Online Marketing
What type of online marketing is best for you?- Google AdWords
- Google Display
- Paid Directory Listings
- YouTube
- Targeting Keywords Specific To The Towing Industry
- Complying With Google’s Rules For Optimal Performance
- This Decreases Your Cost Per Click
- Helping You To Avoid Costly Mistakes
- And Saves You Valuable Time
So You Get More Cash Calls
Google AdWords
Online Marketing with Pay Per Click
When it comes to marketing your towing business online, there’s no better choice than Google AdWords’ paid search, otherwise known as Pay Per Click, PPC.
PPC is a marketing tool where advertisers bid against one another in an auction for keywords.
Here’s How It Works
Rather than allowing advertisers to buy keywords, Google uses auctions with specific criteria to determine the winner. But contrary to what you might believe, The Auction Winner Isn’t Always The One Who’s Willing To Spend The Most.
But why would Google do it this way?
Google is a search engine first and an advertising company second. They know that, for their users to return again and again, the search results provided must be of the highest quality. If not, Google’s users may use other “more reliable” search engines. This is something Google aims to avoid.
So with paid search, If You’ve Done Everything Else Right, You Can Be The Lowest Bidder And Still Have A Chance To Display Your Ad To Potential Customers
This is important because complying with what Google wants can decrease your Cost Per Click, CPC.
How Cost Per Click Is Determined
It is…
Maximum Bid X Quality Score = Ad Rank
- Maximum Bid is just that…the maximum amount of money you have agreed to pay when someone clicks on your ad. This is set in your AdWords account.
- Quality Score:
Your Quality Score is determined by these factors.
- First there’s your landing page (the page your customers land on when they click your ad link). Not only must it be relevant to the search terms entered, but it must also provide the user with a good experience, and be of high quality (meaning; optimized, linked to your business page, easily crawled by search engines, and others.)
- Keyword relevance: The keywords you use in your ads must be relevant to the search terms Google’s users have entered.
- Click Through Rate: Your Click Through Rate or CTR, carries the most weight. Your click through rate is the percentage of the people who see your ad, who actually click on it. So If 100 people see your ad and only 1 of them clicks on it your CTR would be 1%. The way Google sees it is, if your ad has a high CTR that means that people like it. And if people like it, then Google wants to send more people there. Again it has to do with relevance to search terms entered and a great user experience.
The result of the Maximum Bid multiplied by the Quality Score is the Ad Rank
Ad Rank
Your Ad Rank then determines how much you pay per click, cost per click, CPC…and if your ad is eligible for display.
The next step is understanding how you can positively affect your Click Through Rate, CTR, so that your Quality Score is higher.
How To Improve Your CTR
The most effective way of improving your CTR is by creating better ads…ads that people want to click.
So How Do You Write Ads That Compel People to Click?
An effective ad must include three necessary elements: Features, Benefits & a Call To Action. Anything that doesn’t fall into one of these categories should be eliminated.- Features
- Benefits
- Call To Action
Creating better ads will increase your Click Through Rates which means more cash calls and a lower Cost Per Click.