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  • dirtysouth
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2003
    • 2613

    #1

    Google Adwords

    Anyone up for offering some tips and tricks for Google Adwords? Like how to get the most bang for my hard earned bucks? I'm running about 15 campaigns right now and the traffic is working out pretty well. Much more productive than anything I've purchased from brokers. But I can see it can get very expensive very quick. Just looking for ideas and tips to maximize my ad dollars. TIA!
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  • chowda
    Confirmed User
    • Jun 2003
    • 9527

    #2
    use good words.

    umm no, use less competitve, non free words.
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    • WiredGuy
      Pounding Googlebot
      • Aug 2002
      • 34513

      #3
      -free
      I play with Google.

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      • slapass
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Nov 2002
        • 14625

        #4
        my best term by far has the word "free" in it.

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        • dirtysouth
          Confirmed User
          • Jul 2003
          • 2613

          #5
          Don't use the word "free"? I'm not paying for the word "free" but I do use it in one of my description lines.
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          • rabbit
            Confirmed User
            • Jul 2003
            • 2124

            #6
            if you can improve your CTR, your CPC will go down

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            • WiredGuy
              Pounding Googlebot
              • Aug 2002
              • 34513

              #7
              Depends on what you're targetting, I don't want anything where the surfer's intention was to get it free. This only applies for adwords though...

              WG
              I play with Google.

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              • cluck
                Confirmed User
                • Dec 2002
                • 5248

                #8
                Most of it's tweaking. Alot of people ditch it when they don't see returns in the first week but you just have to get on it and update your keywords constantly. If you could get a script to track which search terms convert the best for you it'd be worth its weight in gold.

                Tweak like a meth addict, yahurd?
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                • dirtysouth
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 2613

                  #9
                  I see WG. Makes sense.

                  On improving CTR, just better descriptive text?

                  What about the whole formula for placing your highest bid for a click? Any magic in there?
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                  • WiredGuy
                    Pounding Googlebot
                    • Aug 2002
                    • 34513

                    #10
                    Originally posted by dirtysouth
                    I see WG. Makes sense.

                    On improving CTR, just better descriptive text?

                    What about the whole formula for placing your highest bid for a click? Any magic in there?

                    It really is about experimentation. For some niches, you may want to be first no matter what the niche. Typical examples is if your targetting the official site for a model and all the other advertisers are trying to get the same keyword to go to same site. Chances are you want to be first in this case (or at least have the best adcopy to maximize clicks).

                    In other cases, you may want to go after volume and lower your CPC to try and maximize ROI. There's no clear cut formula to success with adwords, there's so many factors involved that you need to experiment. I easily spent $1000 when I first started in losses until I figured out what worked for me...

                    WG
                    I play with Google.

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                    • dirtysouth
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 2613

                      #11
                      Originally posted by WiredGuy



                      It really is about experimentation. For some niches, you may want to be first no matter what the niche. Typical examples is if your targetting the official site for a model and all the other advertisers are trying to get the same keyword to go to same site. Chances are you want to be first in this case (or at least have the best adcopy to maximize clicks).

                      In other cases, you may want to go after volume and lower your CPC to try and maximize ROI. There's no clear cut formula to success with adwords, there's so many factors involved that you need to experiment. I easily spent $1000 when I first started in losses until I figured out what worked for me...

                      WG
                      Thanks! Just like everything else it's gonna take some trial-n-error. Hopefully it won't be too $$$!
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                      • chowda
                        Confirmed User
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 9527

                        #12
                        adwords helped pay my way thru college.




                        -someone
                        Someone finds you...
                        2007

                        PS: Nationalnet is the best host I've ever had. And i tried alot of them.

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                        • sacX
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 2998

                          #13
                          I'm looking forward to my adwords xmas/holiday gift.. the blanket they sent last year was cool

                          like WG said trial and error, 95% of people who fail with adwords fail because they give up too soon.. I know it's a bit of a truism but with adwords really every mistake you make is a valuable lesson learned.
                          Last edited by sacX; 12-11-2003, 09:59 PM.
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