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How Many People Are Looking For This Product?

There's nothing more frustrating than building a web site and waiting for people to just "show up." It's worse than watching paint dry. That's why PPC management is one of the most important parts of the online world.

Ten minutes from right now you can have a Google campaign up and running, sending visitors to your web site. The speed at which you can do new things and make changes in Google's system is stunning.

But speed can also be a trap. Sometimes people do rash things when they're in a hurry.

Blowing your whole budget on PPC management is easy - you select a keyword, make an ad, and pay for bunches of visitors that are not going to by anything from you. To help you be sure not to spend money getting the wrong kinds of visitors to your website. Ask:

How High Is The Demand For This Product?

Finding the answer to this question will help you understand what you should expect in the way of traffic and new customers that Google can send to you, and avoid disappointments. Even if you don't get everything you are hoping for in terms of traffic, you will probably discover some traffic sources that are not as high-profile but equally profitable.

You can get a quick estimate in a matter of seconds. Overture has a helpful search-term suggestion tool at http://inventory.overture.com (or http://inven tory.uk.overture.com for the UK). Enter a handful of your main general keywords, and Overture will tell you how many searches its servers got last month for each one.

Take this example; the products in your skin care company are for slowing the aging process. Just suppose you are just starting out and want to use Google to bring in more visitors. Where can you start?

To start with, get a starting list of potential keywords. Here is what we brainstormed:

skin

beauty

acne

cosmetics

makeup

cosmetic surgery

dermatology

anti-aging

wrinkles

oils

moisturizers

This list is only the beginning. If I take it over to the keyword-selection-tool on Overture and put them in, I can see how many searchers they had in the past month. These are the results:

skin 7,290

beauty 5,006

acne 1,872

cosmetics 1,862

makeup 1,796

cosmetic surgery 1,736

dermatology 622

anti-aging 503

wrinkles 485

oils 390

moisturizers 120

Do you see what has happened:

The keyword "skin" got over 60 times as many searches as the bottom term, "moisturizers." That term may be one of your most valuable players.

When you run your Overture inventory search on any one of these keywords, you'll invariably get a list of irrelevant terms as well. Those will become your negative keywords.

There are a huge number of people who may want skin-care products but who'll use different word combinations than are on the lists we've come up with. So for a successful PPC management, we'll need to brainstorm for more, and then search Overture's tool again.

The results from Overture indicate that we could get ten or even an hundred thousand US searches in one month using the top keywords we found.

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