Posts Tagged ‘Pay Per Click’

January 3rd, 2012 No Comments

5 Ways to Stop the Waste in Your AdWords Campaigns

Paid search is increasingly becoming the preferred option for businesses that aim to generate sales and leads online. Amazon is currently AdWords’ #1 advertiser with a spend of $51 million in a single quarter! So my guess it that, although you probably don’t have as much as Amazon to spend on your AdWords campaign, you still have a relatively substantial paid search budget you expect a return on your investment from. You also probably want a more stable source of traffic from Google because organic & local search appear to be highly volatile and dependent on Google’s ever changing algorithm and its result pages.

With this in mind, effectively spending and putting every single penny to good use in your AdWords campaign is ever so important! Several businesses choose to manage their Paid Search Campaigns in-house; although this is not usually the best option for medium to large sized organisations. Proactive monitoring of campaigns are absolutely critical elements to successful campaigns. If you insist on managing your business’s AdWords account on your own and do not want to thrown money away, then follow these five tips to help you get the best out of your campaign spend and time (these tips are not only limited to AdWords but also Microsoft AdCenter – which now covers Yahoo and Bing and accounts for 20-30% of search engine traffic). Read More »

March 12th, 2009 No Comments

The Economics of Google AdWords

I came across this video on YouTube and thought I’d share it with you. Its show cases Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varian, explaining how the AdWords Ad Auction system determines what you pay per click and how maximum CPC bids and quality scoring are computed. Read More »