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Testing Your PPC Ad Copy with A/B Testing

Michael Richards - Wednesday, April 07, 2010
How do you currently evaluate the effectiveness of your PPC ads to determine what is converting best?

Do you create multiple ads for each campaign?

It can be as simple as running two ads against each other to find out which creates the greatest number of click-throughs to your PPC landing pages. We have had great success letting ads compete against themselves, and then tossing out the lowest performing ad and creating another to attempt to improve CTR (click through rate).

Coordinating this effort with your Google Analytics can also help you determine not only which ad has the best CTR, but you can also determine which ad produces the highest number of conversion events. A conversion is getting your visitor to take action on the reason why they came to your site in the first place. Conversions can be:

  • Making a sale
  • Your visitor downloading a white paper in exchange for contact data
  • Signing up for your newsletter
  • Driving people into your "brick and mortar" store

This form of granular testing with your PPC campaigns can yield great improvements. PPC can be very effective, but it can also be a money hog. Make sure you are getting the best return on investment possible. A/B testing of ads can help.

5-Step Plan for Pay-Per-Click

Michael Richards - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is a very powerful marketing tool that has the ability to bring a significant amount of increased revenue to a business. PPC done well should follow a 5-step plan for maximum effectiveness.

Step 1: Create an informative webpage
- Ensure there is a call-to-action on the pages that traffic is directed towards

Step 2: Generate a list of keywords
- Keywords that potential buyers would search
- Identify your negative keyword list
- Identify broad and exact match phrases

Step 3: Build your campaign
- Research bid prices on Google
- Write your Google AdWords advertisements

Step 4: Monitor your results
- Split test ads against each other to achieve higher click through rates

Step 5: Improve your performance
- Rewrite ads to improve click through rates
- Optimize landing pages to improve conversion rates
- Improve your ROI by adjusting bid prices