11 Important Reason Why Google Ads Will Help You Reach New Customers

1. Google Online marketing help a prospective customers looking for a product, restaurant, service, promotion, or anything from anywhere in the world.

Any business, regardless of size, wants to be found on the first page of Google. Getting seen by customers at the exact time they are looking for your information, products, services, deals or location is intent marketing (marketing based on someone intending to find your products), and it’s profitable.

But as a small business hoping to organically get on the top ten search results, you have to recognize you’re competing with career-long, experienced, motivated SEO experts.

With Google AdWords you can compete on the same level, no matter how long you've been around or your own expertise. You can get your message viewed by your market, exactly when they’re searching for your specific product, service or offers.

2. Google Adwords Enables you to Reach Your Local Customer, Reliably

Google AdWords gives you location targeting options. So if you’re a locally based business, (such as a neighborhood restaurant), a regional company (such as a state bank), or even an e-commerce site (with, say, country shipping restrictions), you can geo-target to get seen by your consumer. And you’re not wasting ad dollars on those who aren’t in your area.

AdWords enables you to easily target countries, areas within a country, and radius targeting (to show your ads to people within a certain distance to your business). You can exclude locations, too, even in your proximity targeting.

Excluding locations brings your ROI up by lowering costs and targeting more precisely.

You can also target by geo-based demographics such as income level. So, if you’re selling luxury goods you can target the top 10% income earners in your specified area.

3. Google Adwords Enables you to Show your Location to Searchers

By using Google Places in conjunction with AdWords, you can show a map of your brick-and-mortar shop with your ads.

The easier you make it for customers to find you, the more likely they’ll walk in.

4. Google Adwords Enables you to Show Your Contact Information

You’ve probably seen ad extensions on ads everywhere, but you might not have known how they worked.

Ad extensions let businesses like yours enhance their Google Adwords with phone numbers, addresses, app downloads, site landing page links, reviews, previous page visits and lots more. They show up in blue and appear just below your ad description.

By including more contact information in your ads, ad extensions make it way easier for your potential customer to connect with you.

While ad extensions don’t cost anything more to include in your ad, you are charged the same for a click on them as you are for your headline. For example, if someone clicks on your phone number to call you directly from your ad extension, you’ll be billed for this paid conversion. (Yup, Google can track clicked phone calls on mobile, tablets and desktops.)

If you’re a restaurant, for example, you can show your local address and include links to specific menu pages, offers and other specific landing pages on your website. Here’s how a coffee chain uses them:

Tim Hortons adds their nearest address. They link to their “nutrition” “coffee” “Tim Card offers” and “location” pages on their website, so people can click directly through for more information.

Top Tip:

If you're going to localize your Google Adwords campaigns, be sure you're localizing the ad's corresponding landing page as well. There's no point in driving traffic interested in seeing brick-and-mortar results in their area to a generic site not optimized to receive them.

5. Google Adwords Enables you to Allows you to Target Highly Specific Searches

Keywords, keywords, keywords. This is what Google AdWords is known for.

The more targeted your keywords (and keyword phrases) are the better Google will rank your ad. You’ll also reach a lot more consumers who want exactly what you have right now.

If you’re using Google AdWords directly, be sure to research through suggested keywords for every ad group you create. Some Google ad providers offer to do the hard work for you by choosing the most optimized, targeted keywords for your ad group campaigns.

Use the opportunity to think like your customer, and choose words they’re searching for. You can set up different keywords for each of your ad group campaigns. And you can change your words at any time to keep optimizing your reach.

6. Google Adwords Enables you to Follow Your Customer with Retargeting

You’ve seen it, I’m sure. You visit a site, stay on it for a while, and then leave. But then you keep seeing ads for the company, or even the product page you were on. That’s retargeting.

With Google Adwords, if an interested customer has visited your website, they get a cookie from a code you’ve put on the backend of your site. When they leave your site, you can target your ads to follow them on the Google Display Networks, or Google search.

You pay extra for it but it really does work to increase sales. Think about it... Those people were interested enough to come visit your site. You can get seen by them again - and then again and again - while you’re business is still on their mind.

Let's say you have a baby products store. An interested parent-to-be clicks on your ad and visits your landing page for strollers. In doing so, their browser picks up your Google AdWords cookie. They leave to do some  more shopping around.

And yet, when they visit (for instance) a popular parent blog site (which is part of the Google Display Network) they see your ad for strollers again. And again when they go to YouTube.

Particularly with "shopping around" prospective customers, the simple fact that they see your logo, brand name and offer more frequently than your competitors translates to increased sales.

7. Google Adwords Enables you to Reach Your Mobile Customer Where They Are

Your customer might be right outside your door when they’re searching for your products or service.

Google AdWords gives you loads of mobile optimization options and allows you to target with both text ads and image ads.

For example, if you market a local coffee shop mobile ads are a perfect fit. Your customer might be looking for their caffeine fix while they are walking through your neighborhood. They search for places nearby and your mobile optimized ad shows up first. You get a new customer in your door, just like that.

In your campaign Settings, you can leave your Devices on the default of “All”. This targets all types of devices. If you want to target more heavily on mobile users, you have this option too. Here’s a screenshot of the device choices you have if you want to show your ad more on mobile devices:

8. Google Adwords Enables you to Choose, and Optimize, Where your Ad is Seen

Google has tons and tons of ad partners. You’ve may have read a blog in your own marketing niche, and seen ads specific to that niche. More than likely that blog is part of the Google Display network.

What does that mean for you? Well, it makes it easy for you to advertise on popular niche sites - where your customers are.

You can track your results and even exclude sites that aren’t performing as well as you’d like.

I’d suggest that if you’re just starting out on Google AdWords, you use the Search and Display option as it gives you a broader reach. As you get used to how Google AdWords work and you’re seeing an increased result in your click throughs, then narrow an ad campaign to the Display Network only. Monitor your results, and improve your ads as you go.

9. Google Adwords Enables you to Get Measured Results

Google AdWords gives you tons of customizable options to track and measure all of your campaigns in one dashboard.

You can, for example, set and track your own goals for:

Return on Investment (ROI)

Traffic to your Website

Brand Awareness

Sales and Conversions

You can also measure the results of each of your Google Adwords within your ad groups. You can see metrics like:

What keywords are performing the best

What headlines get the best click-through-rate

The times your ads are best performing

And so on and so on

You can also connect your website Google Analytics in order to see what pages your ad traffic is visiting within your site. Here's Google's guide on how to do that.

You can make your results reports as simple or as complex as you want. So, for people who don’t want to spend all day sorting through ad data, that’s ok too!

10. Google Adwords Enables you to Control Your Own Budget

If you’re a small, local business you may be more familiar with offline advertising methods. If so, you’re likely paying a set fee for each ad you publish or run. And you’ve likely used to signing a contract too, agreeing to run "X" number of ads for "X" amount of money.

With Google AdWords though, you can set your budget for each ad you run - and you can change it whenever you want.

If an ad is performing really well you can increase your results by increasing your ad spend. If it's underperforming (low impressions, low clickthroughs, etc) decrease ad spend or stop it and test something. Simple!

Note: Your daily cost is based on a daily average per month, so don’t be alarmed if yours varies from day to day.

I’d recommend starting out with a budget of $20-40 per day. When your ad is live, track it to measure your results. Adjust your budget based on your ads’ ROI - or whatever your particular objectives are for your campaign.

11. Google Adwords Enables you to Run Multiple Campaigns for Your Marketing Needs

A really cool thing about Google Ads is that your can run a whole bunch of different ad campaigns for a whole bunch of your marketing objectives.

Let’s say you have an event-planning business. You want to market your services for...

Wedding planning

Corporate events

Fundraisers

You could set up thre different marketing campaigns - one for each of your targeted services.

You can then set up multiple ad groups for each campaign. In your ad groups, you can target with different keywords.

For example, in your “Wedding Planning” campaign, set-up three ad groups to target:

Wedding dresses - and related keywords

Honeymoon destinations - and related keywords

Pre-nuptial lawyers - and related keywords

Then you can make two ads for each ad group so that you can A/B test to find which ad performs best.

Okay, this may seem a bit complicated at first. But, once you get the hang of it, it’s actually quite cool and it gets you results.

Check out my guide to a/b testing your Google Adwords campaigns if you're curious.

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