Don't let your ad budget balloon out of control. Learn the top five tips to running cost-effective Google AdWords campaigns—strategies you can implement today and reap the savings and performance benefits from tomorrow.
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3. Don’t! Here are five tips for
running cost-effective
Google AdWords campaigns.
4. Separate Search and
Display Networks
These are different networks, and thus
behave differently––like how their quality
scores are calculated.
Separation is the number-one way to
prevent wasting money!
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5. Use Mobile Bid
Modifiers
2Ads seen on mobile devices inherit your
ad group’s set bid––unless you change it.
If your site isn’t mobile optimized, lessen
the bid or turn it off completely.
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6. Send visitors to a
relevant landing page
Don’t just drop people on your
homepage when their search was specific.
Take them to a product or category page
so they don’t bounce right back to their
search.
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7. Focus your spend
Spreading your ad spend thin isn’t the
best tactic.
You can’t buy every keyword, so select
the best performing, and put your money
there.
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8. Enable Conversion
Tracking
If you don’t know which keywords
resulted in a sale, you can’t optimize
your campaigns.
Do this even if you cannot determine the
actual dollar amount of the sale.
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9. Let author Elizabeth Marsten show you
exactly how to apply these money-saving
strategies on the next page >>
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