Search Engine Marketing (SEM) - Streamline Your Search Marketing Efforts

Search engine marketing solutions from WordStream offer three core benefits for your business:

• Productivity - By providing a series of keyword management, keyword search tools and automation tools WordStream enables you to accomplish more in considerably less time, and with clearer workflow prioritization.
• Relevance - The software creates a system of daily keyword suggestion, and arms you with negative keyword tools that help you to consistently refine your keyword list. This will help you improve your search engine rankings and, in turn, earn you a better Quality Score.
• Value - WordStream is designed to discover new, inexpensive keyword advertising opportunities, and the keyword software secures algorithmic pricing advantages for you from the search engines. This saves you money by ensuring a low minimum bid, saves time otherwise spent searching and analyzing manually, and generates better results for your PPC campaigns.

In the coming paragraphs, we'll show you how the tools go about providing this improved efficiency, value, and traffic quality so that you can improve both your paid search returns and your organic SERP rankings.

Search Engine Marketing Services From WordStream

Why use WordStream? WordStream's keyword management solution provides you with innovative instruments that make three otherwise impossible Web marketing tasks remarkably simple:

• Deep, Continuous Keyword Research - SEM keyword research and management is at the core of a successful PPC campaign. WordStream recognizes this and offers search-focused Web analytics tools and a Keyword Generator which will arm you with a comprehensive and exclusive list of keywords to bid on and to target through search engine optimization.
• Intelligent Keyword Grouping - Specializing in keyword management, WordStream is specially designed to facilitate the creation of algorithm-friendly Keyword Groups. Additionally, WordStream's grouping tools team with the application's research and analytics capabilities to provide you with a wholly unique opportunity to unearth a mass of inexpensive clicks.
• Campaign Wide Management - The most effective approach to PPC search engine marketing is through a single, keyword and analytics-driven, shared workspace. With the aid of WordStream's optimization and campaign management functionalities, you can manipulate and receive suggestions for entire campaigns from a single dashboard, promoting seamless collaboration among your team.

PPC Search Engine Marketing: the Role of Keywords

WordStream takes a software as a service approach (SaaS), offering Web analytics, keyword research, and keyword suggestion tools to help you continuously develop a search engine keyword list that provides your campaign with two important benefits:

• A Never Ending List of Keywords - WordStream initially mines your website's historic logs for keyword data, which is an advantageous first step given that your keywords will be pulled directly from your actual site data. But the keyword research process doesn't stop here. The software then tracks visits to your site every day thereafter, and enters new search queries into your WordStream dashboard based on what visitors are actually typing in search engines to find your site. This ensures that you have an extensive list of keyword information, while adding new keywords to your account's keyword database daily.
• A Relevant, Exclusive Keyword List - Because these keywords come from your site-specific log and traffic data, you are the only one with this particular list of keywords. Additionally, you can be sure these keywords are highly specific to your site and your business, because the information is being pulled from your site.

WordStream's keyword suggestion benefits are predicated upon two main technological advantages offered by the software:

• A Stream of Keywords - The software makes daily keyword suggestions, including "long tail keywords" from the long tail keyword tool, which offers you a constant flow of researched keywords that are specific enough to drive targeted traffic at a lower cost.
• Campaign Maintenance Tools - Additionally, the application helps you to continually refine and optimize this unending list through keyword segmentation by relevance and size, negative keyword suggestion, and easy-to-use ad group creation and management.

In the screenshot below we see a customer's "keyword graph":

Each bar on the graph represents a search term from this customer's WordStream account. There are two important things to note from this particular screen shot:

• Keywords Found - We see here that WordStream's keyword analytics and keyword research tool have amassed over a million and a half keywords. Every day, this account adds a few dozen new keyword variations to its WordStream dashboard.
• Long Tail Keywords - The graph's "long tail" actually extends far beyond this illustration; this "tail" is filled with highly relevant, often inexpensive keyword opportunities. Finding these manually and consistently would be impossible. WordStream makes it possible by automating laborious, research-intensive tasks and presenting you with suggestions for making intelligent decisions about your data.

Thus, relevant and potentially favorable advertising opportunities are being presented by the WordStream product every day.

SEM Keyword Grouping

Once you've amassed this enormous list of keywords, there is the issue of maintaining and manipulating them in such a way that you can really capitalize on your stock of long tail terms and inexpensive clicks.

Google and the other search engines attempt to provide relevant ads for their searchers (who are also their consumers). To accomplish this, they use an algorithm which mainly focuses on:

• Relevance - The relevance of a keyword to its Ad Group (how closely related the terms within an Ad Group are).
• Click-Through Rate - The rate at which people who see your ad actually click on it.

While there are other factors involved, these two are central to determining your Quality Score (the score assigned to your ads to determine how trusted and relevant they are). More trusted, relevant ads are rewarded with:

• Better Ad Position - Which leads to higher click-through rates (CTR), creating a virtuous cycle (higher CTR leads to better ad position leads to higher CTR, and on it goes).
• Lower Costs - Google determines what you pay for ad position based on the above factors. Higher Quality Scores mean you pay less money for the same ad position.

WordStream offers powerful keyword grouping tools which allow you to easily segment keyword lists (even those totaling in the millions) into tightly related, hierarchical Keyword Groups specifically designed to raise your Quality Score.

Because of WordStream's advanced querying functionality, turning these lists of keywords into a 'tree' of tight groupings can be done in minutes. Let's take a look at how it works.

Creating Your Search Marketing Keyword Groups

Imagine we have a website that sells medical supplies. We've uploaded our log files to our WordStream account, so we have a nice list of keywords to start grouping.

With the click of a button, we start to receive keyword group segmentation suggestions from the software:

In the above illustration we can see the ease of segmentation within WordStream.

You're immediately offered algorithmically generated keyword suggestions based on the number of relevant keywords a group would consist of, and the amount of traffic that group would drive to your site. You have the option to create a segmentation with a single click.

Once you've created a segmentation, you can create several related groups at once with a single click:

We can then drill even further down to create an even better, more closely related series of keyword segmentations following the same process:

The above represents a number of very closely related Ad Groups. Groups that, assuming we can create relevant and compelling ads and related landing pages, will beget higher Quality Scores and lower costs.

campaign wide search engine marketing management

WordStream's search marketing software provides a comprehensive SEM solution. You can manage numerous aspects of your pay-per-click campaigns from a single dashboard. This keeps all aspects of your campaigns, from keyword research to creating and deploying Google AdWords text ads with our AdWords tool, in one central hub. Beyond the benefit of staying organized, this also helps you to see how all of the pieces of your campaign relate to one another. While WordStream does automate the more labor-intensive tasks of campaign management, you as a search marketer remain in control - reaping the benefits of saving time and money and focusing on guiding your campaign's course with the help of WordStream's suggestions.

WordStream's A to Z search engine marketing capabilities include:

• Web Analytics - WordStream tracks search traffic to your site and stores invaluable keyword data, even offering a means of parsing historical log files to find search information from as far back as you can produce Web logs for.
• Keyword Research and Suggestion - WordStream's Keyword Analyzer and Keyword Suggestion Tools cycle all of this information into your account, providing you with real, actionable keyword research and keyword suggestions.
• Keyword Grouping - The application places these researched keywords into the same platform where you'll find WordStream's keyword tools have a cost-saving, grouping functionality.
• Ad Group Creation and Ad Text Authoring - Once you've created closely related Keyword Groups with WordStream's tool-set, you can then turn those Keyword Groups into live Ad Groups, and even assign the Ad Group its own ad text with just a few clicks.
• Campaign Publishing - WordStream offers full integration with leading search engines' APIs, enabling you to download and post account changes to your live search marketing accounts with the click of a button.
• Conversion Rate Optimization - With tools to help you increase the relevance of your ads and landing pages to the keywords you're bidding on, you can raise conversion rates while lowering cost per conversion.

This is a remarkably simple process:

With a click of the button, a Keyword Group has become an Ad Group.

The next step is to create a text ad:

Pictured above is WordStream's ad text suggestion editor. WordStream pulls keyword information from the Ad Group you created to suggest quality score friendly ad text.

You can spend a minute or two editing the text to ensure the punctuation and calls to action are appropriate and send the group to the right landing page.

It's easy to see how with this ad text population and editing functionality, you can create text ads for numerous Ad Groups in a matter of minutes.

Search Engine Marketing Includes SEO

WordStream doesn't just function as a suite of pay per click tools. PPC can be used to inform and optimize SEO efforts, and vice versa. For example, you can prove that your keyword grouping can produce traffic and conversions through PPC, and this in turn guides you toward which keywords are best to focus on for your organic search efforts. It helps you to build your site's linking structure as well as to prioritize your content.

Learn more about how our pay per click management platform can help with your organic search efforts and your overall SEO management.

why you need WordStream's search engine marketing software

WordStream is a fully-featured application that offers a lot in the way of utility, but the software's value proposition can basically be boiled down to the three core features which provide the three central benefits offered by WordStream:

Features

• Deep, continuous keyword research
• Intelligent keyword grouping
• Campaign wide management tools

Benefits

• Productivity
• Value
• Relevance

You'll be able to manage every aspect of your search engine marketing campaigns in a few hours a week. All while drastically lowering your acquisition costs and improving your results.

To start leveraging these features and to start experiencing these benefits and results, you can:

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