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Impression share report is one of the best sources to determine the health of your AdWords PPC campaigns and take proactive actions to optimize your AdWords PPC campaigns. You can use the impression share report to determine

1.    How well your campaigns are performing overall for the keywords you are advertising
2.    If you are losing opportunities to reach target market because of ‘Low advertising budget’ or ‘Low ranking & Low quality score’

The impression share report gives data across Google search, search partners and content network. When you are creating the report choose Ad Distribution and Ad Distribution with search partners. These … Continue Reading » Tips to Optimize AdWords PPC Campaigns Using Impression Share Report

Last week I started talking about what AdWords beginners should look out for when first setting up their campaigns and mentioned that targeting both search and display network is a very bad idea. This time, I will move on to another common mistake: targeting all countries & regions using a single campaign.

It’s logical to want to expose your ads to as many regions as possible, and by all means, you should do that. But the proper way of doing it is to target each region or country with separate campaigns. For example, if your target market is North America, it’s … Continue Reading » AdWords Tips for Beginners – Part 02

There is no doubt that AdWords (pay per click) has become a very popular advertising medium over the past few years. It’s easy to setup, manage, and track your performance. This advertising model fits business of all sizes ranging from national chains such as Best Buy to small business like my local music shop. But because AdWords is so accessible to everyone, it also tricks advertisers who are new to the system to think that they can easily manage the accounts on their own without putting in too much effort.

For the next few weeks, I’m going to talk about some … Continue Reading » AdWords Tips for Beginners – Part 01

When advertising on Google Adwords, you can reach target audience through Google search, search partners and content network. Adwords gives you the option to choose to show your ads on Google search, search partners and content network. Further within the Adwords content network, you have two options:

• Display your ads on websites across Google content networks using keywords
• Select specific websites where you can advertise through placement advertising

But as an advertiser you don’t have choice to choose specific websites within search partners’ category. The problems are

• Your ads might be showing … Continue Reading » AdWords Tips – Parked Domains and Error Pages

Google Adwords shows your ads more often in a geographic region based on the CTR (historical performance) of the ads in that region. Let’s say your ads had high CTR, when displayed in Vancouver than in Toronto. Google Adwords will display your ads more often in Vancouver than Toronto. So what?

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Problem 1: Adwords doesn’t consider the conversion data when deciding to show your ads in different geographic regions. Let’s say your ads had higher number of conversions when displayed in Toronto. But the ads had poor … Continue Reading » Improve Quality Score and Increase Conversions Using AdWords Geographic Performance Reports

Google Adwords has finally heard PPC marketers’ calls by releasing new reports called Search funnels.

What is it?

These reports help advertisers address the attribution problems of Adwords advertising. These reports provide information such as

•    The different keywords of your PPC campaign that help in getting a conversion.
•    The time it takes for a visitor to become a customer
•    The number of impressions and clicks required for a visitor to become a customer

Previously Adwords only attributed the last keyword that led to a sale on your website. But the buyer could have searched many times using different keywords before making a purchase.  … Continue Reading » Google Adwords Search Funnel Reports

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 … Continue Reading » Google Adwords Tips and Secrets – Part 2

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 … Continue Reading » Adwords Tips and Secrets – 1