How To Increase Conversions With Google Adwords Campaigns

2 June, 2011 (10:43) | Search Engine Marketing | By: Royce R. Ward

If you’re just getting started with pay-per-click advertising, reaching out to your target market may not be a simple process. Even when you understand what keywords your target market is using to find information you have, there is no guarantee that they will convert – that is, sign up for or purchase a product or service you have to offer. However, there are several other ways to increase conversion rates for your Google Adwords campaign and ensure that you keep getting high quality, targeted traffic to your website.

Perry Marshall, Google Adwords pioneer and guru suggests maximizing Google Adwords by assessing various ads. Identifying keywords that convert becomes possible through innovative research techniques and writing effective ads that create impact to the readers.

Improve conversions using Google Adwords with these six more ways:

1. Know about Google’s “dynamic keyword” feature. This feature allows Google to place as headline the search term your visitor looked for in the search box. When you are not sure what keywords to use or how to come up with a headline, you can always turn to the “dynamic keywords” as this can make your ad pertinent to them at once.

2. Alter only one word when you evaluate ads against each other. As proposed by Perry Marshall, test ads must be segregated to monitor conversions as well as pinpoint the most effective ad after the trial period. You can do this by ensuing minor edits or changes to your initial ads. Change just one word in the headline or keyword in the body’s copy to learn what knocks the socks off your targets.

3. Avoid running your ads on the content network right away. This feature does not guarantee the immediate generation of your desired traffic for your ads. Hence, it is advisable to turn this feature off and instead take note of the basic search results pages.

4. Apply the geographic targeting feature. If your goal is to sell products or services locally, then this feature helps you achieve just that. This allows you to reach out to the target market based on their location. Take note that a good number of businesses do not have a target market at international or global level hence advertising may not be applicable in that. In addition, you will definitely have a soaring number of traffic to your website once you refine your Adword reach.

5. Don’t use ‘www’ in your URL link. You don’t have to use the ‘www’ for the link URL, so you can save those extra characters for your website extension instead. This looks better visually, and may encourage more clicks because people will get a fair idea of what they are clicking to when they click on the ad. Just make sure that the link does in fact go to a landing page or sales page so you can make that sale or capture the lead within a few clicks.

6. Capitalize the first letters throughout the ad. The headline is one of the most important parts of your Google Adwords ad, so make sure it is easy to read and each word begins with upper case letters. You can also capitalize the letters of the ad copy and your URL link for visual appeal and a more professional look.

Marketing with Google Adwords is an effective technique that most websites can use to find more sales. Creating quality Google Ads is one of the best skills to have when using Adwords – and there are many quality training guides available online.

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