As a marketer I am constantly evaluating how companies are attempting to market their products and services as I go throughout my day. Sometimes I am impressed, more often I am amazed at how basic common sense and simple marketing logic is disregarded by companies. In these times of increased economic concerns I just don’t understand how these companies don’t see that they could use their marketing budget more effectively.
Over the next couple days Google will be changing aspects of their Adwords algorithm that will likely have an effect on every advertiser currently using Adwords. Quality Score will now be determined in real time, no keywords will be marked ‘inactive for search’ and most importantly ‘minimum bid’ will be replaced by ‘first page bid’. The last change is likely to have the greatest effect on advertisers.
The dynamic keyword insertion tool for adwords is a great tool for managing large amounts of diverse keywords within an adgroup. For those of you who are not familiar the keyword insertion tool allows you to place a code combined with a generic keyword into your ads. This combination results in the actual keyword the searcher was searching for appearing in the ad. This has been proven to help with click-through-rates because searchers respond more to seeing the exact phrase or word that they typed in.
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