Adjust and Optimize Your PPC Ads
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009In order to maximize the profits of your PPC advertising campaign and keep it in perfect working order, you will need to make adjustments to several areas. Below we will discuss the common areas which need to be focused on when making these tweaks.
The first aspect of your PPC advertising campaign which will need tweaking are the keywords. Since keywords are crucial to the success of your campaign they will need to be adjusted quite often to keep them optimized. The trends of searchers change frequently so you will need to weed out poor performers and add new words to replace them and broaden your horizons.
How you bid on these keywords is also vital to the success of your campaign. Bidding will determine the position your ad receives so it influences whether you are maximizing your profits or losing money. When you observe a strong keyword in a low position it is wise to increase your bid. Look at it this way: If you are getting a good number of sales from a keyword in such a low position, just imagine the sales that could be generated from a position closer to the top. You may also consider adding similar keywords to your repertoire to maximize your efficiency.
At the same time you don’t want a poor performer wasting money in a high position. By decreasing your bid you will save yourself some money. If a keyword is performing completely horribly, it is recommended that you consider putting it on a shelf for a time and focusing on stronger performers.
Your ads in your PPC advertising campaign are also important. Many people set up the ads and leave them, not realizing they are giving up profits by doing this. They concentrate on keywords and bids without paying attention to the ad. A simple way to adjust an ad to make it produce optimum profits is to split test it. You can then use the best performing ad and make more sales. Split testing can be done over and over again until you get an ad that is giving you the best profits.
Landing pages can also be adjusted. You can do this by split testing, using more than one landing page for a campaign. The success of your campaign is also determined by landing pages and sales pages. It is no good having a great campaign if it is not pointing to a pulling sales page. Similarly you can split test any sales pages that your campaign is pointing to.
As you tweak your campaign to keep it in optimal working order, you should remember to always keep track of any changes you make. This will help keep track of what you tweaked so you know what is working and what is falling short. The easiest way to keep track of these changes is to put each change in a spreadsheet like Excel.
