1. This is an annotated version of the
presentation I gave at SEMpdx’s
Internet Marketing 101 event in
January of 2013
PPC 101
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2. Who Is This Guy?
RYAN CAMPBELL | Senior Paid Search Analyst, Amplify
Interactive
• Focused on SEO/SEM for over 6 years
• Participates in developing all PPC client-strategy
• Managed B2C, B2B, lead generation, and ecommerce campaigns
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3. Agenda
• What is paid search?
• Good and bad of PPC?
• Creating KPI’s and tracking
• Keywords
• Campaign and ad group structure
• Campaign settings
• Ad copy
• Landing Pages
• Quality Score
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4. PPC Ads
The difference between paid and
organic listings in search engines.
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6. Search Engine Market Share
Ask, 3% AOL, 2%
Yahoo, 13%
Bing, 16%
Google, 66
%
This presentation is designed for
campaigns on Adwords and Bing,
which account for 95% of search
engine market share.
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7. The good of PPC?
• Most measurable
online channel
• Complete control
• Allows you to reach
a hyper targeted
audience
• Results are fast
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8. The bad of PPC?
• Easy to spend
money
• Can’t set it &
forget it
• Can be VERY
competitive
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9. Ensure you have set up a
goal/conversion for your PPC
campaigns. Here are 3 types of
conversions you can use.
Conversion Tracking
Purchase
Sign up
View of a key page
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10. This is our persona for this story.
Peter is going through the process of
setting up his first PPC campaigns.
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11. GET ME THOSE TPS REPORTS
This is the villain
in our story.
A.K.A. Peter’s
boss, Bill
Lumpurrr
RIGHT MEOW
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12. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Set a Monthly Budget
• $2,000
Set a Conversion Target
• 133
Set a Cost per Acquisition
These are key performance
• $15 indicators for Peter’s PPC
campaigns. Ensure you define
what success looks like and
measure/refine.
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14. buy cat nip
buy organic cat nip
cat nip online
where to buy cat nip
natural cat nip
These are keywords that Peter
what is cat nip
found after performing keyword
research. The circled keywords
represent keywords that they how to grow cat nip
want their ads to show up for. The
keywords in red are negative
keywords. cat nip for dogs
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16. Broad: organic cat nip = what is cat
nip, cat mint
Modified Broad: organic +cat
+nip = natural cat nip
Phrase: “organic cat nip” =
grow organic cat nip
Exact: [organic cat nip] =
organic cat nip
Ensure you have a good mix of
keyword match types in your
campaigns. A good ratio is 80/20.
80% exact match and 20%
broad/phrase keywords.
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17. Campaign and ad group structure
Natural Branded natural cat nip
Organic Cat Nip organic cat nip
Cat Nip
buy cat nip
Buy Cat Nip
where to buy cat nip
Structure your campaigns with a Branded
keyword campaign separate from other
keyword campaigns. A good starting point
is to have your campaigns be structured
similar to your website.
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19. Campaign and ad group settings
• Daily campaign budget - $66
• Ad scheduling – Cat hours
• Device targeting – Remove mobile
• Separate search and display campaigns
• Ad rotation – Rotate evenly
• Geo targeting – Exclude Canada
These represent campaign settings Peter used
in setting up his campaigns. Review closely
the default settings to avoid wasted spend.
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21. !
PPC Text Ad Tips:
• Use an exclamation point
• Capitalize the first letter of every word
• Emphasize benefits
• Use ad extensions
• Highlight your unique proposition value
• Use a strong call to action
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23. Bad Landing Page
No mention of “cat nip” on the
page. Use a page that matches the
keyword and ad.
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24. Good Landing Page
Several mentions of “cat nip” on
the page. Uses a page that
matches the keyword and ad.
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25. Quality Score Factors
Search engines reward advertisers with more
impressions and cheaper clicks that follow
best practices outlined earlier in the
presentation. Below are QS factors:
• CTR is 60% of quality score
• Keyword to ad relevancy is 30%
• Landing page relevance is 10%
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26. Thank You
Link for sources and other learning material:
http://bit.ly/VM0Kou
@_ryancampbell
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Notas del editor
These search engines cover 95% of search market share
I suggest letting your account run for 3 months to begin truly seeing its potential.
Online Marketing Manager at Natural Cat NipPeter Mittens
Bill Lumpurrrr
Peter sells a container of cat nip for $20. He figures the most he can for a sale of cat nip is $15.Needs section intro slideneeds KPI targets to animate after
Brainstorm – people go to search engines to find solutions to problemsScrape your websiteInclude synonymsThink like your customerKeyword research tools
Usually between 5-20 keywords per ad groupSeparate branded campaignBased on the products and services you offerBased on geographical locationBased on performance and biddingBased on brand names vs. generic namesBased on seasonality of your service or productBased on keyword match types (you can also segment this way on an ad group level too.)
Default ad rotation is optimize for clicksDefault is all devicesUS and Canada is default geo target
You have 130 visible characters (headline, description, and display URL) to encourage a user click on your ad – that’s less than a Tweet. Exclamation points First letter capitalized Use call to action Benefits UPVAd extensions
1. The CTR contributes the largest amount (60%) to the QS which is based the amount of clicks as a measure of relevance (a measure of your Ad Text and it’s relevance to the keyword)2. The second major contributor is Keyword to Ad Relevancy to Ad Group Relevancy which is 30%.3. Landing page relevancy (10%) is based on the Keyword to Ad relevancy to Landing page relevance. Google only makes money on the click (when someone clicks the Ad) they don’t care if users buy your product or not so that’s why the landing page is only worth 10%.