Tag: AdWords Account Management Services

How We Bill For AdWords Services

How We Bill For AdWords Services

In my industry – professional pay per click account management the typical way to charge clients is 10% of their scheduled 30 day ad spend in the Google Ads control panel.

If a client has a setting of $150 a day for clicks, this translates into a 30 day budget of $4,500 to be paid to Google for clicks.

The typical account manager will bill $450 for the month for their management fee.

We operate differently – we bill by the running ad group number or ad spend and bill based on a service grid we post on our website. Our fee for this same client would be not $450 but rather $260 for 2.8 hours of service. That is more than a 42% lower fee than what is charged by the typical agency or manager.

We have priced our services to be small to medium sized business-friendly and know that your investment in our services will be repaid by increased leads and phone calls.

In our case, a lower price does not mean less quality or less skill – it is just our way of billing and doing account architecture that works for us and helps clients to have professional service without significantly adding to their overhead.

You can view all our pricing online at http://www.mccordweb.com/search-engine-marketing/google-ads-quick-start.php

April 1, 2019
Low Budget AdWords

We Are a Google Partner Specializing in Search Marketing, Shopping, Mobile, and Display.

Low budget AdWords – is there such a thing? Yes, AdWords has a number of programs that work even for low budget accounts. Here are my suggestions.

AdWords Express
Get good results with a relatively low budget in a semi automated program that targets ads to customers in your local area. You can now remove keywords that Google auto selects that you do not like and you only have to create one ad.

Be careful when you start set up that you really think about your goal or you will end up with ads for phone calls only or those that never show your phone number.

Do not run multiple ads at a time as each ad has it’s own budget and does not share one account budget.

AdWords Dynamic Search Ads and Remarketing
For clients who do not have high expectations for performance and are not relying on AdWords to drive a high number of clicks Dynamic Search Ads and remarketing may be a good choice.

To effectively use Dynamic Search Ads your website really should be 30 to 50 pages or more. Little sites simply will not get traction in this program.

Remarketing ads may take two to six months to build up the cookie list is traffic is low. For remarketing ads to show in the Display network you’ll need 100 cookie sets and for remarketing for search ads or RLSA you’ll need 1,000 cookie sets. For small businesses it may take more than one month to get the 100 cookie sets.

If you are looking for a savvy AdWords Manager to help you get going with AdWords or to discuss your options, visit our website to find out more about how we can help you with AdWords.

January 15, 2018
AdWords: Understanding Quality Score

We Are a Google Partner Specializing in Search Marketing,, Mobile, and Display.

AdWords ad serving is complicated by the Quality Score. Quality Score is a coefficient that AdWords does not reveal to you in full in your Account, but it drives your costs and ad placement on the search results page.

Click Through Rate, ad relevance, ad text, landing page, website content, account history, your bid, and extensions used all impact your keywords Quality Score.

The Quality Score of each keyword will, over time, factor into your ad’s position on the page and is recalculated each time your ad has the opportunity to show.

In your account you can see your Quality Score by keyword, your first page, above search results page, and top of page bid. Additionally you can see your website’s Quality Score by mousing over the bubble next to each keyword.

The key is to try to get the highest (out of 10) Quality Score you can over time. Every new account will start out with a keyword Quality Score of 5. Over time some keywords will drop as low as 1 and some as high as 10. Google recommends pausing keywords with a low Quality Score as it will typically not serve ads for these keywords no matter what your bid.

What is even more confusing for AdWords newbies is that a website gets a Quality Score, landing pages get a Quality Score, and keywords get a Quality Score. AdWords then uses all these figures as part of a very complex algorithm tied to your bid and extension, and user’s location to determine when and where you ad will appear.

If you are struggling with a low Quality Score, you may need professional help. In some cases a new AdWords account should be created and an old one closed due to a very poor keyword and Quality Score history which negatively impacts ad servicing.

I invite you to visit our website to find out more how we can help you with AdWords today.

November 29, 2017
Are You Ready for More Demanding Customers?
Expect the Unexpected.

Google has recently revealed research based on micro moments and customer buying patterns to Google Partners. Of particular interest are several trends
1. Customers are more demanding.
2. “Near Me” searches have decreased by 150% over the last 2 years.
3. Use of a zip code in a search query has declined 30%.
Google data shows that consumers want more useful information, more personalization, and more immediacy.

The reason for the decrease in activity on “near me” and zip code specific searches are that consumers expect the results to be location and self-specific. This change has been driven by the mobile micro-moment, as Google calls it, – the I want to know, I want to buy, I want to go mentality.

One important trend that you can leverage on your website and in Google AdWords due to dynamic keyword insertion is the use of “best” in a search query. Consumers want the “best” toothbrush, “best” web designer, “best” lawyer and so on.

In fact in the research Google states that “best” related keyword search activity has grown by 80% in the past two years.

In addition, consumers are demanding personalized localization – meaning the delivery of results that are uniquely personal and based on their own location. Mobile apps leverage results by GPS location and websites can enhance results by providing location cues and data sortable by location.

In addition to more localization, Google has identified that 50% of all mobile users will typically make an immediate purchase after a successful mobile search.

Google is identifying other important trends and sharing them with Google Partners as we work to leverage this information to help our client’s better market their products and services on Google AdWords.
October 16, 2017