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Keywords are at the core of every AdWords campaign. Despite how good or bad you have optimized your campaign, if you do not get the keywords right, you will be in trouble. Someone may say that keyword optimization is part of the general optimization process and this is correct but sometimes even experienced PPC marketers tend to forget the basics. We like to concentrate on click through rates, costs and conversions and sometimes do not give the necessary attention to the base of the campaign, the keywords. Let us review 5 easy but yet very effective ways to optimize your PPC keywords. Let us review 5 easy but yet very effective ways to optimize your PPC keywords.

1 - Regular Review of your Negatives list:

Negative keywords are one of the most powerful features of Adwords. When you setup an AdWords campaign you define the keywords that will trigger your ads but this does not always work as originally planned. Adwords in an effort to get more views and clicks for your campaign may show your ads for search queries that have no business value for you. Of course this is not done on purpose, it depends on how you have setup your keyword match types but still there are cases where your ads are triggered for keywords that you do not want. A classic example is when you are selling a product and what to exclude people looking for reviews. Even if you make use of broad match modifier to restrict as much as possible the queries you get, there will still be queries with the word reviews in your search terms report. Adding reviews as a negative keyword eliminates this problem once and for all. It is always a good practice to review the search terms report on a weekly basis and revise your negatives list.

2 - Use exact match for high volume keywords:

When doing your keyword research identify those keywords that are highly relevant to your campaign and are most popular in terms of search volume. These keywords are candidates to be used as exact match keywords. The exact match keyword type instructs AdWords to show your ads for queries that are a close match to your specified keywords. By close match we mean that they are in the same order, misspellings, singular and plural forms, acronyms and abbreviations.

For example if you set these keywords as an exact match, AdWords will only show them for queries that have the same words in the same order and meet the criteria explained above. It will show them for competition analysis tool but not for best competition analysis tools.

3 - Pause low performing keywords:

This is a really easy one, when you view your keywords report in the status column you may see the message Low Search Volume. This means that for the particular period the number of searches for that keyword was very low so AdWords temporarily made those keywords inactive. When and if there are more searches for them, AdWords will re-activate them and put them back to the auction.

4 - Use Broad Match Identifier:

The broad match identifier is one of the most powerful keyword match types, even more than exact match that can get your highly targeted traffic with less keyword management and trouble. By adding the + in front of a keyword, you tell adwords that the particular word has to be included in the search query in any order. The more good news is that you can add the + to one or more words in your keyword set.

5 - Remove keywords not related to your landing page:

A basic principle for high conversions is that your landing page should support both your ads and keywords. This means that the landing page should be highly relevant and offer people what promised in the ad and at the same time the content of the landing page to be highly relevant to the keywords in your campaigns. There are cases that during keyword research you come up with some nice keywords that seem a good match for your campaigns but these may not be fully supported by the landing page. You like the keywords and add them but as a result, you negatively impact your quality score, ad rank, and costs. When you have multiple landing pages it is easy to solve this problem, you can add those keywords in separate ad groups, create highly relevant ads and send users to the most appropriate landing page.