How to use Adwords Conversion Tracking
When you want to use Google Adwords to promote your products or services you must make sure that you are getting results. The information obtained by tracking your results will allow you to refine you adwords campaign settings and get even better results.
The conversion rate is the percentage of purchases of your services or products compared to the total number of people who visited your website through the adwords ad. It is of your best interest to keep this number as high as possible. If you have very low conversion rates you need to tweak your campaign and ad settings as soon as possible to get those numbers up. Refining your ads and choosing better keywords are the first step.
Google has set up a tool in your adwords account that allows you to do some exact conversion tracking for each campaign and each ad. This tool shows you exactly what your rates are and which ads are performing well so you can discard the poor performing ones. Look for patterns that can give you an idea of what might be going wrong in a certain campaign or ad so you can modify the poor performing ads.
Adwords conversions are driven by many factors. It is not sufficient of your ad to get the user to click through to your website, although that is the first step. The ultimate goal is to make a sale or create a valid lead that will bring in a future sale. Whether you goal is to get the visitor to sign up for a newsletter or to purchase a product or service, if that visitor fails to do what you wish, then you have not converted that visitor. How many convert once they see your website is controlled by you. How attractive is your website? Is it truly compelling, making the visitor believe they simply can’t live without the product or service your offer? Is the website easy to navigate or is it not very user friendly? Are your sales claims believable or do they seem to be unrealistic? Do you have data to support your claims? These are all factors that are within your power to control.
It doesn’t matter whether you are the worlds number 1 adwords campaign creator if your site is ugly, difficult to use or navigate or is not offering what you stated in the ad you will have very low conversion rates. A fine example of this is the ad that states that a product or service is free only to find out when you go to the site that you have to pay. Make sure that your ad and your website are offering the same thing with the same conditions.
