Wednesday, June 10, 2009

PPC Ads Should Be Checked Frequently

By Brian Basch

Another area of concern in a PPC advertising campaign is how your ad is constructed and whether it is pulling a good crowd to your website. You will also need to attract visitors that are interested in your product and services.

The ads of your PPC campaign are essentially small classified ads. They are built the same way, with a headline, body and call to action. The first, and most important, part of your ad is the headline. You will want something that grabs the reader's attention and draws them in further. Then, with the body, you will state one or two of the benefits of your product. You will then end the ad with a call to action, directing your potential customer to your sales page.

Split testing the ad will enable you to improve your ad and get the optimum value from it. You will have 2 campaigns set up with different ads for the same product. Each ad will lead to a different landing page so that you can track them easily. You will track them for traffic and sales conversions.

After some time you will see which ad is the strongest. You will then try and tweak the weaker ad to outperform the first ad. Once you reach this point, you can replace the weaker performer with a new ad and repeat the process. This will be continued until you feel you have the perfect ad. This process will take time, but the increased profits will more than make up for the time.

Your ad will be based around your main keyword for your business. It can be used either for an affiliate program or your own products and services. Google Adwords allows affiliate programs but not all PPC engines do.

When you create your ad try to be very sure that it will bring targeted people to your website. If your traffic is not targeted you will find that you get a lot of traffic but no sales. When you take into consideration that every click costs you money you want to have the highest sales ratio to clicks as possible.

In order to keep potential customers coming to your site, you will need to keep making adjustments to your ads. In order to help you do this, Google Adwords offers a variety of tools and tutorial to aid in the management of your ads and your entire PPC advertising campaign.

A lot of people, while focusing on their keywords and bidding very intensely, will post and ad and then forget about it. This is extremely unwise. Your ads are what will herd your customers to you. If you do not continue to maintain a strong ad your campaign may end up failing.

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