PPC campaign management is a vital part of your advertising campaign. You will need to keep an eye on your PPC campaign if you wish to make serious money from it. An area that requires attention is the amount you are bidding on a keyword.
Bidding determines the positioning of your ad. The higher your bid the better your ad position will be. It is important to be among the first 3 pages of the search results. This is because searchers rarely go beyond the first 5 pages of search results. However you do not always have to be first place as there are usually around 6 to 10 ads on the first search page. The difference in cost between the first and third place can be quite a lot. You will save money and not really lose much exposure by opting for third place instead of first with your ad.
Bidding wars with competitors should be avoided as much as possible. They can get quite expensive and you can end up losing money. The popular keywords can get expensive to put into a good position. Unless you are promoting a product which will turn a rather large profit you may want to avoid the expensive top spots for a hot keyword.
Keyword bids should be assessed as to how well they are converting and what their actual cost per sale is. For example if you are paying $1 per click and it takes a hundred clicks to get a sale from that keyword you need to be making a profit of over $100 on each sale. On the other hand if you are only paying 5c per click then you would only need to be making over $5 per sale.
Bids and positions are vital to the success of your campaign. If a keyword in a good position is not performing too well, lower your bid or even put the keyword on pause. However if a keyword in a lower position is pulling good sales you can make the bid higher and improve the position. In this way you will increase your sales and make more profit. By these types of adjustments you can improve your ROI, return on investment.
When you are beginning PPC advertising campaign management, things can get out of control very quickly. For this reason, PPC engines such as Google Adwords offer daily budget options. These budgets will make sure you don’t spend too much money before you have a chance to analyze and tweak your campaign. This option can save you a great deal of money and can be removed once you have things under control.


