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Some disciplines in your program won’t garner nearly as many impressions as others. And that’s totally okay. These low-impression terms could end up being your top performers when it comes to conversion rate and CPA. If you’d lumped them in with costly keywords from a different discipline, it’s likely they’d have been paused or deleted for being lame ducks.Periodic Table Higher EdPer WordStream SEM Manager Jackie Jordan, “It’s crazy how much CPCs can fluctuate based on the area of study (business in the highest by far), so keeping them separate makes it easier to control spend.”
For example, you wouldn’t want to group all of your hard science programs Greece WhatsApp Number Data under a single campaign in which ad groups are created around individual disciplines. Instead, everything from physics to biochemistry should be given its own campaign.From here, you’ll want to follow a similar philosophy with ad groups. Inquiry-based keywords (scan your search queries for question words: who, what, where, when, why, and how) should not be intermingled with branded terms. Top performers and long-tail keywords should be broken into their own ad groups. Very broad research terms like “+online +mba +program” should be watched like a hawk.
If these terms are disproportionately expensive you may even want to give them their own campaign (or skip them altogether if they’re killing your budget).This will give you greater insight into which terms are working for you and which should be added to the scrapheap (to be repurposed at a later date), and let you tailor ad copy to speak to exactly what your prospects are searching for. Instead of just being in the same ballpark, you’re spilling ketchup on your lead’s raw denim and buying them “I’m sorry” Miller Lights.The name of the game here is maximizing control over your budget. Will this frontload the work needed to get things off the ground? Absolutely. Is this a pain? Of course.
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