How much of PPC management do you actually understand? Having to read so many internet marketing jargon can get your brain to bleed and more and it is quite understandable for someone to want to give up in the midst of a campaign. Sure enough, it’s frustrating because there are so many things you need to understand first before getting into the whole business of managing pay per click accounts and making successful campaigns.
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| Negative Keywords. How much do you know about them? |
One of the most confusing factors of pay per click management includes understanding negative keywords. This specific type of keywords is imperative to the success of a campaign – budget and traffic wise.
But before we go deeper into negative keywords, you need to know what negative keywords are.
Negative keywords are specific sets of words or phrases that people use for searches wherein your ads appear. Unfortunately, these words or phrases are NOT related to the actual product you’re selling, thus your ads are appearing in searches from the wrong target. This ends up creating traffic that may not be as essential as it could’ve been if it were targeting the right market. For example, if your business sells hair products like mousse and hair gel, there’s a possibility that your ad may also end up appearing in searches for various desserts where the keyword “mousse” is also used. In order to prevent your ad from appearing in these searches, specifying desserts as a negative keyword can help to weed out the wrong traffic.
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| Negative Keywords |
When you’re entering negative keywords, you should also know that each keyword can contain as much as 100 characters. If you’re hoping to enter more than one negative keyword for a campaign, they should each be separated by a comma. However, for each campaign, your negative keyword list must not go over 1022 characters, this including the commas.
Now the trick to creating a successful campaign greatly depends on how you’re going to find out which unrelated search queries are appearing for your campaign. It is important to analyze your search query report regularly in order to find out which keywords trigger your ads. If any of these keywords happen to be unrelated, include it in your negative keyword list.
If you have a list of negative keywords, you can direct your traffic from people who are actually looking for similar products. This way, your budget for each campaign does not go to waste.
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