Monday, October 27, 2008

Birth of Online Marketing …. The First Banner AD

First Banner ad made in the history of Search Engine Marketing by hotwire.com
Be a witness to see.
Here it is…….



Online Advertising Began its first step in Oct 1996 when Hotwire First started this banner ad on its website in order to generate revenue and help other website to get traffic. This Idea was so fantastic that has brought other to follow the same but soon the market become saturated, and also the major reason for slow growth was dotcom Crash in 2001, meanwhile in 2000 Google launched its Advertising program name Google Adwords a keyword based advertising on search engine inspired idea from Goto.com who first started selling sponsored links. This has brought revolution in Online Advertising Industry many Small and Big Search engine Started practicing this led down to narrow the search into Niche market, Segmented & categorized Search.
And Episode is still running let’s see what happens next.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Google adword and adsense Working mechanism Bloc d


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Google AdWords-AdSense Block Diagram

HERE is a block diagram illustrating the relationship between Google AdWords, and the Google AdSense PPC program.
The searcher is shown in Green (top).
Google is shown in Blue.
The ads are Yellow.
Secret Sauce is shown in Grey.
Adwords customers shown in Violet (left).
The web publisher is shown in Pink (right).
In no way, is this meant to be a comprehensive description. Only those aspects are shown which relate to the inter-relationships.

Legal Disclaimer: Author of this blog does not compose the above post and this is a sample of data copy pasted from his research and does not carry any personal remarks.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Keyword Building Best Practices

Keyword Creation Guide

It is important to Know few points about keyword formatting, before we Create Huge keyword list.

Note: Before Creating any keyword list you should first understand you targeted audience Which starts with Understanding their Culture, Economy, Class, Budget, trends etc.As this plays important role in understanding how best you can target them how you can build effective targeting strategy.

Apart from above there are Some General tips to follow:

• Keywords are not case-sensitive, so 'Fresh Flower' is recognized as the same keyword as fresh flower.'
A=a, a=A.

• You do not have to include Special Characters except Some special characters which you use to indicate Match type.
'Step-by-Step to Adwords' are the same as Step by step to adwords,' but different from 'Step to learn adwords’,' so do include two separate keywords when appropriate -- one with the space, and one without.

• Wherever appropriate, be sure to include both singular and plural variations of your keywords. Though the 'broad matching' feature in the Google Keyword Tool will generate other keywords to include potential synonyms, you can ensure that you are not missing out on relevant traffic by including both singular and plural variations.
Synonyms: House = Home.

• You may want to avoid including duplicate keywords across ad groups and campaigns in the same account. Your ad will only be shown once for a given search, and these duplicate keywords will be competing with each other to appear and Best Performing Keyword or the ad whose Ctr is better will show the AD.
Ad Group1= Buy Flower (Avoid) Ad Group2= Buy Flower.
• Once you've understood the basics of keywords, you can begin to think about your keywords in terms of what I refer to as 'core keywords' and 'keyword variations and modifiers.'

Main Keywords (CORE)

Main (Core) keywords are the important theme of your advertising campaign, the most basic idea that describes your products or services. Depending on your overall advertising Budget, you may or may not want to include these Main keywords in your Adgroup; but these Main keywords can be helpful to achieve your advertising successes.

It's important to note that Main keywords will often be very general, high-traffic, and highly competitive keywords.

• Keywords Variation and Modifiers

Once you identify your main keywords you can expand your list now, remember when you add modifiers to your main keywords it may perform very differently than your Original keywords.

Ex.
Keyword Modifier New Keyword
Flower Buy Buy Flower
Florist Online Online Florist
Flower Fresh Fresh Flower

You can add you modified list along with your main list in you Adgroup but remember if you Product is too generic like above example and you budget is small try to run your campaign with modified Keywords first and once you start getting Good Revenue the Go for Generic Terms. This will help you in optimizing and re-defining your budget strategy and as and when you get Positive ROI you can keep adding more and more keywords which are relevant to you Product and services.

Make Use of Google Keyword tool to generate Keywords, Point to Note while using keyword tool is first use Website content Option First as this will help you in getting keyword which are more closely related to you page. Then go for other option.
There are other tools which are available in the market some are paid, free trail and free which you can use.

Separate Search and Content Keywords.
Very important to know that your ad will be triggered on content network when theme of keywords in you ad group matches page them so whenever you build A campaign try to separate search and content campaign so that in your content campaign you can make overall keyword theme in you adgroup.
Ex.
Marriage flower
Marriage flower arrangement
Florist for Marriage
Marriage flower agents
Wedding Flower
Wedding flower agent
Wedding flower arrangement
Marriage flower delivery

In the above example we can see the overall keyword theme is regarding Marriage flower arrangement.
So whenever Google analyzes the page theme along with keyword theme and it’s the closest match your ad will be easily placed on that page and that is highly targeted to user interest too.
This will not only help you in targeting the right traffic but also to maximize your ROI.

To summaries you should make use of different keyword tools Build your main (Core) keyword list and then add modifiers to its, separate high traffic volume keywords and low traffic volume keywords in separate adgroups so that it will be easy to optimize them later. Make separate campaign for search and content networks for google test multiple Adcopy test and test again follow the trends.


I hope this will help you………….
All the Best

Friday, July 18, 2008

Campaign Mapping Guidelines

Here we Start with Clients: URL:www.yourweburl.com. We study and research each and every aspect of your Website; this involves direct inputs from client. Once we understand domain of your website. We Create Campaign Structure which Involves.

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Basic Campaign Mapping Guide:

Monday, May 12, 2008

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

7 Ways of writing Best Possible Ad Copy in Google Adwords

7 Ways of writing Best Possible Ad Copy in Google Adwords.

To make it easier for you, I have devised a guide or checklist to writing the best ad text.

  1. What are the top keywords from your ad group that should be incorporated into the ad?
  2. What is the main message you want your customers to know? What solution do you provide?
  3. What is the advantage your company has over your competitors? What are the top 3 benefits you offer your clients/customers?
  4. What promotional offers (if any) does your company currently offer?
  5. What would get you to click through this ad if typing in x keywords?
  6. What answer is the searcher trying to find? i.e. Are you fulfilling the searcher’s needs?
  7. In the end, why should the searcher click on your ad?
Finished analyzing Above points..... Now Start writing AdCopy.

Here are Some more tips How to Write Effective Adcopy.

  1. Title
    1. Does the ad title grab your audience’s attention?
    2. Does the title contain at least one of your keywords?
    3. Does the ad title initially answer a question?
    4. Does the ad title differ from your competitors?
  2. Description
    1. Does the description contain at least one keyword?
    2. Does the description answer the searchers question?
    3. Does the description engage users to read on?
    4. Does the description contain a call to action?
    5. Is the description limited in any way?
    6. Are there any promotional offers in the description?
    7. Is the description different from your competitors?
    8. Can the searcher tell the benefit from reading the description?
  3. Display URL
    1. Is the display url contain sentence caps?
    2. Does the display url match the destination url?
  4. Destination URL
    1. Does the destination url take users to the correct page?
    2. Does the destination url need any tracking?

If you find it helps, use this guide and checklist every time you write or re-write your ad text to ensure you’re targeting the right customer and gaining a competitive advantage over your competition.

So Best Of luck.......!

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