Internet Marketing

If you are trying to get a higher click through rate on your ad in Google in order to reduce your CPC in your Google AdWord’s campaign here are a few tips and tricks that I recommend you implement and use.

Google has recently (sort of) introduced new quality score measures where they are looking for the most relevant ads to appear on keywords based on a combination and mixture of click through rate, bid price and landing page quality score. This is partially in response to a bunch of junk or non-related ads appearing on some keywords across verticals that they didn’t belong to. Google has really put the squeeze on us as advertisers for others bad behavior. This has caused tons of my client’s keywords to raise to levels that they can’t afford anymore and caused me a ton of grief trying to figure out the balance on getting the algorithm to be friendly again.

I have focused much of my recent attention on A/B testing ad copy and creative along with matching landing pages for specific location or genre based keyword phrases. One of the easiest low hanging fruit methods to increase you CTR on Google is using their keyword insertion tool in your ad title. I have seen click-through’s double easily just by using this tool. Your ad also appears Bolded which makes it jump out on the page when listed next to several other paid ads.

Here is the context that you need to use when applying the keyword insert tool:

{KeyWord: Your Brand Goes Here}

By using an upper case “K” and “W” the keyword phrases will then be capitalized and look more relevant as a match to the web searcher.

Example: the user types in ‘seattle barbershops’ and if you use the keyword insert tag above your ad might appear like this below.

Seattle Barbershops
Browse Listings & Reviews of
Seattle Barbershops on Yelp.com.
www.Yelp.com/Seattle/Barbers

actual ad example:

The other tip you might want to implement at ALL times when writing your ads is to Capitalize the first letter of each word and to use ampersand (&) instead of and and at least one call to action word like “Try”, “Browse”, “View”, “Sign-up”, or “Today” and maybe an exclamation point at the end of the call to action phrase!

Now get in there and get your hand dirty under the AdWords hood. Tuning up your car is a little more easier nowadays it seems then running a healthy CPC campaign on Google.

-Brian

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