Monday, October 6, 2008

Making Your Pay Per Click Campaign Effective

By Brian Basch

Over the years pay per click advertising has evolved. Google's rules have changed forcing advertisers to do more than just insert massive amounts of keywords into their campaigns and forget about them. Now those old ways are no longer profitable.

If you practice these types of methods today you will find your keyword costs will rise and your keywords will become deactivated. Basic keywords now cost far more than they did, which means you have to select them more carefully.

The upside of this is the fact that it does not take too much to improve your campaign. If you take a little time to understand the reasons for Google's rules and regulations and select the right keywords, you will be able to make a profitable campaign.

Google makes its money through advertising. If viewers believe that the ads on Google are worth clicking, they make money. That means that they want to make sure all the ads on their site are legitimate.

To this end, Google is working to weed out spam, false information, and websites that don't provide anything to the viewer. Too many pay per click sites fit these criteria. If you want to succeed with your campaign, make sure Google views you as legitimate.

What should you do to achieve this? To get a higher quality score, as well as lower costs, start by adding to your site. A few extra pages telling about your site will help you in Google's eyes.

Useful additions to your site include; a separate privacy page, an "About Us" page and a list of terms and conditions. Your quality score will increase considerably if you make these additions. A contact page is very important as far as Google is concerned.

These changes may not seem very significant, but they will do wonders for your ranking in the search engines and greatly improve your PPC campaign. Another thing that will help your site is to have an XML sitemap.

An XML sitemap is basically a directory of site contents. Having one of these allows Google to easily see your site and be able to access it. You may have to pay for this but you will get a good return for your investment by saving as much as 35% on your bids.

Impressing Google with your site and obeying their rules will do a lot to help your campaign. In fact you can test your keywords yourself by doing a search for them.

After this find out about similar terms and then check the content and Meta tags on your competitors' sites. Never copy, just get an idea of what to do. Adding original content to your site will help to lower your costs and raise your quality rank with Google. - 15431

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