Just wondering about Google Adwords, If anyone has any advice? I am Reviewing Guitar Courses like Jamarama, Master The Guitar, Unlocking the Guitar Secrets and some others. If you put a keyword like guitar instruction video or beginner guitar course online. You set up a ADGROUP For each one. Does the Keyword that you set up have to be in the Ad itself? Does Beginner Guitar Course Online Have to Be in the AD itself? I have put The Adgroup as Beginner Guitar Course Online with keywords
beginner guitar course online, "beginner guitar course online" and [beginner guitar course online] and create a Adgroup.
Or is it better to have a bunch of keywords for one ADGROUP. That is what I am confused about? and how many keyword per adgroups. If someone can give me an example. I would appreciate that.
If anybody has any advice on setting up ADGROUP’s in Google Adwords Campaigns,
I would appreciate the Help!
Thanks,
Ray
"If anyone has any advice?"
This is a complex and deep topic and before you enable any campaigns, you should be **very sure** of what you’re spending your money on. If you don’t know, pay someone, it will save you lots of money in the long run. After revising amateur adWords campaign setups, I’ve provided superior results at $15/day (+- $300/mo) to campaigns that were previously exceeding $75/day (+- 2200/mo.)
That out of the way,
"I am Reviewing Guitar Courses … If you put a keyword like guitar instruction video or beginner guitar course online."
These are good "starter keywords," but be sure to use the keyword tool for suggestions. The per-click cost will go up or down depending on the "quality" of the keyword: more specific keywords will cost you less than "broad" keywords. For example, "guitar" is about as broad as it gets, "guitar instruction video" is specific. Don’t forget to include guitar instruction DVD, learn guitar, etc . . .
"Or is it better to have a bunch of keywords for one ADGROUP"
No. You need to do testing. At this point, you don’t know WHAT will work, right? So you set up ads with 10-20 keyword combinations (maximum, I like to use 5-8) and assign those to a group. Choose the keywords terms so they are similar, example:
guitar instruction video
guitar instruction DVD
guitar instruction (maybe)
….. so on . . focusing on guitar and instruction)
Within that group you create maybe 6-10 ads. Let it run, figure out which ones are PERFORMING and which ones do not. Figure out why the performers perform, drop the bad ads, create variations of the performers.
Now create groups for learn guitar, other possible terms, and don’t forget "guitar instruction reviews" which is REALLY your topic.
Fire up all your groups. Watch it for a month, a full month. Drop pause the groups that don’t perform. Pause/delete the ads that don’t perform. Figure out which ones perform and why.
"Does Beginner Guitar Course Online Have to Be in the AD itself?"
Not *directly*, and this is one of the most important things about adWords: the ad copy itself is a CALL TO ACTION. You develop it to compel the visitor to click the ad. The keywords assigned to the group are responsible for placement of the ad.
By "not directly" I mean that inherently, a search term entered means someone is searching for that thing. So your ad should be something *about* the keywords, but the keywords need not be in the ad.
A few other quick bits:
- Expensive keywords: Your "target" should be between .03-/.15 per click, if you are getting "not active/minimum .80" for a given keyword, the term is either too broad or the competition is very high. Real estate, for example, can be up to $20 per click. So don’t just go ahead an pay .80 per click because you *think* it’s an important keyword, be sure. Enter that term in Google. Does it bring up competing sites? It is relevant then. Is it worth the .80 to you? Maybe not - if you can bring in conversions from your other keywords, that .80 can go to other less expensive keywords, more for your dollar.
- Conversions: A conversion is an ad click that converts to a sale or contact. IT is WHY you are paying for adWords. Be sure to set up analytics at the same time, so you know what’s going on, but the bottom line: it doesn’t matter how much traffic comes to your site. If it doesn’t convert to sales, it’s a waste of money. Give it 3 months, no conversions, it’s not working for you.
- Stay off the content network. The content network is where people have ads on their web sites, and it’s BURIED with abuse (come to my site and click the ads, it makes me money.) Although this abuse is managed harshly by Google, a lot of people get away with it. Either set your content bid to .01 for content network, or turn it off completely (this is not where you’d expect, it’s in account settings.)