I am struggling with my adwords

[barnes]

Hi all,
i am running campaigns for legal site.daily budget for total campaign is $25.00.
Daily Budget $25.00
CPC is $0.80
Avg.position 5-9
here i am getting 50 impressions per day,but no clicks.i am increasing CPC daily and increasing AVG. ad position.i want clicks on my adwords at any cost.please give suggestions.

Cheers.

[abbottsys]

Hi all,
i am running campaigns for legal site.daily budget for total campaign is $25.00.
Daily Budget $25.00
CPC is $0.80
Avg.position 5-9
here i am getting 50 impressions per day,but no clicks.i am increasing CPC daily and increasing AVG. ad position.i want clicks on my adwords at any cost.please give suggestions.

Cheers.
In brief....
Legal is a very competitive keyword space. Make sure your ads and landing pages are well optimized, and your keyword set is very focused, then I'm afraid your next job will be to dramatically boost your daily budget, and start increasing your bid until your average position is about 3. Also, don't forget the Content Network. Good luck!

[Discovery]

Being one who has paid for advertising in that space for a number of years, let me strongly second abbottsys' point.

You're way under budgeting and under bidding. Your CPC will need to be in the area of $4-$6. (search) And I don't recommend that you set a budget soooooo low. Use a sinle bid amount for content and search. Lift your traffic ceiling sky high with a budget in the 5k/day realm. Then you can temper the actual spend with your PPC bids, start around $2 and inch up daily by a half dollar. Google rarely if ever hits a high budget. Within a couple weeks you should have the data you need to make adjustments at the keyword level - making individual bids on each keyword, or at least important ones.

Please note, this is for PPC advertising and NOT site targeting or CPM advertising. Those CPM hucksters can certainly blast through a 5k budget with ease using their impression exploding sites. (friendster, MySpace, Digg and so on)

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[Ryan L]

5-9 should work, in my experience if your on the first page and your on topic you should get clicks.

Check you copy, is it clean, well punctuated...does your product stand out.

Sounds like some basic marketing is in your future.

Are you keywords on target? what copy are your competitors using?

Also 50 impressions isn't many...are your keywords too specific?

Are those 50 impressions for just one Keyword or an entire ad group?

BTW I am not familiar with the legal vertical but in mine...you'd be crazy CRAZY to bid the same for content and search networks.

[Discovery]

Let me clarify: When I say make a single bid for content and then for search I dont mean the same bid for both. I meant, one bid for the content campaign and another bid for search. Dont get into keyword level bids just yet. And yes, for most industries, content is almost always a lower bid.

However, if you have a very finely tuned campaign with an incredibly extensive exclude list, you may find that you can increase bids beyond what you bid on Search.

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[adamap]

I agree your daily budget is very low. With 30-40 clicks a day you'd need a very high conversion rate to see results. Either get waaaay specific with lower cpc keywords or be prepared to spend more. Also, review and really test your ad copy. Get creative with the format.

[barnes]

Thanks to all,for fast response.yesterday i have increased my bids to $2.75 per click.CPC is $2.75.
even i didn't get any clciks.

[barnes]

In brief....
Legal is a very competitive keyword space. Make sure your ads and landing pages are well optimized, and your keyword set is very focused, then I'm afraid your next job will be to dramatically boost your daily budget, and start increasing your bid until your average position is about 3. Also, don't forget the Content Network. Good luck!

yes. i have increase dmy daily budget to $70 and CPC $2.75.
Avg ad position is 6-8.but i didn't get any clicks.

[barnes]

5-9 should work, in my experience if your on the first page and your on topic you should get clicks.

Check you copy, is it clean, well punctuated...does your product stand out.

Sounds like some basic marketing is in your future.

Are you keywords on target? what copy are your competitors using?

Also 50 impressions isn't many...are your keywords too specific?

Are those 50 impressions for just one Keyword or an entire ad group?

BTW I am not familiar with the legal vertical but in mine...you'd be crazy CRAZY to bid the same for content and search networks.
yes. my keywords are more specific.i have got 60 impressions for total campaign.I increased my CPC to $2.75.but no clciks.

[barnes]

Let me clarify: When I say make a single bid for content and then for search I dont mean the same bid for both. I meant, one bid for the content campaign and another bid for search. Dont get into keyword level bids just yet. And yes, for most industries, content is almost always a lower bid.

However, if you have a very finely tuned campaign with an incredibly extensive exclude list, you may find that you can increase bids beyond what you bid on Search.

Discovery
i am running my ads for only search network.i disabled my ads for content network.is content network useful?let me know the suggestion.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

And yes, for most industries, content is almost always a lower bid.


Is the case, because people who are clicking on the PPC ads (in the search results) are people who are actually looking for your products/services whereas people who click on your ads in the content network are often people who werent really searching for them, but sort of fooled into clicking on your ads?

i am running my ads for only search network.i disabled my ads for content network.is content network useful?let me know the suggestion.

I'm interested in that, too. Obviously ads in the content network will probably convert less (not people actively searching for them), but for that same reason I guess they must be cheaper (as you mentioned discovery).

So in the end *technically* that might balance out...but what's it like in reality? It seems like almost everybody went for PPC (in the SERPs), but few people went for the content network. Is that b/c content ads are often still too expensive for their rather low conversion rates?

[Ryan L]

well with only 50 impressions...1 click would be 2% CTR,

I don't think you have enough impressions to know up from down.


type in your keywords and see how your ad compares to others.

IMO bid amount is not your issue.

[Discovery]

NKOTB,

We find that when our landing page content is being matched very well by Google and we are doing a great job at creating relevant ads and excluding the thousands of junk partner sites, that the conversion rates can be excellent on content and the CPA very low.

This takes a great deal of fine tuning and continuous upkeep.

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[Ryan L]

NKOTB,

We find that when our landing page content is being matched very well by Google and we are doing a great job at creating relevant ads and excluding the thousands of junk partner sites, that the conversion rates can be excellent on content and the CPA very low.

This takes a great deal of fine tuning and continuous upkeep.

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I guess I just see content network management as tedious, resource intensive and not all together noob friendly.

[barnes]

Hi guys.

Thanks for the help.finally i have got 5 clicks.Avg.CPC is $3.05.
Avg.position is 3.5.
Thanks a lot guys.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

thanks for the information Discovery.

[Discovery]

NKOTB

Kein Problem, mein Freund.

I like that content is a bit challenging and requires experience and robust tools. This creates a barrier most of my competition cant clear. Not a brag, just the plain fact of the matter.

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