Anthony's presentation from the North Kent B2B 2015 #DigiSessions.
What is Pay Per Click advertising, and how could it benefit me? Anthony explores what PPC is, how it works, and how exactly it can be successfully optimised in order to maximise your ROI.
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What is PPC?
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What is PPC?
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- PPC = Pay Per Click
- Pick words/phrases your customers are searching
- Set what you are willing to pay per click & a daily budget
- Create ads
- Go live and review
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What is PPC?
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- How much do I pay in the auction?
- Google calculates your actual CPC (Cost per click) based
on a number of factors
- The key is to be thinking
about:
- Relevancy
- Targeting
- Goals
Bid
Quality
Score
Relevancy
Click
Through
Rate
Load
Speed
Competition
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PPC Strengths
- Fast to setup
- Flexible
- Easy to learn… difficult to master
- Huge amount of control
- Be in the moment
- Can be switched on or off
- Google rewards relevance
- It’s progressive
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PPC Weaknesses
-It costs per click and easy to spend a lot of money quickly
-Google doesn’t really help you out in that regard
-Lots to learn, it changes quite regularly
-It can be competitive
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Key Strategies
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How to get clicks for Less?
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Key Strategies
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Provide the user with a great experience
Google will reward you
The customers will reward you
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Key Strategies
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Key Strategies
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Shoes
ShoesAds
Shoes
adgroup
Red shoes
Red shoes
Red shoes
adgroup
red converse
trainers
red converse
trainers
red converse
trainers
adgroup
Landing page
Keyword
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Key Strategies
-Don’t ignore the other engines
-Higher Conversion rates & lower CPCs
-Build on Google
-Expand to Bing/Yahoo
-Chinese & Russian markets
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Optimisation
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Ad 1 Ad 2
Traffic
Increase relevancy with
landing page & Adcopy testing
Page 1 Page 2
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Optimisation
-Adwords Editor
-Offline management
-Quicker and easier
-Can back up the
account
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-Ensure you break
the account out
-Remove the poor
performing bits
-Allow more
budget to go to
the better
performers
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Average
performance
Good
performance
Bad
performance
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performance
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performance
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performance
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performance
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performance
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performance
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performance
Stage 1
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Optimisation
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-SQR’s help you find
new terms
-What your
customers are
actually typing in
-Improve relevancy
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Optimisation
22. -Relevancy is critical
-As is the account structure
-Landing pages & copy testing
-Search Query reports & data
-Think about your customers motivations
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Next Talks
-Next talks today
-Making the most of a Responsive Site - 2.40pm
-An Intro To Pay Per Click - 3.20pm
-Further events
-Get social Kent 29th October at Canterbury
College
-GIANT talk 17th November at Hazlitt theatre,
Maidstone
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Giant Talks
Our next GIANT talk is…
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It’s FREE!WHEN? Tuesday 17th November, 9:00am - 12:00pm
WHERE? The Exchange Studio, Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone
Limited spaces, book by speaking to one of us or email: robyn@sleepinggiantmedia.co.uk