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Well known to you are the useful pay-per-click admin tools of Wordtracker and Overture along with AdWord Accelerator. These tool help evaluate and set up keywords, bidprices and find the top performing ads. Lets look at some others that have attributes that make them singular and a valuable asset. There are two: Keywords Analyzer (www.KeywordsAnalyzer.com) and Adword Analyzer (www.adwordanalyzer.com/).

In your toolbox out in the garage you need a Philips and a flathead screwdriver, not just one or the other. The same is true of these major keyword tools. Each one has its use, and owning more is like having a bigger toolbox.

And there’s more to learn still. The first list of keywords you come up with, even if it’s a long one, will be incomplete. AltaVista once reported that 20 percent of all its searches were totally unique in the history of AltaVista. You never know what people are going to hunt for. So here are some fresh ideas for successful PPC management:

Keep your keyword list filled with synonyms and similar subjects so you know you will be able to let people know that you have what they want.

You can try bidding on brand names, though you’ll have to work through the copyright issues yourself. Google has had a score of its own legal headaches as a result of allowing AdWords users to bid on trademarked names. Nevertheless, names of companies, magazines, associations, famous people, and famous places may all relate to your product. For example, for “billiards” you might bid on the name of famous pool player Jeremy Jones. For drums you might bid on “Buddy Rich.”

News Flash! Take advantage of misspelled keywords. Many advertisers don’t bid on them so the bid price is lower and the CTR is often higher. On a Lord of the Rings promo, the incorrect spelling of “Tolkien” was double the CTR of the correct spelling.

LexFN.com is a web site that is very useful and interesting for PPC management. It’s an elaborate thesaurus that uses web technology to find scores of synonyms and related concepts. This can be a very fun site to play with! If you just bid on the obvious generic version of a keyword like WalMart and you don’t bother with other variations like Wal-Mart and Wal Mart, Google’s “expanded phrase matching” feature will attempt to match this for you, and usually succeed. However, those clicks will almost always cost you more money than bidding on the exact keyword. It’s better to bid on the exact variations, the same way people type them in.

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