Pay per click or PPC keyword has a major role to play in determining the incoming traffic. It’s important to take care that keyword mistakes are avoided to prevent loss of traffic in any possible way. Finding the right keywords and stringing them together with proper research requires a lot of brainstorming and hard work. Therefore, avoiding the common PPC keyword mistakes will take care of losing important traffic.
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A lot of money may be wasted due to PPC keyword mistakes as the ads may fail to show up or may show less thus, losing relevant traffic to a great extent. Check out the common PPC keyword mistakes and avoid them to prevent loss of money and traffic.
- A very broad match
A lot of irrelevant traffic and money wastage happens due to a very broad match. Broad matching often creates audiences being strayed off to wrong landing pages thus, losing relevant traffic in the process. Similarly, often the wrong audience may land up on your landing page. Therefore, money and traffic both are wasted. By modified broad match, the irrelevant searches may be curtailed yet certain amount will still fall under broad match.
- Negative Match
It’s a specification of words for which the ad shouldn’t show up for. This way money will not be wasted as the ad won’t show up for irrelevant searches. For example, if you are selling ‘flower pots’ and don’t want the searches to show up for ‘flower seeds’ then ‘seeds’ can be put into the negative search.
- Phrase Match
This can reduce the problems of the broad match by narrowing down your targeted audience to the relevant ones. Quotation marks can be given to set keywords to phrase match so that Google will allow your ads to appear for the most relevant audience.
- Exact match
This has to be used with care as in exact match the audience who types the exact keyword string will be able to see your ads. This way the searches become quite restricted but irrelevant searches can be curtailed most. On one hand, wastage of money can be avoided but on the other hand, risks of losing some potential audience may be present. Exact match keyword setting can be done by putting the keyword in square brackets.
- Aiming unrealistic keywords
As it’s a known fact that selecting the right keywords is a challenge, therefore, most mistakes happen while keeping high expectations from keywords which end up with the unrealistic ones. Competitive keywords must be avoided as it’s misleading that traffic will increase. To save money and get results fast, avoid using competitive keywords. Rather use keywords which will attempt to get users to the brink of conversion. For example, rather than using the keyword ‘Resorts’, use ‘Disney Resorts’ which will make the difference.
- Focusing on one or few keywords
Avoid focusing on one or few keywords. Understand user psychology to make a relevant string of keywords, so that it can draw the target audience which will also have more chances of conversion.
