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08
June

PPC Ads Require Adjusting and Optimizing

by Brian Basch

Part of managing your PPC advertising campaign will be tweaking and optimizing your campaigns so that you can get maximum ROI from them. You will do this in a number of ways. There are three areas that you will be concentrating on.

The keywords in your PPC advertising campaign are critical to its success. This is one of the main areas you should address when it comes to adjustment. Keyword performance should be analyzed and adjustments will be made to improve it. You can add new matches and keywords to draw as many sectors of your market that you can to your website. Poor performing keywords should be put on pause as you do not know when they might come in useful again. This is because searchers change the sets of keywords that they use to look for a topic.

How you bid on these keywords is also vital to the success of your campaign. Bidding will determine the position your ad receives so it influences whether you are maximizing your profits or losing money. When you observe a strong keyword in a low position it is wise to increase your bid. Look at it this way: If you are getting a good number of sales from a keyword in such a low position, just imagine the sales that could be generated from a position closer to the top. You may also consider adding similar keywords to your repertoire to maximize your efficiency.

Adversely a low performing keyword in a high position can be adjusted, so that you are paying less for it and it will be in a lower position. This will save you money, which can be spent improving better performing keywords, sometimes if the keyword is really performing badly you can just put it on pause and replace it.

Next you will want to examine your PPC campaign’s ads. Just as the search trends can change, so too can the effectiveness of your ads. You can’t just let your ads sit and remain the same for long periods of time. By simply spilt testing your ads you can find which ads are strong performers and will in turn bring in the most profit. This can be crucial to optimizing your campaign.

Similarly, landing pages and sales pages can also be split tested to optimize your sales. Once a person is drawn to your site you don’t want them to be turned away by a poor sales page. By split testing your pages you will find what works best and what needs changed. This will lead to more sales and therefore more profit.

Recording all adjustments and results is a critical part of tweaking and optimizing your PPC advertising campaign. You can do this on a program like Excel and put all the details on a spread sheet. This is how you will determine what adjustments are working and which ones should be replaced. When you keep a record of these details you will save your time and get better results.

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