Archive for March 3rd, 2008

Need Help Fixing Your Pay Per Click Quality Scores?


If you are like many advertisers lately, you may have been seeing your AdWords quality scores listed as “poor” or been given the old “Inactive for Search” slap from Google. Your once vibrant, effective pay per click account is slowly getting picked apart.

What’s bringing you down? It could be a number of things. Look to see if your ad text is relevant enough to each of the keywords they appear on. Are your ad groups too broad? Are they stuffed with a variety of keywords that can’t be directly spoken to with your ad copy? Break those up. There’s other nuances as well.

There are a variety of different hoops that Google may want you to jump through in order to get back into play and lower your costs per click. The solutions, however, may not be very simple, and it may require you to roll up your sleeves and put in more man hours than you wish. But effort pays off.

The client accounts we see at our pay per click managment company almost always have to be overhauled. Google Adwords has changed — those old account structures are no longer as effective as they once were and you need to adjust as well.

Take a closer look at your campaigns and see if you have an excessive amount of keywords in each ad group. If so, it’s time for a change. Don’t stay in the same rut of having ads that are too general and/or not in sync with the keywords in the ad group.

Your ad quality scores will go up if your ads are finely tuned. You want to develop your account, campaigns and ad groups with this in mind if you want to stay ahead of the curve with Google.

Another method to raise Quality Scores might sound easy. However, the trick is in the effort. Split test your ad copy…and do it every day. Over time, hundreds of tests will raise your click through rates and conversions. If you aren’t doing this or hiring a professional pay per click management company to do it for you, your competition has a great advantage over you.

If you’re spending a substantial amount of funds on your PPC advertising, you need to maximize those dollars. The marketplace is increasingly sophisticated. More and more the competition is putting in extra effort and extra dollars to stay on top of Quality Scores, click through rates and conversions. And, it’s a continual effort.

Make the effort! A successful pay per click program needs a knowledgeable manager whether it be yourself or you hire out. If your man hours are just not there, look to a pay per click management company. Don’t short change yourself when it comes to the energy you put into PPC. Unattended keywords can drain on your funds on a daily basis, so don’t delay!

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Josh Prizer is a Senior Account Executive and AdWords Expert for Zero Company Performance Marketing, a ppc management firm. Check out his site to discover more about how improving your PPC ad campaigns and performance.


Moving Your Home In a Buyer’s Market


Whether you like it or not, the real estate market has ground to a slow trot. Selling a home can be difficult and requires you to return to the time-tested basics of selling a home. Here are some keys to remember and use.

1. Make your home available. It would probably help to just accept that your home is in the public domain from 9 A.M until 9 P.M. daily until it’s sold.

2. It is important to remember that a home can only support the value of homes around it. When making home upgrades, make sure you do not spend more than you will recover when you sell it.

3. An attractive brochure can help you sell your home. A brochure that looks like a home featured in a magazine does the usual “memory jog” for people who have toured the house, but it also “adds value”.

4. When selling your home, be realistic about your asking price. You can check public record at the courthouse, or in many cases on-line, for the amounts of recent sales in your neighborhood.

5. When it comes to selling your home, your driveway tells potential buyers a lot about your property.If it has cracks and nasty oil stains, it is a blight on your property. Make sure to clean it thoroughly and repair all cracks.

6. Many people try to sell real estate with an “as is” qualifier. The idea is this protects them from any claims the failed to disclose problems with the property. This assumption is incorrect. If you sell a home with problems, you must disclose them.

7. Buyers aren’t a dime a dozen but they are out there. Showing flexibility can make your property more attractive than the competition. Be willing to vacate quickly for a qualified buyer who wants it.

8. If your home has been on the market for several months and has not sold, you can bet it is for one of 3 reasons. It is priced too high, it doesn’t show well, or you haven’t brought it to the attention of enough buyers.

9. The true price of a home is the market price. The market price is not the asking price, the appraised price and so on. It is what the seller and buyer agree it is. If you are selling, do not hamstring yourself with anything other than that.

10. Many people ask escrow officers for advice or help. Don’t expect any! Escrow companies are supposed to be neutral third parties. They handle the paperwork, not negotiations or problems.

At the end of the day, the real estate market slows down and speeds up. It never comes to a stop. Put another way, you can always sell a home. You just need to pay attention to the details and now you can.

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