WOW...I'm amazed at the depth of knowledge and experience HT members have in this area. All of this information is extremely helpful and I didn't even send the original post/question. I've got a lot of homework to do. Thank you. Kurt Marcia Yudkin wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > >> AdWords are beneficial if you are running a targeted campaign with >> specialized landing pages that allow you to test/track the >> effectiveness of different ads and conversion rates, but you can get >> a better overall long-term return on your investment from effective >> search engine and content optimization. >> >> > I don't think it's an either-or. I have some pages to which I get great > unpaid traffic from Google and yet when I see some spaces coming up in my > client schedule, I supplement that with a pay per click ad that I then turn > off again when my schedule is full. > > Note that I am not trying to get as many clicks as possible. My goal is to > get as many people as possible who are the right people for my program to > click through to my page. Normally I don't need to spend more than $50 > before turning the ad off again. > > Interestingly, I learned a valuable lesson for organic SEO from my pay per > click campaign. There was one keyword phrase that cost more than all the > others I bid on, and even when I bid relatively high on it, my ad still > wasn't coming up that often. That told me that this must be a relatively > profitable keyword phrase for the other advertisers. So I took that phrase > and put it first in the page title of my landing page, and lo and behold, my > page now comes up #3 or #4 on the first page of Google results without me > having to pay for the clicks. > > Oh, and by the way, I have some sample before and after Google Adwords ads > on my web site that show some effective techniques for writing these little > haiku-like ads: > http://www.yudkin.com/sample10b.htm > > Marcia Yudkin > Copywriter and Marketing Consultant > Goshen > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -- Kurt Kolok Owner/Director Kolok Gallery 121 Union Street, 1e North Adams, MA 01247 +1 413 664 7381 kurt at kolokgallery.com www.kolokgallery.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20070222/fafe084d/attachment-0005.html