Our Google AdWords management fees are now some of the most competitive in the industry. We wanted to show some extra love to the long-time AdWords clients that helped to make SEO-Digital a Google Partner with a Top 5% performance rating.
The Google program has rolled out a new feature, company specialisations, that recognise and differentiate partners with specific expertise in certain areas. These specialisations are only awarded to certified Google Partners that demonstrate increased performance and product expertise in AdWords products.
Google Partners can earn specializations in 5 areas:
SEO Digital Solutions is recognised for expertise in Search, Mobile, and Display.
The new specialisation tags are a great way for us to demonstrate to our existing, new and potential clients that SEO Digital Solutions continually strives to provide the absolute highest level of Google AdWords management services.
At SEO Digital Solutions, we’re beaming with pride over our new specialist distinctions, and we are ever thankful to the wonderful clients who’ve allowed us to manage their search advertising and organic search optimisation campaigns.
Best,
The SEO Team
Our updated schedule for PPC management pricing includes increased ad spend ranges. With bigger ranges, our clients can keep the same management fee while growing their Google AdWords and/or Bing Ads campaigns.
Our Google AdWords management fees are now some of the most competitive in the industry. We wanted to show some extra love to the long-time AdWords clients that helped to make SEO-Digital a Google Partner with a Top 5% performance rating.
If you are not aware, Google has rolled out a new layout for the display of ads on the right sidebar for desktop searches. Ads have completely disappeared from the right sidebar — and this is a global rollout.
What Does It Mean?
The general consensus is that Google is catering to the ever increasing use of mobile devices for online searches and web browsing. There simply is not enough real-estate [on the smaller mobile screens] to display eleven ads, and Google is implementing an ad display format that is cohesive across all devices.
The new layout will feature 3 ads on the top of the search results page, but sometimes a fourth ad will be displayed.
According to Google, an additional fourth ad may be displayed above the organic search results, but only for highly commercial queries.
Additionally, 3 ads will also show below the organic results — at the bottom of the page. This means that the number of Google AdWords ads that will display on a single search results page will drop from 11 to 6 (or 7, for “highly commercial” search queries).
We haven’t accumulated enough click data to be sure, but the answer is: probably.
It stands to reason: If the number of viewable ads drops from 11 to 6 or 7, those fewer positions become more valuable — and more competitive. Advertisers will, undoubtedly, increase their bids to ensure first page ad positioning.
Higher cost-per-click does not necessarily mean you’ll need to increase your overall ad budget. Why? Because fewer ads on the SERP pages can lead to an increase in your conversion rates — reducing your conversion costs.
Quality score aside, your odds of getting the ad click just went from one-in-eleven to one-in-six/seven. All things even, and assuming you bid up to the first page, the new ad layout should provide opportunity for increased conversion rates. That said, attaining high quality scores for your keywords has now become more important than ever.
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Read SEO-Digital tips for quickly improving Google AdWords performance.
The Google AdWords pay-per-click (PPC) platform has become an essential marketing element for most businesses, big and small. Done properly, AdWords can quickly deliver a mind boggling amount of high quality leads and/or online sales. Unfortunately, most businesses now know this, and AdWords has become quite competitive — and this drives up click costs. For this reason, it is more important than ever to ensure that your AdWords PPC campaigns are optimized to their fullest potential.
There are a number of costly AdWords mistakes that are very common amongst beginners and AdWords veterans. For this article, we focus on the 5 mistakes we most frequently come across at SEO-Digital when taking on new clients with existing AdWords campaigns:
Negative keywords are, by far, one of the most valuable tools for improving AdWords conversion rates and increasing return-on-investment.
Google gets 100 billion searches PER MONTH — and 15% of the keywords in those searches are new words that Google has not yet registered. Just take a moment to wrap your head around those numbers… scary, right? So it stands to reason that there can be tons of keywords that may be similar, or even related to your industry keywords, but not exactly the right keywords for your particular business. This is where negative keywords come into play. Negative keywords allow you to exclude certain words and phrases from triggering your ads, even though they may be technically relevant to the keywords you are bidding on.
EXAMPLE: SEO-Digital provides “AdWords Management Services”. For SEO-Digital’s online marketing campaign, we may bid on the keyword: “AdWords Management Services” — but we are not interested in paying for clicks related to training (in this particular ad group). In this case, “training” can be related to the words “management” and “services”, and if we are using phrase match, we could certainly receive ad clicks for Adwords Training related searches. Here, we simply create a negative keyword, “+training” and apply it to our ad group. This tells Google that we do not want our ad to display for any search phrase containing the word training. That’s it — Easy Peasy! We just eliminated a lot of potential clicks that would have cost us good money, and been a drag on our ROI for this particular ad group.
By utilizing a good list of negative keywords, you can exclude keywords that aren’t a good match for your products and/or services, and doing so can lower costs, improve conversions and increase return-on-investment.
This one is a no-brainer for some, completely off the radar for others. Unless you’re selling products online 24/7, your ad campaigns are probably underperforming if they are running at all hours and on weekends. Remember, a lead is always the hottest at initial contact. So, if you are a plumber that works 8am – 6pm, those ad clicks at 10:30pm are probably money you just tossed down the drain (eek, that was ugly ;). Furthermore, if your campaigns are limited by budget, and Google is spreading your budget across 24 hours, you are missing out on a lot of leads during your prime working hours.
Concentrate your ad spend budget on the days and hours most likely to convert.
Don’t do it! Guys and gals, we see this a lot — some “king of the hill” mentality that compels you to bid obnoxious amounts of money to ensure your ad gets the top slot, then your competitor does the same, and so on, and so on. First, that’s not how AdWords works — there are quality scores to consider. Second, the top slot does not guarantee that your ad gets the click.
Perform ad position tests to determine best bids and slots for maximum ROI.
Broad match is the default match type that new keywords are assigned in Google Adwords campaigns and ad groups. Ads may be displayed for searches that include misspellings, synonyms, related searches and other relevant variations.
Broad match modifiers allow you to exclude synonyms of your search term. Unfortunately, and too often, keywords are left set to ‘broad only’ match type, resulting in low relevance and poor conversion rates.
Use the plus sign (+) in front of a broad match term to make it modified, exclude synonyms and increase relevance. Example: +keyword
Anyone new to Google AdWords, and even account manager veterans, can quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of acronyms, abbreviated words, terms and phrases utilized throughout the AdWords platform and PPC industry. Heck, quite often, browsing through AdWords reports is like trying to decipher teenage text talk… srsly!
Here at SEO-Digital, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of Google AdWords related acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations, along with their meanings — to get you up to speed and in the loop for 2016.
AVGPOS or AVG. POS. — Average Position: Average position is the statistic of how your ad typically ranks against other ads (competitor ads). In general, ad positions between 1 and 3 mean your ad is appearing in the top 3 positions.
Average positions greater than 3 will typically land your ad on the sidebar, at the bottom of the search results page, or on the 2nd, 3rd, etc. pages — the larger the ad position number, the further down the list your ad is showing.
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BMM — Broad Match Modifier: Modified broad match lets you specify that certain broad match keywords must appear to trigger your ad. Use the broad match modifier for more precise control and to exclude keyword synonyms from triggering your ads.
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BR — Bounce Rate: The percentage of website visitors who navigate away from the site after viewing only one webpage.
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CAC — Customer Acquisition Cost: The cost of a customer acquisition (CAC) simply means the price you pay to acquire a new customer.
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CLV — Customer Lifetime Value: CLV is a prediction of all value (net profit) a business will derive from their entire relationship with a customer.
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CONV — Conversion(s): An AdWords conversion happens when a Google search user clicks your ad, then takes a specific action that you’ve defined as valuable, such as an online purchase, a web-form submission, or a mobile call to your business.
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CPA — Cost Per Acquisition/Conversion Action: In AdWords, CPA is the amount you are willing to pay for a conversion (a specific action taken after the initial ad click).
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CPC — Cost Per Click: The amount you pay when someone clicks your ad.
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CPE — Cost Per Engagement: The average amount that you’ve been charged when someone expands your Lightbox ad.
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CPL — Cost Per Lead: Same as CPA above.
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CPM — Cost Per Thousand: CPM in AdWords means cost per thousand impressions. With CPM, you pay each and every time your ad appears (calculated per 1000 impressions), regardless of whether it actually gets clicked by the internet user.
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CPP — Cost Per Phone Call: The amount you pay when someone performs a click-to-call action on your ad, or when a phone call is derived from a forwarding number displayed on your ad.
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CPV — Cost Per View: The amount you pay when a viewer watches 30 seconds of your video (or the duration if it’s shorter than 30 seconds) or interacts with your video, whichever comes first. Video interactions can include: clicks on the call-to-action overlays (CTAs), cards, and companion banners.
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CR — Conversion Rate: The average number of conversions per ad click, shown as a percentage.
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CRO — Conversion Rate Optimization: A method (or system) for increasing the percentage of ad direct web visitors that convert into customers, or more generally, take a specified action (conversion) after the initial ad click.
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CTA — Call To Action: In general, an online marketing call-to-action is an image, line of text, web-form, video, etc. that prompts your web visitor to perform some immediate action. The call-to-action is intended to improve conversion rate, as its absence may cause a visitor to feel less compelled to complete your online marketing objective.
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CTR — Click Through Rate: The rate at which users “click through” to your site from an AdWords ad. The CTR percentage represents the number of clicks that your ad receives divided by the number of times your ad is shown (clicks ÷ impressions = CTR).
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DSTURL or Dest. URL — Destination URL (replaced by Final URL): The URL address of the page in your website that people reach when they click your ad.
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DKI — Dynamic Keyword Insertion: An advanced feature that allows you to dynamically insert an AdWords keyword into your ad copy, based on the searcher’s query.
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ECPC — Enhanced Cost Per Click: ECPC is a bidding feature that automatically raises your bid for clicks that seem more likely to lead to a conversion on your website.
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ECPM — Effective Cost Per Thousand: ECPM is an estimate of the revenue you receive for every thousand ad impressions — (Total Earnings / Impressions) x 1000.
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EPC — Earnings Per Click: EPC refers to how much money you make per person who clicks on your ad.
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GDN — Google Display Network: A collection of websites, including specific Google websites like: Google Finance, Gmail, Blogger, and YouTube, that display AdWords ads. The network also includes mobile sites and apps.
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IS — Impression Share: The actual number of impressions your ads receive divided by the estimated number of impressions you were eligible to receive.
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KPI — Key Performance Indicator: A business metric used to evaluate factors that are crucial to the success of an organization.
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KW — Keywords: Words or phrases describing your product or service that you choose to help determine when and where your ad can appear.
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LPO — Landing Page Optimization: LPO is the process of improving elements on a landing page (the web page that an AdWords ad redirects to when clicked) to increase conversions.
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LTV — Lifetime Value: Same as CLV above.
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NKW — Negative Keywords: A type of keyword that prevents your ad from being triggered by a certain word or phrase. It tells Google not to show your ad to anyone who is searching for that phrase.
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PLA — Product Listing Ads: Product Listing Ads are cost-per-click ads which feature a product image, and are tailored towards products and product categories vs. keywords.
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PPC — Pay Per Click: Internet marketing model in which advertisers pay a fee each time one of their ads is clicked.
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PPL — Pay Per Lead: Online advertising payment model in which payment is based solely on qualifying leads.
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PR — Page Rank or PageRank: PageRank is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank websites in their search engine results. PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of website pages.
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PTR — Phone Through Rate: PTR is the number of phone calls received divided by the number of times your phone number is shown (Phone impressions).
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QS — Quality Score: An estimate of the quality of ads and landing pages triggered by a keyword. Having a high Quality Score means Google thinks your ad and landing page are relevant and useful to someone looking at your ad.
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ROAS — Return On Ad Spend: The amount of revenue received for every dollar spent on an advertising source. This is a gauge of the effectiveness of AdWords campaigns.
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SERP — Search Engine Results Page: The listing of results returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query.
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STR — Search Terms Report: A list of search terms that people used before seeing your ad and clicking it. The search terms report is used to refine keywords so that only relevant searches cause your ad to show.
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VTC — View-Through Conversions: A measurement of online conversions within 30 days of a user seeing an ad on Google Display Network, didn’t click on that ad, but converted via another means.
In 2016, ecommerce sales alone are expected to exceed $550 billion.
Are your online marketing and Google Shopping Campaigns (AdWords) optimized for maximum sales potential? Make sure you get the best conversions and highest ROI possible with your digital marketing efforts.
Contact SEO-Digital today for a free consultation and campaign audit.
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