The document provides tips for optimizing a Google AdWords campaign, including starting with goals and understanding intent, organizing keywords and ads, focusing on relevance, using negative keywords, expanding keywords, and refining the campaign over time based on performance.
3. Startwith a goal
Learn the landscape
Understand Intent
Organize
Launch Simple, Refine Often
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4. Laptop battery replacement
• Specialize in business market
• Offers both direct replacement (OEM) and
enhanced quality product
• Not a low cost product
• Key brands carried are Dell, IBM, Lenovo
• Average order is $100 at 45% net margin ($45)
profit
• Large orders ($2000+) occur for about 5% of
orders
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6. Profit per Orders per Conversion Value per
order ($) customer % visitor
Estimations are a good start
Visitor value – Spend = Return on Ad Spend
(ROAS)
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9. Operator Example Use
Site: Site:cnn.com obama Find a concept on a specific site
Related: Related:dfwsem.org Find sites similar to another
“ oneword“ “linsanity” Search exactly this way – don’t
substitute
“more words” “Porsche rumors” Keep the words together, in order, with
no additions
- (minus) Battery -alkaline Exclude the concept
~ (tilde) ~battery Expand the word to similar ideas
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11. KEYWORDS ADS
Relevance is key Note techniques used by
Compile a list competition
• Group by theme “seed” • Keyword Usage
• Draw themes on paper • (Official Site)
Intent will help refine • ™ and ®
• Prices
• Offer codes
• Local extensions
• Social
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13. Branded
Dead Related searches
Local
End
• Search Refinements
Search
Search Landscape
results
News /
Purchase
• Competition can be
Info
good
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14. • Low intent • Expensive to
• Cheap “steal” traffic
• Soft Goal • Challenger
match strategy
Info Brand
Local Purchase
• In-person sale • Expensive
• Goal of • Sale
directions or Conversion
contact
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15. Well matched
center
Less relevant
further out
Bids can
overcome
relevance, but
cost more
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16. Broad
Broad modified
• +word
• Locks
High “Phrase” word
Negative
Volume
• -word
• Eliminates
[Exact] • Combines
Low
with other
Exactly as typed modifiers
Control
-[word]
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17. Negative match obscenities and hate
words
Dead end intent negatives added
Language and channel exclusions you
can’t support
• Mobile as separate campaign, always
Broad match modify “seed” words
• +laptop
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18. Campaign Battery
Laptop Dell
Ad Group General Replacement
Keyword Laptop
Battery
Laptop Power
Broken laptop
battery
Model E6410
Battery
Dell Battery
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19. Avoid un-needed complexity
• Think “seed”
• Landing page and/or ad copy drives ad groups
• Different “settings” drive campaigns
Time, location, device, language
Prune and reorganize
• Quality Score below average
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20. Not allowed Recommended
• Abbreviation • Use keywords
• CrAZy CaPitals • Include a reason to
• Too much !!!!!! click
• Unverifiable info Offer, action, or goal
• Have a title (25 char) • Use appropriate
that can’t stand alone extensions
• Ads for “useless” pages • Display url
• Words from landing
page
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