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September 2008

4 PPC Ad Copy Click Tips
By Paul Goodwyn
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Ever wondered why your ad copy is not performing? Have you thought about the market you want to sell too, but find your click through rate (CTR) isn’t what you expected? Would you like an ad copy strategy that brings in instant highly targeted traffic? Well, here are 4 tips that can’t fail.

Pay per click (PPC) marketing allows you to put your product or service out in front of almost ten million people a day. That sort of traffic is worth paying for. For further tips and tricks on Adwords PPC marketing go to Adwords PPC Guide.

By paying a small amount for your ad copy to be displayed you can attain a top position in the sponsored list search results. The correct application of PPC account management techniques can result in hordes of people knocking on your door instantaneously.

Having a high number of impressions is only 20% of your Adwords crusade, this is the easy part. The next 20% is attempting to get enquirers to click through to your landing page. Simply having tens of thousands of impressions each day is of no value and in fact will drastically affect your quality score over time causing more cost to you.

What you need is for those visitors to click through to see exactly what you have on offer. High impression volumes is not enough, you want quality visitors that click through. This is your challenge and what we will look at today.

The amount of space various search engines let you use in each line of your ad copy varies from one search engine to another. For example, in Google ads are composed of 5 lines, 4 of which are displayed to visitors with each line having a maximum length that tests the ad copy writer’s ability to express a product or service features succinctly. You must make every letter count.

Each line of your ad copy has a purpose and applying correct technique will attract visitors to read the content and click through.

The first line of your ad copy is known as the headline. The headline is generally designed to carry the main keyword for an Ad Group. This line can contain up to 25 characters in length and that’s including spaces.

The headline will perform best if it contains the main advantage you offer. For example, if you are selling an e-book on sailing in open waters, you would construct a title along the lines of any of the following:

Ocean Sailing
Deep Water Sailing
Blue Water Sailing
Open Water Sailing

Open
Ocean Sailing

If your e-book is about sailing along the coast then you would emphasise one of the following in your headline:

Coastal Sailing
Inshore Sailing
Coastal Yachting
Coastal Cruising
Coastal Navigation

You only have 25 characters including spaces so use a strong attention grabbing headline that also contains your main keyword. Any keywords displayed in your ad will be displayed in “bold”, this will standout and be noticed by your audience.

The next lines of your ad copy are known as description lines. In the first description line you can outline the benefits of your product or service and the second description line the features. You must be concise here as each line can only contain 35 characters in total and you must not forget to fit in a call to action.

In the first description line focus on what you feel the buyer can gain from your product. All buyers are simply trying to satisfy a need, they have a problem that needs solving so tell them how your product can help them solve their problem. For example, following on from our sailing example, “Cheap Holidays At Sea”, “Travel Where and When You Want”, “Island Hop Your Way To Paradise”.

In the second description line make references to what buyers will receive if they purchase from you. For example, “Phone Support For 3 Months”, “Additional Bonus E-Book”, “Safety Tips In Storms”, and  so on…

For best success target each of your ads to a precise dilemma you believe your customers may be facing. The more highly targeted your ad is to the problem solving aspects your customers may be facing the less wasted clicks you will receive. Each ad must be directed to a specific problem.

The more focussed your ad copy is, the greater your quality score will be. Visitors that click through will be sincere buyer’s not just curiosity seekers. This will result in reduced keyword costs and increase return on investment.
To increase your Adwords Quality Score by improving Keywords, Ad Copy and Landing Pages go here.

Targeting the correct class of visitor is what PPC advertising is all about. Each ad must be constructed to solve your prospective buyer’s problems. You don’t want time wasting tire kickers clicking on your ads, so know the niche group you are aiming for and only appeal to sincere buyers.

Another technique to use in ad copy construction is to place your keywords of interest in more than one place. Imagine which ads within a group of ads stand out when a person searching for a solution to their problem sees an ad with their relevant keyword in more than one place.

Not only does the ad stand out more, literally grabbing the glance of the visitor because more words are bolded, but the ad looks more relevant to the prospective visitor. Ads that are infused with keywords can receive up to fifty percent more clicks than ads that aren’t laced with keywords.

Testing conducted by the Adwords Navigator Marketing Centre reveals that these types of ads perform must better across the board than ads with only one keyword displayed. Also, ads containing your main keyword in just one place out perform those with no keyword displayed.

The ideal way to construct your ad is to have a relevant keyword in the headline, description line and even your display URL if possible, so long as the ad is not all keywords, but still conveys a message. Don’t use too many keywords forsaking clarity in your message. This will appear disorganised loosing click appeal.

The fifth line in your ad is the destination URL, the address of your landing page (the page people go to when they click on an ad). Depending on how many products you have for sale it is imperative to take your prospective customer to the correct landing page at your website.

Get the idea? Ad copy writing is not rocket science but does require some thought in your presentation. When setup the right way your ad copy will be attractive appealing standing out among a group of other ads.

Carefully constructed ad copy within the PPC environment becomes a most effective technique to attracted highly targeted visitors from a huge audience rapidly.
By following even a few of the strategies given above you will increase targeted traffic to your product or service.

For more detailed information on learning how to generate highly targeted traffic to your websites, both free and paid, and how to organize your keywords, ad groups and locate negative keywords to ward-off unnecessary impressions and clicks, reduce your costs to make money marketing the way professionals do, click this link for more information http://www.AdwordsNavigator.com/

Paul Goodwyn is the Founder and CEO of Adwords Navigator PPC Marketing, offering Google Adwords pay per click advertising, management, account set up, affiliate training, professional marketing consultancy services, keyword and ad copy research and analysis strategies.

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The above article will give a good background understanding of Ad Copy construction techniques. The strategies included are simple yet very powerful and should not be left out of a well managed PPC campaign. Follow the links to gain a greater insight into PPC marketing and how to generate traffic and make money online. By following even a few of the concepts given above you will increase targeted traffic to your product or service.
Paul Goodwyn is a well know marketing Professional who has also written the World's number one acclaimed E-Book on optimizing Adwords, "The Adwords Navigator Manual".
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