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Google Adwords
Pay Per Click Search Features

| Engine |
Google
Adwords |
| Company Name |
Google |
| Site Location |
google.com |
| PPC Engine start
date |
October 2000 |
| Customer Support,
email |
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| Customer Support,
phone |
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| Customer Support,
hours |
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| Min to open amount
account |
na (Credit Account) |
| Minimum bid amount |
$0.05 |
| Minimum monthly
spend |
na |
| Keyword Maximum
/account |
unlimited |
| Title, Max # Characters |
25 |
| Description,
Max # Characters |
2 lines, 35 per line |
| Display URL, Max
Characters |
35 |
| URL, Max # Characters |
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| Plural/Singular
results combined |
No |
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| - A list of some of Google's top search result
syndication partners. |
| AOL |
4 listings are displayed at the
top and bottom of the search results, under "Sponsored
Links". |
| Netscape |
4 listings are displayed at the
top and bottom of the search results, under "Sponsored
Links". |
| Teoma |
3 listings are displayed at the
top of the search results, under "Sponsored Links". |
| At&t |
5 listings under "Sponsored Results"
towards the top of the search results (sometimes after
"On AT&T Worldnet Service display ads) and 3
listings at the bottom of the search results. |
| Shopping.com |
6 listings under "Sponsored
Listings" towards bottom of each search results page. |
| ICQ |
4 listings at top of results page
are shown under "Sponsored Links" with page
images to the left (where available) and 4 listings shown
at the bottom of the results page under "Sponsored
Links". |
| Dogpile |
Listings are shown throughout
Dogpile results, generally showing up after Yahoo Search
Marketing's listings (about 5) and mixed in with other
search engine results. Listings are labeled as [Found
on Ads by Google] |
| Compuserve |
4 listings are displayed at the
top of each page search results page under "Sponsored
Links" and 4 listings are displayed at the bottom of each
page under "More Sponsored Links". |
| Ask Jeeves |
3 listings towards the top of
the search results page under "Sponsored Web Results"
and 5 listings towards the bottom of each search results
page under "Sponsored Web Results". |
| Earthlink |
6 listings are displayed at the
top of each search results page under "Sponsored Results"
and 2 listings are displayed towards the bottom of each
search results page under "More Sponsored Results".
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One of the top ten search engines, Google reaches over 80%
of Internet users worldwide. They promise that a single search
separates them from their competition by four basic principles:
speed, accuracy, objectivity, and ease of use. And with search
engine bigwigs like AOL, Netscapes, AT + T, Ask Jeeves, and
Earthlink as their partners; and over 8 billion web pages;
they certainly apply these goals and directives for their
advertisers as well.
With Google Adwords, Goggle aims to provide the most effective
advertising or search engine marketing for business' of any
size. They want to ensure that any advertiser has access to
their all-encompassing e-marketplace, and that your business
can reach its full potential; by accurate and specific keyword
matching, general or specific search methods, cost-per-click
and cost-per-impression cost effectiveness; and expedient
creation and delivery of your website's links, products, and/or
services.
The most necessary search engine marketing tool in Google's
advertising program, is your keyword matching options. There
are four different methods of targeting your Adwords ads to
the ever-growing world of e-consumers: Broad Search, Phrase
Match, Exact Match, and Negative Keyword. By applying these
more focused approaches and hi-tech matching options to your
keywords; you can reach the most appropriate prospects, reduce
your CPCs, and subsequently increase your ROI. Most advertisers
are at a loss when they sign up with such a high-profile search
engine, such as Google. Though it is a world of high-click,
high-conversion, high profit opportunities; how will they
effectively market and capitalize on this investment? With
Adwords, you'll choose what type of search engine criteria
to place as parameters for your website's link, keywords,
and types.
Broad Match will allow Google consumers to loosely
search for your website's products. This is the most general
of search engine methods, and offers more e-consumer clicks
to your keywords of choice. Phrase Match is a more targeted
option of Google Adwords. It allows for your website's link
to be placed quite simply below related keyword phrases. This
allows consumers to reach your products when they're not completely
sure what they are looking for, which offers more click-throughs
to your site. Exact Match is the most targeted option. By
placing your keywords in brackets, your ads will appear when
users search for a very specific product or service. By bringing
more e-customers to your site who are demonstrative and highly-specific
about their searching intentions; you are likely to host consumers
ready to buy, and thereby make the sales. The fourth search
engine marketing tool that Google Adwords offers, is Negative
Keyword matching. This is another fairly specific way to ensure
the right customers are coming to your site. If you know what
search parameters and product specifics you don't offer, simply
instituting a negative symbol (-) before your keywords will
withdraw your keyword from those customers' field of vision,
thus ferreting out the potential customers from the non-related
ones.
Having decided that Google and Google Adwords is the best
search engine marketing strategy for your business' directives,
where do you go from there? How will you ensure that your
keywords, bid positions, and bid management are in line with
that of Google's billions of other advertisers? PPCBidTracker.
PPCBidTracker will deliver you lower click and labor costs,
monitor your keyword bids and customer click-volume, and introduce
you to a flexible keyword bid management system; which will
relentlessly track, reposition, and optimize your keywords
in accordance to bid position and price.
PPCBidTracker can, in addition, employ its advanced management
features such as: BidSleep to lower or turn off your bids for
a variety of time periods, BidSaver to identify predetermined
cost/savings levels when bids are lowered a predetermined
number of positions, AutoBid and Auto Enhancer to evaluate
cost and bid strategy and do your bidding for you, and customized Bid Review scheduling. What's more, we can micromanage all
this information and tracking in sub categories, to allow additional
flexibility and ease when sifting through multiple keywords
and their progress. PPCBT displays the reports its gathered
based on click-volume, cost, revenue, actions (sales, form
leads, etc), ROAS, CPA (Cost Per Action), and ACC (Average
Click Cost); in addition to the current bid landscape (top
ten bids) at the selected engine.
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