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How to Optimize PPC Tip #1 : Optimize Ad Texts

Written by Christos Kyliakoudis Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:20
Search Engine Marketing continues and will probably continue to be a huge part of any company web acquisition strategy. Although we prefer to have the majority of our visitors coming through the natural search the harsh reality is that most of times PPC account for more than 50% of the traffic.

The businesses spend a huge part of their PPC campaigns and we all need to improve the ROI we get from PPC spending. There are tones of material regarding PPC optimization but in this post I will focus mainly in how to optimize ad copies.

Here is a list of tips we can use to improve ad texts:

#1 Be relevant
#2 Create simple, enticing ads
#3 Include prices and promotions
#4 Use a strong call-to-action
#5 Include one of your keywords in your ad text
#6 Choose the best destination URL
#7 Test multiple ads in each ad group.
#8 Evaluate Ads
#9 Competitive analysis

Christos Kyliakoudis

Shopping Search Engines

Written by Christos Kyliakoudis Friday, 20 February 2009 15:26

What you think consumers do before purchasing goods online? I would say before they make any major purchase, they do comparison shopping first!!In fact, more and more consumers are heading to comparison shopping engines to get the-best-deal-ever, look at tests, reports and read all the latest news and reviews on specific products.

To compete successfully, the retailer needs to take charge of merchandising their products across all comparison shopping sites regardless of pricing models, demographic data, or targeted market. By submitting individual product information to Google Product Search for free or to Cost per click model shopping engines (Kelkoo, Shopzilla, NextagUK, etc.) that basically charge for each click, or lead, they send to the retailer – either way- it’s worth it because these consumers are more qualified than the average Web user, guaranteeing a higher probability of a sale.