If you’re getting less than 3% CTR across your Google AdWords, Bing or Yahoo! Search campaigns, you’re leaving a whole lot of sales and profit on the table – you haven’t made it to the party yet. At 1% CTR you’re not even getting an invite! Let’s compare the three; a High-Performing account that dominates every [...]

You will have heard our industry and Google spouting “Quality Score” stats and importance, but it’s one of the elements of AdWords that confuses clients and coaching delegates the most. So what is AdWords Quality score and what can you do to improve it? Your keywords‘ quality score is equally as important as the maximum [...]

With many of our readers new to advertising with Google AdWords, we take a look at the five most common mis-steps clients make when setting up an account. (And a check list for those that are more familiar). Google is More than Google Search An option in the settings for each campaign, it is important to [...]

How to create site links and why you should use them In recent months, Google has been adding new functions to the Google AdWords system. In particular, in many ads, you might have seen “ad extensions” appearing. Ad Extensions refers to a number of ways in which you can add more to your AdWords ad. [...]

It’s an interesting dilemma. Should you, or should you not bid on your own brand? On the one hand, searchers already want to buy from you and might well find you in organic links where the clicks are free, so why pay for the click? On the other, there may be competitors bidding on your [...]

For many of our clients new to Google AdWords, the most confusing element is how to achieve top positions on Google AdWords – the ranking system can be confusing. We spotted this neat video which demonstrates the value of CTR and explains in simple terms how Google ranks your ads amongst competitors’ ads. Learn more [...]

Google has been tinkering. Again. We’ve had a few clients just recently whose ads stopped showing on Google pretty much overnight, costing hundreds of pounds on lost revenue every single day. Why? Quality Score has reared its head again. Google is seeking the very best experience for its customer – not only now will Google [...]

…ask what you can do for Google. To effectively lower your cost-per-click (CPC), and therefore your cost-per-acquisition (CPA) or cost per sale, you need to first appreciate Google’s perspective. If you understand what motivates Google, you’ll understand better how to manipulate the system to your advantage: 1. Obvious, perhaps, but Google is a SEARCH engine. [...]

If you’ve spent any time at all in the settings part of your AdWords campaign, you’ll have seen that Google offers a location targeting tool. By default, Google runs your ads everywhere in your chosen country, to everyone, across its Search and Content networks. That’s fine, to a point – but what if you don’t, [...]

Recently, a number of AdWords campaigns I’m working have been sailing very close to the limits of what Google will permit in a single AdWords account. Anyone who is a subscriber to the ‘long tail‘ principal will know that generating variations and combinations of keywords is good practice to find lots of niche little terms [...]