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      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Ok This is my greatest friend in Adwords, and I don't hear many Adwords gurus talk about it.

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In my videos I mention to keep checking back often in the "tools" section under the Campaign Management tab in Adwords. 

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I take my own advice, and always check out when the Google Engineers are making some new kind of tool. Sometimes I try them and I am not that impressed, but there are two that you should really check out the power of.

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The best one is the advanced search and edit tool. By using the filters, I am able to spend a fraction of the time I was before doing account tweaks. Lets say you want to find all the keywords that are lower than position 8, regardless of where they are in your account, and raise them all by 10 cents. it takes just a couple seconds to do this with this tool. How about deleting keywords that have consistently gotten poor CTR over the last month? You can either perform mass edits on them, or just see what they are to get a better idea of what is actually going on.

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;There is another great use of this tool that I use a lot. Lets say that you made a mistake in the url of several ads and now want to change the landing page, or like me, start making campaigns and ads before you have even settled on the final domain name you want to send people to. You can go throughout the entire account in all your ads and change the destination url en masse, or you can change just certain ones in certain ad groups. Its nice to be able to hit a button and change the destination url for 50 ads at once and is a real timesaver.

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The other tool is the mass move/copy ad text. I actually hired a company to make a similar tool for me using the Google Api, but I end up just using the one that is built in to the Adwords interface more and more now. What it does is let you "clone" an ad group, with all the keywords and ads, onto another ad group. So lets say you want to separate out some keywords into different adgroups, but you don't want to lose the CTR history of your top performing ads. Just clone the ad group, and leave your top performing keywords in the origional one, and experiment all you want with the new one. The only thing I am waiting for is the ability to mass clone entire campaigns with all their ad groups at once, so that you can quickly add an additional website or for split testing a proven winning campaign.

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;There's always news of stuff, Like now google is trying day parting, position preferences, and now even testing cost per action and people have asked me why I don't comment on all these things. The reason is because for this blog I am concentrating only on proven stuff that has actually worked for me, and I ignore the bells and whistles until they actually prove out. These two new tools definately prove out for sure. 

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Ok kids, that's my two cents for the day.
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      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;For people that use the content network, you may have been aware about the ability to site target your campaign. Well, Google has done it again, now tweaking their technology even more, so that you can show your ads on an exact SECTION of a site. This is actually huge.

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Here's the message you may or may not have seen when you logged in:

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"Target your ads to specific pages on content sites with Section Targeting. 

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Now you can advertise on specific sections of a site in the Google content network. 

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Choose the section 'sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla' rather than all of sourceforge.net. Or place your ads only on 'anandtech.com/digitalcameras' instead of the entire AnandTech site."

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Here's a link with more information on how this works:
&lt;a href="https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=25716&amp;hl=en_US"&gt;https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=25716&amp;hl=en_US&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You know, I get mad at Google like anyone else, and then they do a tweak like this, and you see why they are the total leader in this area. For both advertisors and publishers this is a real godsend, and gives you the ability to laser target your advertising to the exact people that you most want to reach.

&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I will definately be working with this in the near future.


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      &lt;p&gt;The sales funnel- Increasing your Adwords ROI &lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;I wish there was one rule for ROI, but there are so many business types, strategies and plans out there that it is hard to justify a general benchmark.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;One thing I have found very eye opening though is to track ROI down to the keyword level. For every conversion, we want to know exactly which keyword, campaign, and ad group caused it, and whether it came from the Google site, search network, or content network.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;The secret of Adwords Copy Writing&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		As you progress in your Google Adwords efforts,&lt;br&gt;
		sooner or later you run into this- no matter how&lt;br&gt;
		great your keyword choices are, unless you can&lt;br&gt;
		make good ads your campaign is dead in the water.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		What is the secret of a good Adwords ad? Read on&lt;br&gt;
		and find out.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		The biggest problem you face is that Google considers&lt;br&gt;
		a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; ad to just be one that gets clicked on&lt;br&gt;
		the most, but you need an ad that is going &lt;br&gt;
		to bring people to your site that are actually&lt;br&gt;
		real customers, and not freebie seekers,&lt;br&gt;
		if you are going to actually make some profit.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		That is one of the hardest things about Adwords,&lt;br&gt;
		it is actually a delicate balance between ads that&lt;br&gt;
		get clicked on a lot, that Google considers &amp;quot;relevant&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;
		and the ads that have the highest possible return for your &lt;br&gt;
		advertising dollar, which are often not the same thing.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		This article is going to present a few ideas starting&lt;br&gt;
		at the basic level, and then continue with some pro&lt;br&gt;
		refinements to add to your Adwords campaigns.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		GETTING TO SQUARE ONE WITH GOOGLE&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		A lot of marketing of anything is like a funnel:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		At the biggest end of the funnel you need a lot&lt;br&gt;
		of people that are coming into your store.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Not all of those people are going to become customers&lt;br&gt;
		but your advertising has brought them in, so they&lt;br&gt;
		are mildly interested in what you have to offer, and&lt;br&gt;
		they are willing to take advantage of free information&lt;br&gt;
		and learn a little bit more. They are easily turned off.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		A certain percentage of those people above will be&lt;br&gt;
		willing to take your free pamphlet, or give you their&lt;br&gt;
		email address to sign up for your free newsletter or&lt;br&gt;
		download something that they think will help them&lt;br&gt;
		learn more.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		A certain percentage of THOSE will call, contact a salesperson&lt;br&gt;
		or if it is a small item, buy it right there.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		An even smaller percentage will become your customers,&lt;br&gt;
		and if you do a good job, become your lifeling customers, and&lt;br&gt;
		buy more products from you.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		These percentages make or break your business,&lt;br&gt;
		regardless of what you are selling.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		How does this relate to Adwords? Your Adwords&lt;br&gt;
		strategy should mirror your marketing strategy&lt;br&gt;
		for your entire business, with a couple of&lt;br&gt;
		added tweaks. &lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		The first thing we are going to do is, for the people&lt;br&gt;
		that are frustrated with their Adwords campaign,&lt;br&gt;
		getting words inactive or disabled and not being&lt;br&gt;
		able to really get the campaign off the ground, we&lt;br&gt;
		are going to build the first part of your marketing&lt;br&gt;
		funnel, which oddly enough is exactly what&lt;br&gt;
		Google wants you to do!&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		What Google wants is relevant search results.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		This probably won't ever change, and hasn't &lt;br&gt;
		changed in at least 5 years now. If you can&lt;br&gt;
		deliver an ad that delivers relevant content &lt;br&gt;
		to what a person is searching for and offers the&lt;br&gt;
		solution to that problem as a benefit statement, you have&lt;br&gt;
		won half the battle right there.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		There is more to this than you think, and tapping into&lt;br&gt;
		this Adwords secret is actually a major marketing&lt;br&gt;
		secret, if you can do it. Some people can't.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		What you need to do is...(drumroll please)&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		PUT YOURSELF IN SOMEONE ELSES SHOES.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Can you do this for real? If you are in an argument&lt;br&gt;
		with your wife can you stop and look at everything&lt;br&gt;
		exactly like she would? Can you look at the world&lt;br&gt;
		the same way the mechanic does who fixes your&lt;br&gt;
		car? If your kid wants candy, can you actually look&lt;br&gt;
		at the world like your kid would?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		If you can, you have mastered the ultimate&lt;br&gt;
		Adwords copy writing secret, and the secret of&lt;br&gt;
		master marketers. &lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Or to say it a different way, its not about YOU,&lt;br&gt;
		its about THEM&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Here is how to use this secret in Adwords, and why you&lt;br&gt;
		need to use it to the hilt:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		When people search for something on the internet,&lt;br&gt;
		they never go with the intention of buying something,&lt;br&gt;
		they go to research and find out about things, and&lt;br&gt;
		they usually want their information FREE. &lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		They came to the search engine in the first place&lt;br&gt;
		because they wanted to solve a problem. Find&lt;br&gt;
		out what that problem is, and give them the solution&lt;br&gt;
		to that problem AS A BENEFIT STATEMENT and&lt;br&gt;
		you will kill most of the other Adwords advertisors&lt;br&gt;
		out there in your market.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		The key, the mantra from Google is relevance.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		The key for you, is relevance, and what problem&lt;br&gt;
		are they trying to solve with doing that search.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Lets say someone is searching for &amp;quot;cheap&lt;br&gt;
		childrens shoes&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		That problem is obvious-the person wants some shoes for their kids,&lt;br&gt;
		and doesn't want to pay a lot for them.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Ok Sherlock, now answer these questions:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Is the searcher a man or a woman?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		How old is the searcher?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		What is their economic status?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		What kind of house do they live in?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		What kind of computer are they probably using?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Are they a Democrat, Republican, or Other?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		You are right- You don't know. But there are&lt;br&gt;
		some statistical probablilties if you are in &lt;br&gt;
		the US.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		There is a very high probability that it will&lt;br&gt;
		be a woman, who is internet saavy, and there&lt;br&gt;
		is a good chance that her household actually&lt;br&gt;
		has some good disposable income. In other&lt;br&gt;
		words, she may not consider herself rich,&lt;br&gt;
		but she is definately not poor, and probably&lt;br&gt;
		considers herself a smart shopper as well.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		So this ad should be written to HER if possible.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Just for fun, I went to Google, searched for cheap childrens shoes,&lt;br&gt;
		and I found the following ads. Here they are, in order:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Kids Clothing&lt;br&gt;
		OldNavy.com Summer's Must-Have Styles For Kids- Old Navy - Fun, Fashion 
		&amp;amp; Value&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Children's Shoes&lt;br&gt;
		www.angelcovers.org Sandals that are fun for kids! The squeaks are a 
		great parental aid.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Those were on top of the page, we would consider those positions 1 and 
		2.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Here are the ones on the right side of the page in positions 3-10:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		cheap kids shoes&lt;br&gt;
		Over 300 shoe brands.&lt;br&gt;
		365 day return policy at Zappos.&lt;br&gt;
		www.zappos.com&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Kid's Shoes at Shoebuy&lt;br&gt;
		Free Shipping. No Tax. All Sizes.&lt;br&gt;
		Plus Free Returns &amp;amp; Great Savings.&lt;br&gt;
		www.shoebuy.com&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Kid's Shoes&lt;br&gt;
		Learn About ReNForce Sneakers -&lt;br&gt;
		Durable Shoes for Your Active Son!&lt;br&gt;
		www.NewBalance.com&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Children's Footwear&lt;br&gt;
		Find the Latest Styles for Children&lt;br&gt;
		At Affordable Prices - Shop Online!&lt;br&gt;
		www.JCPenney.com&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Compare Prices at BizRate&lt;br&gt;
		Bargain Prices.&lt;br&gt;
		You want it, we got it!&lt;br&gt;
		BizRate.com&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Find Shoes at Shoes.com&lt;br&gt;
		Shop Over 200 Brands at Shoes.com&lt;br&gt;
		Free Shipping, Free Returns, No Tax&lt;br&gt;
		www.Shoes.com&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Save on Discount Shoes&lt;br&gt;
		Save 35-70% on Discount shoes.&lt;br&gt;
		Web Only Sale-20% off select items&lt;br&gt;
		www.SierraTradingPost.com&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Sandals - Free Shipping&lt;br&gt;
		Your online shoe source&lt;br&gt;
		Free Returns &amp;amp; 110% price match&lt;br&gt;
		www.shoedini.com &lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Which ads were best? It depends.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		The ultimate test is to do this same search&lt;br&gt;
		3 months from now and see who is still&lt;br&gt;
		there. That is the ultimate test of&lt;br&gt;
		what is &amp;quot;best&amp;quot;.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		One thing is that the ads that are listed&lt;br&gt;
		on the top of the actual search results&lt;br&gt;
		have to have a minimum click through&lt;br&gt;
		rate that is pretty high, in order to be&lt;br&gt;
		featured there, and a pretty high cost&lt;br&gt;
		per click, which is why you will often&lt;br&gt;
		find big lazy corporations in the top spots.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		They just pay for the number one spot, and&lt;br&gt;
		in most cases that's just the way it is. Just&lt;br&gt;
		try to outspend them. You can't.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		So in this case if you have a small shoe&lt;br&gt;
		store, forget about trying to compete with&lt;br&gt;
		Old Navy. That won't happen.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		As you look over the ads, you find a &lt;br&gt;
		couple sandal manufactures, a shopping&lt;br&gt;
		comparison site with a kind of generic ad,&lt;br&gt;
		a shoe manufacturer, another major retailer,&lt;br&gt;
		JC pennys, and a couple sites that seem to have&lt;br&gt;
		exactly what the searcher is looking for,&lt;br&gt;
		lots of shoes at discounted prices.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		So what copy would get you to click on these ads?&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Here's the benefits, extracted out of all these ads:&lt;br&gt;
		*Discounts&lt;br&gt;
		*Fun&lt;br&gt;
		*Huge Selection&lt;br&gt;
		*Return Policy&lt;br&gt;
		*Lowest Price Guarantee&lt;br&gt;
		*Desireable Styles (only in the old navy ad)&lt;br&gt;
		*No tax&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Note that if you have done your market research,&lt;br&gt;
		( Check out
		&lt;a href="http://www.dataresourceconsulting.com/marketing-surveys.htm"&gt;
		http://www.dataresourceconsulting.com/marketing-surveys.htm &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
		for how to do this )You should know what the&lt;br&gt;
		most important concerns are for your customers.&lt;br&gt;
		The only way to know for sure is to ASK THEM.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		If you don't know the key benefits your target&lt;br&gt;
		market is seeking, or what the key problems&lt;br&gt;
		or concerns they are facing, you can't write&lt;br&gt;
		an effective ad. For the purposes of this article&lt;br&gt;
		we will just use these benefits above and assume&lt;br&gt;
		they are correct.This might not be the case, and&lt;br&gt;
		out of all these benefits only one or two will be&lt;br&gt;
		the most important, but just be aware that market&lt;br&gt;
		research fits in right here and is very important.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		For now, we will just assume that our market&lt;br&gt;
		research shows that shoe shoppers want low prices, &lt;br&gt;
		great desireable styles, an easy return policy, lots of shoes&lt;br&gt;
		in stock, and lets add fast shipping to that list for fun.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Remember all we want to do at this first level&lt;br&gt;
		for you, the frustrated advertiser is make an ad&lt;br&gt;
		that people will click on, so that your advertising&lt;br&gt;
		program won't be constantly disabled by Google&lt;br&gt;
		and you can actually start getting some visitors&lt;br&gt;
		to your site.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		What is the weapon? Lets stay with relevance&lt;br&gt;
		first. One of the other advantages of relevance&lt;br&gt;
		is that if you use the keywords in your ad that&lt;br&gt;
		the user types in, Google automatically makes&lt;br&gt;
		them bold by default. So you can get a bold&lt;br&gt;
		ad for the same price as a regular ad, just by&lt;br&gt;
		making it more relevant. &lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		This helps you, especially in the title.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Not one advertisor here actually used the &lt;br&gt;
		actual search phrase in the title. So lets &lt;br&gt;
		use that to our advantage. Here's a first try:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Cheap Childrens Shoes&lt;br&gt;
		Childrens Shoes-Cheap Prices, Major&lt;br&gt;
		Brands, With Free, Fast Shipping!&lt;br&gt;
		www.mysite.com/discount&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		In this ad, the title and most of the first line&lt;br&gt;
		would be bold, which will help us. Also we&lt;br&gt;
		are tweaking the display url, and using that&lt;br&gt;
		as an additional, subtle benefit.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Here's another idea:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Cheap Fun Childrens Shoes&lt;br&gt;
		Thousands of Name Brand Discounted&lt;br&gt;
		Shoes, Shipped Fast with One Click!&lt;br&gt;
		www.mysite.com/freeship &lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		This one does the same thing, but&lt;br&gt;
		emphases convenience and instant&lt;br&gt;
		gratification, something that works in lots of &lt;br&gt;
		industries and something that internet surfers&lt;br&gt;
		are notorius for demanding.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Like anything else, you have to try&lt;br&gt;
		a few variations. I have no idea how&lt;br&gt;
		well these ads would do, and I have&lt;br&gt;
		no affilation with any online shoe store&lt;br&gt;
		or company, this is just based on&lt;br&gt;
		a 30 second quick look of one search, but &lt;br&gt;
		It is a decent first stab at it.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Now that we have conquered relevance,&lt;br&gt;
		lets take the next step:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		DON&amp;quot;T BE CHEAP&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		When you have a couple ads that you&lt;br&gt;
		want to test that you think are pretty relevant&lt;br&gt;
		to the keywords, and you have the first&lt;br&gt;
		ads to test, start out by bidding high enough&lt;br&gt;
		to get your ads in the first 4 positions.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Make your budget enough that you will&lt;br&gt;
		be one of the first ads that people see,&lt;br&gt;
		so you can be fair about how it performs.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		If you start off with the idea, &amp;quot;well I can&lt;br&gt;
		only afford 30 cents a click&amp;quot; you have already&lt;br&gt;
		lost the game.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		You might have a great ad, but if you bury&lt;br&gt;
		it on the second page of search results&lt;br&gt;
		you are going to have more automatic&lt;br&gt;
		software visiting your ad than actual searchers,&lt;br&gt;
		and your click through rate will be abysmal.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		If your budget isn't high enough your ad just&lt;br&gt;
		won't be shown enough for you to be able&lt;br&gt;
		to tell how good it is. You need at least 200-400&lt;br&gt;
		impressions (times your ad was shown) for even the &lt;br&gt;
		smallest test and the smallest budget, and Ideally all done&lt;br&gt;
		the same day, or you will drive yourself nuts.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Once you have tested your ad, either it will&lt;br&gt;
		have a better than .5 Click through Rate&lt;br&gt;
		(this means one out of every 200 people clicks on the ad) or it wont.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		If it does, you can then optimize the&lt;br&gt;
		price. If it doesn't, keep testing new ads&lt;br&gt;
		until you can get something that works.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Once you get your ad with at least a .5&lt;br&gt;
		click through rate you can then move onto &lt;br&gt;
		more advanced concepts, including optimizing the price.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Free Resource to learn more about Adwords&lt;br&gt;
		copywriting:&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Try the Adwords podcast at &lt;a href="http://www.aardvarkabductions.com/"&gt;
		http://www.aardvarkabductions.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		There is a free one hour mp3 all about Adwords copywriting&lt;br&gt;
		that you can listen to, with several leading copywriters&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		This article ended up being a little longer than I planned, and is a 
		little&lt;br&gt;
		bit to digest in one sitting, so I am going to quit here, and save the&lt;br&gt;
		optimization techniques for a second article.&lt;br&gt;
		&lt;br&gt;
		Here's to beating the system and cracking the Google Adwords code!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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 <title>Google Adwords Ad Group Rotation System</title>
 <link>http://marketingnewsblog.adwordstraining.org/node/33</link>
 <description>&lt;table width="600" border="0"&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
    &lt;td width="600"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beating Google's Adwords Rotation System&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-Advanced Technique&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt; &lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;I admit this is a little geeky and more of a pro level thing for people&lt;br&gt; 
      that have NO LIFE and are WAY too into adwords, but the potential&lt;br&gt; 
      is pretty huge, so here it goes:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;I have been noticing the same pattern over and over again in the last&lt;br&gt;
      several months with almost every new ad group started, in many &lt;br&gt;
      different industries. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Google's Adwords rotation system, while I do not know the &lt;br&gt;
      exact algorithm, works something like this:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;When you load all your keywords and ads and launch your ad group for the first time,&lt;br&gt; 
      Google assumes a 1% CTR until proven otherwise in the beginning, then tries out your&lt;br&gt; 
      first few keywords. How many it tries out depends on a few factors, like your overall&lt;br&gt; 
      account performance, your daily ad spend, your industry, and a few other factors, &lt;br&gt;
      but in a typical small account maybe your first 4 or 5 keywords just go right in, with&lt;br&gt; 
      normal delivery, just enough so Google can determine if you know what you are doing.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt; Those first few keywords either do well, or they don't. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;If they do well, Google moves on 
    and rotates new keywords in, one at a time. &lt;br&gt;
    If those keywords also do well, everything 
    is great. If they don't do well, &lt;br&gt;
    or there aren't a lot of impressions, the ad group starts
        having the delivery slowed.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt; As each new word that has 0 impressions or does poorly, 
        the position of your ads&lt;br&gt; 
        goes lower, the clicks get more expensive, and the whole ad 
        group is slowed in its &lt;br&gt;
        number of impressions overall.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt; If you delete the poorly performing
        keywords, it takes a while, but then &lt;br&gt;
        that ad group &amp;quot;builds up steam&amp;quot; again. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Lets look at 
              a typical scenario. Here you start your ad group and it starts out fine:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.adwordstraining.org/images/adwords_ad_rotation2.png" width="512" height="356"&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Next, you add in another keyword, but it doesn't go as well. Notice that the&lt;br&gt; 
      delivery is still ok though:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.adwordstraining.org/images/adwords_ad_rotation3.png" width="512" height="356"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;It is at this point that google starts rotating in the next keyword that you are getting&lt;br&gt; 
      into trouble, because according to Google, the CTR is ZERO. So, google still rotates in&lt;br&gt; 
      the next keyword giving you the benefit of the doubt, but then look what happens:&lt;br&gt;
        &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.adwordstraining.org/images/adwords_ad_rotation4.png" width="512" height="356"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Even though you tried to pay 5 cents MORE, your position goes down quite a bit.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt; There could be a lot of theories as to why this is, but a good guess is that the&lt;br&gt; 
      algorithm has calculated the CTR from all the keywords so far, and the ZERO you&lt;br&gt; 
      just got, hurt you a bit. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Regardless, I have seen this pattern over and over again. If you have a loser&lt;br&gt; 
      keyword in there, or several, Google starts slowing you down and making it &lt;br&gt;
      even harder to get clicks. Notice what happens now:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.adwordstraining.org/images/adwords_ad_rotation5.png" width="512" height="356"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;As you add more loser keywords, or keywords that don't get a lot of impressions,&lt;br&gt; 
      your whole ad group starts losing steam, and your delivery and impressions just&lt;br&gt; 
      keep slowing down.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Now in this case I am assuming that you are using relevant keywords and these&lt;br&gt; 
      keywords are related in concept, and you are targeting correctly, and you have some&lt;br&gt; 
      decent ads. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;So what do you do about this?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;There are a few options:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;ol&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Rotate your keywords putting your best foot forward, and once you have some&lt;br&gt; 
        data about the performance, arrange them so that the first 5 or 6 in the ad group&lt;br&gt; 
        are good performing keywords. You can always chose &amp;quot;edit keywords&amp;quot; and change&lt;br&gt; 
        the order in which your keywords appear &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Nuke keywords that don't get any impressions or clicks for 30 days.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Nuke keywords fast that aren't performing, and target your ads better. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ol&gt;      
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Hope this helps, remember you're only as good as your last ad group!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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 <link>http://marketingnewsblog.adwordstraining.org/node/30</link>
 <description>&lt;table width="500" border="0"&gt;
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    &lt;td width="500"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;br&gt;
        &lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;The myth about needing millions of keywords&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
        &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;There are many myths about Adwords floating&lt;br&gt;
        around on the internet.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;One of them is that you can have huge keyword&lt;br&gt;
        lists of thousands of keywords and get thousands&lt;br&gt;
        of visitors for very little cost.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;Like meta tags, this was actually true and good advice at &lt;br&gt;
        one time, but it is no longer true, even though it is repeated&lt;br&gt;
        often by people who actually haven't done Adwords&lt;br&gt;
        for real.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Adwords Copy Writing Tips</title>
 <link>http://marketingnewsblog.adwordstraining.org/node/29</link>
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    &lt;td width="500"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;Some Amazing Adwords Copy Writing Secrets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Ok, here's some copy writing tips:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt; I don't have any problem with Click Through Rate in most industries. My ads kill. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;But, the rubber really hits the road when you try to teach this stuff to someone else. Its not enough to write great ads, or I would be doing this for the rest of my life, and that's not my job. My job is successful e-businesses. So in an effort to teach people how to make good Adwords campaigns, the first step was to just get multiple people making ads and to hire professional copywriters. That worked like a bomb. But, if you are the only copywriter, kind of lonely, looking at the adwords computer screen, what do you do? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;First get your friends to help you. Anything you can do to get more people making ads besides yourself will pay off in spades. Have your friend make one ad in each of your ad groups, and then you make one, and test them against each other. See what happens. You might be surprised.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;What else can you do after that? Well now we have to get into Adwords Copywriting. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;There are always lessons to be learned from the old time direct marketing guys. Before there was an internet, people have had to solve the problem of how to write copy that would get people to respond, No matter the medium, people either respond to advertising or they don't. There is only one way to find out. TEST.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Fortunately, we have almost a hundred years of copy and tests done by people who have devoted their lives to this subject. One in particular, named John Caples had a 49 year career as a copywriter, never doing any else but write copy. 60 years later, his methods are still being used. There is no better testament to his effectiveness as a copywriter than that. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Adwords ads, while being different than classified ads are similar in that there is a limited amount of space. Some people even look at them as search results, which is what Google really wants. That's why there are all these restrictions on what you can or can't say in Google ads. But some of the same problems and solutions apply to these ads, as they do in classified ads. And for that, we can tap into a wealth of experience and knowledge from the direct marketing masters. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Lets take the headline first. If people don't read your headline, it doesn't matter how brilliant the rest of your copy is, because people that don't read the headline will not read anything further. There is a split second where people are glancing at the page. Some headlines catch their eye, others don't. Why? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;According to Caples, headlines that people actually READ (as opposed to headlines that are clever, or that advertising agencies like, or that clients or even copy writers think are good) Contain 4 important elements in approximate order of importance:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;ol&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt; Self Interest&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;News&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Curiosity&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Quick, easy way &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ol&gt;      
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt; By self interest we mean not how great you think your product is, but what is in it for your customer. Cory Rudl used to always put it like &amp;quot;What's in it for me?&amp;quot; and that is the key thing. So the first rule is that a headline like &amp;quot;Our most amazing car is now available that goes 100 miles an hour&amp;quot; while having a &amp;quot;benefit statement&amp;quot; really is written from the point of view of the advertisor, not what is in it for the reader. &amp;quot;What is in it for me is actually missing. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;&amp;quot;Zoom at over 100 MPH&amp;quot; is a much better subtle restatement of this headline.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;I will continue this thread on Adwords copywriting in my next post. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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 <title>Adwords- Ripping Beginners to Shreds</title>
 <link>http://marketingnewsblog.adwordstraining.org/node/28</link>
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	&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;ANALYSIS OF A FAILING ADWORDS ACCOUNT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Ok this is going to be a little fun, and a little brutal at the same time.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;This will illustrate the process of analyzing an account that is in pretty bad shape. I would consider over a million impressions with a clickthrough rate of almost ZERO to be in pretty bad shape.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Let's take a look:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;img src="http://adwordstraining.org/images/here%20is%20what%20the%20basic%20stats%20are.jpg" width="500" height="375"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;When we log into the account, this is what we find:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://adwordstraining.org/images/logging%20into%20the%20account.jpg" width="500" height="214"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Ok, with a 0% click through rate we have nowhere to go but up, lets see why this campaign is performing so poorly. As a side note, it is not smart to be using the Google tool to monitor those conversions, even though it is free. Get a real 3rd party tracker. Google representatives have admitted that this data is used in certain decisions Google has to make about the adwords program, and it is not smart to &amp;quot;open your books&amp;quot; to Google in this way. Ok lets look a little closer and see what we can find:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;img src="http://adwordstraining.org/images/no%20negative%20keywords%20or%20content%20network%20sites.jpg" width="500" height="359"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Notice two things- There are NO negative keywords at all, so there is no way to filter out bad or poorly performing traffic, or just plain searchers that are really not looking for a debt consolidation service that this company offers. That is the first thing, The second thing is that there are no sites listed to NOT be shown in the content network. In taking an account that is in trouble, its best to just shut of the content network completely while you work with your ROI on Google only for a little while, because almost every other option including the search network gives you worse quality traffic. So to stop the leakage, that is the first thing to do. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Lets move on a little bit more:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;img src="http://adwordstraining.org/images/analyzing%20the%20campaign%20further%20we%20find%20the%20content%20network%20is%20performing%20poorly.jpg" width="500" height="359"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt; Just as expected, the content network is performing poorly as you can see here. The other thing to notice, which isn't obvious in this picture above, is that there is only ONE campaign and ONE ad group in the whole account. It is very hard to target your ads this way and get a good a good click through rate, which is the chief thing you need in order to reduce your cost. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;The other thing that should be noticed is that they are paying a premium price on the content network traffic. The content network hack  as described elsewhere in this blog should be employed, so that they can reduce their content network costs, but right now they should nuke it until the account can get under control. So far, here are the immediate steps to do: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;ol&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Pause the whole account and lets do some operating&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Nuke the content network from the one poorly performing campaign. Consider nuking the search network too, while you work on your targeting and Click throught Rate&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ol&gt;      
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Lets do a little further analysis and see if there is anything that is actually going right in this account:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:24:22 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Poor Man's Adwords Tracking Codes</title>
 <link>http://marketingnewsblog.adwordstraining.org/node/15</link>
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    &lt;td width="914"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;The poor man's adwords tracking code:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Let's say you want to track something and you don't want to give all your adwords conversion data to Google. I don't blame you. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Here is what you do:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;http://www.mydomain.com/?c1=campaignname&amp;amp;source=adwords&amp;amp;kw=put+your+keyphrase+here&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Just copy the above and fill it in with the appropriate variables. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;If you also want to be a real nerd and track the match type as well, like in the example of the keyword phrases mycool product, "mycool product", and [mycool product] it would look like this if you wanted to paste it into your adwords account. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;mycool product ** http://www.mydomain.com/?c1=campaignname&amp;amp;source=adwords&amp;amp;kw=mycool+product&lt;BR&gt;
"mycool product" ** http://www.mydomain.com/?c1=campaignname&amp;amp;source=adwords&amp;amp;kw=%22mycool+product%22&lt;BR&gt;
[mycool product] ** http://www.mydomain.com/?c1=campaignname&amp;amp;source=adwords&amp;amp;kw=%5Bmycool+product%5D&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;You can also if you want a little more control, also specify the price for just that one keyword. If you wanted to pay 1.25 per click for each of these keywords, here is what you would do: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;mycool product ** 1.25**http://www.mydomain.com/?c1=campaignname&amp;amp;source=adwords&amp;amp;kw=mycool+product&lt;BR&gt;
"mycool product" **1.25** http://www.mydomain.com/?c1=campaignname&amp;amp;source=adwords&amp;amp;kw=%22mycool+product%22&lt;BR&gt;
[mycool product] **1.25** http://www.mydomain.com/?c1=campaignname&amp;amp;source=adwords&amp;amp;kw=%5Bmycool+product%5D&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Then you just paste that into the appropriate ad group in your Adwords account. Doing it that way lets you tweak your positions more precisely.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
		&lt;/font&gt;
      &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Now, the only thing you are missing is a service like hitslink that lets you put a special&lt;br&gt;
      tracking code on every page of your site and then another one on the confirmation page after someone orders. But the above lets you have 
      a lot more control over your adwords accounts if you have even a basic webstats program.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;
		&lt;/font&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;By the way, doing this can be accomplished with a very simple php script. Contact me if you want to make this script and become rich and famous. &lt;br&gt;
        &lt;/strong&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:49:32 -0500</pubDate>
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 <link>http://marketingnewsblog.adwordstraining.org/node/14</link>
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    &lt;td&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;The poor man's adwords competition research&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;P&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Since it isn't under everyones power to spend 2000 bucks a month to monitor 500 keywords, I offer this simple advice:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
      &lt;ol&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Pick the keywords you want through your usual process&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Run them all through wordtracker&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Pick the keywords you think you can kick some butt in. This strategey is different depending on what you are selling of course. People doing affiliate marketing have to find cheap clicks at any cost, and these days that means moving to keywords with a lot less search volume. But if your business can handle it and you need more clicks you are going to pick the terms that get a decent amount of traffic AND ARE HIGHLY TARGETED for you. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Clear your cookies and go hit Google on a few of these key search terms and look who is out there. Refresh your browser a couple times and you will see who is testing different copy because you will see the ads change before your eyes when you do this. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Take any notes you need to, copy and paste the ads somewhere if you want, but then clear your cookies again and come back in 2-3 hours and do the same thing. Each session you can hit a few of the key search terms you want to compete in&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Sometimes after even just a few days of doing this, you can already tell who you have to beat. But do this for at least a week. Many marketers do this for at least 3 weeks before they enter a new market. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;You are looking for people who show up almost ALL the time, especially around position 6, 7, 8. This means they are showing their ads the maximum amount possible and getting the cheapest clicks possible, and you can bet if they are doing that every day, day in and day out over a 30 day period they are making profit. Either that or they are really, really crazy. Sometimes the people who always show up number 1 should be watched too, but only if they always show up every time you search. If they show up number 1 for only half the time that's really inefficient advertising, and eventually you are going to wipe the floor with them.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: 400"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;During this time, note the ads that are consistently winning, visit the sites to see the sales process, sign up for the newsletter or whatever, and learn what you can. Now with the knowledge of the winning ads, and who the top competitors really are, you can vastly increase the speed of progress of your marketing efforts.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ol&gt;      
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 <title>Is Google destroying the other search engines?</title>
 <link>http://marketingnewsblog.adwordstraining.org/node/4</link>
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		&lt;td&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Google is creating an army of search engine experts at a much higher rate than yahoo/overture ever did.
  
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;I tried calling yahoo about their ambassador program but they never returned my calls, so since I got
    a much higher ROI on my Google campaigns anyway, I went over to Google and trained my staff on their
    training program.
    
Its not perfect but its a real step in the right direction, and since it is automated I think they are 
    going to kick yahoo's butt in the long run.
    
They even gave me marketing materials to use to get clients.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:53:35 -0500</pubDate>
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