Ecommerce Entrepreneurs: How Google AdWords Can Help You

As an eCommerce entrepreneur, are you looking for a popular platform to advertise your campaign Are you really struggling to target your audience Well, in today’s world, nothing is impossible.

How about using Google AdWords to advertise your products

This can be one of the most cost-effective approaches for marketing your eCommerce store. All it requires is the constant monitoring of your campaign. You have to keep yourself up to date with upcoming and latest trends and development in the market.

Does that sound tricky and difficult to you

Then read this thoroughly and learn the easiest tactics to handle your AdWords campaign, which will ultimately help you to turn potential customers into real ones.

First and foremost, it’s important to learn how Google AdWords Conversion Tracking can help you with your e-commerce deals.

Ostensibly, you are using Google AdWords to increase traffic for your eCommerce business. For that, a portion of your marketing budget is spent on clicks per week. On the other hand, you also have to maintain your cost after utilizing your daily budget through your campaign setting.

Now, at the end of the week, you have much of the information you need, such as how many clicks you have received on your ads, the final calculation of the sale and the estimates of what you have spent on each click. However, there’s still a problem. You don’t know how many of these clicks are actually getting translated into sales on your site.

Oops! You probably haven’t thought about it, right You must be thinking that if there’s no way to track the value and return of these clicks, then why would you spend money on pay per click ads

Well, there’s a solution in the form of a powerful tool called AdWords Conversion Tracking (Google AdWords Conversion Tracking Guide PDF) , which helps you track ROI (return on investment) based on the number of clicks on your ads. Most importantly, it lets you know whether a click leads to a sale or an action on your website.

Conversion and Keyword Tracking

By this time you must be curious enough to learn why conversion tracking is important. With conversion tracking you can track specific keywords leading to a conversion as well the value of a conversion at a keyword level.

To begin with, let’s see how conversion tracking functions. Conversion tracking requires you to insert a code snippet on the landing page where the visitor lands after a conversion. This page can be either a ‘thank you for signing up in the newsletter’ or ‘thank you for shopping with us’ landing page. Google AdWords provides you with the code you need to insert on the related pages of your website.

For instance, if you want to track the sale of a party wear dress, you would insert the code snippet on the page the customer lands on after purchasing the dress. Here, is an example of when a click translates to a conversion:

1. The customer clicks on the ad and searches for the party wear dress.
2. They browse the website and make a purchase once they find the dress they want.
3. You can now track this purchase with conversion tracking. Moreover, the purchase is also equated with the pertinent keywords “party wear dress.”

Understanding the keyword matching concept is important in order to successfully run the Google AdWords campaign. The right keyword is one of the primary factors for your eCommerce store as well as for the Google AdWords campaign.

Keyword matching is simple. Google points out which keyword searches are the most appropriate for your ad.

Keyword Categories

There are a few categories of Google AdWords keyword matches. How are these categories best utilized to increase your sales

Exact match:  Exact match helps you to run your campaign in an economical manner. Your ad will be displayed according to the exact term you have specified without any variants. It targets only those who are looking for the definite product you are offering.

For example, if you specify the keyword” red dress” the exact match keyword will only show ads on that specific word and nothing else.

Broad match:  The keywords specified to broad match will show ads on a wide array of variation of that particular keyword. The variation may include abbreviations, singular plural forms, or may be acronyms.

For example, if you specify the keyword ‘ dress’ to the ad group, your ad will also be displayed to someone who is looking for ‘short dress’ or ‘black dress’ or may be completely irrelevant as ‘skirts.’ You can receive a wide set of data concerning to the keywords the customers are using to find you.

Phrase match:  A phrase match keyword allows your ad to show for those keyword searches that match your keywords as well as words before or after it.

For example, the keyword is ‘red dresses.” Anyone who is searching for ‘party wear red dress’ is also eligible to view your ad. However, those looking for ‘red gown’ cannot view your ad.

If you have not started using Google AdWords for your eCommerce store, by this time, (I am sure) you will not give a second thought to it.

It is worth spending your money on AdWords to drive traffic and prosper in your eCommerce business.