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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

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’s replacing its Google Advertising Professionals program with a new AdWords Certification Program. The news came around late April. Here’s a direct quote from Google about the new program:

The new AdWords Certification Program has been improved in all areas with updates to training materials, exam requirements, member eligibility and program benefits. To retain certification, you’ll have 6 months to move over to the new program. Here’s a summary of what’s new:

• New, comprehensive curriculum designed to improve strategic and tactical knowledge
• Introduction of annually refreshed advanced level exams illustrating competency in search, display, … Continue Reading » Google’s New AdWords Certification Program
  
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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

Adwords has a new feature called the keyword bid ideas that provides keyword bidding recommendations based on your keyword performance in the past. The keyword bidding feature helps advertisers either increase the number of clicks (raise bids) or reduce the costs (lower bids) of keywords.

How it works

Adwords uses the bid simulator to generate bid ideas. It looks at the keyword, its quality score, competition, past week performance and ICC (Incremental cost per click) to determine the bidding opportunities.

Advantages

• The information will help advertisers make better decisions in terms of identifying keywords which generate more revenue or … Continue Reading » Keyword Bidding with Google Adwords’ Bid Ideas
  
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The types of reports offered by Google Adwords are useful for various purposes. The report types are self explanatory and I am not going to explain them in detail. The following is what you will see when you select the option to create new reports. I will provide some tips to use the reports offered by Google Adwords and derive more efficiently out of your Pay per click campaigns.

Adwords Reports

Google Adwords Reports – Tip 1
You can have so many types of reports generated with various combination of … Continue Reading » 5 Tips to Use Google Adwords Reports More Efficiently

Google has just updated its Adwords editor to include the columns Conv. (1-per-click), Conv. Rate (1-per-click), Cost/Conv. (1-per-click) and Conv. (many-per-click), Conv. Rate (many-per-click), Cost/Conv. (many-per-click).

For those who haven’t tried the new Google AdWords interface, 1-per-click and many-per-click are Adwords’ new conversion metrics.

Conversions (many-per-click) count a conversion every time a conversion is made within 30 days following an AdWords ad click. Conversions (many-per-click) will count multiple conversions per click. These metrics … Continue Reading » Google AdWords Editor Update

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 … Continue Reading » Is Adwords Conversion Optimizer Good for You?

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