Maximize Your Google Adwords Campaign by Avoiding These Mistakes

Creating an effective Google Adwords campaign can be challenging for both the beginner and the expert, especially if you are just entering a new niche or approaching your target market for the first time. More often than not, people would allot a big chunk of their time and effort monitoring the market and their competitors, but it’s the creation of ads and their optimization that provide the real essence. However, this technique is not free from any lapses or mistakes and can entail loss on your part.

Perry Marshall offers several effective tips, strategies and advice about creating an Adwords campaign that gets results in his book The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords, but many people still make some mistakes when they are conducting keyword research and making attempts to optimize their campaigns.  

Building your Google Adwords campaign and ensuring that quality traffic is generated requires that you avoid the following common mistakes:

1. Writing ad copy without keywords. Many Adwords campaign managers make the mistake of only using the keyword in the headline, and then nowhere else within the ad. Bear in mind how the relevance, quality, and quantity of your keywords may affect your ad copy’s performance so be sure to include one or two keywords or keyphrases within your ad.

2. Directing your visitors to your homepage. You will be getting more interest from the viewers and can even have higher conversion rates if the URL you use in your ad proceeds directly to a landing page with the incentive or promo, and not just your homepage.

3. Relying on the ‘broad match’ function of the Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool. There are other options apart from the ‘broad match’ feature that allows you to have a basic idea on the keywords you can use in your niche or market. Use the ‘phrase match’ and ‘exact match’ features in the tool to generate a highly targeted list of keywords that you can use both for your ads and your website copy.

4. Using poorly-performing keywords. Understanding exactly what your target market is searching for will take some time, and you cannot always assume that people will be searching for your products or services using the same keywords that you may use online. Utilizing the ’synonyms’ feature on the Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool helps you get desired outcome in your campaign and this can be done by getting a list of similar keywords with the use of the ’synonyms’ feature.

5. Introducing your offer in the body copy only. Don’t forget to accentuate in your copy’s headline the ‘ultimate benefit’. Apply a visualization technique about your viewer or reader looking at your headlines; do they have enough reasons to click through your copy’s content? Even though Google Adwords ads are only comprised of 3-4 lines, most people scan even these small pieces of copy and will only react when they resonate with something truly amazing or unique your chance to grab their attention lies right in the headline.