KeywordSpy and AdWords – discover your competitors’ keywords
KeywordSpy is a pretty valuable tool if you spend more than a few bucks a month on your AdWords advertising. It let’s you find out what your competitors are using in the way of keywords and if they happen to be using some that you haven’t thought about, the reason is that they are probably making money from them. And you should be too.
I’ve often felt that there is a lot of intellectual property tied up in a well run AdWords account. It’s not just the keywords that you’ve researched that have value, it’s the Ad Group and Campaign structure as well as Campaign settings.
for example, if after paintstaking research you’ve found that clicks are more profitable from the South East of the UK than from the North West, that is valuable knowledge and you wouldn’t want your competitors to know it.
But with keywords, part of your account is exposed. Your competitors can see your ads against your keywords (unless they’ve blocked you IP address). This means that give time and effort, they could eventually find out all the keywords you are using. But lets face the facts: this will take ages. Sure, it would give them a valuable insight into your AdWords account but it would take them ages and on balance would probably not be worth doing.
However, new technology is springing up constantly to help online marketers and what KeywordSpy does is research your competitors for you. In just a few seconds you can find out what keywords they have been advertising against and for how long. You can also get some idea of how much they are spending.
For example, yesterday I looked at one of my competitors to see how much they were paying per click for the phrase “adwords consultant“. It was pretty revealing.
If you are just starting out with an entirely new AdWords account or perhaps are thinking of expanding your business into a new area then KeywordSpy will save you time, money and effort. It may also point to opportunities you’ve missed. For example, a few years back I was steadily generating a few hundred pounds a month from a single keyword that was costing me a few pounds. If my competitors had known about it, they could have started to share my income which would have been irritating!
Related posts:
- KeywordSpy – Is It The Cure All? Ask any internet marketer what he spends most of his time on; it’s not creating products. It’s not making promotional videos. No, it’s the research stage where he tries to determine the best products to sell and how to outsmart the competition. It isn’t easy to make money online today,...
- Don’t Make These Costly AdWords Mistakes For a long time now, internet marketers have been advertising their products with Google AdWords while large companies use it as part of their lead generation strategies. Google receives the bulk of its revenue from this long lived online advertising service. These revenues go into billions and are climbing every...
- Google AdWords – How to Write Effective Ad Copy While yes, ad copy is extremely important in any PPC campaign including Google Adwords, it’s not the only thing that matters. If you want to experience better results with your Google Adwords campaigns, then please read this article to find out about three copy tips that you may not know...
- Choosing an AdWords Management Company Many businesses rely on Google’s AdWords PPC system to drive targeted traffic to their web sites and because Google’s system has evolved to become so complicated, a lot of people are choosing to use an AdWords consultant to help them out. So what does an AdWords consultant in fact do?...
- 3 Incomparable Advantages of Google Adwords We will hand over value by providing the best quality articles by giving learnings by creating sites Google AdWords allows advertisers to work within their own time frame. If offers an effective way to advertise a product without owning a website. Working with AdWords is so effective because you can select...
- Are You Happy With Your Adwords Ads Conversions? No? When you’re running an AdWords campaign, the most critical element of your success is your ad copy. Today, we will talk about writing stronger and more effective advertising copy for all your PPC campaigns including Google Adwords. When you sit down to write PPC ads, remember which keywords and ad...
- Simple Ways to Find Out What Your Competitors Are Doing The notion of observing everything your competitors do may seem a little odd. You may not be able to keep track of every e-mail they send or blog post they make. The fact is, though, you really need to have a clear idea of how they are marketing their business....
- How to Use Google Adwords to Make Your Online Business More Profitable There are a variety of techniques that can bring visitors to your website for free, such as submitting articles to directories and optimizing your website. The problem with these and other tactics, however, is that you have to wait a long time before you start to see results. Google Adwords,...
- AdWords Ad Copywriting 101 A lot has happened over the years with Google AdWords, but it’s still an extremely effective ad platform and method. The results you can experience are truly astounding, but of course you need to know what you’re doing. Today we’re sharing some highly effective and time-tested tips about Adwords that...
- Google AdWords – How To Increase Conversion Rates There are probably millions of businesses that have benefited tremendously from the use of Google AdWords. In this article we shall be looking into 3 simple tips to help you enhance your campaign and do better. If you’re new to Adwords, then you need to test your ad copy, so...