Google Adwords basic structure tips

March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today I’ve found an interesting article about some basic tips about Google Adwords:

For your Internet Marketing Strategy to be successful, you need a Sponsored Search Marketing strategy. One such tried and tested strategy is the Google AdWords scheme.

As a form of Search Engine Marketing, Google AdWords has other methods beat. This is due to the incredible versatility you’ll have by having access to more websites than any other search engine - your ad here? More accurately, your ad anywhere you want it to be. You bid on the placement you want on Google’s sites, including on it’s search engine result pages.

Here, we’re going to go into the depths of the Google AdWords structure so that you can plan your search engine marketing campaign better as a part of your Internet Marketing Strategy.

A typical account on Google AdWords follows this structure:

Campaign> AdGroup> Keywords and Ad Copy

Just one level below the main level of your Google AdWords account, you’ll find the campaign level, where you’ll have control over settings like language, geographically based targeting and the timing for when you’d like your ads to appear. This can be set by the quarter hour. The campaign level and theme of your AdGroup (e.g. - your campaign itself) should match, or be related at the least.

Campaign> AdGroup> Keywords & Ad Copy

A level down is the AdGroup level. This section of your Google AdWords account is where you can organize your keywords. This can be done with amazing granularity; you can use up to 10,000 different categories to organize your keywords by AdCopy relating to them. You’ll want to ensure that your AdGroup is named in accordance with the keywords within that group.

Campaign> AdGroup> Keywords & Ad Copy

The keywords in the Google AdWords will come directly after the Ad Group. These are the words you would want the search engine to target. You can use three different techniques in order to make your keywords list:

Broad Match Keywords -

Here, the search engine targets the words that were entered by you, any words that might be found to be in any combination with them or even between them.

Phrase Match Keywords-

Here, the words can be found beside each other but the keywords find a way to put themselves on to either end of the sentence.

Exact Match Keywords-

This is the exact similar word your AdCopy is looking for! Thus, AdCopies and keywords should be relevantly correlated.

Campaign> AdGroup> Keywords & Ad Copy

The AdCopy forms a part of the AdGroup, and it is here that a powerful sense of connection is needed with the keyword themes in the set. There is space enough for 4 messages in the AdCopy area. These are: Title of the Ad, First Description Line, Second Description Line and the URL for Display.

The ultimate requisite for your AdCopy is for it to draw attention to itself. Ad Title is needed to create a preliminary interest whereas it is the job of the AdCopy to make the body of your ad eye-catching and appealing. You’re going to have to think out of the box. Think different to what others in the marketplace are doing. You’ll have to find a way to do this even if it means capitalizing all the words, grabbing viewer attention with the first word and drawing them into the actual message which you want to convey.

Your AdCopy will be a bit different depending on whether you have a product or a service which you’re selling. Service providers should think locally and take full advantage of the geographical targeting capabilities of Google AdWords.

Summary:

AdWords accounts have all of the essential elements to work perfectly as a method of target marketing. Even before bidding, you know exactly who your ads are going to reach; an advantage held by very few in the fields of marketing and advertising. There is yet more to learn of course. Even after half a decade in the business, we here learn new aspects of AdWords almost daily. The world on online advertising is constantly growing and changing and you must stay on top of things. Google Analytics is a good way to do just that.

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