Thursday, January 22, 2009

Benefits of SEM Outsourcing to India

Nowadays with the rise of globalization, many companies are turning to outsource their SEM campaings to India. By outsourcing the SEM campaigns, these companies are benefited by saving their payroll, overhead cost and it's a giant step in freeing up valuable time.

The most successful businesses of today have gone to outsourcing and now have time and money to spend on differentiating themselves in the marketplace.

Cost Effective - This is one of the major benefits from outsourcing SEM to India. Significant cost saving can be achieved by SEM outsourcing to India, owing to the wide gap between the personal costs in India and that of the developed countries.

Human Resources - India is world's second highly populated country, so human resources are a boon by itself. India is a country of highly qualified and technically skilled English speaking professionals. The qualified manpower of the country is well equipped with equally good exposure and experience in the new and upcoming technologies. The experience and expertise ranges from providing solutions to a small grocery vendor to a large MNC corporation.

Communication - Each and every part of India is connected with the telecom today. India prides in the reliable satellite communication links that facilitate good band connectivity with the rest of the world. Thus companies engaged in SEM outsourcing to India, can be in touch with the vendors without any connection hurdles. This plays a significant role in determining the success of offshore SEM outsourcing to India.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Diaplay Ad Builder Tool - How It Works?

I have checked out the new Display Ad Builder Tool and it is looking really cool. AdWords has provided templates in numorous formats and also based on the domain verticals. This is really a cool stuff from Google AdWords. PPC advertisers who need to design an image ad quickly and effectively can use this ad tool and design one in no time. All you need is to follow the instructions that AdWords has provided to us. I personally tried one and i find it really useful. you can also create a Flash ad type Display Ad using static images. Thats really nice one because you don't need to spend money for creating flash ads anymore.

This tool is highly customizable and it is fun too....Try your hands on it and let me know your comments on  this new Ad Builder Tool from Google AdWords.

Regards,
FourPx

Google AdWords Opens Up A New Level Of Reporting Detail

In AdWords report there is new level of detail in its metrics reports. There is a separation between the numbers for Google ad campaigns and campaigns run on Google’s search partners. Sounds like a good sign huh!!!

From now,  you can see how your ads are performing on the Content Network, Ask.com, AOL, and other search partner websites that Google partners. This should have happened before. It's okay... Upon analysing the performance of the network, PPC advertiser can opt in/out of the corresponding network based on its performance. Another option is the ability to opt out of the search partner side of advertising without opting out of the Content Network.  Now we can optimize the campaign in much more effective manner than before. This saves us a lot of time and budget.  So, we have more options to analyze and find out things like which network suits us for marketing the product? Google AdWords is also trying to release more and more updates...do check back for more interesting info's.

Regards,
FourPx

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

How To Select A Domain Name

Nowadays, getting a domain name is more challenging than promoting it. There are two types of  marketing using  a domain name that goes deep in to the marketing techniques.

Brand Exposure using a  Domain Name
Domain based Product Promotion

Normally, MNC's often choose brand exposure but affiliates can go for Vertical based domain names. Now, advertisiers can come across one more issue. You won't be able to register the domain name that you are looking for since those would have been already booked. Then how to solve this issue, In this case you could use Hyphens as an alternative and effective solution for overcoming it. Main advantages of it is you can clearly reach the customers using this service oriented domain names. This is a simple solution for avoiding a lot of budget thats needs to be spent for purchasing a premier domain names.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Key components of a winning PPC advertising program

Pay-per-click (PPC) is an advertising model in which advertisers pay for click-through to their website. An effective PPC campaign can help to reduce the cost per click and increase profit. There are four key components of a winning PPC advertising program:

1. Explore

2. Evaluate

3. Expand

4. Enhance

Explore
The exploration phase requires information gathering and assessment, which includes historical PPC account data, and internal Web analytics data.
Determining the amount of additional keyword and competitive market research depends on the quality and quantity of information collected in the initial research phase.

two to four weeks in duration.

Evaluate
The evaluation phase consists of implementing the PPC program test strategy (keywords, text ads and associated landing pages) and monitoring performance.
In this phase, the goal is to determine which keyword phrases, ad copy, landing pages and bid strategies have the greatest potential.

Expand
The expansion phase focuses on increase the number of keyword phrases in the overall PPC advertising program to generate the desired quantity of leads or sales without sacrificing conversion performance.

Enhance
The enhancement phase involves constant tuning and tweaking of keyword phrases, text ad copy, landing page elements and bid strategies. Typically, this phase incorporates A/B testing
to ensure PPC program performance.



Sunday, October 12, 2008

Test Your Campaigns For A Successful Pay Per Click Advertising

As the title goes, advertisers need to constantly and consistently need to test for acheiving higher ROI. Every one talks about testing but how to do it?...Let me explain, actually it's a simple but effective logic that all the advertisers need to do....While testing, advertisers should not keep on changing various parameters like adjusting Max CPC, Budget and other parameters randomly...Advertisers need to go one by one slowly and steadily. For example, if you want to test any new adcopy, do not add it to any adgroups blindly, just analyze which adgroup will be relevant to the adcopy you are going to test and add it to that particular adgroup alone. It is necessary to change the Adcopy delivery option to rotate, wait for few days for getting valuable data to analyze. Then decide upon whether the adcopy is really worth it to try with other adgroups or not. Performace of the adcopy normally depends upon its CTR and also in Conversion Rate of it. This process is an ever ending process and this leads to advertisers to find quality adcopies......

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

How To Choose Quality Keywords For PPC Accounts

Keyword generation is one of the most important aspects for the PPC accounts to generate traffic to the desired website/landing page. Normally, people would generate keywords in many ways that they are familiar with. Now, I would like to share few ways in which high traffic plus low CPC keywords can be generated.

Plural Keywords

Plural forms of keywords normally have medium traffic with low cost. These types of keywords generally work with Google AdWords.

Synonym Keywords

You can just use Dictionary.com website to get few synonyms of your keywords and try to find if there is any keyword count for your generated synonym keywords.

Off Season Keywords

You can use few off-season keywords, which will have some potential traffic though not major traffic due to off-season.

Competitor Keywords

Try to find out your competitor’s product and generate keywords with those and try to generate traffic out of it.

Dot Com Keywords/ Branded Keywords

As the name suggests, try to get Dot Com keywords, which is also called branded keywords for generating quality traffic to your website.

Long Tail Keywords

Long tail keywords are three to four word keywords. These keywords definitely have quality traffic with a lower cost. Try to find those types of keywords.

Misspelled Keywords

Misspelled keywords are really cool way to get traffic. These types of keywords arise due to typo errors. Though keyword tools do not show much traffic, they really be useful for generating quality traffic.