Monday, February 23, 2009

Manage your Adwords - Keyword Selection Clues

You can grab your client's attention by entering into the conversation going on inside her head. Google can help you to accomplish this and get higher clicks as well, by skillful use of keywords in your ads. One of the premier rules of AdWords management is; capture the attention of more people by bidding on more keywords.The thing that helps you give your clients satisfaction is showing them that you know what they are thinking. Showing them that you know just what kind of day they had today. That is just what it is to join the conversation that is going on inside your client's head. When you seamlessly enter and communicate using the same words he uses and about the same topics that are important to him, that is when he will listen to you.From the conversations in their minds, people draw the keywords that are typed in for search. When your ad says just what they are thinking, then you will grab their interest. Therefore when you have your keywords showcased in the headline, body and URL of your ad you are practicing sound advertising strategies.The more places in your ad that you have keywords showing up, the better your chances of getting the clicks. That means the headline. That might mean the body of the ad. That even means the display URL. If someone types in "German" or "Learn German," notice how many times they'll see their keyword in this ad:Want to Learn German?5 Crucial Principles You Must Know To Master German, and Fastwww.MasterGermanFaster.comWhen powerful AdWords Management equals knowing what people are searching for and sending it right back to them in the form of an ad, where do you look to find what it is they are searching for. How do you find the great keywords and more importantly the keywords that can boost profits?The quickest place to start is with Overture's Keyword Selector Tool, available for free at http://inventory.overture.com. It gives you an immediate sense of how valuable each of your keywords will be relative to the others.458,579 learn german103,157 german shepherd85,210 german22,970 german dictionary16,990 german english dictionary16,294 german translation15,992 german shepherd dog14,409 german translator13,037 german shepherd puppy11,646 english german dictionary10,187 german to english9,810 german to english translation9,800 german short hair pointerThe List above clearly shows where you will find the money and the traffic. Also clear are the keywords that don't belong on your list.Without spending a dime it is already clear what your most prominent negative keywords are. Negatives are the keyword you want to specifically keep your ad from showing when someone uses them to search. Just put them in your list beginning with a negative. Such as:-dog-puppy-shepherd-pointer-dictionary-translator-translation-hair-etc.Your ads won't show anytime people include these words in their search.So how much will these keywords actually cost to bid on? To get your answer, head over to the Yahoo Resource Center, which you can find at www.overture.com, and click to see the "Bids Tool." When you enter "learn German" in the pop-up search box, Overture gives you a list of the prices advertisers are paying to promote their products on Yahoo sites. They start at $0.47 and bottom out at $0.05.Of course, this is Overture, not Google. At the time of this writing, positions on Yahoo's search pages are determined by bids and bids only, whereas on Google you get preferential treatment for having an especially good click-through rate, and the competition, and the nature of the traffic, are different.Not to worry though. This tool is only an initial indicator of what kind of business advertisers are getting from their clicks on Yahoo. This example says advertisers wouldn't pay more than forty-seven cents for a click for "learn German". This is an indicator. Contrast that with "home mortgage" where bids top off at $4 and you can see how lucrative, or not, "learn German" is.

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