07 September 2009

How Doing Keyword Research Will Increase Your PPC Advertising Profits

By Anthony M. Flores

PPC advertising without proper keyword research is an absolute waste of money and resources. You can easily do this kind of research which will get you well on your way to forming an efficient method for marketing.

Why is it most important? Because you want to know what people are typing when they search. Then knowing those keywords, you can put those exact words into the Text Ad for your Pay Per Click Campaign. You want those words in the Headline, then in the body of the ad, and if you can even have them in the URL itself, all the better! Bottom line " You want to have those keywords all over your ad, and it will increase the likelihood of someone clicking on it. But it is much more than just that.

So while the first element is to mirror what someone is typing in, the second element is to take that list and narrow it down to what keywords to bid on to effectively sell what you have. Now this list may grow, but once you start with a good core list of words, then you can do different variations of that core list. But we need a good starting point and proper keyword research and some common sense will help us build that list.

For example, say you are selling cars. You can go to Google Adwords and find out how many times cars or used cars or used cars for sale or used BMW for sale has been searched. You would truly want to start with a larger sample of words, but for this exercise we will use just these 4 keywords.

Cars gets 151,000,000 searches a month. 151 Million! Thats a great word right? Wrong. Even though it gets the most people searching for it, bidding on the term cars would be a complete waste of money. Why? Because it could be searched for almost any reason, and is not specific enough. Especially if were selling used cars.

Using that term will get you closer to the best keyword. Even that gets 550,000 searches a month. However it may not be exactly what you want. Again, you should be wondering why. If you only sell BMW cars, then you still need to be more specific. Do you understand what direction we are going now? You need to employ your common sense here. You need to find a list of keywords that is relevant to exactly what your are selling. In this case, 'used bmw for sale,' would be the best choice.

You should continue your research by including all cities you are selling to and maybe even narrow your research more by including a model number. For example, 'used 325 bmw for sale in Los Angeles'. That would give you the most accurate information for your clientele.

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