Creating an effective Google Adwords campaign can be challenging for both the beginner and the expert, especially if you are just entering a new niche or approaching your target market for the first time. More often than not, people would allot a big chunk of their time and effort monitoring the market and their competitors, but it’s the creation of ads and their optimization that provide the real essence. Remember though that this strategy is not hundred-percent fool proof and may bring costly mistakes.

Perry Marshall offers several effective tips, strategies and advice about creating an Adwords campaign that gets results in his book The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords, but many people still make some mistakes when they are conducting keyword research and making attempts to optimize their campaigns.  

When you want to build an effective Google Adwords campaign one that generates a large amount of quality traffic and actually reaches your target market make sure you’re not making any of these five common mistakes:

1. Creating an ad copy that has no keywords. Putting the keyword in the headline and nowhere in the ad is not a good practice and many Adwords campaign managers unknowingly do this. Bear in mind how the relevance, quality, and quantity of your keywords may affect your ad copy’s performance so be sure to include one or two keywords or keyphrases within your ad.

2. Directing your visitors to your homepage. You will be getting more interest from the viewers and can even have higher conversion rates if the URL you use in your ad proceeds directly to a landing page with the incentive or promo, and not just your homepage.

3. Depending entirely on the ‘broad match’ feature of the Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool. A general idea of applicable keywords in your niche can be supplied by the ‘broad match’ feature, still, you have other possible alternatives. In the same way, you can use the tool’s ‘phrase match’ and ‘exact match’ functions for your ads and website copy to get quality and intended list of keywords.

4. Using a set of keywords that do not actually give results. Assuming that people will be searching for your products or services using keywords you used online may not hold water all the time; hence, you must interpret what your target market’s needs are, though it may take some time to do so. You will need to generate a list of relevant and similar keywords using the ‘synonyms’ feature on the Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool to drill down search results and optimize your campaign.

5. Introducing your offer in the body copy only. Make sure you emphasize the ‘ultimate benefit’ right away in the headline of your copy. Apply a visualization technique about your viewer or reader looking at your headlines; do they have enough reasons to click through your copy’s content? Viewers scan even the smallest of details even though Google Adwords ads have only 3 to 4 lines, but what is good to note is that they only react when something presented grabs their attention, your opportunity to do this lies right in your headline.

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