From The Internet Marketing Club
Time: 40 mins with Q&A.
Presented at GoToWebinar.com
Overview Of Webinar:
1) Start with a Strategic plan, measurable objectives.
2) Do Competitive research
3) Use tools for your keywords (free online)
4) Plan your budget and bidding…prepared for flexible up or down
5) Plan a mix of media: Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc
6) Target: geographical with keywords and message
7) Jump in and start testing -it’s a real time, trial and error, process.
8 ) Track, report analyzed, and refine
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Do a test your self for PPC:
Do a Google search and think about where you would click.
In high ranking organic results 70% of users still prefer to click on left side, not the PPC on
right of search results
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5 Ideas for a winning strategy
1) Relevant/Target message, Copy/Keywords/ landing page
2) Use available real estate wisely (35 character limit)
3) Read their minds: Dynamic Keyword Insertion
4) The Margie Trick : Display URL
(Margie was giving the webinar)
5) Use ‘Eye Grabbers": Symbols & Numbers in your ad
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Winning lay out using 5 Ideas above:
1)Keywords: i.e Tigers was the example give. Need to be specific. Tigers brought results to broad. You will be wasting your time and money
2) Use available Real Estate strive for 75% + Aproximatley 33 characters in the ad
3){Keyword: Health Insurance Quotes} Appears in Bold
if exact match to user query
4)Display URL must go to the Landing. Make a custum Page URL, so it looks more relevant in the ad listing
**Tip—-you can remove the www. from the ad and give yourself 4 more characters
5) Use Symbols & Numbers (Google does NOT allow @ ~ | and other unusual)
—Although when using ‘Eye grabbers’ don’t let it become cryptic with to many
Example :
PLAYSTATION 120GB
Save up to 5% +
$9.99 Flat Shipping
GamingOnly.com/playstation120gb
Landing page success
Google reports about 50%-80% bounce rate for landing pages
Landing page relevancy to keywords and ads – Google Quality Score
Google Quality score now determines your minimum CPC, impressions and positions
What Works On the Page/Lander:
Focus the reader – i.e create a funnel (no extra navigation on the pages)
Add a UVP – Unique Value Proposition like an ebook download. Or the first chapter, a tool or article. Some sort of MUST have a call to action.
Testimonials about your product or service speaks volumes. Be sure to have a few of those on page
Offer more content upon conversion(give preview -directly related to UVP above )
A pic is worth 1000 words, but text is still important.
Fulfill the promise in the ad copy. NO Bait and Switch! Google will smack you down!
Relevant content on landing page will give a higher Quality Score and help your positions
Example Used:
eDiet.com home page is a great landing page.
They push the sale from the very home page
Search Google for: Adkins Diet…
The page created and owned by eDiet on the results pages takes you to a custom landing page.
Point being you can use a the home page, custom page or a inner page of the site.
Test and track to see which brought in more ROI..
What to test and track?
Keywords
Creatives
Offers
and landing pages
Cost per conversion
Track ROI with advance tracking using amounts.
**Final tip: Use Google Website Optimizer and dynamically test landing pages, offers, creative, etc. A/B testing. You will need some technical no-how to set it up. Once you have the understanding and it’s all set up it is well worth it.
Something New in the Works:
Margie also demo’ed that Google is offering something new..a beta + drop-down that will show products
images, prices and titles in the sidebar adds. It looked very good. To have products images right there in the sidebar ad. I would think those would help decide which web surfer/searchers are more serious about buying. I mean they can see some images without ever clicking through the ad to the lander. That saves you some $$$ on those that may just click through to see some type of product. Very cool new feature. No idea when it will be released…and I wish i captured a screen shot.
Testing with:
3 ads in an add group based on volume and Click-thru and conversion
Retire the ads that aren’t measuring up.
Google search network: Adwords
Also Google offers a Content network. (pick and choose which networks/websites) your ad will show up on. Getting more targeted placement on websites that YOU CHOOSE.
Nifty tool mentioned:
SpyFu: Spy on your online competitors. Download competitors keywords and adwords.
Another good webinar.
Thanks Jay at TenGoldenRules. Looking forward to the next on!