2. Agenda - Morning
Introduction to online advertising & Managing Your Account
Google AdWords - Creating an account
- Who are we all? - Creating a campaign, step-by-step
- Types of online advertising - Understanding campaign, ad group, and keyword
statistics
- Intro to PPC – AdWords, Bing, YSM
- Editing Campaign Settings
- AdWords vs FB vs Linked In, etc
- Editing CPCs
- Basics of pay-per-click advertising
- Introduction to AdWords
Developing Quality Keyword Lists
- Features
- How to Develop a List
- Benefits
- Using the Keyword Tool
- Basic terminology
- Creating Compelling Ad Text
Creating Your AdWords Account - Developing ad variations
- Ad writing workshop
- Starter vs. Standard edition
- How to create an account
- Proper account structure
- Account organization options
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3. Agenda - Afternoon
Tracking ad performance Beginning Optimization
- Conversion Tracking - Using the Report Center
- Google Analytics - Campaign Optimizer
- Location targeting
Optimizing to: - Demographic bidding
- Increase conversions
- Increase traffic Best Practices
- Increase Quality Score - Organise by Theme/Product/Service
- Improve landing page quality - Keywords Research
- Include Keywords in Advert
Using the Google Network - Use Correct Landing Pages
- Ad types (Image Ads, Local Business Ads, Mobile Ad, - Enable Tracking/Conversion
Click-to-Play Video Ads)
- Placement targeted campaigns Quality Score
- CPM bidding
Billing & Reports
- Understanding Billing
- Billing Cycle
Open Q&A
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7. What is PPC?
Pay per click (PPC) is an Internet
advertising model used on
websites in which advertisers pay
their host only when their advert
is clicked.
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8. Setting PPC Objectives
• Critical to decide clear cut-off points before starting
• What is your objective in numbers?
• How much can you afford to pay for a sale / lead
• What’s your current conversion rate on enquiries?
• Are you willing to pay €10 for a lead? €50? €108?
• What countries are you geo-targeting?
• Eg - Can you handle Spanish-language enquiries?
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10. PPC Overview
• Bid for your position against the competition
• Higher your bid, higher your position. (1st not always
best)
• Greater competition = greater cost
• No charge if user sees your ad
• Only pay if user visits your website
• Clicks charged direct to credit card
• Simple way to test if your website can work for you
• Requires lots of testing to maximise ROI
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17. Why AdWords?
Targeted Results
You have Total Control – You set the Budget
Campaigns are Measurable
Pay only for results (ie when your advert is
clicked)
18. Criteria for Success with Adverts
Solid and Expansive Keyword Research
Deliver Compelling Adverts that Cause Click-Through (CTR)
Creating Effective Landing Pages (that initiate a “conversion”)
20. Creating Your AdWords Account
Starter versus Standard Editions
Creating an Account
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21. Google AdWords Account Structure
Account Level
Campaign Level
Adgroup Level
Keywords
Adverts
Structure your campaign to mirror your website
Manage multiple accounts with My Client Center
Create separate campaigns for multi-region advertising
Use AdWords Editor to manage your campaign
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22. Google AdWords Account Structure (Example)
Account Level
- Travel Company
Campaign Level
- France
- Spain
- Portugal
Adgroup Level (Spain)
- Malaga
- Costa del Sol
Keywords
Adverts
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24. Creating Your Campaign
Plan, plan and plan some more!
Complete Keyword Research
Decide on your campaign structure
- Does your campaign reflect your business/website?
Develop your campaign BEFORE going to
AdWords
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25. Keyword Research
Foundation of your online marketing campaign (for both
SEO and PPC)
Example “Global Warming” vs “Climate Change”
Draw up your Keyword List
- Study your web stats program
- Brainstorm
- Competitors web sites
- Use Online Tools to check frequency of use
- www.wordtracker.com
- www.goodkeywords.com
- GOOGLE KEYWORD TOOL
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27. Create Compelling Ad Text
Be Concise, To the Point Support claims on landing page
Relevant, accurate text Repeated punctuation allowed
Targets specific keywords No double-serving from multiple
accounts
Clear & Accurate display URL
No superlatives/hyperbole allowed
Working destination URL
No inappropriate language
Use Proper Grammar
Use direct calls to action
Capitalise First letter of words
No pop-ups on landing page
Follow the Searchers’ Thought Process!
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29. Workshop
Example
(Someone in the class?)
OR
- Cahernane House Hotel
- Create (short) Keyword list
- Develop campaign
- Create Advert copy
- Landing Pages?
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38. Quality Score
Advertisers want to show relevant ads
USER so that users will click on their ads and
land on their site
Users want to see relevant ads so they
can easily find what they're looking for
in the shortest amount of time.
Google wants the best experience for
both advertisers and users so that
advertisers continue to use the
ADVERTISER GOOGLE AdWords program and so users
continue to use Google
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39. Quality Score
CTR is the biggest component in Quality Score.
According to Google “the biggest one by far is CTR”.
By allowing searchers to vote with their clicks, Google gets help
from millions of people in determining which ads are best for each
search query
Work to increase CTR
- Diligently split test ad copy. Often the more profitable ad has a better CTR.
- Theme out ad groups logically, and write ad copy relevant to the keywords bid
on.
- Choose keywords carefully. Often words that are only vaguely relevant work in
content themes, but have poor search Quality Score because of low CTR
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40. Quality Score
Google’s business is built on relevancy, and that’s increasingly
reflected in landing page Quality Score.
Google rewards sites it considers relevant, honest, and authoritative
– not just on the organic side, but with landing page Quality Score
Landing Page quality is essentially pass/fail option.
With a poor landing page quality score, keyword Quality Scores
often stick in the 1 to 2 range and top out at about 4.
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41. Quality Score
Google WANT you to have high QS and will tell you when you do not
have this
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44. How QS Affects Ads
Ad Rank
AD RANK = MAX BID X QUALITY SCORE
Example
BID QS AD Rank Position
€4 1 4 4
€3 3 9 2
€2 6 12 1
€1 8 8 3
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45. Cost of Your Ad
Pay the minimum amount necessary to retain your position.
Price (1) x QS (1) > Bid (2) x QS (2)
=> Price (1) = (Bid (2) x QS(2)) / QS (1)
BID QS AD Rank CPC Cost
€4 8 32 (24/8) €3
€4 6 24 (12/6) €2
€4 3 12 Min Min
If QS increases then cost descreases.
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51. Demographic Bidding
Only operates with Content Network
Campaign/Settings/Demographic Bidding
Only a small range of Google partner sites have demographics
available
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70. Best Practice
Best Practices
- Organise by Theme/Product/Service
- Keywords Research
- Include Keywords in Advert
- Use Correct Landing Pages
- Enable Tracking/Conversion
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