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5 Tips For Success with Google AdWords

By Hilda Dennison
Oct 26, 2009
Whether you're an Internet Marketer or an super successful online entrepreneur, getting comfortable with Google AdWords and how it works is an absolutely essential skill. No matter how big or small your business is or the need for your product in the marketplace, there's a great opportunity for you in search engine marketing to help you increase your profit margins. Too many online marketers forgo the amazing power of search engine advertising and miss out on expanding their potential. With that in mind, listed below are the five crucial tips for Google AdWords success:

#1 Select keywords that reflects your business

Keywords often come down to your competitiveness. While this is a great metric for determining who's going to see your ad, it's not always the best way to make sure that your ad truly converts into real sales. When you're picking keywords to run your AdWords campaign on, make sure that they attract both a large amount of searches, and accurately reflect your business. When you lose either of those factors, you'll lose a large chunk of your potential customers.

#2 - Before deciding on anything final, run micro-campaigns.

What should be the first rule that any advertiser follows? What is the main purpose of advertising? To convert prospects into buyers, right?. If your ads don't do that for you, then you are wasting valuable time and money. CHANGE THEM!. To choose what to change, run a test of five, ten, or even twenty different ads and see which one gives you the most page views and conversions. Zero in on the ad(s), that best provides you with the results you need and refine it until it has a conversion rate that makes it worth its cost 10 times over.

#3 - Non-converting ads have no place in your campaign. Get rid of them ASAP, if not sooner

No, you can't spend your way out of trouble. When your ads aren't working, lose them. Focus, focus, focus and simplify. When you're running 10 different ads and only three are bringing in any real conversions, lose any ones that aren't performing. Focus on refining what already works, not on repairing what's broken. As an online entrepreneur, you may not have the resources to run a massive campaign, so focus on the small ones that achieve the greatest results.

#4 - Do your research through running test ads.

By selecting five potential product titles, or advertising tag lines, you can create an ad that not only captivates attention, but is fully optimized and above all performs exceptionally well . Run a preemptive Google AdWords campaign to work out what's going to work online and what isn't. Don't place bets with your ads, make sure that anything you run is backed up by some form of results by researching your market first.

#5 - Measure your Google AdWords campaigns with a cost-benefit analysis.

If you're running advertisements that are converting, but not in massive quantities, you need to take a step back and ask yourself if they're really worth the trouble. If your ads aren't profitable, remove them. If they're only just breaking even, figure out if they're worth the time investment, and if they're not, remove them. You'll be surprised how much even the simplest of ad campaigns can eat up your time, so be sure to calculate opportunity cost when working out how well your ads are really performing.
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