How to use adwords by mySociety

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Google Adwords for civic tech groups Myfanwy Nixon [email protected]

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Google Adwords for

civic tech groups

Myfanwy Nixon

[email protected]

www.google.com/grants

Google Grant

● $10,000 of advertising, can rise to $40,000

● Text ads only

● Only on Google search

● Up to $2 to bid on each keyword

● What do you want to achieve?

○ More visitors

○ Specific types of visitor

● What is your message?

● Where do you want people to go?

● What do you want them to do?

1.Select your keywords

●Use Analytics to see what people are

looking for

1.Select your keywords

●Use Analytics to see what people are

looking for

●Use your own knowledge

1.Select your keywords

●Use Analytics to see what people are

looking for

●Use your own knowledge

●The content of your site

1.Select your keywords

●Use Analytics to see what people are

looking for

●Use your own knowledge

●The content of your site

●adwords.google.com/ko/KeywordPlanner

2. Group keywords by motivation

3. Match motivation to

action

What do you want the user to do?

4. Set a price

●It’s not real money

●The maximum bid is $2

●You can tweak later

●You have to set a top limit

5. Work on your

language

5. Work on your

language

●Mirror the search term

●Try a few different ways of wording

●Include a call to action

●Google automatically gives preference to

the best-performers

6. Identify the landing URL

●You can have a different URL for each

keyword● support.google.com/adwords/answer/2477116

●Default: can only link to a single domain

7. Check back regularly

●It’s in the T&Cs

●See which keywords and ads perform

best & use that knowledge

●Check if you need to increase any bids

Always happy to answer

questions!

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