers then can start building up their Campaigns, AdGroups, Ads, keywords, and so on. The account managers at Google and Yahoo then will look after the accounts and make sure everything … Discover more about PPC Advice for Beginners

As a follow-up to the post AdWords Tips and Secrets #1, I will share three important tips which could help you improve the AdWords account performance.

AdWords Tip 2

Google AdWords uses the ad display URL’s historical click through rate as one of the metrics in calculating the Quality Score. By display URL Google means, usually, the domain name of your web site. If you have poorly performing ads, then it’s going to impact the display URL click through rate. If your affiliates are using your domain name in their ads’ display URL, that … Discover more about Google Adwords Tips and Secrets - Part 2

One mistake people usually make once they’ve started their PPC campaigns is they think they can just let the campaigns run by themselves. That kind of people usually ends up failing miserably. One thing to get straight here: PPC is EASY, but you can’t be LAZY. Certain degree of management is always needed when running a PPC campaign.

The market is always changing. Today you might be the only one advertising a particular business on search engines, by next month you might already have five more competitors, and six months later…you … Discover more about PPC Management

AdWords Tip #1: Google AdWords determines the Minimum Cost per Click of a Keyword using the formula

Minimum Cost per Click of a Keyword = Quality score X Maximum Cost per Click

Quality Score is an aggregate of various factors. One of the important factors is the Keyword Click through rate. You may say I know about this, so what is so secret about it. More important is how the Keyword Click through rate is calculated.

Let’s say you are advertising for the keyword “search marketing”. You have the keyword advertised in all three match types which are exact match, phrase … Discover more about Adwords Tips and Secrets - 1