Don't Mess With Google's Golden Rule

If you search the internet you will find many articlesable to target ads to particular keywords and to
about top tips for Google Adwords however theytarget your landing pages to those keywords.
are all meaningless if you don't get the first basicFor example if you take a look at this list of
step right.keywords here.mens shoesmens new shoesshoes
There is a simple rule that needs to be understoodfor childrenshoes for menladies shoeschildrens
and once you've got it and applied it to yourshoesshoes for ladiesladies new shoes
Adgroups you are in with a great chance for gettingThey are all about shoes and as you can see I've got
cheaper clicks and higher ad positions.a mixture of keywords around men's shoes, ladies
So what is this rule? I call it Google's Golden Rule.shoes, and keywords for children's shoes.
It's simply this. Google loves relevancy.If I tried to target my ads and my landing pages to
Google has built it's success based on give searchesthis list of keywords it's going to be difficult to get
what they are looking for and it did this by makingmen's shoes, ladies shoes and children's shoes into a
sure the search results it displays are relevant to thesingle ad.
keywords the searcher has entered into Google.What I really need to do is to take this list and break
This rule applies to both Adwords results and theit down into ad groups. One for men's shoes, one for
free search listings as well.ladies shoes and one for childrens shoes.
So if you can make your campaigns relevant you willMy advice to you is take along hard look at your
be rewarded by Google with cheaper clicks andadgroups and try to break them down into small,
higher placed ads. In other words create a relevancyhighly related keywords groups. Then right ads and
link between you keywords, your ads and yourlanding pages for each adgroup that are particularly
landing pages.targets to the keywords in the adgroup.
What do I mean by this? I simply mean that theNow one of the common questions I get is asked is
keywords that you are using should appear in yourhow many keywords should I have in each adgroup.
ads and also on your landing pages. In fact yourAnd my honest answer is that there is no exact
Landing pages should be optimised for yournumber. Remember what you are aiming for here. It's
keywords.relevancy.
Now you can't do this if you haven't set up yourIf you are keeping your list of words highly related
adgroups properly. The mistake many people make isto each other then it's really difficult to see how you
that they don't group their keywords into relatedcould have keywords lists of say more than 20
groups of keywords. Generally they just have greatkeywords at maximum.
long lists of unrelated keywords in their Adgroups.So there you have it. Google's Golden rule and how
If you've got a great big long list of keywords underto apply it to your adgroups.
one ad group then it's going to be very difficult to be