Saturday, November 12, 2011

The Most Effective Pay-Per-Click Techniques

By Jerry A. Taylor


Having PPC marketing as part of your internet marketing plan is one of the best ways to produce high quality, even qualified traffic to your website. Nevertheless, there are specific strategies and techniques you have to be mindful of before you can start. Below are a few of the most effective pay-per-click techniques to use regularly:

The most important PPC tactics is to try out your ad copy with A/B testing, but not that much that you just spend your time monitoring such unimportant differences. You need to focus on modifying significant phrases and sentences in the ads and observing if it makes a difference in user behavior. In most cases, you will be able to spot the top performing keywords and phrases within a few weeks of testing.

When you're creating pay per click advertising campaigns, you also need to try out your lead capture pages. It is commonly a great idea to create a number of different lead capture pages and make the same ads that go to different destinations. This way, you can keep track of which lead capture pages are truly converting and which of them are placing site visitors off the mark. Use a trusted analytics tool that will help you retrieve valuable data and also assess it regularly to look for patterns and trends.

Also, you need to learn how much to pay for your clicks. According to the authors of the book "Ultimate Guide to Google Adwords", Perry Marshall and Bryan Todd, identifying how much you must pay for your clicks is more of a judgment call compared to an exact science. You need to base your reasons on the market, the budget you are settling for as well as your capability to convert site visitors into buyers of your product or service. Ultimately, you need to calculate the average amount of time that a visitor will spend with you on your website. Will the visitors simply browse around your site or will they directly buy something from your purchase page? You may need to pay much more for site visitors who are ready to purchase compared to those who are searching for basic information.

It's generally recommended that you track down negative key phrases as often as possible. The Adwords tool can easily help you determine which advertisements may be appearing for irrelevant searches, so that all you have to do at this point is to pluck out these keywords from your list so that you are not wasting your money and resources generating click-throughs that lead nowhere.

Last but not least, make sure you are not competing with your organic search listings for specific keywords and keyphrases. If you've earned the first few positions for a certain keyword on the major search engine sites, refrain from purchasing that keyword for your ads. Your goal would be to 'own' as much of the first page of the search engine results as possible, and this is possible by means of focusing on keywords instead of the ones that you have already 'won' when putting together the sponsored listing ads.

PPC marketing with Google Adwords and other sponsored search listing providers is a proven method for producing quality traffic, but that doesn't mean you can just set it on auto-pilot. You need to learn some fundamental strategies as well as tactics to draw in the type of traffic that converts.


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