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Making the most out o your
Google AdWords account
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Table o Contents
Six ways to maximize your AdWords campaign
Chapter 1 – Setting Goals Setting Goals Worksheet
Chapter 2 – Selecting Keywords
A our-step process
Step 1: Expand
Step 2: Target
Step 3: ScrubStep 4: Group
Selecting Keywords Worksheet
Chapter 3 – Developing Ads
Focus on Benets
Shape ads around keywords
Get actionObserve AdWords editorial guidelines
Developing Ads Worksheet
Chapter 4 – Creating Destinations
Creating Destinations Worksheet
Chapter 5 – Tracking Results Tracking Results Worksheet
Chapter 6 – Optimizing Again
Optimizing Again Worksheet
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Six ways to maximize AdWords
Once you’ve gotten started on Google AdWords, there are six activities that require
your attention to improve your ad perormance even more over time. They are:
• Setting Goals • Creating Destinations• Selecting Keywords • Tracking Results
• Developing Ads • Optimizing Again
This workbook discusses and gives examples about how to make the most o each
o these areas or the best possible results.
Meet WorldBites
Rather than cite abstractions about the mechanics o AdWords, we illustrate the
ne points throughout this workbook based on a composite o thousands o our
advertising customers. We call this example WorldBites Corp.
While ctional, WorldBites characterizes virtually all o the business challenges our
real-world customers ace. Even without an actual company called WorldBites, we
hope you nd these tips and examples useul to your own business.
WorldBites Corp. is a ood company (again, ctional) with three distinctive
business units. The corporation is about to launch a new Google AdWords program
that must meet marketing goals or all three:
• WorldBites@Work provides corporate catering services in several cities
• WorldBites Recipes oers recipes that members can download
• WorldBites.com is an e-commerce site that ships a wide variety o international
and ethnic oods to homes and businesses
Since each division has a dierent market, and dierent targets, the rst step is to
set goals or each campaign.
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1 Leads consist o contact inormation (email, phone, address) or those people
who visit your site based on seeing your ad. Qualied leads are those who are likely
to t the prole o your best customers, or have taken additional action, such as
signing up or a newsletter or otherwise asking or ollowup.
2 Conversion is a measure o people who have taken the next action step you desire
– buying, registering, or subscribing, or example.
3 Celebrated Scottish poet and songwriter Robert Burns was born in Ayr, Scotland in
1759. The annual commemoration o his birth eatures the Scottish national dish,
a steaming haggis – a pudding o sheep organs, oatmeal and savory spices.
4 ROI (Return on Investment) The revenue a company generates rom an
investment such as an advertising program. ROI is based on tangible benets
(bottom-line increases in revenue or decreases in expense).
AdWords Account Basics
• Your Account is divided into separate Campaigns
• Campaigns are divided into Ad Groups
• Ad Groups are comprised o Keywords
• Keywords trigger your ad when a user searches or them on Google or our partner
sites; the ad text is called Creative
• All Keywords within an Ad Group must run on the same Creative
• You can run multiple Creatives per Ad Group
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Worksheet: Setting Goals
Being as specic as possible, consider your answers to these questions. Reer to
the WorldBites goals on pg. 2 or ideas on setting your own.
Defne what you do.
A. What does your company (or your division) do? I you work with dierent
product lines, list all o them.
B. Who’s the primary audience (target market) or your products and services?
List all o them.
C. What are you trying to sell or promote? What do you want people to do (buy,
visit, download, subscribe)? Be specic or each product’s call to action.
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Defne your goals or this program.
A. How much does your company want to invest? Be specic.
B. What kind o results would be best or your company or division? List all o
them. Be very specic; attach measurable results (hard numbers) to each one.
C. What would you consider a good return on your investment? I the ROI diers
between divisions, list each one.
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Ater establishing goals or your AdWords campaign, it’s time to go through oursteps to create the best possible keyword strategy.
These are:
1. Expand your keyword list to include as many relevant words as possible
2. Target the keyword list by using keyword matching options
3. Scrub – or rene – the keyword list
4. Group the keywords in thematic ad clusters
chapter 2
Selecting Keywords
The Account level is where you manage everything, including contact inormation
and billing. It also contains all o your campaigns, which contain all o your Ad
Groups, which contain all o your keywords and creatives.
Campaigns are how you organize your Ad Groups. You can create dierentcampaigns or each product line, each major collection o Ad Groups, each
geographic region, or any other structure that works or any specic product or
promotion.
Ad Groups are how you organize your keywords. Keywords in the same Ad Group
trigger the same ad text, or creative. It’s best to group your keywords thematically
so you can target ads toward each theme, product line, or promotion.
Creatives, plural, are the dierent executions o your ad (not the people who create
them). Every word change – and each one can be critical – is a dierent creative.
It’s typical to run two to our creatives per Ad Group.
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Step 1: Expand
First, review your site content to make a note o which keywords – word
combinations and phrases – describe the main categories o your business.
In the case o WorldBites, there are three main topical categories, which tieto the three lines o business: recipes , catering , and ethnicdishes .
Write down every relevant keyword under each category you nd. For WorldBites
ethnicdishes , the rst terms that come to mind are the obvious ones:
ethnicdishes
chineseood indianood middleeasternood ethiopianood italianood nativeamericanood renchood jamaicanood scottishood germanood japaneseood thaiood hawaiianood mexicanood
In compiling an extensive list o keywords, consider which ones will or won’t make
good keywords. For instance, using dishinstead o oodwith the various ethnicities
(chinese , rench, german) may not make a good keyword. I you are in doubt about
whether to use a specic keyword, run a Google search on it and look at the rst
page o results. For the keyword dish, the rst page o results has nothing to do
with ood.
Expand the list by including plurals and synonyms or each word or phrase onyour initial list. By building on the initial group o keywords above, WorldBites
gleaned more keywords (see next page). An important note here: don’t spend time
capitalizing your keyword terms. Our system recognizes words and phrases, not
their capitalization, so capitalizing requires extra eort you don’t need to make.
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The expanded keyword list or Chineseood looks like this:
Next, expand the list or each o your keywords. The expanded list or WorldBites
adds up to more than 200 keywords or ethnicdishes , another 350 or recipes ,and around 75 or catering– in all, more than 600 keywords and phrases.
Finally, try our Keyword Suggestion Tool:
http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal, which may provide even
more terms you will want to consider. The Keyword Tool generates potential
keywords or your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search
perormance and seasonal trends. No matter how limited your campaign is, it’s very
important to compile and expand your keywords in all o these ways rst. Then you
can review and tailor your list. But in the beginning, it pays to go deep and wide.
ancientchinesecuisine authenticchinesecuisinebeestirry
broccolistirry chickenstirrychinesebeechinesebroccolichinesechickenchinesecookingchinesecuisine chinesedimsumchineseduckchinesedumpling chineseeggplantchineseood chineseoods chineseriedrice chinesenoodles chinesepork
chinesericechinesesaladchineseshrimp
chinesesoup chinesestirry chinesetouchinesevegetablekungpaobeekungpaochickenkungpaosaucekungpaoshrimpkungpaotoumandarinchickenmandarinoodpekingduck porkstirrypotstickers shrimpstirryspringrolls
stirriedricestirriedvegetablesstirryasparagus
stirrybeestirrychickenstirrychineseoodstirrycookingstirryporkstirryrecipe stirryrice
stirrysauce stirrysaucesstirryshrimpstirrytoustirryvegetablestakungpao vegetablestirry vegetarianstirrywontonsoup
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Step 2: Target
Now it’s time to target these keywords using Google’s keyword matching options.
These enable you to pinpoint ad delivery so your ads reach people precisely when
they are searching or what you have to oer.
Broad Match By deault, Google sets all keywords
to “broad match,” meaning that WorldBites ads
or renchood would be triggered by search
terms containing the words rench and ood regardless o their order. So a WorldBites ad
could appear next to search results or junkood renchries or renchoodinsanrancisco . Ads
will also automatically show or such expanded
keyword matches as plurals and relevant
variations (oods,cuisine ).
Phrase Match By putting quotation marks around
a keyword phrase (“renchood” ), ads appear
on searches with renchollowed by ood . Now
we see all the searches or renchood , rench ooddishes , or any other possible combination.
But we would not reach people who type rench ryood or renchcuisineandood – the ad does
not appear i the search contains any other terms
between rench and ood .
Exact Match By adding brackets around a
keyword [renchood ] you are speciying an exact
match: your ad appears only when someone
searches or the phrase renchood without any
other words beore or ater, and with renchand ood only in that order. This typeo matching is especially recommended or single-word keywords.
Negative Match We can also use negative matching to eliminate certain searches
that may be irrelevant. To do this, we enter keywords renchood and added
negative keywords -ree , -calories , -pictures . We denote negative keywords by
preceding the word with a dash. This gives us all those searching or renchood and all word combinations including renchood , but not those who searched or
reerenchood , renchoodcalories or renchoodphotos .
Exact andPhrase Match
Broad Match
Negative Match
TargetAudience
Broad Match automatically expands
your keyword list by testing andadding relevant synonyms, related
phrases, and plurals. This expan-
sion provides greater ad coverage
without having to generate an
exhaustive keyword list.
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Step 3: Scrub
Ater creating, expanding and targeting your list o keywords, it’s time to rene it.
To do this, include all the relevant synonyms and variations on your core themes,
and then eliminate what’s irrelevant.
Eliminating Irrelevant Keywords Irrelevant keywords are those triggering results
that don’t include what your customers are searching or. For example, a Google
search on the keyword phrase renchdish brings up more results or dish towels
than anything else – and no ood items.
Adding Synonyms and Colloquialisms Ater selecting keywords that describe each
o the WorldBites businesses, the next step is to add words describing the product
oerings in general, with phrases like ethnicoods , ethnicdishes , and ethniccuisine . Next, consider some common colloquial phrases, such as hors-d’oeuvres and appetizers , and the ever-popular fngeroods . A good source or these
variations is a thesaurus.
Adding Misspellings It’s important to add common misspellings to the keyword list
too. WorldBites, or example, may want to add hoursdourves to the list in addition
to the correct spelling, hors-d’oeuvres .
It’s important to note that generic words (o ,and ,or ,the ) are ignored by the
system. As or punctuation in keywords, in most cases it is considered a single
space. For example, hors-d’oeuvres is the same as horsd’oeuvres , and that’s the
same as horsdoeuvres . However, horsdoeuvres is a dierent (two-word) keyword.
Ater this exercise, our list o keywords is airly long. That’s OK, because
WorldBites (and you) pay only or clicks and not number o keywords. WorldBites
can also speciy a maximum cost-per-click (CPC) or each clickthrough. What’s
more, some keywords are a lot less expensive than others.
The next step is to create order out o this potential keyword chaos.
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Step 4: Group
You’ve already created dierent “buckets” or your words based on your major
product lines. Now it’s time to do even more rened and granular grouping into
thematic categories, which are called Ad Groups.
Organizing and grouping keywords is crucial, because you have to write ad copy
(creative) targeted to each group. Ad Groups also make it much easier to manage
your campaigns and overall account.
In the case o WorldBites, it’s best to create separate campaigns or
WorldBites.com, WorldBites Recipes, and WorldBites@Work. Each campaign, in
turn, includes several Ad Groups.
Because you can use Google technology to target a campaign to a geographical
region, campaigns enable you to target your message more specically. They also
make your account more scalable by enabling you to add more keywords and
creatives as you evolve your eort.You may recall one o WorldBites’ goals or its e-commerce business: to have
30 haggis orders or Robert Burns’ birthday celebration. We begin by grouping
keywords around this term, using these suggested guidelines:
1. Identiy the main themes and products in your keyword list, and group
keywords accordingly
2. Place synonyms together in the same group3. Place misspellings together
Here’s how this plays out or the Scottishcategory.
Ad Group #1 Correct spelling: scottishood ,scottishare ,scottishcuisine ,oodoscotland ,celticood ,celticare ,celticcuisine ,gaelicood ,gaelicare ,gaeliccuisine ,highlandood ,highlandare ,caledoniancuisine ,caledonianood ,caledonianare
Ad Group #2 Misspellings: scotishare ,scotishcuisine ,galicood ,galicare ,hilandood ,hilandare ,caledoniaood ,caldoniancuisine ,gaylicare ,gealicood
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Specic haggis category:
Ad Group #3 Correct spelling: buyhaggis ,haggisdinner ,tinnedhaggis ,cannedhaggis
Ad Group #4 Misspellings: hagis ,haggiss ,haggess ,haggies ,hagiss
To best target your creative to every keyword, it’s benecial to create a single Ad
Group or all o the like words. For example, group all o the misspellings o haggis
into a single Ad Group. Organizing keywords this way enables you to write haggis-specic creative, instead o more general copy. Which misspellings you want to
choose to orm Ad Groups is your judgment call, based on the importance o each
keyword category and the time you have to allot to this exercise.
Once all o WorldBites’ keywords (or all the product lines) are organized into Ad
Groups and campaigns, it’s time to begin work on the ad copy.
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Worksheet: Selecting Keywords
The basis o an eective AdWords program is picking the right keywords. This is
best done using a simple our-step process: Expand, Target, Scrub, and Group.
Expand the list to include as many words as possible.
A. What are the key themes or your site and the products or services you want
to promote?
B. What are the most relevant keywords that describe your site, your products and
services? List as many as you can.
C. What are synonyms or the keywords you already have listed? Add plurals or
each word.
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D. List all o your brand and product names.
E. When you checked your current keywords on Google’s Keyword Suggestion
Tool, http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal, what else was
suggested? Add those which are most relevant.
F. When you searched on Google to nd related terms, what additional
suggestions appear? List all o the most relevant.
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Aim or precision with keyword matching options.
A. Which keywords would benet rom Broad Match, where your ad would appear
or all searches containing those words or related terms?
B. Which keywords would benet rom Exact Match, where your ad would appear
only or searches containing those specic words in that exact order?
C. Which keywords would benet rom Phrase Match, where your ad would
appear or all searches containing those words used in that exact order?
D. Which words would benet rom Negative Match, where your ad would not
appear or any searches containing those words?
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Scrub (refne) your keyword list.
A. What are all the synonyms and related terms or your keyword? Think beyond
the obvious. How might your customers ask or your product or service?
B. What are colloquial ways o describing your product? Think o the dierent
geographic regions you want to reach.
C. What are some common misspellings o your keywords? (Don’t include those
that have an entirely dierent meaning.)
D. From your list, which words or terms don’t relate directly to your product? (To
decide whether or not to remove a keyword, check the term by searching on
Google.com to be sae. I the majority o the search results on the rst page do
not relate to your site, don’t include that term.)
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Group the keywords in thematic ad clusters.
A. What are the main themes in your keyword list? Group your keywords
accordingly.
B. Separate your misspelled keywords rom the other words. Group all the various
misspellings o the same word together.
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chapter 3
Developing Ads
With the right keywords in hand, WorldBites can develop ad copy, or creative.
Google AdWords enables advertisers to examine clickthrough data or each
creative. One way is by looking at the clickthrough rate or your ads. Clickthrough
rate (CTR) is the number o clicks your ad receives divided by the number o times
your ad is shown (impressions). So the key is to constantly test new variations and
see which ones really work.
Generally, we recommend running three to our creatives per Ad Group. WorldBites
has three dierent creatives or haggis .
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Shape ads around keywords
Google oers “dynamic keyword insertion,” a tool which automatically inserts
your keywords into your ads. Because this enables keywords to be inserted into
each creative, ads are even more relevant to every search. And by eaturing each
keyword in boldace, the insertion tool highlights the search term in the ad.
When creating ads, type your keyword phrases within curly brackets. Taking Ad
Group #1 as an example, the keywords are:
scottishood,scottishare,scottishcuisine,oodoscotland,celticood,celticare,celticcuisine,gaelicood,gaelicare,gaeliccuisine,highlandood,highlandare,caledoniancuisine,caledonianood,caledoniancuisine
All o these terms share the basic concept o “Scottish cuisine,” so that’s what
the ad copy should reerence. Dynamic keyword insertion is especially helpul or
managing large groups o keywords and variations o ads. Here’s how dynamickeyword insertion would treat these keyword terms:
{Keyword:Caledonian ood}
Wide Selection o Dishes.
Fast Delivery – Order Now!
{Keyword:Gaelic Fare}
Gourmet Dishes – Fast Delivery.Fresh & Authentic. Order Now.
Using this tool, consider what you’d like to capitalize (or not) in individual ads.
Using the keyword corporatecatering , or example, you can vary the keywords with
lower case, single initial cap, or multiple initial caps:
{keyword:corporate catering} will appear as corporatecatering {Keyword:Corporate catering} will appear as Corporatecatering {KeyWord:Corporate Catering} will appear as CorporateCatering
Inserted keywords must adhere to 25 characters or ewer on Line 1 o the ad. For
keywords longer than 25 characters (traditional caledonian cuisine), enter a shorter
deault headline text {caledonian cuisine}, which will be displayed in the ad.
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In applying these rules, consider the elements to reerence on each o the three
lines o ad text.
A headline is the top line o copy in an ad. It can only be 25 characters long and
cannot include superlatives, exclamation marks(!), the word “online,” or excessive
punctuation (such as ??? or !!). It can include your keywords, as long as those
keywords t with these guidelines.
A beneft is what the customer gets rom the product or service – everyday low
price, ree shipping, resh, genuine. Be sure the benet actually applies to
your customers.
The call to action is what you want people to do: buy, order, download, register.
Make sure your calls are clear – and that the action you want them to take is
enabled on your destination page.
In order to make sure that every ad delivers or every advertiser, Google
has editorial guidelines. Keep them handy to avoid some o the mostcommon mistakes:
1. Don’t use superlatives (such as best ,largest ,lowest ).
2. Don’t use excessive punctuation (multiple exclamation or question marks, or
example). Google also doesn’t permit the use o an exclamation mark (!) in
your headline (Line 1).
3. Don’t use universal calls to action that apply to any ad regardless o content,such as clickhere , linkhere , visitthislink ,thissite , and similar phrases.
4. Use standard capitalization.
5. Vary your choice o words within each ad, and avoid gimmicky repetition o
words or phrases.
6. Don’t use pop-up or pop-under ads on destination pages.
7. The back button must return users to Google on all destination pages.
8. Any oer stated in the ad must be clearly ound within two clicks o the
destination page.
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Worksheet: Developing Your Ads
The our keys to the most eective ad creative: include your keywords in the
headline; clearly state customer benets; clearly state the call to action; and test
multiple creatives by Ad Group.
Clearly state your benefts.
A. What are the unique eatures o your product or service? Are they credible?
B. What are the key benets your product or service oers?
C. What eatures and benets are most relevant to your customers?
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Include the keyword in your creative.
A. Which Ad Groups share a theme? I the description is too long or dynamic
keyword insertion, you can still nd a keyword to describe it accurately.
B. Are there any misspellings you want to eliminate rom this Ad Group?
C. For common misspellings, what generic headlines can you use?
Clearly state your call to action.
A. What action do you want people to take when they get to your site?
B. Can they perorm that action without having to take extra steps rst?
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Test multiple creative.
A. What’s another way to state your benet? Experiment by placing dierent
benets in each creative. Do this or each Ad Group.
B. What’s another way to state your call to action? Do this or each Ad Group.
C. How else can you experiment with dierent types o headlines when keywords
are too long, or your creative violates AdWords editorial guidelines?
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chapter 4
Creating Destinations
I there is ever a time to put yoursel in the customer’s seat, that time is the
moment when someone clicks on your ad. There’s nothing worse than customerswho are ready to buy but can’t, because too many clicks or required actions block
the way. As an example, let’s say your ad is similar to this one.
This ad is triggered by a variation o the word haggis . When users click on this ad,
they are probably looking to buy haggis. That’s why the destination, or landing,
page or this ad should be a page where they can do that.
Many advertisers initially make the mistake o requiring people to begin at aregistration page or a home page eaturing numerous products, not just the
one reerenced in the ad. Don’t risk customer alienation and trac drop-o that
may occur because o too many obstacles to the action promised in the ad. You
can capture registrations or requent buyers, or have new prospects sign up or
newsletters or downloads, but it’s imperative that these steps don’t prevent the
customer’s ability to act quickly. Ater all, that’s what your ad implies.
Quality HaggisFresh, Authentic, Easy to Order
Quick delivery - Order Now!www.worldbites.com
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Landing Page Guidelines
• Keep your original objectives (sales, leads, downloads) in mind.
• Reer to specic keywords, oers, and calls to action on your landing pages.
• Make your landing page navigation as simple as possible.
• Help people get what they want in three clicks or ewer.
• Don’t create obstacles that discourage easy sales transactions.
• Ensure that people can get back to Google by clicking the back button.
• Ensure that you don’t have a pop-up or pop-under on the landing page.
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Worksheet: Creating Destinations
A useul destination page is one that’s the most direct single click rom the ad
itsel, so customers arrive ready to take action.
Keep your objectives in mind.
A. What precise action do you want people to take ater they click on your ad?
B. What inormation do people need beore they can complete this call to action?
C. What is the best way to get people to do what you want?
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Organize your landing page to match your ads.
A. What are people looking or when they click on your ad? Using your keyword
list as a starting point, write down all o the specic words or phrases they
might be seeking.
B. How do you provide a solution, product, or service that answers their need?
Group solutions under keyword headings on your landing page.
C. How quickly can you deliver the inormation searchers need while getting what
you need rom them? Can they get what they came or in three or ewer clicks?
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chapter 5
Tracking Results
Once you have all your objectives, keywords, and ads, even multiple creatives
running on Ad Groups on several campaigns, how do you know what’s really working?
The best way is to monitor beore-and-ater metrics. In the WorldBites example,
did they meet or exceed their objectives by getting 1,000 people to download
recipes in two weeks? Did they get 50 new customers per month at WorldBites.
com? And did WorldBites@Work lower its cost-per-acquisition by 30 percent? How
about your own campaigns?
In online advertising, a conversion occurs when a click on your ad leads directly touser behavior you deem valuable, such as a purchase, signup, page view, or lead.
Google has developed a tool to measure these conversions, and ultimately, help
you identiy how eective your AdWords ads and keywords are or you.
Google’s conversion tracking tool as well as third-party tools help with tracking,
so that you can determine such important data as cost-per-acquisition, customer
lietime value and conversion rates.
Many advertisers tell us that using Google AdWords leads them to allocate more
money to keyword advertising and less to traditional activities that don’t oer the
same yield or granular measurability.
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Tracking Results Guidelines
Google AnalyticsTM takes it one step urther. It shows you how people ound your
site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance their visitor experience.
With over 80 reports, your Google Analytics account will track visitors through
your site, and will keep track o the perormance o your marketing campaigns –
whether they’re AdWords campaigns, email campaigns, or any other advertising
program. With this inormation, you’ll know which keywords are really working,
which ad text is the most eective, and where your visitors are dropping oduring the conversion process. You can nd all o these benets rom within their
AdWords account – Google Analytics has been ully integrated with AdWords. All
o your reports and settings are available rom the Analytics tab.
• Assign unique URLs to each o your keywords.
• Track the clickthrough or each ad and keyword, and conversion data or
each keyword.• Follow each clickthrough as people navigate your site. Discover which ad and
keyword combinations generate the most sales, signups, or other action.
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Worksheet: Tracking Results
When tracking results, don’t be satised with a one-time measurement. Constantly
monitoring clicks and conversions enables you to rene – and enhance – your
results immediately. I you don’t constantly review and revise, you’re going to leave
money on the table.
Track each keyword and creative.
A. How many o your keywords need separate URLs?
B. How do you want to track people who come to a specic URL as they move
through a transaction?
Track your results.
A. What metrics do you use to reach your goals (conversions, trac, registrations,
orders)? List all that apply.
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B. Which are your top-perorming ads?
C. Which are your top-perorming keywords?
D. Which ads and keywords lead to the most sales, signups, or other actions?
E. What do you think makes those keywords or ads work?
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Worksheet: Optimization
When tracking results, don’t be satised with one piece o data. Constantly tracking
and monitoring clickthrough and conversion rates allows you to rene and enhance
your results immediately. Doing this regularly will allow you to get the most or your
advertising dollars.
Evaluate each keyword and creative.
A. What are your highest-perorming ads?
B. Why do these successul ads work?
C. What are your lowest-perorming ads?
D. What are your highest-perorming keywords?
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E. Why do these keywords work?
F. What is it about those keywords or creative that seem to work?
G. What are your lowest perorming keywords?
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Revise keywords and creative.
A. How can you better state the benets o your product or service?
B. How can you improve your call to action?
C. What can you do to rene your keywords?
D. What other variations o your best keywords can you try?
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