AdWords advertising campaigns are built around fleeting, carefully worded advertisements. Although they may be limited in size advertising of this type can be very successful in attracting the attention of potential customers who will stay on the adverts through to your website.
Two methods exist and they depend on where you are going to place your advertisement. During the set up process of the AdWords campaign you will be given a couple of options and you can choose to place your ad on the search or content arrangement (Adsense) or you can place it on both networks.
Ads in the search arrangement are linked up with a list that contains keywords that are meticulously tied to the advertisement’s text and will then hopefully catch the eyes of more potential visitors who are actively in quest of out your product or service.
Alternatively, using the content arrangement, your advertisement will be placed alongside an article with content relating to your advertisement. In this case it is read by users who may not necessarily be interested in really purchasing any product or service, and, place another way, are browsers rather than searchers.
Search advertisements, as has been proven, are naturally a better way to reach your audience than contextual advertisements. Still, you could attempt to bring in transfer from both areas by designing multiple, separate ad series through assigning one to the search arrangement and the other to the content arrangement, and this could very easily help you expand your transfer.
Contextual adverts have their advantages even with the fact that they may not give as many advantages as a search based advert. Your cost per hit is a lot lower and you’ll have a small more flexibility in where your adverts land.
If you have an AdWords search advert made but yet want to try the content arrangement you could consider starting up a different advertisement series pointed at the content market. Content networks have a more passive audience so simply just copying over your search arrangement campaign will not suffice, you’ll need to complete retool it to make it work.
In the final analysis a well run search arrangement campaign is usually the most effective way to generate business but with a small ingenuity and well written copy there is no reason why this could not be supported by a parallel campaign on the content arrangement.
Justin Harrison is a leading Internet Marketing consultant responsible for the Internet Marketing strategies behind some of the largest online brands including Amazon, BBC, MasterCard and many others.