Sunday, November 30, 2008

Learning How To Bid On Keywords

By Brian Basch

It is critical to select the precise keywords for your ads. Successful marketers have learned how to do this well. It is not really that hard to do. Keyword research is the key to your success.

There are other factors, apart from keywords, which will make or break your pay per click advertising campaign. A factor that should be addressed is the fact that surfers have even less attention span than consumers listening to TV ads. This means that they will not look beyond the first 5-10 pages of search results.

This means your ad must be placed among these pages in order to be seen. How do you manage to do this? Well it all boils down to the almighty dollar.

For the savvy marketer this section is merely repeating what you already know. However if you are new to the game you might find this information helpful. Simply put Adwords is similar to a large auction. There is usually fierce competition for a keyword especially if it is popular. Only if you are dealing with very obscure keywords will you have less competition, but you will also have very few searches.

So be aware that you are not the only person utilizing a certain keyword. How can these search engines determine where to place an ad? Because Adwords works by pay per click the highest bidder on a key word will earn the rights to a top position. These high paid keywords are welcomed by the search engines and will always gain top positions.

It can be time consuming finding the right blend of bids and keywords, it might take some profits and losses as you experiment. Not every click will produce sales; in fact conversions are often only 10% of the click ratio. Price of product should be taken into account and of course your budget, when deciding how much to bid.

Nobody can deny the importance of keyword research but it is good to know that bidding is also significant. If you do not make sure your ad is in a good position you will not attract enough traffic to your ad, let alone sales. So make sure you fully comprehend the bidding process so that you can build a profitable campaign.

While working out the details of your Adword campaign be sure to keep these tactics in mind. Consider this, when you build a great pulling ad it is no good condemning it into oblivion. That is just a waste of time and money. - 16738

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