7. Delete Keyword Clutter
You don’t need to have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of keywords in your account! Sure, a few years ago you needed to make sure you hit on every variation of a keyword term, including the misspellings, plurals, stemmings, accents, etc. However, Google pretty much killed off the Exact and Phrase keyword match types in AdWords last year.
Trying to maintain an account with over 98% junk keywords is just insane. You’re making campaign management and reporting more difficult and weighing down your account. Cut loose and get rid of the underperformers after each round of testing.
6. Delete Useless Ads
Why are you trying to maintain all of these non-performing AdWords ads? It makes your account way more complex and intimidating than it needs to be. AdWords is definitely a game of quality over quantity; in fact, you really need only one awesome ad for PPC success.
Instead of trying to be everything to everyone with hundreds or thousands of ads, use Dynamic Keyword Insertion instead. DKI replaces specific words in your ad with terms that match exactly what the searcher was looking for.
5. Delete Useless Landing Pages
In the same way that useless keywords and ads waste your time, useless landing pages have got to go. Any improvement in Quality Score as a result of increasing your volume of landing pages is going to be marginal at best, and when you factor in the time spent creating them, you’re negating any benefit at all.
Another misconception is that having more landing pages will help improve conversion. However, we’ve found that’s not true, either. You’re better off investing time in testing and optimizing just a few landing pages and making them really, really awesome.
So how can you tell if your landing pages are converting as well as they could be? We’ve analyzed hundreds of AdWords accounts and found the best landing pages, across industries, are converting at 11.45% or higher. Low single-digit conversion rates are really just average and there’s a lot of room for you to improve.
4. Stop Obsessing About Mobile Landing Pages
Over the last couple of years, people have become obsessed with mobile landing pages, even though mobile conversions are pretty low.
However, there are a lot of conversions happening that businesses just aren’t attributing to mobile.The biggest conversion people aren’t tracking is phone calls.
Calls are the hottest lead out there! On the phone, your agents can convince and compel your prospects to take action.
This explains why click-to-call on mobile is a total game changer.
Click-to-call gives interested prospects the ability to instantly connect with a real, live person at your business, making them worth at least three times more than clicks to your website.
Just remove the link to your web landing page and direct people to call instead.
3. Try Out Ad Customizers
Sometimes you need repetitive ads, but man – can they be a time waster.
Say your boss or client wants a countdown for the number of days an item is on sale. Or worse, they want their ad to accurately reflect in near-real time the amount of a specific product that they still have in stock. Managing these repetitive ads manually is a nightmare.
What this does is allows you to input a snippet of code connected to your informational spreadsheet, which then inputs the correct model, brand, price, or other parameter into your ad. Automating processes like this is a huge time saver, but also helps you run more effective, relevant ads. Of the hundreds of updates and new features in AdWords in 2014, this is one of the top ten.
2. Use AdWords Scripts for Reporting
Reporting is one of the biggest PPC time sucks, especially if you’re dealing with some of the issues i’ve mentioned above.
Scripts can allow you to do just about anything, like tracking historical Quality Scores, tracking drastic increases in spend, identifying under performing keywords and more.
It looks super complicated, but doesn’t have to be. The easiest way to harness the power of AdWords Scripts if you don’t do coding is to get someone else to do the dirty work for you. If you don’t have anyone capable in-house, check out the Google AdWords Scripts Community, Search Factory Roundup, FreeAdWordsScripts.com, or even a freelancer. People are developing all kinds of awesome scripts and you can find many options online.
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