SMX West February 26, 2008 - Avoiding PPC Pitfalls Session - Amy Konefal, Addie Connor & One Other Dude

Posted by Adam on February 27, 2008
SMX - Search Marketing Expo Conference

Just got finished presenting on the panel - Defending Your Paid Search Budget Against Fad Ads and am now in the Avoiding PPC Pitfalls session.

Amy from Closed Loop Marketing is presenting the evils of broad match and advanced match with some prime examples of why you shouldn’t be running all your campaigns on broad match.

It is truely amazing how much liberty the engines take with broad match from related keywords, stemming, and liberties taken with geographical targeting on local targeted keywords.

General guidelines to deal with match types:

    Build out singular and plural terms
    Avoid broad & advanced match on broad terms
    Build out an extensive negative list
    Pull the search query performance report from Google
    Buy the most valuable traffic first

Then use AdGooRoo to get more visibility into your online visibility and that of your competitors.

Up next - Addie Connor from Course Advisor

This presentation focuses on account structure geared toward streamlining reporting, improving quality score, and improving all around performance.

Considerations when setting up PPC search campaigns include:

    Static vs. dynamic ads
    Display URLs
    Sales & promotions
    Budgeting issues
    GEO targeting needs
    Content vs. search
    Dayparting
    Reporting format & needs

Develop the keywords and ad groups in tandem while keeping in mind the landing pages and ad templates.

What to do if the account is inherited?

Quality score is combinations of ad text and keywords so if you inherit an account and preserve that, then try to keep the keyword and ad text combinations.

One Other Dude - Clix Marketing

What to do about PPC content campaigns to make them perform for you.

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