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12 Tools for Running Successful Google PPC Campaigns for Your SaaS Business

Tools for Running Successful Google PPC Campaigns for Your SaaS Business

What is the best way to sell software online? Which is the most effective strategy to market a SaaS product? People search for answers to these questions on Google and Quora, striving to learn the best practices for productive SaaS sales… Is PPC (pay-per-click) the right approach or at least among the most preferable SaaS growth strategies?

Without approximate guesses and hesitations, let’s make it clear – how B2B online advertising varies from B2C best practices and bring to light all the practical advantages of launching PPC SaaS ads. We will spice up our article with 9 PPC tools that will optimize your PPC journey from keyword research to conducting tests. If you want to promote your business to a wider audience, promotional tactics like Exhibition Stands might be of great help.

Here we go!

As a Google Ads consultant by trade, much of my time is spent auditing and optimizing poor-performing accounts. In short, I tend to encounter many of the same Google Ads mistakes time and time again. And 90% of the time, they’re common mistakes can be fixed in just one or two clicks.

Call it a “mistake” or just simply not knowing, there are many features to Google Ads that can hide beneath the surface. Simply being aware of certain settings and options can help you actualize a more efficient and successful PPC campaign, which is the name of the game with Google Ads.

To help you get the most out of your Google Ads account, below I share five of the most common Google Ads mistakes I find on a regular basis.

After you’ve poured blood, sweat, and tears into creating your app, now comes the fun part of marketing your product. You’ve brushed up on the many different marketing routes to take, but which ones will be the best ones to catapult your app to the top?

While the possibilities seem endless, endless possibilities are not what you want, or need, on your marketing roadmap. Instead, a sort of pecking order should be employed, itemizing which marketing efforts are going to be most advantageous for your app. Bear in mind, these endeavors will vary based on your app’s category, as a mCommerce app will need completely different marketing techniques than a gaming app would.

Marketing teams are at the crux of this decision-making process, and therefore it’s vital to have all the ducks in a row before the marketers select the right ducklings for the job.

And now the exciting part. We’re addressing the most worthwhile marketing channels for you to add to and employ in your strategy. Some of the below choices may have you saying, “well yeah, obviously” but au contraire–what’s obvious to you may not be to someone else, and what’s obvious to someone else may not be obvious to you. So, let’s get cracking and market your app like crazy.

New Face of Google

Change at some point in life is essential. Google, on their verge to embrace change for the better, are aiming to introduce major changes. They are intending to do away with AdWords and DoubleClick, which are among their brands where they will rebrand them to make them easy and simple. Despite them being made simple, they will have some added features to make your experience the best.

AdWords has been a good brand for the last 18 years while DoubleClick is 22 years old. Google flagship in charge of advertising is aiming at reorganizing these brands. The main aim is to make sure that brands reflect what they are meant to be and what their purpose is.

For you to rise to this level using Google, you must first understand about the new brands. The Google AdWords shall now acquire the name Google Ads while DoubleClick and other brands will fall under the Google Marketing Platform. Google Ad Manager will as well be a new brand.

These changes are aiming at catering to consumer expectation, which is growing day by day. They will also increase opportunities for advertisers. Google has developed over the years adopting new ad products and formats, which over time have become more complex for advertisers to use.

Due to these changes, advertisers, as well as publishers, have been on crossroads wondering on the best Google product to choose. The new branding characterized by three buckets aims at making things easier giving publishers and advertisers guidelines on the product they need. This will depend on their goals and aims. Below are new Google brands and their solutions.

Google AdWords is an interesting platform for digital marketers. There is a lot of emphasis placed upon targeting keywords and ‘playing the game’. We’re all looking for ways to rank that little bit higher in the auction and get the CPC (cost-per-click) down, whilst raising the CTR (click-through-rate).

The thing is, whilst it is important to try and win that coveted top spot in the auction, we get so wrapped up in the battle that we forget this important truth: Search engines don’t click, people do.

You may have noticed that I haven’t mentioned conversions yet – This is because the actual ads themselves aren’t what drives conversions. I’ve seen many Google AdWords campaigns with a ridiculously high CTR, but no conversions. That’s because there are 2 parts to the campaign:

The ad stage (this includes targeted keywords, ad copy, extensions and more), which wins the click and leads you onto…
The landing page stage, which is where people end up if your advert has sparked enough curiosity. If your landing page isn’t up to scratch, people won’t convert.

The important part to notice here is that in order to get the conversion, you obviously need to get people to click on your ad and get to that second stage. It all starts with a click.

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