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Adwords Budget?

 

Hi - the way I would suggest approaching this is to work backwards from your business targets. How much do you want to sell? How much can you afford to pay for each new customer (CPA)? There are no hard and fast rules on what's achievable but if this is a new-ish campaign you can almost certainly improve it! And £5 per day for a gift related site doesn't sound much to me, with online gifts being big business. 

Armed with your goals, your order values and the data Adwords provides you can figure out whether you should, or can afford, to spend more.

It's hard to say much more without knowing the details of your campaign however if for example you can see a very high number of impressions for a particular phrase that seems to be converting relatively well (are you using Adwords conversion tracking  - very useful, nay, essential), is there scope to drive more traffic to your site from that phrase through e.g. bidding the phrase to a higher position, tweaking the ad copy, using related phrases derived from it and so forth. Google has also just launched a tool that will allow you to test various configurations of your landing page for conversion effectiveness.

Hope this helps

Iain

 

 
  • Adwords Budget?, Alistairr, 20 May 11:16
    Hi there, I launched a new anniversary gift website a few weeks ago and have been using Adwords to advertise online. I'm still learning, but my campaigns seem to be going pr ...
    • Adwords Budget?, DenisK, 20 May 23:13
      Al, what makes you feel that you might not be reaching a wide enough audience?  Is it something specific, or is it purely your budget on the PPC campaing? I do not believe th ...
      • Adwords Budget?, Wynyard, 21 May 08:46
        Hi - the way I would suggest approaching this is to work backwards from your business targets. How much do you want to sell? How much can you afford to pay for each new customer (C ...
        • Adwords Budget?, StevePratley, 21 May 10:49
          Hi Alistairr, How have you reached your £5 per day? If you have set a maximum cost per-click and that's all you are getting, then you will need to either broaden your list o ...
          • Adwords Budget?, jsharpe, 21 May 11:29
            In most cases a small increase each time to expand your advertisement time is the safe option, your £5 a day as mentioned could also only be covering limited hours and maybe not th ...
      • Adwords Budget?, Alistairr, 21 May 20:28
        Thanks for your feedback. We are experimenting at present so it's difficult to get a fix on which direction to go in. We will substantially hike up the budget over the next few wee ...
        • Adwords Budget?, Alistairr, 21 May 20:40
          Apologies for the slim message above - just getting the hang of this thread. Seriously, thanks for the advice though. I'm definitely going to investigate adwords conversion t ...
          • Adwords Budget?, StevePratley, 22 May 11:10
            I'd definitely recommend you set up Google Analytics which you'll get free alongside your adwords account Very good for seeing which keywords are converting into sales, and at w ...
    • Adwords Budget?, SamIneson1, 1 Jun 16:47
      A website selling gifts will typically have a visitor to sale conversion rate of between 1% and 2%. Based on the assumption that your site performs well, with an average conversion ...
      • Adwords Budget?, Alistairr, 1 Jun 19:11
        Thanks for this. We have been working on both adwords and referrals since we posted the question and there has been a marked improvement.  We installed the adwords/analytics combo ...
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