Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Using AdWords Advertising

By Justin Harrison

Campaigns on AdWords are designed to be small effectively written ads. Even though they are small they can be very effective in driving users tho your web site.

Two methods for this advertising practice exist related to the positioning of advertisements. Once you've set up your AdWords campaign, you will be presented with the option of either placing your ads on the search or the content network (in this case, AdSense), or on both.

Search network advertisements are assigned many keywords that would match the text of the advertisement and that is an excellent method for getting searches to locate your product or service.

Within the content network, as opposed to the other, your ad will be surrounded by an article or other content which is related. So in this scenario, your ad is viewed by readers who are maybe not thinking about purchasing at the moment, so, they are only browsing and not searching.

Search advertisements, as has been proven, are normally a better way to reach your audience than contextual advertisements. Still, you could attempt to bring in traffic from both areas by designing multiple, separate ad series through assigning one to the search network and the other to the content network, and this could very easily help you expand your traffic.

Contextual adverts have their advantages despite the fact that they may not give as many advantages as a search based advert. Your cost per hit is a lot lower and you'll have a little more flexibility in where your adverts land.

Even if you have already done advertising with AdWords you may want to begin a new campaign if you want to target the content advertising folks. It may be possible to use the same campaign on the content network but it might not be as effective since the audience is usually considered more passive.

In summary, a well-run campaign on a search network will generally be the best and most reliable way to generate business. However, with some cleverness and savvy and well-written copy, it is certainly possible that this could be supported by a complementary campaign running on the content network.

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