by Kirt Christensen

You’ll capture the attention of your customer when you enter the conversation already taking place inside her head. With Google, you do this, and get more clicks as a result, by using your keywords skillfully in your ad. Bid on more keywords and you can capture the attention of more people – this is one of the most important rules of AdWords management.

The one thing that you can do that will draw clients to you is to show them that you know just what they like. This is like joining a conversation in his head, telling him what his day was like, what it is like to be him. When you flow right into his mind and talk his talk and walk his walk, showing him you know what things are important to him. When he sees this 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.

If you have keywords showing up more places in your ads, you have a bigger chance of getting more clicks. Look for it in your headline. Look for it in the body of the ad and you should look for it in the display URL. Say someone is searching for “German” or “Learn German”, how many times are they going to find their keywords in this ad:

Want to Learn German?

5 Crucial Principles You Must Know To Master German, and Fast

www.MasterGermanFaster.com

If managing AdWords effectively means addressing, in a direct way, and with exactness what they are searching for and reflecting that back to them, how can you find out what they are searching for? Where can you find lists of the good and lucrative keywords?

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 german

103,157 german shepherd

85,210 german

22,970 german dictionary

16,990 german english dictionary

16,294 german translation

15,992 german shepherd dog

14,409 german translator

13,037 german shepherd puppy

11,646 english german dictionary

10,187 german to english

9,810 german to english translation

9,800 german short hair pointer

Take a quick glance at the above list and you will see where the traffic and money are. It is clear as well that some of those keywords don’t belong on your list.

You haven’t spent a penny yet and you already know what your major negative keywords are going to be. These are words you include in your list where you specifically do not want your ad to show when people type them in. You enter them into your keyword list with negatives in front of them. For example:

-dog

-puppy

-shepherd

-pointer

-dictionary

-translator

-translation

-hair

-etc.

When someone uses this word for a search, your ads will not show.

What is it going to cost you in reality, to bid on these words? To fin the answer to that question go over to the Yahoo Resource Center at www.overture.com, and select the “Bid Tools” button. After you put in “learn German” in the search box, you will be shown a list of prices that advertisers will pay to advertise their goods at Yahoo sites. They range all the way from forty-seven cents down to five cents.

This information of course is from Overture, not Google. When this article was written, Yahoo’s search pages were determined by bids only. On the other hand, with Google, you can get preferred treatment if you have a better than average click-through-rate. Also on Google the competition and nature of the traffic are not the same.

Not a problem. The Bids Tool is a quick gauge of how good a job advertisers are able to do on making money from their Yahoo clicks. In this case, nobody is willing to pay more than $0.47 per click. That tells you something already. When you compare “learn German,” which maxes out at $.47, to “home mortgage,” where Overture bids top off at over $4, you’ve got a sense now of how lucrative the learn – German market is, or is not, going to be for you.

About the Author:
Need to optimize or “fix” your Adwords & PPC campaigns? Kirt Christensen manages over $600k in PPC spending & knows what it takes to make your account hum! When it comes to ppc management companies, he’s the man!

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