Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Profitable Management Of An Adwords Campaign, After The Launch

By Brian Basch

Give yourself a pat on the back! Everything seems set to go; choosing keywords, bidding, market analysis and even placing your ad in a favorable position. On top of this you have been able to take advantage of Google's tutorials and keyword research tools, to get your campaign off to a flying start. In fact it seems like you may not have to bother with it for the next 6 months. So what's next?

The bad news is that you are not yet done because the real work is yet to come. Tracking is critical to your campaign. You will need to do this for all your ads, to make sure they are performing to maximum capacity.

You can do this in a variety of ways. Adwords will help you with this as it has a tool to show you the exact amount of traffic an advertisement is drawing. You can also do this with tools on your website. From these results you can calculate how many leads and sales were produced by a single advertisement.

It is critical to do this as an Adword campaign that is not working can cost you money. A failing campaign will stop you from focusing on the ads that are working, will produce useless leads, and be a complete waste of money. It is always good to keep in mind that you will be paying for your ad even if it is unproductive.

When you have an ad that is no good, you need to think what can be done to improve it. True you may have a good position in the first 5-10 pages but you still need to make improvements with the keywords. In order to get more views to your ads it is sometimes a temptation to choose popular keywords. This is because you might think that a popular keyword will draw traffic due to supply and demand.

Unfortunately frequently searched keywords are not always targeted for your specific market. They are the keywords that searchers begin their search with but not necessarily the ones that will bring potential customers to your website.

You will have to strike a happy medium between general keywords that draw the crowds and keywords that are more specialized and will bring in the sales.

To be successful with your Adwords campaign, you will need to keep a close eye on it. Of course the success or failure of your campaign will have an important impact on your business. Be sure to pay detailed attention to the management of your campaign to ensure the ongoing success of your business.

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