Employing Google AdWords to Drive Traffic to Your Website

By Paloma Bjork


Highly targeted traffic is one of the most important entities in the internet universe. Any website owner or administrator recognizes the importance of driving traffic to a website. The success of any website does not rely entirely on the site itself. You may have a terrific idea for a website, offer an excellent product or service, or have an exceptionally designed site with superb content, but if you do not use the right strategies to advertise, your site would not attract the high traffic you need. Attracting targeted traffic is a task that should be taken seriously for any site to succeed or make a profit. Fortunately, there are internet-marketing tools that help the website marketer to drive traffic to his website. One of the most significant, and effective, of these tools is Google's AdWords. AdWords is one of Google's advertising services.

How does Google AdWords work? Google is the largest search engine on the web receiving over 200 million queries each day through its various services. As Google is the most popular search engine today, webmasters are keen on having their websites achieve a higher ranking in the search engine results it provides. A high ranking can mean high traffic for that website. The search engine results page is also a great venue for advertisers to promote a product or service through ads and links. Consequently, Google launched its AdWords service, as a way for businesses to advertise products and services to a targeted audience. Google AdWords can guarantee instant traffic. In this service, Google displays relevant text based ads within its search engine results page termed as "Sponsored Links". Whenever a particular keyword is searched on, these relevant links appear in a separate section giving excellent exposure to the sites listed.

How would you use Google AdWords? First, you need to open an account with the Google AdWords Service. Then, you should indicate your target language and country. This is important as you wouldn't want your products advertised in countries where your service or product cannot be sold. Afterwards, you must now create an ad group. This requires designing the advertisement, choosing keywords and finding out maximum cost per click that you're willing to spend and determining bid amounts.

The main step in creating a successful AdWords campaign is picking a good title tag that will catch the attention of your target audience. The title tag, generally a short phrase, is the key part of your AdWords campaign so make sure that it is attractive and catchy. You must describe the site clearly and accurately. The most effective advertising conveys a clear message to the target audience. With a clear message, you'll be attracting qualified leads, which can eventually convert to sale. Thus, the importance of choosing the right keywords cannot be overemphasized.

There are keyword variations you can adapt to reach more prospects. Using these varieties, misspellings and derivatives can raise the chance of your advertisements being seen. Broad match is targeting keywords in a loosely defined manner. Here, the advertisements appear based on the keywords which have been queried by other users as opposed to exact match, which calls for the keyword to match the query exactly. Meanwhile, a keyword phrase set to phrase match will only appear when the exact phrase is searched on. A negative keyword is helpful in filtering unrelated pages.

After you've decided on what title tag to use in your advertisement, you need to now define a budget in order to maximize exposure. Google AdWords recommend a daily budget for each campaign. However, you should determine a budget that is suitable and affordable. You should also find out the ideal cost per click. Google will offer a recommended cost per click, but you don't need to stick with this. Usually, a number one position isn't ideal as it can also draw in unwanted traffic and useless clicks. A number two position is more preferred as it can filter useless clicks and give traffic with a higher conversion rate.

Subsequently, Google AdWords is an excellent approach and tool in giving your website maximum exposure. Nevertheless, Google AdWords must not be your single marketing strategy. It will certainly help you find the all-important, highly targeted traffic you need.




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