Sunday, November 30, 2008

Discovering How To Bid On Keywords

By Brian Basch

It is critical to select the precise keywords for your ads. Successful marketers have learned how to do this well. It is not really that hard to do. Keyword research is the key to your success.

There is another important factor in your pay per click advertising campaigns that does not revolve around keywords. This is to do with the searchers themselves. They rarely look beyond the first 5-10 pages of their search results.

In order to be seen an ad must be positioned within the first 5-10 pages of the search results. How can you do this? By paying more money.

If you have figured out Google Adwords this section may be repetitive. However if you are new to this method of marketing this is important to know. Adwords can be thought of as a large auction. There are many people bidding on frequently searched keywords, but few on little known ones.

So be aware that you are not the only person utilizing a certain keyword. How can these search engines determine where to place an ad? Because Adwords works by pay per click the highest bidder on a key word will earn the rights to a top position. These high paid keywords are welcomed by the search engines and will always gain top positions.

It can be time consuming finding the right blend of bids and keywords, it might take some profits and losses as you experiment. Not every click will produce sales; in fact conversions are often only 10% of the click ratio. Price of product should be taken into account and of course your budget, when deciding how much to bid.

Bidding is almost as important as choosing the right keywords for your campaign. This is because if you do not have a good placement for your ad you will not draw enough traffic or sales. The road to a successful campaign is to take your time when you bid.

While working out the details of your Adword campaign be sure to keep these tactics in mind. Consider this, when you build a great pulling ad it is no good condemning it into oblivion. That is just a waste of time and money.

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