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Google AdWords Creates Automated Rules for PPC

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You might have noticed a notification box appearing in your Google PPC Campaign dashboard labeled: “NEW! Automate changes across client accounts.”

I recommend checking these new automated features and consider using them for those who manage multiple PPC accounts.

The automated rules will help save you time managing accounts based on conditions you select. The rules can manage your bids, budgets, or ad statuses.

And you can manage how frequent your rules are applied to the ads.

Here are some examples of different automated rules that Google AdWords offers:

  • Scheduling ads for special promotions or events
  • Changing keyword bids to control average position
  • Pausing low-performing ads or keywords
  • Adjusting budgets or scheduling budgets for certain days each week
  • Raising keyword bids to ensure ads show on first page

For instructions on how to create automated rules, please visit Google AdWords.

If you’re interested in Google pay-per-click, contact us at World Synergy for more information.

Online Marketing: Digital Magazines or Google AdWords?

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Advertising Age, a global resource for marketing and advertising news,  recently published an interesting piece discussing the new focus on ROI by major magazine companies like Time Inc. and Meredith Corp. in “Magazines to Marketers: We’ll Prove How Much We Lift Sales”. It’s no surprise that as online marketing becomes more effective, and an increasing number of tools enter the market to measure ROI (return on investment), magazine advertising has experienced a major decline.

Most of us know Google AdWords is Google’s primary revenue source, with total advertising revenues of $28 billion in 2010, but have you been keeping up with the most updated figures from The Interactive Advertising Bureau revealing major upward trends in all online advertising?

  • Revenues from Internet ads rose 23.2% in the first half of 2011
  • Display advertising (including banner ads and sponsorships) increased 27.1% over the same period in 2010
  • Display-related advertising totaled more than $5.5 billion in the first six months of 2011

This move by magazines to increase their focus on providing advertisers with more metrics in order to measure advertisers’ return on investment couldn’t be too soon.  While magazine subscriptions decline and online marketing increases, it shouldn’t be surprising major magazines would try getting a piece of the pie.  Will they be able to create a tool, similar to the analytics provided by Google AdWords, to prove advertising dollars are well spent on digital magazine ads?  Will digital magazine advertising campaigns become a viable strategy for online marketing?

Contact World Synergy for more online marketing solutions and website marketing services.

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Online Marketing Solutions — Google AdWords New Feature

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Recently, Google AdWords added a new feature that lets you optimize your ads for conversions, Conversion-aware  Creative Rotation (CaCR).

With CaCR, you are able to choose what ads show that are expected to provide more conversions more often. It works for both Search and Display campaigns.

There are different rotation settings available that will rotate ads within an ad group.

Rotate: Ads rotate evenly in the ad auction, even if an ad has a lower CTR than another.

Optimize for clicks: Ads expected to have more clicks will appear more often in the ad auction than other ads. This setting will allow your ad groups to gain more impressions and clicks.

Optimize for conversions: Ads expected to have more conversions will appear more often in the ad auction. This setting will allow your ad group to receive fewer clicks, but is expect to receive more conversions and an improved ROI.

Contact World Synergy for your online marketing solutions.

Website Marketing Strategy — Goodbye to AdWords Position Preference Bidding

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Recently, Google announced it will be retiring the position preference bidding in AdWords.

Starting in early May, Google will be disabling the position preference for any campaigns still using it. To ensure a smooth transition for your bids, Google recommends changing any campaigns using the position preference.

Google’s reasoning behind this change is to discourage advertisers’ focus on the position of their ads on a page.

Chief Economist at Google Hal Varian found in a position metric analysis that the position of ads has no impact on conversion rates.

Those still concerned with the position of certain ads can use the automated rules for the same results. The automated rule will change your bid if your average position differs from your target position.

Contact World Synergy to help with your online marketing and website marketing strategy efforts.

Paid Search Marketing Beyond Google

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Google has almost become synonymous with PPC and paid search marketing. But there are many sites out there that businesses and pay per click consultants should consider when developing paid search marketing campaigns.

MSN and Yahoo
MSN controls PPC for its own site as well as Yahoo. MSN paid search marketing is similar to Google’s. You set up campaign, choose keywords and set your budgets.

Facebook
Facebook allows advertisers to use paid search marketing to target very specific demographics by age, gender, education level, geographic location, even marital status. It also allows advertisers to target users by specific keywords in their profiles, delivering relevant ads to potential customers.

LinkedIn
Ads are displayed by selecting target audience: by job title, job function, industry, geography, age, gender, company name, company size, or LinkedIn Group. With a minimum of $10/day budget, you can opt for CPC or CPM paid search marketing campaign.

Amazon
No monthly fee or minimum spend for Amazon’s paid search marketing. Only specific product categories are eligible. CPC model.

Ask
Ask claims to have a lower CPC than Google, Yahoo and MSN. With 95 million users, you may reach people on Ask through paid search marketing that might not use the other search engines.

MIVA
MIVA has several sources for paid search marketing including search, domain, display, downloadable and email ads.

Lycos
Little information is available on their Web site, but Lycos does offer paid search marketing.

AOL
AOL’s paid search marketing works with advertising.com to place ads on 80+ brands including AOL, MapQuest, AIM, MovieFone, etc.

Looksmart
Looksmart places keyword-based text ads on publisher sites. Its paid search marketing program allows advertisers and businesses to reach additional customers.

adBrite
adBrite partners with over 100,000 sites to deliver over 1 billion impressions daily. Pricing can be set up as CPC, CPM or CPA for adBrite’s paid search marketing program.

AdEngage
Over 12 million ads are displayed on 4,500 websites each month with AdEngage’s paid search marketing. Ads are purchased weekly on a cost per time basis or on a CPC basis.

BidVertiser
Advertisers can choose categories to target on BidVertiser’s paid search marketing program. The site claims to target thousands of websites on a CPC model.

ExoClick
Using a PPC model, ExoClick offers paid search marketing on search portals, domain parking and a network of websites.

Search123
UK based search engine with a PPC cost model, this paid search marketing option targets leading UK search engine sites.

7Search
7Search provides advertiser results for over 2 billion searches per month. The paid search marketing campaign charges on a PPC basis.

Marchex
Formally known as Marchex Adhere, this paid search marketing program charges on a PPC basis allowing advertisers to target sites by keyword, category or geographic region.

Pontiflex
This paid search marketing option charges only when users sign up for your email list or social networking sites. Clients include the Obama ’08 campaign and Huggies.

Now that you have a comprehensive list of sites to consider for paid search marketing, be sure to research the best SEO keyword tool for finding words to target.

Contact World Synergy to learn more about our paid search marketing services. We manage the entire paid search marketing process for you from finding keywords to custom landing pages to monitoring performance.

Online Marketing Company: Google AdWords Certified Partner

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World Synergy is a Google AdWord Certified Partner and can help companies get the most out of their pay-per-click advertising on Google.

We are also certified in reporting and analysis of Google Adwords and Google Analytics to maximize value and ROI for clients’ online marketing efforts.

This designation lets others know that World Synergy staff is trained and proficient as pay per click consultants under the new Google AdWords Certification program.

Google explains Google AdWords Certified Partner certification as:

Google AdWords Certified Partners are not Google employees, but rather are online marketing professionals, agencies, and other individuals such as search engine marketers (SEMs), search engine optimizers (SEOs), and marketing consultants. They have been certified by Google to manage AdWords accounts. To become qualified, professionals must demonstrate an in-depth understanding of AdWords by passing exams, and they must meet all our qualification guidelines.

Different professionals have different areas of expertise, so you should talk to them or look at their profile page to get a better understanding of their service levels and specializations.

Search Engine Marketing Agencies Watch as Rumors Fly: Will AOL Buy Yahoo?

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Yahoo stock surged by 15% after an article in the Wall Street Journal said AOL and several private equity firms are exploring offers to buy Yahoo.

So what does this mean for search engines? AOL currently has about 2 percent of the search engine market share, with Yahoo taking about 20% of the market share. Combined with Bing –  the Microsoft search engine that now powers Yahoo – the two take about 28% of the market share. Google still takes the biggest chunk, with 61.6% of searches coming from its site in July 2010.

The Wall Street Journal report that a combined Yahoo and AOL would have a greater ability to compete with Google for online advertising dollars. While both sites draw a large amount of visitors, neither has been able to capitalize on online advertising like Google has.

Mashable reported that the rumor mill has been swirling for days, and some say Yahoo is actually considering buy AOL. AOL’s market share is about 1/10th the size of Yahoos.

What do you think – would a new AOL and Yahoo merger be successful? Will the merger challenge Google or will Google always be king of the search engines?

Online Marketing Services — Increase of Online Ad Spending

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According to the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, online advertising in the U.S. has increased by 11.3 percent since the first half of 2009.

Approximately $12.1 billion has been spent by businesses and individuals on online advertising in the first six months of 2010.

Ad Spending Breakdown:

  • More than $5.7 billion was spent in Search advertising
  • More than $4.4 billion was spent in Display advertising

Most of the money spent so far for online advertising has been on video advertising, which has had a significant growth of 31 percent since the first of last year.

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Although the recession hit hard in 2009, ad spending has taken off for the first six months of 2010. Companies are adapting and adjusting to the flow of trends and budgeting more for online advertising. The Internet has really changed how companies are marketing to their customers.

World Synergy offers an array of online marketing services from email marketing to pay per click management. Contact us today for more information.

Pay Per Click Consultants — Google Changing Certification Program

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Pay per click consultants take note – your Google Advertising Professional Program certification will expire Oct. 31.

That’s because Google is replacing the “Google Advertising Professional Program” with the “Google AdWords Certification.” What’s the difference between the two?

The new certification requires no spend limit for an individual to qualify, and the spend limits are lowered for companies to qualify. Whereas the old program required a passing score on one exam to be certified, the new exam requires a passing score on the Fundamental Exam and one other exam.

For pay per click consultants who are already certified through the Google Advertising Professional Program and want to maintain their certification under the Google AdWords Certification, they must pass updated exams.

Google sent notices to all pay per click consultants who are certified individuals on Oct. 5 letting them know about the change. The email stated that, “the new, globally-recognized program showcases specialized, practical knowledge through advanced exams covering search, display, and reporting & analysis.”

There is a six month grace period for current Google Advertising Professionals to meet the new criteria and terms and conditions in order to retain their certified status. According to Google, “during this grace period, you’ll keep their Google Public Profile page, and continue to show up in Google Partner Search results.”

If you’ve already passed the Fundamental Exam, you’ll need to pass one of the three advanced exams to maintain your certification.

For more information, visit Google AdWords Learning Center.

SEO Keyword Tool — Find Common Keyword Misspellings

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If you’re running keyword based ads on any search engine online, such as Google AdWords, you should consider adding keyword misspellings to your program.

Misspellings are cheaper to target. You could pay as little as $.01 per click on a misspelled keyword, compared to over a dollar per click on the correctly spelled keyword. The search count is much lower, so you won’t get as many clicks, but if you have enough misspellings you could end up collecting a lot of clicks for a lot less.

One helpful tool to generate misspellings is: http://tools.seobook.com/spelling/keywords-typos.cgi

We recommend creating separate ad groups with your misspellings to make it easier to manage. If you’re adding hundreds or thousands of misspellings, you’ll want to keep that separate from your main keywords.

Be sure to review your keywords and make sure you are bidding high enough to be on the first page. You’ll have to adjust some of the keywords manually and increase the bid higher for more common misspellings. It will still be lower than the correct spelling of the word, but higher than the group default.

Like any newly created ad group, be sure to monitor your misspellings campaign. You’ll want to let it run for a while to gauge its effectiveness since the search count will be much lower than correctly spelled keywords.

How do you choose which keywords to target as possible misspelling potentials? Look at your regular ads to see which keywords have the largest impressions and beck click thru rate. Then put them into the seo keyword tool. Each keyword can generate hundreds of misspellings.

Learn more about negative seo keyword tool.