Tag: Search Engine Result
Google Adwords For Beginners
by guest on Jun.12, 2010, under Blog
The majority of web marketers head over to Adwords when they start to learn the art of generating traffic to their site. There are many strategies that you can learn to effectively aid you in your quest to getting more traffic to your site, but if you are a beginner to the online marketing world where do you begin? To avoid spending a lot of money and get sucked into a never ending Abyss, read through the following which will give you a good foundation on using online marketing.
Google is the busiest search engine on the internet. They started selling advertising space on their search engine result pages (SERP) since 2002. How does the system work you may wonder. It is simple to get to grips with. When you do a search on Google’s search engine, apart from the usual search results that come up in the results, Google also displays the ads of the advertisers who decided to pay Google, or ‘bid’ on that specific keyword, as it is referred to. These ads are displayed at the top of the search result pages, as well as adjacent to them on the right side of the page. This means that anyone can have their website displayed at the top of Google’s search results.
It is difficult to definitively state how much these bids will cost. It is a lot like the price of real estate. It completely depends on supply and demand of the information associated with the keyword. But one important aspect to understand here is that Google Adwords is a pay per click (PPC) system, which means there are no costs involved with only displaying your ad next to the search results. Only if someone was to click on your ad would Google charge your account the bid amount you selected.
If you are wondering what type of ads you are allowed to write, Google sets specific guidelines to which their advertisers need to adhere to. The title should not exceed 25 characters, 35 characters for the first line’s description, and 35 characters for the second description line. That amounts to 95 characters, including spaces. That is it! You only get 95 characters to show off you creative flair. Below this description, Google will usually display the website’s address, which is the URL which will guide people to your website.
There is no waiting time for your ad to appear on the internet. The moment you post your ad in the account panel, your ad will be activated. Depending on the popularity of the selected keywords, you will notice and increase in your websites traffic very soon. Depending on the level of traffic you are interested in generating for your website, you can choose the amount of keywords you will bid on. It’s easy to see that the more keywords you bid on, the more visitors will visit your site Google Adwords enables you to create ad groups that can take up to 1000 keywords.