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Tips For Managing PPCs

By: Kirt Christensen

Sometimes places are associated with businesses. For example, if you had a casino you might get additional cheaper traffic bidding on "Niagara Falls" than merely bidding on "Casino."

Local business owners might the keywords applicable to their business and make the addition of your state and neighboring cities. Such as, a Cincinnati IT company could use this list, with the included suburb names and intentionally misspelled versions of "Cincinnati":

Ohio computer consultant

Cincinnati computer consultant

Cincinati computer consultant

Cincinatti computer consultant

Tri-state computer consultant

Tri state computer consultant

Eaton computer consultant

Jamestown computer consultant

Miamisburg computer consultant

Sidney computer consultant

Troy computer consultant

Milford computer consultant

Loveland computer consultant

Use a mapping site to compile a list of nearby cities and paste that into an Excel spread-sheet. Using term like 'computer consultant', 'IT company', 'IT consultant' you can mix and match it with the cities and towns for a great addition to your keyword list.

The passkey to untapped markets is to have loads of keywords. You will also find lowered bid prices, better CTR, and a successfully managed pay-per-click. The effort will pay off.

Would you like to increase your keywords by 3x and also get to bid on keyword terms that your competition has overlooked? Here is how:

To really maximize your base keyword list use brackets and quotes. In his tool AdWords Acceleration (www.AdWordAcceleration.com), Stephen Juth helps identify variations that are less pricey and for which there is less competition.

While struggling through the daunting and frequently tiresome task of selecting a comprehensive keyword list, you may miss one or two singulars and plurals and leave out synonyms of your niche phrases.

An added service that is available from Google to help with just such a problem is the Expanded Phrase Matching. This service adds singular and plural matches for your keywords and offers similar phrases and relevant synonyms where there may be a deficit.

You'll need to be careful here, however. This service will work for broad-matched keywords in your list, but it won't work for phrase matches or exact matches.

Broad-Matched Keywords

When you insert keywords at the time you're setting up your campaigns, these are the keywords that don't have any delimiters around them. For example:

used cars

Japanese used cars

used cars for sale

You need to be cautious, because if you don't provide negative keywords, that keyword phrase "used cars" will show your ad for all of the following searches:

used cars

german used cars

used cars cleveland

used police cars

Your ad may well show up when someone searches using this wacky phrase:

cars used in filming dukes of hazzard

Phrase Matches

This term denotes keywords with quotation marks around them. Like these:

"used cars"

"Japanese used cars"

"used cars for sale"

Having quotes on your keywords will have your ad showing up when searches are done on these search terms in this order with no other words filled in, as shown in this list:

used cars

old Japanese used cars

used cars for sale chicago

But your ad will not appear in this search:

used police cars

Exact Matches

These keywords are placed with square brackets around them. For example:

[used cars]

[Japanese used cars]

[used cars for sale]

With these keywords, only people who typed in these exact phrases, in this order, will see your ad. None of the following keyword searches will show your ad:

used cars chicago

german used cars

old japanese used cars

used cars for sale chicago

used police cars

Remember that if you include negative keywords in your lists, you'll pull down the number of impressions that your ads get because they'll show for fewer searches, which means that your CTR will automatically go up. But notice the math of this: If you could pull down your number of impressions by 20 percent, your CTR would improve not by 20 percent, but by 25 percent. Likewise:

If you cut unwanted impressions by 30 percent, your CTR will increase by 42 percent.

If you cut unwanted impressions by 40 percent, your CTR will improve by 67 percent.

If you cut unwanted impressions by 50 percent, your CTR will double.

The use of negative keywords can really give your broad/phrase matching keywords a boost, but they won't change anything for your exact match keywords. By managing your pay-per-click well, the use of negatives can make a big difference.

Kirt Christensen's dynamic style of PPC Management as he managed more than $612,000 of yearly internet advertising for clients, has them raving about him! managemypayperclick.com

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