Posts Tagged ‘Google Adwords’

Website Advertising with the Google Content Network

June 21, 2009

The Google Content Network, the world’s largest ad network, lets you easily place ads – from text ads to rich media and video – in front of the right audience on the right websites at the right times.

From within Adwords advertisers can:

  • Find customers’ favorite sites, then reach them while they’re focused on relevant content.
  • Add the power of rich media to campaigns with DoubleClick and others.
  • Learn where ads just ran and how they performed with Google reporting and measurement features.
  • Improve ROI by adjusting your creative and bids with Adwords campaign management tools.

Google advertisers can reach the right audience at the right time with Google advertising tools:

Google Ad Planner

Google Ad Planner

Google Ad Planner

Google Placement Tool

Google Placement Tool

Google Placement Tool

Google Keyword Tool

Google Keyword Tool

Google Keyword Tool

Google Contextual Targeting

Google Contextual Targeting

Google Contextual Targeting

Google Placement Targeting

Google Placement Targeting

Google Placement Targeting

A Novel Bing Marketing Tactic: Buy Ads On Google

June 2, 2009

While checking my email today in Gmail I was somewhat surprised to see the following ad dsiplayed above my inbox:

Microsoft Bing Google Adwords Ad

Microsoft Bing Google Adwords Ad

Microsoft is also buying Google Adwords to promote their new Bing “decision engine” brand in Google search results.

Google Search Bing Ad

Google Search Bing Ad

Bing the brand is also being advertised in Google search results under “decision engine” as well as –

Decision Engine Ad

Decision Engine Ad

“search engine”.

Search Engine Ad

Search Engine Ad

I know its hard to believe but people still search Google.com for “search engine” and “search engines”.

In fact, according to Google – over 5,000,000 people worldwide search for either the single or plural version of the phrase each month.

Search Engine Demand

Search Engine Demand

However, a considerably smaller number of people search for the single or plural version of decision engine.

Decision Engine Search Demand

Decision Engine Search Demand

Roughly 5,000 times fewer searches in fact.

Maximizing Your Google Adwords Return on Investment

May 31, 2009

The Inside Adwords blog team has posted six tactics for maximizing an Adwords Advertiser’s return on investment.

The six tactics Adwords suggests are:

1. Focus Adwords ads on low prices and savings.

Consumers care about prices more than ever, especially on day-to-day purchases. When someone searches on a particular product, you know they’re interested; by using your ad to tell them that you’ve got the highest quality and the best price, you’re more likely to earn their click. Update your ad text to focus on low prices, good values, and timely promotions.

Adwords Low Prices and Savings

Adwords Low Prices and Savings

2. Use value-related keywords.

It’s open season for bargain hunters. To reach these deal-conscious consumers, add appropriate price- and discount-related keywords. Try the AdWords Search-based Keyword Tool and Search Query Performance report to find and higher-performing keywords that people are actually searching on.

Value Related Keywords

Value Related Keywords

3. Make sure ad groups are targeted and relevant.

Ads perform best when their ad text reflects the ad group’s keywords; this makes ads more relevant to their intended audience. Make sure that both the text and the keywords in each ad group focus on a specific topic or product. For instance, an ad group about “tennis sneakers” will generally perform better than a broader ad group about “sneakers.”

Targeted Relevant Ad Groups

Targeted Relevant Ad Groups

4. Don’t waste money on irrelevant clicks.

The wrong keywords can attract people who are looking for products you don’t offer. Use negative keywords to filter out traffic that’s not related to your offering. The Search Query Performance report can help you identify potential negative keywords by showing which queries have triggered your ads.

Irrelevant Clicks

Irrelevant Clicks

5. Make it easy for customers to buy.

Since people are spending more time comparing products and services online, make it easier for them to find what they’re looking for and buy from your site. Use the best Destination URL to send visitors directly to the page about the product or service promoted in your ad.

Make It Easy To Buy

Make It Easy To Buy

6. Focus budget on high-performers.

To get the most out of your campaigns, focus your time and resources on the keywords, ads, and ad groups that are driving the most value for your spend. To determine what’s performing best for you, consider Google’s free Conversion Tracking tool.

High Performing Keywords

High Performing Keywords

Google Adwords Quality Score 10

April 22, 2009

Today I was studying one of my Google Adwords accounts and was somewhat surprised to discover I have several 10 Quality Scores.

Google Adwords Quality Score 10

Google Adwords Quality Score 10

Now if I could only increase the search volume to this particular keyword while lowering its average cost per click,  I might be satisfied.

Free Google Adwords and Google Analytics Webinars

April 18, 2009

Google has several free webinars for search engine marketers coming up later this month through early June.

Conversion Optimiser
Learn how to get more conversions for Google AdWords campaigns at a lower cost using Google’s free CPA bidding tool.

29th April 3pm (GMT)

Google Analytics

Google Analytics I:

Getting started and tracking conversions.
An introduction into Google Analytics and how you can use it to help your online business.

6th May 3pm (GMT)

Google Analytics II

Managing your Google Analytics account set up for best results.
Advanced implementation issues for complex websites, such as third party shopping carts and sub-domains.

13th May 3pm (GMT)

Google Analytics III

Report navigation and analysis of Google AdWords data. Understanding reports and how to use them to identify areas of development for your AdWords account.

20th May 3pm (GMT)

Website Optimiser
An introduction to Google Website Optimiser and how to launch your first test to improve the performance of your website.

3rd June 3pm (GMT)

Sign for Google’s free webinars here.

TweetTrail.com Twitter Audience and Twitterer Segmentation

March 27, 2009

Organizing the Twitter audience will prove key for Twitter and its users to monetize their Tweets.

TweetTrail.com segments the Twitter Audience albeit through manual searches.

TweetTrail.com

TweetTrail.com

TweetTrail.com is a pretty cool tool.

Search for Twitter users by the frequency of Tweets containing your market related keywords to identify and follow potential leaders in your industry’s niche.

The following Tweet Trail search produces the top twenty Twitter users whose Tweets contained Adwords.

Top 20 Adwords Tweeters

Top 20 Adwords Tweeters

I am not sure how far back TweetTrail.com mines Tweet data for keywords.

Recently I have noticed Twitter has begun reducing the amount of search history available for some search terms.

I would guess Tweet Trails keyword histories are also constrained by the same parameters Twitter now imposes on Twitter search.

How To Copy Items in Adwords Editor

March 22, 2009

Google Adwords continues to add a variety of “How To” video tutorials to the Google Business video channel on YouTube.

This quick video shows how to copy and move items within an Adwords account using Adwords Editor.

Google Holiday Shopping Ads in March?

March 11, 2009

Today while in my Gmaill account I spotted an Adwords ad from Google for its holiday shopping products.

The Google Ad reads:

Tip from Google: Check out this seasons top gifts and save with exclusive discounts.

Gmail Tips from Google Adwords Ad Holiday Shopping

Gmail Tips from Google Adwords Ad Holiday Shopping

Apparently whoever was in charge of running this particular ad campaign for Google forgot to shut it down after the holiday shopping season ended – 60+ days ago.

Curious Gmail account holders who see this particular ad like I did will find the ad’s broken link routes them to a non-existent Google search results page.

Google Holiday Shopping Page

Google Holiday Shopping Page

As a rule, Google eventually finds ads with broken links and suspends the ad until the advertiser can fix or replace the faulty link.

I guess this hasn’t yet happened with this particular Google ad.

Ironic? Microsoft Cashback Buying Ads in Google

March 6, 2009

I was reading Greg Sterling’s report in Search Engine Land about Microsoft’s Cashback search promotion being added to the MSN Toolbar.

After completing the article I scrolled to the bottom of the page where I noticed two Google Adsense ads.

Google’s distributed advertising on web publishers sites is called Google Adsense.

Adsense analyzes content on web pages where it places ads and since this article was about Microsoft and Cashback – Google searched and found within its ad inventory the most relevant advertiser ads.

Microsoft Cashback Google Adwords Ads

Microsoft Cashback Google Adwords Ads

Somewhat surprisingly, the first ad titled “Rebate” Search that Pays You Back. Search Now and Save! is an advertisement from none other than Microsoft itself for their Cashback program.

Clicking through takes readers to the Cashback Live Search page.

Cashback Live Search

Cashback Live Search

Microsoft’s advertising on Google’s publishing partner sites isn’t too unusual.

It does seem a bit ironic to me however that Microsoft is also advertising their Cashback search product on Google.

Google Search Cashback

Google Search Cashback

Do competing media networks advertise their television products on networks other than their own?

I guess the search business hasn’t yet considered what implications there may be – if any –  by allowing competitors to advertise their business on each others respective search networks.

Google Innovations

February 28, 2009

David Pogue with The New York Times recently created a list of  innovations Google has produced or bought in its relatively short corporate history.

His list consists of Google products most any consumer who has been online in the last year would recognize including Google Earth, Gmail, YouTube and Blogger.

Some of the lesser known Google products and tools mentioned in Pogue’s New York Times article are: Google Docs, Picassa, iGoogle, Google Reader, Google Trends, Google Maps, Street View, Translator, 1-800-Goog411, Google SMS, Google Alerts and Google Sets.

Although the article begins by mentioning Google’s search box, Pogue doesn’t mention the greatest commercial result to come from Google’s search box by name: Google Adwords – arguably without which – none of Google’s other products would exist.

Maybe therein lies the keys to Google’s success.