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When The Adwords Sweet Spots Turn Sour…

Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Steve Baker Comments

I blogged a while back about the sweet spot for your campaign, and how to find it.Basically, you estimate the conversion rate, cost per click and clickthrough rate for each position that your advert can appear in, and calculate how profitable each one is. You should find that one position is more profitable than the [...]

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Small Budgets And Big Keyword Lists

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 Steve Baker Comments

I recently saw somebody describing their campaign on a forum. They said that they had 250,000 keywords, and were concerned that Google may ban them.

Really, this was the wrong question - what they should have been asking was how they could possibly manage a campaign with 250,000 keywords.

Do a few sums, and you [...]

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Should You Put The Content Network Into A Separate Campaign?

Friday, August 31st, 2007 Steve Baker 3 Comments

The answer to this question should be yes. After all, that way you can easily monitor it’s performance as a whole (rather than produce a separate report for it, or having to flick through your adgroups all the time). Also, you may find that different advert text works more effectively on the content network - [...]

Advert Text, Content Network, Google Adwords, PPC Campaigns

The Hidden Cost Of Increasing Your Bids To Move Up The Search Results

Thursday, August 30th, 2007 Steve Baker Comments

I wrote the other week about how to find the sweet spot for your advert, the position that generates the most profit for you. But it’s a long and slow process, if you are just interested in making a small change to your bids (maybe as a result of a change to your Quality [...]

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Why Making Money On Competitive Terms Is No Harder Than On Uncompetitive Terms

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 Steve Baker Comments

Seriously, if you are using the ’sweet-spot’ approach to decide what position your advert should appear in, the amount that everyone else is bidding makes no difference to whether your campaign makes money. It does, however, affect how much money you can make. Not convinced? Look at the following example. Take the [...]

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