Don’t Limit Yourself
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Once you have got a good campaign going you need to then start thinking about how you can improve it to bringing in more revenue, it’s much easier to scale a campaign than go through the whole process again of finding a niche, creating a landing page and keyword list, uploading it all, monitoring and tweaking until you begin to see a profit.
The first thing you should be doing it exporting your current campaign into all three of the major search engines maximising your exposure and revenue. Many people I’ve spoken to simply target Google AdWords, get a profitable campaign and move on. Doing something simple like uploading it to Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter could sky rocket the performance with very little extra work – you’ve done the hard work already!
Keep in mind though that not everything will work on all three platforms, you could have a group of high converting keywords in AdWords that don’t convert in YSM – it’s your job to test them because they may convert on all three search engines, you will never know until you try it.
What I would suggest is that you take your converting keywords a couple at a time and upload them and monitor them, keep adding more and more and track how they are performing. This will ensure that you don’t reduce your ROI significantly for uploading some stray keywords which could push your campaign into the red.













July 7, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Richard,
my understanding of what you say is that when exporting campaigns to other PPC Engines you would start by only exporting a couple of already profitable ad groups to another engine, see how it goes until you have some decent stats, then add some more (repeat process), until finally uploading even adgroups you had paused on the initial PPC Engine to see how they are doing in the new engine.
Did I get this right?
Since you wrote this post, do you have any updates on this based on your experience since then?
cheers
Florian
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July 7, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Yeah I would find out whats working the best on your current platform and move those over first and monitor that. Rinse and repeat until you have got everything on every ppc engine.
Since I wrote this post the only thing that’s probably changed is that I won’t do it in steps, ie the best performers etc. I now tend to just throw it all up and go through the tuning/tweaking process again to speed things up
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September 4, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Let’s say you start with 1,000 keywords in YSM and over time you narrow it down to 300 keywords. Now you are ready to scale up your campaign and you choose AdWords. Do you import the original 1,000 keywords and fine tune? or import the 300 and fine tune? Hope this isn’t a stupid question because it could be the difference in so much time.
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September 7, 2009 at 10:58 am
I would usually start with uploading the converting keywords to see how they do, then in the process of scaling the adwords campaigns – add the other ones to test.
If you’re not bothered about budget you could just throw them all up in the beginning and start fresh with tuning.
Either way would work
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