Get Superior Web Site Traffic With PPC Campaign Management
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010PPC campaign management is necessary to maximize return on marketing cost for Google AdWords and other PPC ads. PPC advertising directly determines web site traffic and your ability to convert leads. It is, thus, one of the most important items in your marketing budget. But it must be managed.
PPC campaigns based on keywords and keyword phrases must be attentively managed on a daily basis. Setting up a campaign involves creation of a strategy, setting a budget and bidding on desired keywords, optimizing and creating landing pages, creating the ad copy, keyword research and selection, geographic targeting, coding, and creating analytics.
Once campaign setup is complete, the job of PPC campaign management begins. This include: monitoring of click-through activity and management of goals, scoring leads produced and managing the scores, daily tracking, weekly or monthly reporting, daily or weekly updates, improving ad copy, improving costs, revising ads, creating new ads, ongoing keyword research.
It is in PPC campaign management that campaigns are evaluated, upgraded, improved, modified for better performance. Sometimes it is necessary to shift to attract a different market segment. Your programs must always be carefully analyzed against your competitors.
You must also manage risks in PPC advertising: you place ads in the wrong places, you bid too high for keywords, or you select the wrong keywords. You could be spending money only to get the wrong people visiting your site. This is why PPC campaign management is important.
For example, if you operate a neighborhood restaurant and you specialize in Mexican food, advertising “Pizza” probably will not be effective. Even if it should cost less (which is not likely), those who click through to your site would leave immediately. With bad, or no, campaign management you end up throwing money away.
If, on the other hand, you win bids on “Tacos” or “Fajitas”, you would be more likely to get people who are ready for a Mexican meal. This is quality traffic — people who are highly likely to be interested in your products or services and to become sales leads when they arrive on your site. This is the aim.
PPC campaign management works to analyze daily changes in your competition, competitor marketing, changes in keyword selection for searches. PPC campaign management also tests and analyzes ads and responses, then edits and tests and analyzes again to find the right ad for each keyword in each market.
PPC campaign management also analyzes every part of what happens when someone clicks through to your website. Which landing page is most effective? Which part of the page generates the best rate of response? Do visitors follow the conversion process or do they drop out at some point? Why?
Good PPC campaign management monitors visitor activity, keyword usage, customer needs, competitor activity, pricing and ad impact to market your business. It then fine tunes each web site page to efficiently convert visitors to customers.
Because it is both time and labor intensive and because of the market research required, the task of PPC campaign management is frequently outsourced to campaign management companies who have the experience in bidding, the points of access to key markets and segments, and the experience in modifying ads and landing pages to achieve maximum success.
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