Too often, businesses miss out on valuable leads online due to easily avoidable mistakes. MESA and WordStream have partnered up to help solve for this by bringing you the latest tips on getting the most out of your Paid Search and Social advertising. We’re excited for WordStream to host this webinar exclusively for MESA customers to share industry-leading best practices and insights.
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Agenda
• Common Paid Search & Social Challenges/Opportunities
• Strategies for Achieving Success in Google Ads &
Facebook
• Improving Your Campaigns in 20 minutes a week
• Q&A
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Google Competition for Car Audio
• Big name competitors present
some challenges
• Focus on your value prop and local
presence to differentiate
• Take advantage of paid search and
social to maximize budget
opportunities
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Google Ads Stats
3.5 Billion
Search queries process each day on Google
Over 1 Billion
Active users on YouTube
90% of global internet users
Reached via the Google Display Network
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Google vs. Facebook – Overview
Google Facebook
High Intent
Searchers on
Google
Sophisticated &
Inexpensive
Audience
Targeting
Winning
combination
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Facebook Ads drive People to Search More
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Only Google Search Google Search & Bing Ads Google Search & Display Google Search & Facebook Ads
GoogleBrandedSearchInterest Cross-Network Ads Lift Branded Search Interest on Google!
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Only Google Search Google Search & Bing Ads Google Search & Display Google Search & Facebook Ads
GoogleBrandedSearchInterest Cross-Network Ads Lift Branded Search Interest on Google!
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Only Google Search Google Search & Bing Ads Google Search & Display Google Search & Facebook Ads
GoogleBrandedSearchInterest Cross-Network Ads Lift Branded Search Interest on Google!
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Only Google Search Google Search & Bing Ads Google Search & Display Google Search & Facebook Ads
GoogleBrandedSearchInterest Cross-Network Ads Lift Branded Search Interest on Google!
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Strategies to Achieve Success in Google Ads & Facebook
Add long tail keywords to
increase relevancy and
Use negative keywords to
eliminate wasted spend
Identify high cost
keywords with low returns
to better align your click
your goals
Review & adjust bids based on
keyword performance to manage
your ROI
Split up ad groups to create more
relevant ads to improve quality
score
Use expanded text ads to boost
under-performing ads
Expand Audiences to Facebook
recapture site visitors
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Strategies to Achieve Success in Google Ads
ADD LONG TAIL
KEYWORDS
By adding keywords you will…
• Attract the exact audience –
at the ideal point in the
customer journey
• Pay a lower cost-per-click
(CPC) thanks to lower
competition
• Achieve better search
rankings by increasing your
relevancy
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Strategies to Achieve Success in Google Ads
USE NEGATIVE
KEYWORDS
Negative Keywords Prevent Your
Ads from showing for irrelevant
searches
By using negative keywords you
will…
• Reduce wasted ad spend AND
increase return on investment
(ROI) by excluding audiences
you don’t want to target
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Strategies to Achieve Success in Google Ads
IDENTIFY HIGH COST
KEYWORDS WITH LOW
RETURNS
By identifying high cost keywords
you can…
• Better align your click costs by
experimenting with other match
types
• Reduce wasted spend by pausing
expensive keywords
• Monitor performance over time;
sometimes your most costly
keywords might be your best
performers, so keep up with the
data before making changes
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Strategies to Achieve Success in Google Ads
REVIEW & ADJUST BIDSBy reviewing & adjusting bids you
can…
• Reduce spend and maintain
performance by lowering bids on
keywords already showing in top
positions
• Understand which ads are losing
positions to low bidding and
adjusting those bids to get better
search page placement
• Manage your budget to see which
bids are being set too high and
depleting your budget too quickly
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Strategies to Achieve Success in Google Ads
SPLIT UP AD GROUPS
By splitting up ad groups you
can…
• Pay less money for the same clicks
by creating well-aligned ad groups
and earning a better Quality Score
• Get higher conversion rates by
creating more specific ad groups,
with more specific ad copy and
landing pages
• Clean up your Ad Groups because
often times having too many
keywords can be messy
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Strategies to Achieve Success in Google Ads
USE EXPANDED TEXT ADS
Use expanded text ads to…
• Increase your ad text limit
two-fold!
• Gain more visibility for your
ads, since expanded text ads
show on ALL devices
• Get higher CTRs by replacing
your old under-performing
ads with expanded text ads
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Let Facebook Convert What Google Didn’t
96%
of people who visit a website
leave without completing
the actions marketers want
them to take
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Set Up Call Tracking
• 43% of all search-related conversions happen over the
phone
• 65% of businesses consider phone calls their best
quality leads
• It’s worth paying more for a phone call.
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Summary
Most AdWords accounts need some help, you’re not alone
Utilize the Strategies to be successful in PPC & Social
Add keywords Add negatives Review costly campaigns
Optimize bids Split ad groups Optimize ads
Add Facebook Set Up Call Tracking
Give your Google Ads and Facebook Accounts weekly love
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In just 20-minutes a week!
Did you know that WordStream can help
you with all those strategies and best
practices?
So, that was a
lot.
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WordStream Advisor 20-Minute Work Week
• Provides weekly actionable, customized recommendations
based on your account data to improve your online
advertising ROI
• Identifies areas of your account that can be acted upon and
optimized for immediate gain
• Reduces hours of analysis and enables you to make
changes to your search and social campaigns in a simple
20-minute workflow
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Next Steps - Know Your Google Ads Performance
With over $5.5 billion in ad spend analyzed…
• 50% of accounts have not been optimized in past 30
days; 25% in the last 3 months
• 1 in 4 accounts have zero negative keywords
• Low quality scores are driving down campaign
performance
www.wordstream.com/google-adwords
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WordStream Advisor
WordStream Advisor currently supports paid search (Google
& Bing) AND paid social (Facebook), allowing you to
maintain paid search and social campaigns from a single,
centralized dashboard.
Try Advisor for free
See what WordStream can do for you…
Google Ads offers a wide range of campaign types and placements to help you expand your reach to gain brand awareness.
That reach includes 3.5 billion search queries per day, over 1 billion active users on YouTube, and the reach to 90% of global internet users through the GDN.
Each of these campaign types ensure that you have the opportunity to capture reach where it makes sense for your business; whether that’s tied to an active search, an in-market audience, or a related YouTube video, etc.
So, we know that both Google and Facebook offer extensive reach for advertisers to engage their prospects. But at the end of the day, Facebook can’t offer Google’s placements and Google can’t offer Facebook’s.
So, that’s why, pairing the two platforms together will ensure that you never miss your opportunity to get in front of your prospects when the time is right.
Let’s review the power of the two platforms together with a few stats:
- 94% of the online US population uses Google Search
- 90% of the global internets users can be reached on the GDN
- 79% of the online US population is on Facebook
- 32% are on Instagram
This means that by using the platforms in tandem, you have the potential to reach, well, almost everybody.
ADD KEYWORDS ALERT
ADD NEGATIVES ALERT
REVIEW COSTLY ALERT
OPTIMIZE BIDS ALERT
SPLIT AD GROUPS ALERT
OPTIMIZE ADS ALERT
States from April 2017
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