September 8, 2010

Why PPC Campaign Management Results In Better Leads

by Bob Cavanaugh

PPC campaign management is necessary to maximize return on marketing cost for Google AdWords and other PPC ads. PPC advertising directly determines web site traffic and your ability to convert leads. It is, thus, one of the most important items in your marketing budget. But it must be managed.

PPC campaigns based on keywords and keyword phrases must be actively managed. Setting up a PPC campaign involves designing a strategy, setting goals and a budget and bidding on keywords, creating landing pages, creating the ad copy, keyword research and selection, location targeting, and analysis.

Once a campaign is set up the tasks in PPC campaign management are critical. They include: daily monitoring of click-through activity and management of goals and goal achievement, scoring leads produced by the PPC campaign and managing the scores, daily tracking, weekly or monthly reporting, daily or weekly updates, ongoing efforts to improve ad copy, ongoing efforts to improve costs, revision of ads, creation of new ads, ongoing keyword research.

It is in PPC campaign management that your ad campaigns are evaluated, upgraded, improved, modified for better performance, shifted to attract a different market segment, and carefully analyzed against your competitors.

The vulnerability in PPC advertising is that if you place ads in the wrong places or you focus on the wrong keywords (or phrases). You could be spending a lot of money and getting the wrong people to your site. This is why PPC campaign management is important.

For example, if you are an attorney and you specialize in medical malpractice, advertising "Experts in International Business Law" probably will not draw the right people. Even if it should cost less (which is not likely), the traffic it would generate would leave your site as quickly as they arrive. With bad, or no, PPC campaign management you end up throwing money down a hole.

If, on the other hand, you win bids on "Tacos" or "Fajitas", you would be more likely to get people who are ready for a Mexican meal. This is quality traffic — people who are highly likely to be interested in your products or services and to become sales leads when they arrive on your site. This is the aim.

PPC campaign management works tirelessly and consistently to analyze daily changes in the competitive landscape, competitor advertising, changes in keyword popularity for searches. PPC campaign management also tests and analyzes ads and responses, then edits and tests and analyzes in order to find the perfect ad for each keyword in each market segment.

PPC campaign management also analyzes every part of what happens when someone clicks through to your website. Which landing page is most effective? Which part of the page generates the best rate of response? Do visitors follow the planned conversion route or do they drop out at some point?

Good PPC campaign management monitors prospect activity, keyword usage, customer needs, competitor activity, pricing and ad effectiveness to market your website. It then aligns all web site pages to efficiently convert leads to sales.

Because it is so labor-intensive, because it requires so much research, PPC campaign management is often outsourced to campaign management companies with the experience and expertise in designing and managing effective and cost-efficient PPC campaigns.

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