Okay so I was looking through some questions on Yahoo answers the other day regarding click through rates. It does seem that people are struggling to get a decent CTR.
I remember when I first started out in Adwords that getting a decent CTR was near impossible.
So knowing what I now know about Adwords what would be my approach to an Adwords campaign that has already been setup, but has a terrible CTR.
To answer this I am using a question from Yahoo answers that someone posted. Hopefully it may help you to clarify your approach to your own Adwords campaigns.
So here’s the questions:
Adwords CTR 0.02%??? HELP!!!?
Just opened a new AdWords campaign for my new charity website(helping Chinese kids in poverty). 1 day has passed and the site got 21671 impressions and 4 clicks (content network is on). That’s pathetic!!
The keywords I chose:
children in need
world poverty
Chinese poverty
sponsor chinese children
charity donation
donate
donation
sponsor asian children
child education
child health care
child sponsorship
children in poverty
helping children
sponsor a child
sponsor a chinese child
charity giving
child healthcare
What’s wrong with these keywords? Where can I get help? Some people say they can increase CTR to 5-7%?
So here’s what I would do:
1) First things first - turn off the content network.
Simply because the content network can skewer the CTR results so that you don’t get a proper understanding of how good your ad and keyword combination really is.
2) Next I would see what Google sees as the relevant keywords on my site. So I would run the destination url through Google’s keyword tool found here https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal make sure that you select “Website Content” and plug in your url. Google will spit out the keywords that they think are relevant.
NB: If the keywords you are using are not in the list provided by Google then you will need to tweak the content of the website so that it matches the keywords you are targeting.
Conversely, if the keywords provided by Google is a better match, then you might consider changing your keyword list.
3) You need to group your keywords into appropriate ad groups. For example, if I was going to expand on the keyword sponsor a child I would also pick the following keywords to be in my Ad group.
how to sponsor a child
sponser a child
sponsor a child
sponsor a child africa
sponsor a child in
sponsor a children
sponsor a needy child
sponsoring a child
I would then write my ad so that it contained the keyword in it . For example,
Sponsor A Child
Make a Difference in a Child’s
Life Sponsor a Child Today!
www.domainname.com
4) Get rid of the keywords donate and donation because they are too broad.
So what have we done here?
We have chosen keywords that match our website giving us total relevance, furthermore our ad has relevance to each ad group. That’s it.
Once you get a decent CTR (BTW you should if you follow these steps) then the next step is to check conversions. Once you are happy with the ad groups that are converting for you then you can switch the content network back on to see if you can pull in even more profits.
Hope this article was useful to some of you.
Feel free to ask questions.
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