by Kirt Christensen

You’ll capture the attention of your customer when you enter the conversation already taking place inside her head. With Google, you do this, and get more clicks as a result, by using your keywords skillfully in your ad. Bid on more keywords and you can capture the attention of more people – this is one of the most important rules of AdWords management.

The one thing that you can do that will draw clients to you is to show them that you know just what they like. This is like joining a conversation in his head, telling him what his day was like, what it is like to be him. When you flow right into his mind and talk his talk and walk his walk, showing him you know what things are important to him. When he sees this that is when he will listen to you.

The keywords people use come from those conversations in their minds that they are having. If your ad repeats to them the things that they are thinking, then you will spark their interests. By having keywords in the headline and in the body and the URL of your ad, you are using good strong advertising strategies.

If you have keywords showing up more places in your ads, you have a bigger chance of getting more clicks. Look for it in your headline. Look for it in the body of the ad and you should look for it in the display URL. Say someone is searching for “German” or “Learn German”, how many times are they going to find their keywords in this ad:

Want to Learn German?

5 Crucial Principles You Must Know To Master German, and Fast

www.MasterGermanFaster.com

If effective AdWords Management means speaking directly to what people are searching on and repeating it back at them, how do you go about finding out what people are searching on in the first place? Where do you go to get the good keywords, especially the keywords that are worth the most money?

The best place to start is on Overture’s Keyword Selector Tool, a free service available at: http://inventory.overture.com. You can get an immediate idea of the value of your keywords and their value in relation to each other.

458,579 learn german

103,157 german shepherd

85,210 german

22,970 german dictionary

16,990 german english dictionary

16,294 german translation

15,992 german shepherd dog

14,409 german translator

13,037 german shepherd puppy

11,646 english german dictionary

10,187 german to english

9,810 german to english translation

9,800 german short hair pointer

The List above clearly shows where you will find the money and the traffic. Also clear are the keywords that don’t belong on your list.

You haven’t spent a penny yet and you already know what your major negative keywords are going to be. These are words you include in your list where you specifically do not want your ad to show when people type them in. You enter them into your keyword list with negatives in front of them. For example:

-dog

-puppy

-shepherd

-pointer

-dictionary

-translator

-translation

-hair

-etc.

Anytime someone has this word in a search, your ad won’t show up.

What is it going to cost you in reality, to bid on these words? To fin the answer to that question go over to the Yahoo Resource Center at www.overture.com, and select the “Bid Tools” button. After you put in “learn German” in the search box, you will be shown a list of prices that advertisers will pay to advertise their goods at Yahoo sites. They range all the way from forty-seven cents down to five cents.

This information of course is from Overture, not Google. When this article was written, Yahoo’s search pages were determined by bids only. On the other hand, with Google, you can get preferred treatment if you have a better than average click-through-rate. Also on Google the competition and nature of the traffic are not the same.

Not to worry though. This tool is only an initial indicator of what kind of business advertisers are getting from their clicks on Yahoo. This example says advertisers wouldn’t pay more than forty-seven cents for a click for “learn German”. This is an indicator. Contrast that with “home mortgage” where bids top off at $4 and you can see how lucrative, or not, “learn German” is.

About the Author:
Need to optimize or “fix” your Adwords & PPC campaigns? Kirt Christensen manages over $600k in PPC spending & knows what it takes to make your account hum! When it comes to ppc management, he’s the man!

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