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Google Ads for Beginners: A Guide for SME Decision-Makers

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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) often have to deal with a lot of problems on their way to being successful. One of these problems is the need for effective digital marketing strategies that can produce a high return on investment (ROI) and raise brand awareness. Google Ads can help with this. In this guide for beginners, we’ll talk about what Google Ads are, why they’re important for your business, and how to create your first campaign.

How do Google Ads work?

Google Ads is an online advertising platform made by Google. It lets businesses make ads and show them to people who are looking for similar goods or services. These ads can show up on Google’s Search Network, Display Network, and other partner sites. Advertisers can show their ads to the right people based on keywords, demographics, hobbies, and more.

Why Should Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Use Google Ads?

  • Google Ads can help your business show up at the top of search results when potential customers look for goods or services like yours. This can bring more people to your website, which can lead to a higher sales rate.
  • Pay-per-click (PPC), which is how Google Ads works, means you only pay when someone clicks on your ad. This makes sure that you only pay for traffic that is relevant and interested, making Google Ads a cheap way for SMEs to advertise.
  • Targeted advertising: With Google Ads, you can reach specific groups of people based on their location, age, gender, hobbies, and more. This means you can target your ads on people who are more likely to buy from you, which increases your chances of being successful.
  • Easy to track: Google Ads gives you a lot of information to help you figure out how well your ads are doing. Metrics like clicks, impressions, and conversions can be tracked to help you make your ads work better.

How to make your first Google Ads campaign

  • Set up a Google Ads account: To get started, you’ll need to set up a Google Ads account. Go to the Google Ads site to sign up. If you already have a Google account, you can use that, or you can make a new one if you need to.
  • Set Your Goals: It’s important to set your advertising goals before you start your first campaign. Do you want more people to visit your website, more sales, or more people to know about your brand? If you know what your goals are, you’ll be able to choose the right settings and tactics for your campaign.
  • Choose the type of campaign you want to run. Google Ads has many different types of campaigns, such as Search, Display, Video, Shopping, and App. Choose the one that fits your goals and the people you want to reach.
  • Set Your Budget: Figure out how much money you want to put into your Google Ads strategy. You can set a daily budget, and Google will make sure that your spending stays within that limit. Keep in mind that your actual spending could be a little different based on the competition and other things.
  • Choose Who You Want to Reach: Google Ads lets you choose who you want to reach based on things like area, age, gender, interests, and more. Make your ads as detailed as you can so they reach the right people.
  • Choose Your Keywords: In Google Ads, keywords are very important because they help decide when your ad will show up in search results. Use tools like Google Keyword Planner to do keyword study and find your business’s most relevant and high-traffic keywords.
  • How to Make Your Ads: Write a catchy ad that shows off your unique selling points and has a clear call to action (CTA). Remember to keep your ads short and focused on what the customer will get out of it.
  • Set up Conversion Tracking: Set up conversion tracking in Google Ads to see how well your ads are doing. This will show you which ads and keywords lead to the most conversions, which will help you make your efforts more effective.

 

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Top 10 Best Practices for Google Ads Campaigns

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Are you trying to increase conversions with your Google AdWords campaigns? You can design extremely successful campaigns that draw in and convert your target audience by utilizing the appropriate methods and best practices.

We’ll be discussing the top 10 best practices for Google AdWords campaigns in this blog post, which you can start using right away.

1. Determine who your target market is.
Knowing your target market is crucial before you begin developing advertisements. You can build advertising that connect with your target audience and encourage conversions by being aware of their demographics, interests, and pain concerns.

2. Do a keyword search.
An essential first step in designing successful Google AdWords campaigns is keyword research. It enables you to generate ads that are extremely relevant to your target audience’s search terms by assisting you in identifying the keywords they use.

3. Produce highly targeted adverts
Conversion-boosting advertising must be very relevant. Your adverts should be customized for your target market and the search terms they use. Employ ad copy that emphasizes your value proposition and unique selling proposition.

4.- Use ad extensions
Ad extensions are further details that can be included in your adverts to increase their value and relevance. Callouts, structured snippets, and site links are a few examples of ad extensions. Ad extensions can improve your ads’ exposure and efficacy.

5.- Use negative keywords
Negative keywords are those for which you don’t want your advertisements to show up. You can prevent showing your advertisements to people who are unlikely to convert by utilizing negative keywords, which can enhance the performance of your campaign as a whole.

6.- Use location targeting
You can target a certain geographic area with your adverts by using location targeting. This is especially helpful for companies who operate locally or have a physical site.

7.- Use device targeting
You can target your adverts to appear to users of particular gadgets, such desktop computers or mobile phones. You can build ads that are optimized for the device that your target audience is using by targeting particular devices.

8.- Use remarketing
You can remarket to people who have already visited your website or engaged with your brand in some other way by displaying adverts to them. You can boost the likelihood that they will convert by presenting your adverts to people who are already familiar with your brand.

9.- Test and optimize your ads
Your advertising’ performance must be tested and improved over time in order to be effective. To determine what works best, experiment with various ad copy, graphics, and ad extensions. Compare various versions of your advertising using A/B testing to determine which ones result in the highest conversion rates.

10.- Keep track of the success of your campaign.
It’s crucial to keep track of the results of your campaign in order to spot potential improvement areas and make necessary adjustments to your adverts. Track KPIs like click-through rate, conversion rate, and cost per conversion with Google AdWords reporting tools.

In conclusion, successful Google AdWords campaigns require careful planning, meticulous attention to detail, and continuous improvement. You can build ads that draw in and convert your target market and meet your business objectives by using these best practices.

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Amauta Marketing reveals Espace Garage Plus new website

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Amauta Marketing has undertaken the complete redesign of Espace Garage Plus website. Established in 2006, Espace Garage Plus is the first company in Quebec exclusively specialized in the design and makeover of residential garages.

The new Espace Garage Plus website was designed to allow for the renewal of user experience from an ergonomic standpoint, content access and navigation by presenting services, products as well as a selection of makeovers designed and executed by the company. Besides a blog, the website also showcases a product and accessory catalogue easy to consult. Finally, Amauta Marketing is also in charge of the SEO strategy and management of the Google Ads campaigns.

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Amauta Marketing signs the new web strategy of Centre de Parrainage Scolaire

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The Centre de Parrainage Scolaire has entrusted its web referencing strategy (SEO) as well as its web advertising (Google Ads) to Amauta Marketing.

The Montreal private company offers home personalized tutorial services for elementary, secondary and college students.

The agency has been mandated to define and implement a web strategy to increase visibility and awareness of Centre de Parrainage Scolaire toward its target audience in Quebec.

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Amauta Marketing selected by MBA Research

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The new collaboration between Amauta Marketing and MBA Research looks promising. MBA Research is located in downtown Montreal and specializes in marketing studies, more precisely in quantitative and qualitative research. They have mandated Amauta Marketing to set up and manage its web advertising campaigns.

MBA Research employs innovative methodologies and tools to survey representative, stable and well-defined samples of the Quebec population to collect precise marketing information. Their clients get quick feedback from segments of the population on different topics, notably on consumer habits. This helps their clients establish appropriate marketing positioning and strategy to drive sales.

MBA Research is a member of the Canadian Research Insights Council (CRIC), European Society for Opinion and Market Research (ESOMAR) a well as Insights Association, and fully respect practices and codes of conduct of these associations.

Amauta Marketing’s work will occur upstream and will consist of promoting the company on the web to generate interest of new panelists and to entice them to join the survey groups.

 

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Google liable for collecting QST

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As of June 1st, 2019, Google will collect and return sales taxes (QST) to Revenu Québec. Google is now treated like any international digital companies such as Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify, and others who sell intangible products and services.

For healthier competition

The announced objective by Mr. Legault’s Government is to provide a more equitable commercial framework to local companies who have never benefited from this dispensation while making their prices more expensive for consumers with the QST. It is also a way to recoup more than $150 million dollars until 2022-2023, as explained by the Quebec Government in 2018. Revenu Québec supplies a list of the 76 companies subject to these new rules. However, the Federal Government is not following in the footsteps of the Quebec Government and still does not impose tax payment of 5% (GST) on the web giants’ products and services.

Your invoice should be modified as of this Saturday

Either using Netflix video services, buying online products on Amazon, or using Google Ads services to analyse your clientele or managing your online ad campaigns, you will see your invoice modified to showcase the addition of the QST as of this Saturday.

If you have any question related to this, do not hesitate to call us up. As always, we will be listening and will try to make you life easier.

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AI influence on Google Ads

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps Google Ads to improve advertising performance. Even better, Google now uses AI to show ads and to automatically send results to your company account.

Choosing and verifying ad location

Artificial intelligence is a way to enhance human intelligence with the help of powerful computers. By combining AI with your ad campaign data and history, for example lead location, conversion timeframe and keywords at the source of conversion, you will get incredibly effective suggestions. The idea is to determine which ads work best.

At the beginning of 2018 Google Auto Ads was launched to help you monetize your online content. This software uses machine learning to position the ads at the best location on a web page. Then in April 2018, Google improved Auto Ads by using AI to strengthen controls and help avoid ads being shown in association with controversial content.

Suggesting ads from AI

Google has announced to advertising and marketing teams that it was starting to show ads to companies based on AI learnings. The objective was to identify which ads are better suited to bring the best results. These ads are now delivered to a company’s Google Ads account. If you leave your account on automatic pilot, these ads will be automatically generated every 14 days. You can see the obvious benefit of convenience, but keep in mind that you can decline this functionality and use analytics to make your own decisions. This way you can manage your ad campaign yourself.

Google’s objective is to encourage clicks. But getting more clicks for Google doesn’t automatically mean more customers and sales for your company – those are likely your objectives. That’s why human interaction is also valuable.

It is essential that you keep watching and analyzing your conversion rates and discuss with your team. Even though AI is useful, don’t overlook your own intelligence and strategy. Your sales depend on it.

To explore this deeper, get in touch with our team at Amauta Marketing.

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Two companies and one faculty retains the services of Amauta Marketing

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September means it’s time to go back to school, and for Amauta Marketing, it means new additions to its client roster. We are proud to announce Kid Car New York, Montreal SOS Ticket and Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University have retained the services of Amauta Marketing to increase their digital awareness and reach high quality Internet users with targeted Google Ads campaigns.

Kid Car specializes in the safe transport of kids in New York City and supplies cars with child seats adapted to their age group. Kid Car drivers are trained to install these seats correctly and are particularly sensitive to the needs of this young clientele. The company has asked Amauta Marketing to help increase the number of app downloads in the US market.

SOS Ticket provides legal aid for car owners in ticket cases. The company is active in the Montreal market and represents those who wish to contest verdicts against them. Their digital marketing needs include increasing its web presence and they have asked Amauta Marketing to create a tailor-made advertising strategy with Google Ads.

Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University is known worldwide as one of the leading management schools. Its digital marketing objective is to increase its visibility with potential students in the United-States, Great-Britain, China and India, and they have asked Amauta Marketing to help them reach these markets.

The whole Amauta Marketing team is proud to be associated with these three prestigious clients and to assist them with using our digital marketing strategy and experience to build their brands

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6 ideas to improve the conversions of your PPC campaigns

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The optimization of your PPC strategy is essential to maintain or improve your ad campaign’s performance on search engines. Knowing what steps to take or where to start can be confusing, so here are some tips on how to optimize your PPC campaign:

 

  1. Keywords

In a PPC campaign, keyword selection is paramount. To choose your keywords, focus on those that appear in the largest volume of search. It is best to limit yourself to 15-20 keywords per ad group. Poorly chosen keywords can cost you money, so it is a good idea to have a web marketing expert to help you. To learn more, read our blog posting on keywords.

 

  1. Search words vs. negative keywords

It is important to regularly review your list of search words and the keywords being used by Internet users. You could be surprised by what you find.

You want to be vigilant about what search words you DO NOT want to be targeting in order to optimize your ROI. This is called negative keywords, which lets you exclude search terms from your campaign in order to only target the right customers and increase clickthrough. This list of negative keywords can be shared among all your Google Ads campaigns.

We recommend that you list all the negative keywords you want: such as products or services close to yours but you don’t offer, words linked to job postings, names of your competitors, scandals or sensitive subjects you don’t want to associate your company with.

 

  1. Ad Testing

In all marketing initiatives, testing is recommended to maintain effectiveness. Web advertising allows testing opportunities like no other medium. You can create 3-4 banner ads (with different visual and copy elements) for the same keyword groups and then see how their clickthrough performance compares. You can then get a better return on investment. Repeat this process as often as needed, and remember, Google Ads uses an ad rotation system that shows the ads that are performing best throughout your campaign.

 

  1. Geotargeting

This may seem logical, but do not forget to indicate the geographical area in which you wish to have your ads shown. If you only provide services to the Montreal area, it doesn’t make sense to target the whole planet. If you analyze the Geographical Report and conclude that some Internet users are coming from locations that you do not want to target, you can exclude those locations (city, region, country etc.) the same way you do for negative keywords. This avoids wasting your advertising budget.

 

  1. Conversions

Conversions are considered customer actions that your company believes are valuable. They can include purchases, signups, downloads, web page visits or lead generation. To optimize your tracking of conversion actions, consider the following questions:

  • Does your conversion follow-up work?
  • Does the conversion action align with your company’s most important KPI (Key Performance Indicator)?
  • Is the conversion tag on the correct page of your web site or is the Google Analytics corresponding to the correct page and action?
  • Are you tracking too many conversions?

Web marketing experts recommend you follow no more than two conversion actions on Google Ads. For example, for an e-commerce website, it could be sales (a primary KPI) and shopping cart add-ons (a secondary KPI).

In contrast, with Google Analytics, you can follow secondary conversion actions like newsletter signups, downloads of a catalogue or activity on a chat.

The problem with following too many conversions is that each one has a different value; therefore, the overall picture can give a distorted perspective on your actual return on investment of your advertising dollars.

  1. Budgets

A PPC budget requires monitoring and regular adjustments which means you should allocate your budget according to the ad campaign or keywords performance. Keep in mind, often the name of your company or your brand has a high conversion rate, but this doesn’t mean you should invest more on these keywords. The more targeted for conversion, the better.

Bonus Tip: Bing Ads now offers a tool to estimate conversions based on your budget to make it easier and quicker to optimize your budget.

 

Final Advice

Improving and optimizing your PPC campaign is an on-going process based on Internet users behavior and search trends over time. The more you carefully target your keywords and ads, the more you improve your campaign’s performance and optimize your budget.

If you don’t have the time, patience, or knowledge to manage your Google Ads campaign, Amauta Marketing is here to ensure the best possible return on your investment based on your budget.

 

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Google launches large format text ads: 10 features to discover

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Large format text ads are showing up on Google Ads. Are you enthusiastic? But, more importantly, are you ready? Large format text ads are one of the more important big changes from Google Ads. Imagine that Google will soon double the size of the text of its ads. What’s the big change? Here are 10 features marketing professionals should look for:

  1. What’s a large format text ad?

Large format text ads will be twice as long than regular ads. This new advertising format is designed to maximize your presence and performance in mobile search results with a larger headline and descriptions that are 80 characters longer. It is mobile adapted advertising which will work on both mobile devices and desktops as well.

Large format text ads can adapt to both mobile and desktop devices and their format adapts directly to their screen sizes. Google has started to test these new ads in the second trimester of 2016.

  1. Why did Google make this change?

Google announced this new format as one of the more important changes in text ads since the launch of the Adwords platform 15 years ago. A few months ago, Google started thinking about what Adwords advertising would look like if it was created for the mobile world of today. Today more than half of the billion annual searches on Google come from a mobile device.

Google made a giant leap by creating a unified experience for the different devices in February when it stopped advertising on the right side of the computer screens. Following all restrictions generated by the end of advertising in the right column, this addition seems to be a natural progression following large format headlines introduced in 2011.

  1. What is the size of these large format text ads?

These large format ads are twice as long (precisely 47% longer) as standard advertising. Actually, you have a total of 140 characters and an advertising space to use, marking the end of 25-35-25 limits. Twitter has made no comment regarding the 140 characters adopted by Google.

Make sure to put each added character to use. Create attractive and relevant ads which Internet users won’t be able to resist clicking.

  1. How do large format text ads look?

Here’s how large format text ads look like in Google Ads interface:

  1. What is the new headline length?

You have the ability of posting 2 x 30 characters headlines with large format text ads. Don’t forget that your ad headline is the element users are most inclined to notice. When it shows on search result pages, your ad title fields are combined and separated by a hyphen. Previously, headlines were limited to 25 characters, which means a 140% increase.

  1. How much have descriptions grown?

You now have an 80 characters description line versus 35 characters previously, which is an increase of 14%.

  1. What are the changes with advertising links?

Google Ads will automatically extract the domain of the final URL. You will be able to add 2 paths to multiply advertising links (up to 15 characters). It is suggested to use this path field to help users see your ads and be able to have a more precise idea of the page of your website they will access. Text that you use should not necessarily contain your website URL, but it should be linked to the content of your landing page.

  1. Does it improve conversion rates?

Of course, more text brings more ad visibility. The first reports show that large format text ads provide a click rate of up to 20%. Click rate is even more important when we add to the ads an advertisement and an extension with a telephone number.

  1. When will these new ads be available?

As of now, large format text ads are available for advertising professionals. Google has announced that it will remove standard text ads as of January 31, 2017. You should therefore transform your standard advertisement into large format text ads by this date.

  1. What should be expected from large format text ads?

You will increase your quality score immediately. Quality score is already an important measure in a Google Ads account, but it will become even more important.

In conclusion, large format text ads offer you:

  • 2 headline fields (up to 30 characters each)
  • A larger description field (up to 80 characters)
  • A URL to be displayed including the domain of your final URL
  • 2 optional field paths used in the URL to be displayed in the ad (up to 15 characters)

You will have to make sure that your text ads have been rewritten to benefit from this new format.

Google offers you twice as much space with these new large format text ads so be ready to optimize it to your benefit.

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