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Paid-Search Expert Tells Marketers: Don't "Set It & Forget It"
[April 17, 2014]

Paid-Search Expert Tells Marketers: Don't "Set It & Forget It"


CHICAGO --(Business Wire)--

"Paid (News - Alert) Search is not 'Set It & Forget It' media" Kurt Anagnostopoulos, paid-search advertising expert and co-founder of the digital marketing firm KeywordFirst, told readers last month.

In a featured column for the online marketing strategies and tactics publication eM+C, Anagnostopoulos challenged digital marketers to "tweak, tweak, tweak" their paid-search campaigns. He elaborated in the article: "If you want optimal results from Paid Search, you must build fundamentally sound campaigns, monitor their progress at every opportunity and continually tweak…"

Anagnostopoulos revealed the five most important factos that determine Quality Score, Google's (News - Alert) ad-relevancy metric:



1. Click Through Rate (CTR)

2. Ad Relevancy


3. Keyword Relevancy/Campaign Structure

4. Landing Page Relevancy

5. Account History

And he illuminated three ways to drive higher Quality Scores:

1. Improve CTR

2. Manage Landing Pages

3. Build Quality History

To learn the details, read Anagnostopoulos' piece on eM+C.

About KeywordFirst

KeywordFirst is a digital marketing agency that delivers search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), display, social media and mobile services. The firm's core values are transparency in execution, accountability for results and collaboration with clients. Visit www.keywordfirst.com to learn more.


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