Research for Pay Per Click
If you're thinking about starting a pay per click campaign, you're going to
want to do a little bit of research in a number of areas before even thinking
about starting to advertise in this manner. Walking blindly into an Adwords
campaign, or whatever pay per click service you decide to use, can be hazardous
to your finances. This article will point out
the basic things that you need to do before launching your pay per click
campaign.
The first part of your pay per click
research is to find out if the keywords you're targeting even get searched for.
There is no sense in starting a campaign with
the keyword phrase "mountain climbing in New York"
if nobody is searching with that phrase. All you're going to do is taking up
space in your campaign with wasted keywords phrases. So the first thing you
want to do is get out your keyword tool for each keyword that you're planning
to target and make a note of how many monthly searches there are for that
phrase. To find a good keyword tool head over
to www.vretoolbar.com/keywods
The next thing you want to do is find out
if there are any products being advertised in the paid ads section for those
keywords. Why do you want to do this? Well, think about it logically. It's
unlikely that you've uncovered a brand new market that nobody knows about. So
if there are no paid ads for those keywords, there is a very good possibility
that the people searching for those keyword phrases are not interested in any
product per say. Maybe they're looking for free information. Think
about it. If you were to write an ebook on free safe lists to join and people
were looking up "free safe lists" do you REALLY think that these
people are going to pay for a book when they're looking specifically for free
safe lists? Most likely, these people are not going to be buyers. So even
though typing in "free safe lists" into Goggle’s search box brings up
quite a few sites, there's not even a full page of paid ads for that phrase.
Most likely, this means not much of a market for pay per click advertising
campaigns.
You want to do research
of what the costs of these keywords are. Google has a very good traffic and cost
estimator at their site. This way, you'll get
a decent idea of what a pay per click campaign is going to cost you per day.
Let's take for example that you decided that you want to run a pay per click
campaign for acne treatments. If you go to Google and run a number of keywords
for this topic through their analyzer, you'll find that the majority of the
keywords, in order to get a page one listing, will run you about 10 cents to 20
cents per click. So if you only have $5 a day to spend on advertising, you're
only going to get about 25 to 50 clicks a day. If you convert 1 in 100 clicks,
you're only going to make 7.5 to 15 sales per month on average. If you're
looking for more than that, you're either going to have to spend more money per
day or find keywords that cost less, or find a product that gives a higher
commission.
The point is, you can't go into pay per
click advertising blindly. Research is the key to making your campaign a
success.
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