Google AdWords Digital Advertising for Internet Sales Managers

JUNE 28, 2007 For online marketers who think that the last ad impression (or click) seen is the most likely to lead to a conversion, a look at the Atlas Institute's "How Overlap Impacts Reach, Frequency and Conversions" study may be in order. The study, conducted in the first quarter of 2007, found that US consumers were more likely to convert after viewing ads on multiple Web sites, suggesting that conversions should be attributed to a full set of impressions and/or clicks, rather than just the single one that preceded the conversion. Two out of three consumers who eventually bought a product or took a responsive action were reached by ads across multiple web sites before converting. Converting consumers with multiple impressions

Converting consumers with multiple impressions

Converting consumers with multiple impressions

Internet Marketing Strategies should factor in the 4 key areas that are required in order to yield sales 1. Before prospects get to your web sites… How do we attract? 2. After prospects get to your web sites… getting an inquiry 3. After prospects submit an inquiry, before they get to store 4. After prospects arrive at the store, but before taking delivery

We chose Search Engine Marketing as one of our key tactics for generating web site traffic in August, 2005 This presentation will focus on Google based SEM

Courtesy Chevrolet decided to use Google “Sponsored Link” ads and Google’s network of web sites that accept display ads to drive car buyers to our sites… August, 2005. Courtesy Chevrolet uses Google’s “AdWords” program to reach online car buyers at the moment when they're looking for a new or used car. Using both text based sponsored links and display ads, the Google Network reaches more than 80% of online car buyers.* We create our ads, then use either key search words or select web sites to target which people see the ads. For key search words, we pay when shoppers click through to one of our sites. For display ads we bid what we are willing to pay per thousand impressions for each of the third party web sites we target…

Every dealership should have a Google AdWords account so that the capability exists in the store adwords.google.com https://adwords.google.com/select/Login

The Google AdWords team supplies a remarkable amount of coaching and guidance at no charge Even if you decide to outsource your SEM advertising budget, it is important to understand how keyword and site targeted campaigns work

When SEM service providers make claims of “Millions” of Key Words… They are full of BS! We were unable to process your request to add and/or edit your keywords. Adding these keywords would increase your account's total number of keywords beyond a manageable amount. Please add either fewer keywords or reduce the number of existing keywords in your account. Refining your keyword lists ensures your keywords are as targeted and relevant as possible. Use our Find and Edit Keywords Tool to identify poor performing keywords within your account (such as keywords with few or zero impressions) and delete them. Note: Be careful when deleting keywords in campaigns that are only opted in to the content network. Impressions and other statistics aren't attributed to individual keywords when ads show on content pages, but are attributed to the ad group as a whole. Therefore, keywords in content-only campaigns will always show zero impressions.

Search Engine Marketing became a key component of our successful strategy for increasing lead volumes

Increased sales from Online Advertising that captured leads using a combination of deep links, dedicated landing pages and specially constructed micro-sites tied to SEM campaigns… Conventional Internet Sales Strategy (no SEM) SEM Campaigns Implemented We used Search Engine Marketing to increase leads that contributed towards dramatic sales increases

Courtesy Chevy eBusiness Teams received 61,642 Leads in 2006 that were tracked within our BuzzTrak CRM System In 2006 SEM became an integral part of our strategy for increasing Lead Volume AND Showroom Traffic

4,008 eBusiness Department Sales of New & Used Vehicles in 2006 Segmented by Marketing Category (Total Store Sales >11,000) In 2006 SEM become a key component of growing our Internet and BDC Sales Volume by over 100%

Courtesy Chevrolet’s aggressive SEM campaigns have provided the Dealership with Lower Cost web site traffic In Q1 2007, SEM has become our primary means of generating steadily increasing Unique Site Visitors

Sales/Lead Closing Ratios ranged from 5.15% to 16.64% when segmented into categories based on Marketing Type Growing Internet Sales using Increased Quantities of Leads will Result in Closing Ratio Variations

Search Engine Marketing allows Internet Sales Professionals to use search for generating traffic

Search Engine Marketing allows Internet Sales Professionals to target web sites for ad placement

Search Engine Marketing allows PPC ads to be placed on Content Network sites based on ad text

What is “Google AdWords” Basic Terminology • Ad Position • Clickthrough Rate (CTR) • Conversion Rate • Impression • Keyword • Landing Page • Quality Score Google AdWords allows any Internet Manager with a credit card to manage SEM campaigns

Optimize Your Campaigns and Ad Groups for higher Quality Scores… “ Quality Score” is the basis for measuring the quality of your keyword and determining your minimum bid. What determines if your Pay-Per-Click bids are successful in showing your ads to car buyers? Quality Score is determined by: • CTR (Clickthrough Rate) • Relevance of ad text • Historical keyword performance • Content and layout of your landing page • Other relevancy factors

ISM’s that administer their own SEM accounts have access to key words OR site targeted campaigns

Google AdWords supplies very useful applications for generating and managing key words…

Google AdWords supplies very useful applications for generating and managing key words… Originally designed to extract key words from YOUR web site, the Site-Related Keywords online application from Google can be used to acquire a list of Keywords from web sites other than your own, such as 3 rd Party Lead Providers, Car Companies and competitors.

After you have added Keywords to the list on the right, Save to Ad Group puts them in play… Maybe!

After you save your selected Keywords to include in your Ad Group, its Summary shows the results

Keywords that are Inactive can be selected for individual management separate from the others

After selecting the individual keywords to manage, you can change bids, position request and URL’s

After completing Keyword Edits, we are back at the Key Words tab where we see the words activated

AdWords offers a variety of online ad formats. To access, opt into the Google Network.

AdWords offers a variety of online ad formats. Image Ads provide ISM’s with campaign flexibility. • Appear on some sites in Google Network • Matched to keywords and/or page content • Can run on content sites in both keyword targeted and site targeted campaigns

AdWords offers Video and Flash Ads to provide Content & Targeted Site campaign flexibility • Flash is a plug-in that allows animation, used by car companies on automotive web sites • Allowed for all AdWords advertisers • Content and Targeted Site Placement is same as image ads • Must follow Google editorial guidelines • Video Ads first appear as static image. Once clicked, (image or play button) plays within ad space. • Clicking URL or on ad while playing will link to the targeted landing page, website or deep link.

AdWords offers Business Listing Ads to provide mapping and dealership locator capabilities Local Business Ads • Add through Google’s Local Business Center • Appears in keyword-targeted campaigns opted into search network

What is CPM Bidding? AdWords offers CPM based targeted web site Ads available on a bid basis… CPM Bidding (cost per thousand impressions) Set the maximum amount you’re willing to pay for 1,000 ad impressions. An impression is counted when a Web page serves an ad, clicked on or not. How Does Google Compare CPC and CPM Ads? • Effective CPM (eCPM) for keyword-targeted ads • Considers CPC, CTR, and relevance factors across 1,000 impressions • Result = eCPM • eCPMs compared to each other and max CPM of competing ads • Highest ranking ad wins

What is Site Targeting? AdWords offers CPM based targeted web site Ads available on a bid basis…

Google Site Targeting offers you the ability to find web sites for your ads based on several criteria Site Targeting • Advertisers choose individual sites in content network • CPM (cost per thousand impressions) model • Minimum bid: 25 cents • Find sites by category, topic or demographics Click to zoom in +

What is Site Targeting? AdWords offers you the ability to select web sites based on multiple criteria

What is Site Targeting? AdWords offers you the ability to select web sites based on multiple criteria After you’ve selected the sites you want to add to your Targeted Site list for the Ad Group, Click on Add Selected Sites to go back to the Ad Group Summary Section

After you add your additional Targeted Sites, Google brings you back to your Ad Group summary screen

“ Describe Topics” site tool provides you with the ability to select sites based on “ad hoc” topics… Click on the “Add Selected Sites” button to go back to the Summary Section

“ List URLs” - Enter a desired URL, and check site availability, and shows all similar available sites When you enter a URL that is not part of the Google Ad Network, or has blocked you from placing ads Site Tool looks at what Google has indexed for that URL and serves up similar sites

“ Select Demographics” – Let’s you use Site Tool to find sites by age, sex, income & more (Advanced) Add Selected Sites puts your choices into the Ad Group and brings you back to the summary Click to zoom in +

“ Select Demographics” – Let’s you use Site Tool to find sites by age, sex, income & more (Advanced)

Bidding Strategies • How Do I Know What My Competitors Are Bidding? • Bidding Wars • Decide what a keyword and an ad position is truly worth to your store • Test, tweak ads to improve position Ad Scheduling (Dayparting) By default ads run 24 hours a day. Ad scheduling allows campaigns to run during certain hours or days. Bidding Strategies and Ad Scheduling are not available when outsourcing to most SEM providers

Ad Preview Tool: http://www.google.com/adpreview How Can I See My Ad?

ISM’s that administer their own Google AdWords account can access more data than if outsourced

Internet Sales Managers must understand the analytics in order to judge SEM results

Courtesy Chevrolet reviews eBusiness campaigns and opportunities by categorizing the leads generated, then looking at volume, invalids and sales. Internet Sales Managers need to closely monitor where SEM results are showing up as sales

Search Marketing Site Network As the multiple web sites, mico-sites and landing pages were being created, and linked to each other the entire implementation began to take on a network appearance and characteristics.

SEM & Promo Landing Pages Primary Web Sites Full-Featured w/Inventory Campaign Specific Micro Web Sites Get a Year Worth Of Free Gas free GM Oil Changes For 3 Years HouseOfCourtesy.com 2007Tahoe.com CourtesyOnBell.com PHXChevrolet.com LatinoChevy.com SEM/SEO Key Word URL’s Point to Primary Site Deep Links CourtesyFleet.com WeBuyChevys.com GMAC-AZ.com 2006Silverado.com GetaCamaro.com YouGotGas.com ChevyPriceQuote FreeGMoilChange ChevyPride.com PHXfinance.com BK-OK-Car-Loans.com Within the Search Marketing Network of sites created by Courtesy, 3 distinct channels exist

Ad Groups by Targeted URL’s Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads Landing Pages & Micro-Sites Key Words or URL Based Site Targets Bid Amounts & Daily Limits SEM Campaigns by Targeted Segments Image Ads & Sponsored Links Leads Leads Leads Creating Search Marketing campaigns requires a funnel approach and measuring each section

SEM Campaign Accountability Whether self-directed or managed by a 3 rd Party Supplier, Internet Managers should insist on reviewing the SEM Campaign Metrics as provided by the search engine as shown below on a monthly basis. eBusiness Directors and Managers should be reviewing these metrics daily, weekly and/or monthly and making adjustments.

Use Image Ads on targeted sites to drive traffic into Deep Links that serve up relevant content

Use Deep-Links and custom URL’s that go to specially set up Inventory Pre-Sorts for model specific campaigns Keyword, Content and Site Targeted SEM Campaigns drive traffic to “Deep Links” into specialized content within full featured web sites that are set up with BZ Results to be specifically and directly relevant to the Ad’s message… www.Chevrolet-Silverado.com

Use SEM to Attract Loyal Chevy Customers Targeted by State

Courtesy Chevrolet “Organic” SEO Listing of BZ site SEM Vendor Campaign “ 2007Tahoe.com” SEM campaign

Courtesy Ad placed Directly with Google Courtesy SEM Ad placed Directly with Google Organic Ranking of Courtesy Micro-Site (free)

Dealer Managed Google Campaign Reporting Total of Targeted Prospects that Clicked Through to Landing Page Total of Targeted Prospects that Saw the Online Ad Cost per Targeted Prospect that Clicked on a Key Word based Ad Cost per Prospect that Clicked on a Banner Ad in the Google Network

Courtesy Chevrolet Campaign Specific Display Ads Placed within selected and targeted 3 rd Party Web Sites Using the Google Advertising Network Google AdWords Image Ad Examples

www.GMinsideNews.com

www.PhoenixAtaGlance.com

www.ChevroletHHR.net

Courtesy Chevrolet SEM Campaign Specific Display and Text Ads that use both Targeted Sites and Key Words to link click throughs to very specific Micro-Sites, Landing Pages and Deep Links Online SEM Campaign Examples

www.AutoBaron.com

Use of Deep-Links in Online Advertising www.GM-Finance.com Deep-link into GM PowerShift web site online credit application