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Tweaking Your Campaigns in Adwords

The discussion here is primarily on the adgroups, ads and keywords.
Make sure you have 3-4 adgroups.
Under each adgroup, I suggest you have a maximum of 2 ads for doing a split test.
Don't create more than 2 ads and at the same time don't go with just one.
Google will rotate the two ads and you will find that one of them performs better than the other.
You will get to know which ad is performing better in just about 2-3 days.
It is time to pause the ad that is not performing.
Adgroups, ads must be centered around a theme.
To take an example;
Search by phone number; the adgroup name, the ads and the keywords should center around this theme.
Background check; the adgroup name, the ads and the keywords should center around this theme.
You will get better CTRs and Quality Scores for the adgroups, ads which have the keywords within them (relevancy factor which is high on google's agenda)
Now, let us look at the keywords. How many keywords do you have in each of your adgroups?
I can tell you from what has worked for me.
Don't have more than 4-5 keywords, sometimes your adgroup can very well perform with just one single keyword, yes, just one keyword.
I have seen the CTR for some of the keywords go up to about 10-15%.
But to get to this, you may start with 10-15 keywords in the beginning and start deleting the keywords for which you are only getting impressions but no clicks.
This would take may be 3-4 days.
Then, start pausing the keywords that are under performers. You can set your own benchmark. For me, anything less than 2 is not good.
Google comes out with new suggestions when you select the opportunities tab - these keyword lists are updated may be once a week or a fortnight.
See if any of those keywords make sense before selecting them and putting them in your adgroup. My experience says, may be 1 or 2 of those keywords per adgroup should be enough.
Within a week's time, you will have a campaign which should give you a CTR of 2 and above, lower costs, higher ad positions and quality signups/sales.
Then on, it is just a matter of checking out everyday and doing a bit of tweaking here and there which should take about 5 minutes of your time.
You are on autopilot now! All the best!

You saw all about Google Banning Affiliate Sites. Here is something else

I have a Google Adwords account. One of my campaign is running with a CTR of 4.5%+! It is an affiliate program I am promoting.

Here is how you can avoid those bans/slaps from Google.

Make sure you have original content on your landing page. This is the toughest part. I have seen many would just copy someone else's content and start using it. Try to be creative, write your own content or get it written by good content writers and make sure it is unique. You must have a good landing page otherwise you can't run a PPC ad with Google.

Make sure that you are not stuffing your content with keywords. That is a big no no.

Make sure your domain is registered for at least couple of years. That is one of the way you are giving a message to the search engines that you are in it for long term and you are not a fly by night operator.

If you are buying a domain, make sure that the name you choose aligns with the business that you are promoting.

I have couple of posts on how to set up a campaign in adwords. Check them out.

All the best!

Srinath

Some more on Google Adwords Ban - From Google Site Itself!

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Help forum > AdWords > Ad Approvals & Policy > I'm SHOCKED! Received Email stating account is DISABLED (We've done NOTHING wong...) I'm SHOCKED! Received Email stating account is DISABLED (We've done NOTHING wong...) Report abuse CanadianSEM Level 1 12/3/09 Wow... I'm in disbelief right now. We have a wonderful information-based website that we've been advertising for many months now. Our QS is 7 or higher virtually everywhere. Our ad spend is 3X higher than it has been ever in our 5-6 years with Google Adwords. Everything was going so well... until TONIGHT. I received an email with the ominous title "Your Google AdWords account has been disabled" Here are a couple excerpts from the email: "We are writing to let you know that your Google AdWords account has been disabled due to one or more serious violations of our advertising policies related to Landing Page and Site Quality.  As a result, your ads will no longer run through the Google AdWords system and we are unable to accept advertising from you in the future.  Please note that future accounts you open will also be disabled. As part of our commitment to making the AdWords experience safe and effective for our users and our advertisers, we routinely review the landing pages that our advertisers promote through our search and content networks.  If we find that an advertiser has submitted a landing page that egregiously violates our policies, we reserve the right to take immediate account-level action. Landing pages advertised via AdWords must have relevant, original content, and must be transparent about the nature of the business being promoted. Further, advertising certain types of sites will lead to immediate account disabling.  These types of sites include, but are not limited to:    * Sites that charge users or collect personal information in exchange for a product that is never delivered    * Sites that charge for "free" software    * Sites that trick users into paying for fake or poor-quality content    * Sites that charge users for information that makes unrealistic promises of financial or personal gain    * Sites that install malware software on a visitor's computer" Now, as I said before our website only offer shopping information, tips, and reviews. We don't collect any email addresses or charge our visitors a penny. Simply stated, there is NOTHING that we're doing with our site that is CLOSELY resembling a violation of AdWords policies. It's absolutely RIDICULOUS... I sent a polite email reply to Google but I personally know they can be a bit slow to respond to such things. I don't know what to do as I'm losing $100s of dollars/day with my site not being online... Please someone from Google - offer some advice! I'd be very appreciative! All replies SBL-CANADA Level 1 12/5/09 Got the same email, or similar at least, but with ABSOLUTELY no explanation. Read another forum thread where LOTS of this was happening. There was a suggestion to reply to the email (from a Google Employee) and the answer would be forth coming. What I got in response was still more non-answers quoting "violation of terms and conditions". Well I read over the T & C over and again, folllowed the guidelines for creating accounts and ads.... So I ask for clarification what was in violation so I could correct it, a reasonable request... All I get from them is "I have reconsulted the specialist team about your account suspension, and have confirmed that our team's decision is correct and final. Your ads will no longer run on Google. This policy will apply to all accounts you have created." What was in violation???? How can I fix something that I dont know what it is that needs fixing? This is non communication. They seem to be hiding behind the blanket of their "terms and conditions" yet dont give anyone the opportunity to make the appropriate corrections? The last paragraph of the email is even more disturbing, frustrating and absurd: "Our support team is unable to provide any further information. Please do not contact us again." This is completely unfair, unprofessional and rude. Again, I have absolutely NO IDEA what was in violation. Did you find this answer helpful? Yes No Report abuse canadianseo Level 1 12/5/09 Received a reply as well. Complete copy & paste job. Didn`t adress as single issue. Unreal. Did you find this answer helpful? Yes No

Google Banning Adwords Advertisers - Targeting Affiliate Marketers!!!!

Here is something I found which should be a not so pleasant shock to many of the internet affiliate marketers! The big boss of search engines has been doing something or the other, especially last 4-5 months which is making life difficult for affiliate marketers. Read on........

 

December 4, 2009

Google Begins Banning AdWords Advertisers Again: December '09 Big Ban

As you know, Google promised to ban AdWords advertisers at a higher rate and began doing so in late September and throughout November but promised to really step it up later last month.
I spotted a new thread at Google AdWords Help which has what appears to be dozens of advertisers who started getting banned yesterday, December 3rd, at the stroke of midnight. So when it turned into December 3rd, it seems like a bunch of automatic bans just went out and impacted tons of advertisers. There are also ongoing discussion about these bans at WebmasterWorld.
So it looks like a new Google strike on AdWords advertisers has come down.
Here is a copy of a ban email from Google these days:

Dear advertiser, We are writing to let you know that your Google AdWords account has been disabled due to one or more serious violations of our advertising policies related to Landing Page and Site Quality. As a result, your ads will no longer run through the Google AdWords system and we are unable to accept advertising from you in the future. Please note that future accounts you open will also be disabled.
As part of our commitment to making the AdWords experience safe and effective for our users and our advertisers, we routinely review the landing pages that our advertisers promote through our search and content networks. If we find that an advertiser has submitted a landing page that egregiously violates our policies, we reserve the right to take immediate account-level action.
Landing pages advertised via AdWords must have relevant, original content, and must be transparent about the nature of the business being promoted. Further, advertising certain types of sites will lead to immediate account disabling. These types of sites include, but are not limited to:
* Sites that charge users or collect personal information in exchange for a product that is never delivered
* Sites that charge for "free" software
* Sites that trick users into paying for fake or poor-quality content
* Sites that charge users for information that makes unrealistic promises of financial or personal gain
* Sites that install malware software on a visitor's computer

Please note that this action is related to sites that have recently been advertised through your account. In a review of your account history, we found that your account had submitted a least one site that egregiously violated our advertising policies. Although you may have removed these sites since our latest review, advertisers that have a history of promoting these types of sites are still subject to account-level disabling.
You can review our Advertising Policies, including our Landing Page and Site Quality guidelines, by visiting: http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guidelines.cs
You may also review the complete AdWords Terms & Conditions here: https://adwords.google.com/select/tsandcsfinder
In addition, our FAQ about Account Disablings can be found here: https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164786
If you have additional questions or concerns not addressed by our policies or help center, you can contact support by replying to this email.
Sincerely,
The Google AdWords team

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