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Tracking Series Part 3: Watching Out For the Bigger Picture

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The significant change in the KeywordSpy Tracking system is the way it tracks down data. The older version, as most probably know by now, tracks down both keywords and domains while the Tracking 2.0 mainly focuses on tracking down keywords. What about my domain and the competitors I’m tracking? Don’t worry, it doesn’t end there.

Initial results for monitored keywords not only show average clicks and cost data for each. Remember, you can also view PPC and Organic listing results with each keyword. That means finding out websites advertising or using these keywords on daily basis. Here comes the bigger picture, instead of just tracking down specific domains like before, the system actually allows you to track down all, if not, more domains.


Each keyword result for a campaign generates, at the same time, competitors bidding on or utilizing that keyword. And each competitor contains its own set list of PPC and organic keywords to further dissect. Depending on the industry, this means casting a bigger net in terms of information gathering at a more efficient way.

Given that the marketing medium on the internet is in a constant and rapid flux, key information on competition: ranking advertisers; new advertisers; threats in the market; new keywords; and bid and click values are all crucial in maintaining a stable campaign.

There is data gathering and there is focusing on specific variables. If you do want to narrow down a campaign without limiting your search, the Watchlist will cover the job of separating your selected domains, even yours, apart from the rest.



The Watchlist acts as a shortcut to all the data within your campaign. By adding domains in your watchlist, you can concentrate further on key competitors in your industry, including easily monitoring your own results. You can also do this with important keywords in your monitoring campaign. When you log back in, accessing data you want is as easy as clicking through your watchlist.

Data gathering in terms of PPC and SEO keywords takes time and a lot of work to obtain as much credible and useful information as possible. This system hopes to provide effectiveness of research and work efficiency for better a campaign.


Click here for Part 2 of this series: Watching the Competition
Click here for Part 1 of this series: What Your Keywords Are Telling You
Click here for more details on KeywordSpy Tracking 2.0

KeywordSpy Tracking Series Part 2: Watching the Competition

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On this second part of our series, we’ll be digging deep into the KeywordSpy Tracking module by looking further into advertisers on the Competitors Tab. This feature summarizes the domains bidding on the keywords currently being monitored for a campaign.

Right off the bat, the Overview function gives you a quick glance at the competition level for your campaign group. Of course, it is important to remember that these domains are all based on the keywords you are tracking. So ensuring you are monitoring the right type and amount of keywords will better the results.


The Top Competitors ranks the domains according to percentage of Coverage. In this case, these are the top advertisers bidding on Google Adwords. Depending on the countries you have selected for this campaign, this could also include Top Competitors on Yahoo! and MSN advertising systems. If you are also advertising considerably on your monitored keywords, you should see your domain on this list. You’ll be able to visually compare your rankings to other domains and see where you stand. Are you one of the gray dots lost in the crowd, or hanging out with the cool guys up top?



Aside from advertisers, the Competitors tab also lists the number of indexed keywords and ads for these domains that you can study further. With a saturated market such as this one, you can concentrate on a few competitors by filtering out the data as you please to show results you would like to focus on like showing domains with a few thousand keywords only or more. As discussed on the previous post of this series, you can also get a list of competitors for each keyword in your campaign by clicking on the keywords in the Keywords Tab. To understand a particular advertiser, simply click on their domain on the list.



If you are an advertiser monitoring the effectiveness of your campaign, knowing your effective keywords through average position is important. Over here we have top keywords for the advertiser justflowers.com. Though these are top keywords, we can see that much improvement is necessary as ads for these keywords are not getting much visibility. That’s a good place to start.

If this is your competitor, you can also determine where you stand in comparison to this or any other domain with respect to average Ad Position. But of course, further analysis on this competitor’s keywords would also help with your campaign.




The keywords for an advertiser, be it you or the competition, will show you the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of a campaign. If a keyword is generating too low a position for ads, conversions could be less and the probable reason is there are not enough competitive bids for that keyword. If your bid for a keyword is significantly lower than its average CPC, your ads might go to the bottom of the barrel and you might as well waste money for that keyword.


The premise of following the lead of your worthy competitors is to take their already proven strategies and find out how it works for your website. When it comes to ad variations, one of the closest things you can get is to see how long their ads have been working for them. If you’re looking at months old data, trying to figure out how long an ad has been showing for a keyword, there is one little problem: sure that ad has been effective back then when the data was collected, but the bigger question is, is it still effective right now? That is why real-time monitoring of ads and their landing page data comes in handy. You have to be able to track effective ads soon enough to follow before the trail gets cold.



Lastly, monitoring is all about keeping things in check. If you are looking at your own domain, there may be keywords that your ads are also showing for or if you are analyzing the competition, keywords that you have missed or new keywords entering in the market, its best to check if these terms are worth studying, monitoring, and advertising on in the future.


Click here for Part 1 of this series: What Your Keywords Are Telling You
Click here for more details on KeywordSpy Tracking 2.0