Click through rate (CTR) is a means of measuring the success of an online advertising campaign. Increasing such will increase the quality search (QS) and decrease the budget of your ads, while increasing your sales. If you want to increase your click through rate (CTR), the following discussion will tell you the how to and what to do to improve your CTR.

Raising your CTR is a lot easier than you think. There a lot of ways to do this. An example of which is using combinations of “strong words” which also means strong calls to action.

Call to action is probably the most important for your ad text and even Google tells us to use it in AdWords.  Research show that not having call to action in your ad text can cause your initial quality score to suffer.

Let’s take into consideration some of the following “strong words” and see how they affect our ads by the emotion they evoke or generate a feeling of encouragement for a user to click your ad. Also, discover how that feeling generated can ultimately affect your conversion rate.

1. New
Say it loud, your potential customers either has your product or service already or still checking you out. Adding the “strong word” like “new” to your ad would definitely change the emotion of your potential customers. As an example, instead of “Dell Inspiron 11z” you can use “The New Dell Insipron 11z.” Which sounds stronger to you?

2. Save
Everybody wants to save something and everyone wants to save MONEY. Let your potential customers know they are saving while using your service or product.  A discounted product or service is always appreciated by anyone.

3. Easy
We live in a time of information technology and we always go for the easier option of doing things. Your potential customers would want to know how buying from you would make their lives easier than buying from your competitors. In the terms of fulfillment, you may include text such as: Easy access, User friendly, Easy to use, Easy upgrade, etc.

4. Free
This is the most common word that a customer would want to see on your ad.  Customers love seeing free offers such as free access to your system even for a certain time only. If you could throw in other freebies, it would be even better. When offering something for free, make sure that you also clearly state conditions for it. This can be your unique selling point or proposition.

There are a lot of “strong words” that you can use to improve our ad and generate feelings that would make your potential customers buy from you and not from your competitors. You may also come up with your own strong emotional words that you think would be relevant & effective for your ad.

For you to come up with the best and most effective ad, turning to KeywordSpy’s ad copy feature would be the best move for you.  Ad copies of domains are made available including important analytics such as keywords used, ROI, CPC, etc. Having this data will enable you to see which ads are effective. Using the advanced export tool will allow you to download the results and save it with the proper format for your campaign, be it for Google, Yahoo or Bing. So data on which ads are effective + “strong words” are what you need to formulate and post the best ad out there. Coming up with the right, attractive ads will definitely help you improve your CTR and Quality Search, which will lead to increase of your sales and correct budget spending.

Now is the time for you to create that effective ad which will get noticed and get clicked.

Peter Zmijewski is the founder and CEO of KeywordSpy. You can find more information about him at PeterZmijewski.com

Much of us would like to venture into the world of Adwords. After all, it is very enticing and there are a lot of profits to be made. However if not done wisely, we can experience blunders in our quest. Below, we shall know the different things people overlook while doing their campaign:

Definitely, this is no Paul the Octopus stunt wherein you get it right every time. Not saying though that a boneless tentacle wonder can outsmart you in any endeavour—even he had to practice his craft.

With this in mind, we now shall enumerate the different things people overlook while doing their campaign:

Disregarding match types
The inexperienced PPC bidder would merely just get a broad match type for the PPC campaign and nothing else. By exploring other match types, you can get more visibility of ads and reach more searches. You don’t have to stick to the formula way of getting to your clicks, and you also help your CTR in the process.

Not actively bidding
You would mostly go with the status quo bidding, but getting ahead of the competition is much trickier than that. Craftiness is a plus when it comes to bidding for position. While you are aiming to get exposure on the search engines, you would also like to convert web viewers, and do so at the least costly price.

Failure to get words with potentially high CTR
You may not know it, but that spur of the moment ad copy you placed in your Adwords account? It probably wasn’t the stroke of genius you thought it was. You need to recognize that there are words that simply can do it for you in ads, especially when attracting customers. The impact of a “the” in the placement of your ad is definitely more than just a mere “a”. (Case in point: Ä New Dell Android Phone””, compared to “The New Dell Android Phone”) Similarly, the use of terms “guaranteed”” and free” in ad copies—coupled with a creative spin on the part of the PPC implementer—effectively capture the attention of leads. So, homework in this area is strongly suggested.

Not having a converting landing page
Okay, so you wrote the perfect ad. But what if the page it leads to is a flop? Some people after being attracted to ad, may just be turned off by the page they are led to, thus not enabling the conversion desired. In this case, you must test the landing page the ad goes to. Make modifications appearance-wise and text-wise, and consider including other features such as surveys just to keep the attention of the customer. Not only will it benefit your click through performance, it will also have a hand improving your quality score, or relevancy rating for your site for any given keyword.

Not testing ad position
Getting the top spot for ads is a very desirable thing for advertisers. However, because of the high cost of trying to achieve this, it can have negative implications. In other words, it’s better to get more for a maxed out total profit less total profit cost figure. If you bid at a lower price, yet manage to get a hefty amount of customers, you can establish a truly profitable campaign.

Not considering having your ads show up for some certain parts of the day
Yes, it could be taxing at times having to schedule impressions for an ad.  But doing so may also result in high clicks for those certain parts of the day, and high ROI for ad placement can be gotten by appearing for a selected number of times and converting for those few times. So experiment with this if you’ve the time.

Not doing a regular check-up to monitor performance of keywords
One cannot afford to be stagnant when doing a check-up of keyword over specific parts of the week. You must know the terms that are still getting you on sites, as well as those which aren’t. Doing split tests will help you. Be dynamic in changing up the keywords and creation of ad copies for a more desirable overall CTR and quality score.

These all can be responsibly addressed by the advertiser, or the implementer of the PPC campaign. To make process faster, however, one ought to consider investing in special tools. For example, notable keyword tools such as KeywordSpy have a special exporter tailored for Adwords and other PPC creation formats. They have installed this feature already to make exporting more efficient, and saving them the trouble of having to start the campaign from scratch.

So make sure you study the battlefield before engaging in PPC advertising, because a small misstep by not following the above advice could tell the difference between a failed campaign and a successful one. With the above tips, you can now tread the SEM path more easily, and smile your way to winning ad-keyword combinations.

Peter Zmijewski is the founder and CEO of KeywordSpy. You can find more information about him at PeterZmijewski.com

For the highly motivated individual, there exists a virtually limitless number of ways to make money on the Internet with a minimum of technical savvy. You don’t have to be an IT Professional or have a degree in Computer Science to get started either, as the most lucrative paths to online wealth require more business acumen and initiative than computer smarts. Affiliate Marketing has emerged in the last few years as one popular and highly attractive way to bring in serious revenue. So-called “Super Affiliates” can make literally hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

What exactly is a Super Affiliate? Simply speaking, Super Affiliates are virtual sales people who are capable of directing substantial amounts of Internet traffic to the product or service sales pages of online vendors. Some of this traffic results in sales or conversions for the vendor in question. In return for the traffic referred, the vendor splits a portion of the profits with the affiliate responsible based on how many sales they generate. In most affiliate programs, the bulk of conversions often result from the referral work of a small, highly productive group of agents, hence the “Super Affiliate” label.

The truly successful Super Affiliate employs a variety of techniques to claim such a large share of the affiliate referrals. Such techniques include Article Marketing, Pay Per Click Search Engine based advertising as well as Social Networking, to name a few strategies. Often times, a Super Affiliate will set up a number of “feeder” sites that provide helpful information related to the specific niche or industry they’re targeting, such as consumer electronics or real estate. On their websites, they’ll include Affiliate Links along with their main content, that direct interested readers to products or services that help them solve their unique problem or fill a need, and give credit to themselves in the event of a sale.

Let’s take a “virtual”, online software product and look at how you’d go about promoting it and collecting affiliate commissions on sales you secure. One popular tool used in Affiliate Marketing itself is called KeywordSpy. KeywordSpy is a web-based program that allows affiliates to look into the popularity of certain keywords used in Search Engine queries to see how often they’re used in searches for a variety of purposes. Most affiliates then look for unexploited “keyword niches” with little competition from other marketers which nonetheless are used by many ordinary users to look for products. Super Affiliates can then tailor promotional websites around these keywords to rank at the top of the Search Engine Results Pages for those queries, grabbing the lion’s share of the traffic for them and hopefully producing affiliate sales from that traffic.

As with practically any other industry or realm of commerce, the most important factor in becoming a successful Super Affiliate is effort and momentum. It all comes down to hard work, perseverance and research. Most Super Affiliates spend the bulk of their time looking for promising niches, then tracking down the most viable keywords to focus on for getting quality, “organic” traffic from Search Engines for the least amount of money spent promoting sites centered on such keywords. It’s a fairly complicated area of E-commerce which is difficult to fully cover in such a short synopsis, but that’s more or less the gist of Affiliate Marketing. The most attractive aspect of Affiliate Marketing is that anyone can master it if they put in the time to learn the ins and outs of the process without a lot of money spent upfront.

Peter Zmijewski along with his techno savvy friends founded KeywordSpy to track all search advertising activity in any given industry to provide in depth competitor analysis and compare the results with the competitors. Today KeywordSpy is highly recommended for any professional who is looking forward to work on multiple niches and wants to remain updated with the competitor insights. Contact Internet Marketing Guru for consultancy at KeywordSpy.com