How much time should you be dedicating to social media each week?

How much time should you be dedicating to social media each week?

Online marketing is an investment in your business. In this short, interactive guide, we'll ask you a few simple questions to make sure you're equipped to invest your advertising dollars wisely and reach your marketing goals.

Before you take advantage of all that online marketing can do for your business, make sure you know the basics. 

Difference between ads and "organic" search results

Let's say you're advertising your products or services with AdWords, Google's online advertising platform. When someone conducts a Google search for terms related to your business, your ad can appear on the top or bottom of the Google search results page with an ad label. Your ad's placement is primarily based on how relevant and useful it is to what the person searched for, your bid, and a few other factors.
The other section of the page shows "organic" search results. These are unpaid links to websites with content related directly to what the person searched for. The more relevant the site is to the search term, the higher the link will appear in the list. Your related website could appear here, but your ad won't.

Is your website ready to deliver results?

 You can use online marketing to get people to your website, but is your website designed to encourage people to do business with you? Let's find out

Using AdWords for online marketing

 Now that you know the basics and benefits of online marketing and have assessed the readiness of your website, let's introduce you to AdWords, Google's online advertising program, and make sure it's a good fit for you.

How AdWords works

Your ad can appear when someone searches for terms related to your product or service, or when they're on a website with content related to your business. How does this work?

Keywords connect you with customers

Keywords are words or phrases you choose when you set up your AdWords campaign. These are terms you think your potential customers are likely to use when searching for products or services like yours.

By matching your keywords with the ads you create, you make it possible for your ad to show when someone searches for similar terms, or visits a website with related content.

For example, if you deliver fresh flowers, you could use fresh flower delivery as one keyword paired with an ad promoting fresh flower delivery. When someone searches Google using the phrase fresh flower delivery or a similar term, your ad might appear next to Google search results, or on other websites related to fresh flower delivery.
 
Step right up and enter the ad auction

So how does AdWords determine which ads should show? It all happens with a lightning-fast ad auction, which takes place every time someone searches on Google or visits a site that shows AdWords ads.

AdWords calculate a score, called Ad Rank, for every ad in the auction. Ad Rank determines your ad position and whether your ads are eligible to show at all. The ad with the highest Ad Rank gets to show in the top position, and so on. Your Ad Rank has three factors:

• Your bid - When you set your bid, you're telling AdWords the maximum amount you're willing to pay for a click on your ad. How much you actually end up paying is often less, and you can change your bid at any time.
• The quality of your ads - AdWords also looks at how relevant and useful your ad and the website it links to are to the person who'll see it. Our assessment of the quality of your ad is summarized in your Quality Score, which you can monitor—and work to improve—in your AdWords account.
• The expected impact from your ad extensions and other ad formats - When you create your ad, you have the option to add additional information to your ad, such as a phone number, or more links to specific pages on your site. These are called ad extensions. AdWords estimates how extensions and other ad formats you use will impact your ad's performance.

At the end of the day, what you pay

With cost-per-click (CPC) bidding, you're charged only when someone is interested enough to click your ad and go to your website. You tell AdWords the most you're willing to pay for a click on your ad (called the maximum cost-per-click bid), but you could be charged less.

You have control over your AdWords budget. You decide the average amount you want to spend each day. On the days when your ad is more popular, AdWords will allow up to 20% more of your average daily budget so you won't miss out on those valuable clicks. But don't worry, we'll lower your maximum budget on other days so that, over the course of a month, your overall spend will average out to the limit you've set (assuming your campaign runs for the full month).

So now you know how AdWords works. Now let's make sure it's a good fit for you.

Which online marketing option is right for you?

When you advertise with AdWords, you're making a financial investment in your business. But it takes more than just money to see success. It's also vital that you invest time to regularly check in on your AdWords account and make adjustments until you're satisfied with your return on investment.
Here's a rundown of what it takes to manage a successful AdWords account. If you don't think you can dedicate the necessary time or budget to AdWords, don't worry! We'll point you to Google's other services that can get your business in front of the right customers, without stretching your limits.

Time investment

Plan on signing in to your AdWords account at least once each week. How much time you'll spend there varies, but budget between 30 minutes to an hour per week to check on how your ads and keywords are doing, and make any adjustments to boost performance. For for useful resourses

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Wasiu Folorunsho Emiola
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