Friday, April 19, 2013

Pay Per Click and Searcher Intent

By Marten Ranheim


Keyword intent consists of keywords that are used to target searchers that are most likely to have interest in your product. Customers normally intend to search for terms that are closely related to the product that they are looking for, that's why keywords for the items should be matched with their intentions. Knowing the intentions of your targeted clients is very important because they serve as the basis of your campaign materials and in the creation of the content of the landing page on the web.

There's always a proper way in doing business online and when it comes to PPC performance, it would be great if you can give the searcher a marketing strategy that is relevantly matched to his purposes when he uses Google in searching for something. Any individual who visits the virtual world has an aim or problem to solve. Your marketing tactic directly makes suggestions. Should the searcher find your offer to be the fittest match to his intent, your ad will surely be earning a hit.

Knowing what the real intentions of those who are paying your website a visit is an efficient step in designing your advertising campaigns. Intentions can be very different and targeting them with the same ad is a lost opportunity. For instance, there are those who really intend to buy something when they go online while others are just merely browsing the net searching for various things. There's a big possibility that a researcher will not stick to your website if you tend to push him to make a purchase right away. Better to create a strategy to catch your searcher at every stage and move them along in the sales process.

The Behaviour of Customers and Levels of Procurement

There are three main intentions one can consider - research, reflection, and action. In the level of research, those who go online try several methods to check out what they want to search on and they do it in stages. At the very beginning of the process, they often use general keywords to find general information.

The stage of reflection involves the reduction of terms that are being searched on because they have already found important facts and data concerning the types of service and merchandise that they want. In this level, online surfers have already in their minds concrete information of the items that they want to search on and what they actually need.

In the level of action, online finders are already knowledgeable of the exact product or service that they need and taking an action is the next thing that they want to do. They are just looking for the right website they feel they can trust, with the most credible to offer. Utilization of exact keywords is to be done by the online searchers in the level of action. Usually, these are the well-known long tail keywords that every person tries to look for. Buyers are further along in their cycle and there is less competition here.

Keep it Relevant

It is very vital that the copy of advertisement and the landing page would properly match those intentions that you are eyeing to serve. So, if someone is in the research stage, make sure you provide them with an ad and a landing page that supports this. By ensuring close relevance between your keyword, ad copy and landing page you can increase your click through rate and quality score which ultimately means you'll pay less for clicks.

As opposed to encouraging your patrons to buy products immediately, which may result in a lost sales opportunity, present them with very useful information through your content and try to cultivate rapport.




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