In order to run a successful campaign, one must follow two basic steps one is planning and other one is to optimise the campaign. Both of them has to be strategized in a successful way as only the successful implementation of both together can make your campaign successful.
The first and foremost thing one must do is to search keywords. One may say that it is a very common issue but the problem generally is that campaign creators do used to select wrong key words. Of course, it is recommended that one must use the keyword planner but simultaneously must also give focus on the issue that how people generally used to search. It is possible that one will find that lot of previously selected keywords must be dumped.
Once the similar types of keywords being selected one may go for the creating ad groups instead of putting them directly to campaigns. It will help you to target the audience in a larger way. I have seen in lot of campaigns that the traffic is driven to the wrong pages that are a major fault as it increases the chance of bounce rate. Additionally one must be careful about the start of campaign related to targeting the keywords. It has been found in lot of campaign that in order to get a quick success people used go for broad matching. However, it increases the chance of loosing the budget soon. Thus, it is advisable that if you are starting a campaign at least for first few days go for the exact match option. This will reduce the chance of bounce rate as well as give you an idea about the different data.
Suppose a person is selling of flats in a particular city or at a particular location. Thus, it becomes important to target the location. It will help the search engine to show your advertisement only when a person will try to find flats in that particular location. If the person will not do such, then there is a huge possibility that the marketer will end up paying for the clicks which fails to generate leads. However, these all are related to the planning phase. Once the planning phase is completed, the second step of optimising the campaign comes into play.
Preparing campaign does not mean that the responsibility is over. Rather from here the responsibility starts of a campaign manager. The first and foremost thing is to track all the process in details. The Google Analytic Tool installed in website (A very common feature, hoping all the campaigners know it). However, in order to go deep one can use call-tracking option, which will help you to identify the source of the calls. The analytic tool helps to identify the bounce rate, the conversion rates, and many more.
Once you identify the keywords, which are performing in the right way you must underpin them at once. One can find it from that analytic tool that which are set of keywords fails to drive traffic towards the site or the keywords, which are driving traffic but not generating leads. However, the last mentioned one must be taken seriously, as it can increase the cost of the campaign with generating any serious leads.
However, in addition to this, in order to make the campaign successful one must keep on testing through out the testing process. One can go for variation and must run two types of versions of advertisement in order to make the ads better. In order to understand the performance of the keywords, one can adjust the bid to high or low depending on the successful conversion rate of the keywords.
Therefore, as I mentioned it here, these are some of the mistakes are generally done by the people while running the AdWords campaign. As it has been discussed over here, that the success of the campaign not only depends on the selection of keywords alone. There are lot of other issues that one must also take into consideration. Following the mentioned steps, one can surely avoid the mistakes and be able to lower the bounce rates.


