AdWords Account Management – Page 8 – McCord Web Services The Web Authority

April 29, 2019April 25, 2019

Google Ads Unmanaged is a Recipe for Disaster

McCord Web Services is a Google Partner and a Certified Google Ads Professional

Don’t have a Google Ads account manager? Trying to go it alone to save money on management fees? Unless you are trained and work daily in Google Ads you may be setting yourself up for failure.

Google Ads is not a set it and forget it program especially if your ad spend is over $2,000 per month for clicks. As Google Ads is a pay per click platform that operates as an auction you may be missing out on valuable activity that could generate leads for your account.

I have personally found that at an absolute minimum, there should be a weekly or more frequent review of your Google Ads account to optimize for performance.

When we do our review, we look for anomalies, areas where the ad spend is not fruitful – such as by device. We look for emerging new keywords and negative keywords to keep an account targeted. In addition familiarity with account performance metrics is key to squeezing the most out of Google Ads for your business’ benefit.

As Google Ads is incredibly powerful and yet supremely complicated, I just do not recommend going it alone when it comes to account management. Without tight controls from an experienced account manager, you can spend big on Google Ads without a measurable return.

I invite you to visit our website to learn more about who we are and what we do. We manage over $3 million in ad spend yearly for clients, find out how we can bring your account to success too.

April 10, 2019April 5, 2019

Google Ads Conversion Tips Part Two

Continued from Monday.

Back to the website… Remember Google Ads gets the horse to the water, so to speak, but it is your website content that gets the horse to drink – getting your initial micro conversion or lead from a Google Ads click.

So, the key is to have a robust and transparent website. Focus on an absolute minimum of 10 pages with videos, testimonials, and whitepapers. The higher dollar product or service you sell the more content you should have to establish yourself as an expert.

Proper Training of Phone Staff is Paramount

It is key that whoever is answering your phone is knowledgeable. Don’t make a prospect wait, hear ambiguous answers or be unsure of what you are selling. It is okay to have a receptionist, but when a sales person answers a call and says I do not know or is unsure, it can kill a sale.

If you use a receptionist to field calls, be aware of voice and intonation cues. Nothing chases a prospect away faster than a rude response from a receptionist.

Consider using website chat functions to pre-qualify prospects and then match prospects to the right sales staff. Put your top people on high dollar prospects.

Google Ads is an excellent tool for driving traffic and building conversions, but if the experience the prospect has on the phone or website is not fabulous, you may never be able to reach your conversion potential regardless of the budget you spend on Google Ads advertising.

April 8, 2019April 5, 2019

Google Ads Conversion Tips Part One

Every client wants more Google Ads conversions. Google Ads can drive conversions but increased targeted traffic is just one component to growing conversions overall for your business.

Using a savvy Google Ads Consultant, like McCord Web Services, to set up your program and manage it is the very first step.

The second step (that is crucial) is to assure that your website is “on-point” and helps to build confidence in your ability to provide the service you are selling. Assuring that you are transparent as to who you are and what you do on your website is crucial.

Steer clear of the following:

No one page websites. You just need to have robust content to reassure Google Ads visitors that you mean business. If your product is expensive (relatively) the higher the price the more quality content you need to explain who you are and what you do.

No minimal contact information and don’t leave out your phone number. Build confidence in who you are by assuring that you have phone numbers, street addresses (not a P.O. Box) and easy ways to reach a real person fast!

No website pages that scroll and scroll and scroll. Break your content into targeted bites for super fast load time and to complete your top level navigation. Assure that you have navigation that easily travels your pages. Get client testimonials, videos of your team explaining your services, offer white papers. Provide value and information to establish yourself as the expert.

Make sure to check back Wednesday for our part two on this important topic.

April 3, 2019March 28, 2019

What Makes Us Different From Other Google Ads Managers?

What makes us different than other Google Ads managers is our expertise and proof by Certification and our Google Partner status.

Many webmasters, web designers, and even marketing agencies can hang out their shingle and advertise that they can help with Google Ads account management, but it is the certification and Google Partner status, or lack there of, that is the real difference.

A Google Partner is a Certified Individual who runs an advertising agency – and works with clients in volume. Although being a Google Ads Certified Professional is important, being a Google Partner means that you are seriously in business providing Google Ads services to clients – not working Google Ads as a part time gig or managing one or two clients.

Google Partners, as part of their certification and maintenance of certification of Partner status, have to show and prove to Google that they are client responsive, knowledgeable via certifications, are transparent in advertising of their services and transparent in account management. We even have to supply to Google a copy of the reports we send to clients and have our website copy vetted.

A Google Partner is held to a higher standard by Google and so you can trust that you are working with true professionals that are knowledgeable of the Google Ads interface and manage a number of client accounts effectively.

There is a difference in quality and knowledge between those that are Google Ads Certified and those that are not. Make the right choice for your needs.

When you are ready to kick your Google Ads advertising up a notch consider us – true Google Ads professionals and a Google Partner.