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
Friday, October 17, 2008
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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