Is your PPC unprofitable, despite bringing in lots of leads? Columnist Jacob Baadsgaard explains his method for identifying and eliminating low-performing search terms.
AdWords is a great place to waste money. Google makes it so easy — a
few minutes of effort, and you are well on your way to giving them your
whole marketing budget.
Fortunately, all that money doesn’t have to go to waste. With a bit
of finagling, it’s relatively easy to figure out which search terms have
value and which ones are money pits — if you know what you’re doing.
To make things easy, I’ve boiled this analysis down into a simple
four-step process. To show how this process works in practice, I’ll also
use a recent client case study to illustrate each step.