Keywords and bids are over-rated, while search queries and text ad copy is under-appreciated. We’ve talked about the first three already, and now it’s time to talk about text ads. As described in the book, text ads don’t offer a lot of space and yet have a huge responsibility. They’re the answer to those questions, the reason for your organization, the driver behind your quality scores, and almost certainly the most under-allocated aspect of your paid search campaign in terms of time and resources. In a perfect world, you’d spend perhaps 50% of your PPC management time working on ad copy. My guess is the industry average is way below 5%. This is true because the complexities of keyword selection, campaign organization, match types, quality score, bidding, and just about everything else we’ve discussed thus far consumes too much of our time and energy. We’re simply out of resources (time and energy) when we get to the point where we should hunker down and be creative. There’s also an amazing dearth of good tools for managing the process of creating and reporting on good text ads. There are dozens or hundreds of keyword tools. There are nearly that many bidding programs or algorithms. Where are the tools that genuinely help paid search managers write, analyze, and test creatives? Talk about a crying need in the market.
The Job Text Ads Must Do
The central premise of High-Resolution PPC is that every search is a question, and our job as paid search managers is to get the right answers in front of the right questions and pay the right amount for the priviledge.
The Many Messages Of A Text Ad
Creating Ads with Copy Blocks
A more deliberate method is to consider each of the messaging options and write copy blocks to express each of them. So for example you would write 3 to 5 ways to talk about the benefits, 3 to 5 ways (or more) to talk about features, 3 to 5 ways to establish trust, 3 to 5 ways to promote pricing, 3 to 5 calls to action, and so on.
- Increase the percentage of your time spend on text ads.
- Define a strategy for writing ad copy
- Learn and use tactics and techniques to find and develop the best ads – don’t just ‘sit down and write em.’
Give ad copywriting the respect and resources it deserves, and your PPC results will benefit. What Do You Think?
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