Friday, April 16, 2010

First is the Title tag, the title tag is extremely important and a large part of the success that you receive will depend on your title tag. Each keyword found in the title tag will be bolded, it is also important to draw attention to your ad and separate it from the competition. You will notice that the majority of ads are the same (having the exact keyword listed as the title) you do not want to create an ad that is the same as everyone else you want an appealing ad that separates your ad from the competition

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Title tag basics

* Capitalize the first letter of each word example: Cheap Tennis Shoes (not cheap tennis shoes)
* Use keywords that you are bidding for
* Keep it interesting

The description is also extremely important; all keywords searched for that are found in your description will also be bolded. The description tag should say exactly what your website is in just a few short words. Make sure you keep it interesting so the user wants to click on the ad and go to your site

Description basics

* Don’t capitalize the first letter of each word
* Use keywords
* Should describe your entire business
* Drives the searcher to click on your ad

Friday, April 9, 2010

After everything is setup and running possibly the most important step is reviewing all keywords every 2 weeks to a month to see how things are going and make potential corrections. In this step it is important to have a quality ad tracker to ensure reliable data in order to make educated decisions.

The frequency of checking your ad tracker depends on how many clicks are being made, the more clicks and conversions that are recorded the more reliable the information. It is important to not make immediate decisions but to wait until you have sufficient information. A bad example would be after your first conversion comes through to assume that the keyword that generated the actual sale is the only good keyword when in reality it could have been luck. Make sure you have enough data to make an educated decision.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Next is the landing page selected, a major error is always selecting your home page as the landing page. The user does not always want to see your home page another page on your website is likely to produce a higher conversion rate. A good example is tennis shoes if you send all users to your home page which is in fact about everything that is about tennis equipment you will likely have a lower conversion rate than if you sent that same user to your page on tennis shoes. It is also a good idea to try split-testing in order to know exactly which landing page is best.

This is the step that you will want to implement a great ad tracker tool to start collecting as much data as you can that will mean life or death to your PPC campaign.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Next it is important to keep in mind your end goal, which should be sales or to generate a profit. A common error is to have your end goal as traffic. Keep in mind that you can always drive a lot of traffic to your site without making any money. Traffic does not mean success; making money means success or should mean success. Just keep this in mind while we are heading into the other steps to succeed with PPC advertising.

The effects of having an incorrect goal can be devastating an example is buying 100,000 guaranteed visitors from Ebay or any website that promises a high volume of traffic. However, what is not known is that this company has an ‘auto-page-generator’ loaded on 100,000 computers that will wiz right past your site and another 10,000 websites in a short period of time. All that traffic does not even look at your website and will never buy anything in a million years, your website received 100,000 visitors however no sales were made and in the end it was a horrible investment. A great example of high-quality traffic is advertising through search engines, you may only receive 50 clicks in a day in comparison to the 100,000 however you will receive several sales and make money.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

I will be covering in a eight part series with everything from starting a PPC campaign to succeeding with PPC advertising. In this first part of my eight part series I will be covering how to find keywords and what type of keywords you want to have.

A great tool that I have always used to do keyword research is a Google Adwords Keyword tool adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal with this tool you can type in all of the keyword that you can think of in your industry. Type in every keyword you could possibly imagine into the white box in the middle of the screen. For example if your website sells advertising books you would type in advertising book, PPC advertising, advertising 101 book, advertising, online advertising and everything else that you can think of that has to do with your business. You want as many keywords as possible that have to do with your company so make sure you do not eliminate keywords in this step but add as many as possible.

To find more relevant keywords they are normally a few words long. Quality traffic normally comes from highly relevant keywords to your industry. For an advertising book for example a very relevant keyword may be ‘buy advertising book’ it will not receive a very high traffic flow however the traffic that does come will be extremely high quality traffic at a low cost.

Next after entering in every keyword phrase that you can think of that you can think of click on get keyword ideas. Google will then generate a list of keyword ideas and how often they are searched for. You will want to export this file to an excel file for future use (found in the middle of the page).

After downloading your keywords into an excel file (could be as large as several hundred keywords). You will want to separate your keywords into many different groups, keep in mind that more groups is better than less groups. The keyword groups should be a list of related keyword. The keyword groups that you put together now will display the same ads so make sure they are similar to one another. An extremely large number of groups could be hard to manage and too few groups will also hinder your PPC campaign. An example of a few groups would be advertising books, books, buy advertising books, online advertising and marketing book.

Save your excel file with your keyword groups and store it away for future use. The 2nd part of my 8 part series will cover which search engines you should sign up for, which should be avoided and what your search engine goal should be.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Homework

Homework is something that takes up a lot of time. I defiantly have a lot more of it this semester than any semester that i have had before. I believe that the reason behind it is my classes. I am writing papers all week long, every week. I am getting sick of writing; however, i believe that in the end of the semester my writing will have improved dramatically so i guess in the end i am great full.
Thank you writing assignments.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

GE's at BYU

I am taking Bio 100 from John Bell. He is an amazing teaching. In fact, most of the time that i am in his class it is extreemly interesting. The reason it is interesting is because he talks about topic that are relevant to our lives and what we need to focus on. The class seems like it is geared to our learning and our improvement in our daily lives. I am glad for this class. This class also has taught me a lot of needed information about Biology. By writting papers and doing research I have realized that i am retaining the information in the long term and that i am actually remembering what we are studying in class. Sure, some of the information is boring sometimes; but, i remember all of the information presented.
I believe that all GE's at BYU should be alike.

Monday, February 22, 2010

BYU

BYU is an amazing school, the people that go to BYU today are not the same as the people that attended 20 or even 15 years ago. I spoke with a guy the other day while i was changing my oil and found out that he only got a few points over 20 on his ACT while having a bad GPA in high school. he went on to talk about the difference that BYU is now. He also said that BYU is more strict now, it seems as though BYU has turned into an amazing school filled with amazing students. However, I do not know if the quality of professors has increased at the rate that the quality of students has increased. I hope that the increase can be felt soon and that we can increase into an even more prestigious university.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

this week

Well i decided that this week has been an excellent week. Over the holiday i was able to take a break. I went and hung out with my friends and we went and had some fun. I was able to go see a movie, play party games, and relax. I am glad for this past break and the fact that i was able to take that time to get everything done. Things have been going well this semester and i plan on taking my time to do well in all of them.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

the coke

well I went and bought something for someone it was not a coke but i was expecting a surprise. I brought out what i had for this person and presented it to them. The reaction was astonishing, she looked at me with a confused and surprised look on her face. She accepted the gift. I felt better after this was over with and i will definitely try giving random things and random people more often just to be able to see their reactions. I am glad that i was able to do this assignment.

Friday, February 5, 2010

the importance of a fee-only investment advisor

Discovering the importance of a fee-only investment advisor. There are essentially two types of financial advisors. The first is a commission based advisor whose paycheck is determined based upon the investment product that his clients use. The second and better option is a fee-only investment advisor. This advisor will get paid more based on the returns of his clients and not based on the investment vehicle which they use. This causes the advisor to accurately advise his clients to invest their money in the perfect investment for him or her.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

the carbon cycle

The carbon cycle is involved in the exchange of matter between animals and plants. The cycle of electrons, water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and sugar between plants and animals is important because both support each other. Animals take in sugar by eating and oxygen by breathing; both are produced by plants. While the animal is working it will use energy from high energy electrons that it obtained through sugar to create ATP. It is in the mitochondrion where high energy electrons are removed and the energy from those electrons is used to create ATP. It is important to note that it is the flow of high energy electrons that actually makes ATP. The high energy electrons will turn into low energy electrons after they have been used to create ADP and combine with oxygen to form water which will then leave the animal’s body. After the high energy electrons have been removed from sugar to create ATP, the byproduct is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide will then leave the animal’s body by exhaling. ATP is important because it provides the energy to proteins in order to accomplish their essential functions within the cell. Plants take in water and carbon dioxide; both are produced by animals. Plants work the opposite as animals meaning that they will add high energy electrons to carbon dioxide which converts carbon dioxide into sugar. Water contains low energy electrons, which are energized entirely through sunlight and turn into high energy electrons. After the high energy electrons leave the water they combine with carbon dioxide to create sugar. Water (that has just lost its electron) will turn into oxygen as a byproduct and leave the plant. The process of the plant taking carbon dioxide and water and turning them into sugar and oxygen is called photosynthesis. The plant will then release both the oxygen and the sugar which will be used to support the animal.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Health Care

The elections are in and the republican party has gained two valuable seats that has given more power to the republican party to put a stop to the new health care bill. Many people are saying that the bill will become watered down and will be unable to pass and become law unless it is watered down. I myself believe that the health care bill will not pass because the republican party now has enough seats to disrupt any chance that the health care bill had to being passed. This is great because our country is still recovering from a recession that effected how we spend money. A huge expenditure such as heath care reform is not the answer especially when the country is in the process of recovering. For now at least that is a big win!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Post

Well now i bet you are wondering what it is that i am going to write about. I am going to talk about how to succeed in school. Basically there are two ways to succeed most people do the harder and more tedious way. I personally don't like taking the hard rought. However, some people believe that it is the easier way out of things--which they are wrong about. Lets start with the harder way, the harder way of doing things is to not listen in class or not go to class so they can do all of the reading and think about things later. This is not a good way of doing schoolwork at all when it comes to what is right and what is wrong. Why? Simply because it takes more time.
The correct way is to listen to every word the teacher sayd if you can't do this simple repeat in your mind every word that he says and you will be able to dramatically do better. Thus minimize the amount of time that you spend on schoolwork and increasing your social life. Just do it!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The New World

I thought I would take a step back from the traditional writing that I normally make to go ahead and talk about how Google has changed the world that we live in today. The world was very different several years ago before Google came around. We had to call companies to find out information, use other people to conduct the research that we needed, and brick and mortar companies were king. Then two college aged students changed everything when they started Google. They changed the way that business was done all together. Everything changed in just an instant.

Now businesses are required to have an online presence and not only an online website but an online presence which means that they have a website that is able to be located through search engines. An important part of a business is internet marketing, finally being able to tap into additional customers from around the world or locally. Google has changed the conventional business model. Now many businesses are based solely online. I myself have spoken with several couples who have started their own online business using other companies’ products. The only new thing that they have done is that they are the online marketing part of the businesses because they were to lazy to do it themselves.

The company itself is lacking in potential profits if they had been more up to date with the changing world and had developed a way to integrate it into their business model. What is the bottom line? Having an online business in incredibly important in an ever growing world and we must continue to improve our online presence.