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Who Else Wants to Know How-To Write an Effective Advertisement?

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Webmasters struggle everyday with the question of how they should

advertise their website. There are so many advertising venues; it

is hard to know which is the right venue or the right combination

of advertising venues.


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Copyright © 2006 Bill Platt
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Webmasters struggle everyday with the question of how they should
advertise their website. There are so many advertising venues; it
is hard to know which is the right venue or the right combination
of advertising venues.

The answer to this question is actually simple. The right venues
are the ones that allow you to earn enough sales from the
placement of your advertisement to make a profit. Your
advertisement should earn more money for you than it cost for you
to buy the advertisement.


Choose Your Words Carefully

"If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind - give
it more thought." --- Dennis Roth

With advertising of any type, you must learn to choose your words
carefully.

Most online advertising is in the form of a classified ad. With a
newspaper, you can choose any size of advertisement to
communicate your message to readers. The newspaper charges you
based on the number of words in your classified ad.

Online, you don't get the option of buying additional words.
Instead, you buy an ad, and the publisher tells you how many
words or characters you are allowed to use in your advertisement.

Here is how the different search advertising options break down:

ExactSeek.com through the ISEDN.org network:
Headline Length: 30 characters
Description: 100 characters

Google Adwords through Google.com:
Headline Length: 25 characters
Description first line: 35 characters
Description second line: 35 characters

Overture.com through the Yahoo network:
Headline Length: 40 characters
Description: 190 characters


As you can see from these numbers, you generally do not have that
much space to tell your story so you need to select words that
best tell your story, using as few words as possible.

Most products or services cannot be sold in just a few words so
your goal should be to get people to your website and let your
website do the selling.

On your website, you can tell your story in the way it needs to
be told. Your website can also answer all of the questions that
the reader might have about your products or services.


Choosing The Right Formula For Your Advertising

In your own mind, you might think that people need to know all of
your credentials. But, advertising should not be viewed as a
"brag fest". People do not care what you have done; they only
care about what you can do for them.

So tell them how you can help them and give them a reason to
visit your website for more information.

If you understand why your customers buy your products and
services, then you can answer their questions and help them solve
any problem they might have.

If you can solve their problems, they will buy what you are
selling.


Pre-Qualify Your Visitors

If you are engaged in PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising, you
definitely need to pre-qualify your visitors in your advertising.
Why pay for people to visit your website if they are not likely
to buy what you are selling?

If you are engaged in selling wholesale products to retailers,
why would you want to pay for visitors people whose sole
intention is to buy one of what you are selling at retail prices?
You wouldn't, would you?

Provide enough detail in your advertisement to help people make
an informed judgement as to whether you can actually help them
accomplish what they want to accomplish.

Give your prospect enough information to skip your advertisement,
if he or she will not benefit from your offer.

Even if you are using other types of advertising like pay-for-
inclusion, you will still want to pre-qualify your visitors,
because if you don't, it will skew your website conversion
numbers. Too many unqualified visitors to your website might give
you the erroneous idea that your sales copy is not performing as
well as it should.


Use Power Words In Your Advertising

"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words." ---
Aprocrypha

Copywriters are always talking about "power words" or "power
phrases". These are word combinations that influence the reader
to take an action.

One example of using power words in your copy is to substitute
the word "children" for the word "kids". Parents are more
influenced by the reference to children than they are by the
reference to kids.

"Guaranteed" is another power word. It gives your reader an added
incentive to buy what you are selling. Prospects take comfort in
the idea that if they discover later that they have made a bad
decision, they can always get their money back.

"Proven" is another power word. It tells your reader that you can
back up what you are saying with "proof". Your prospect can see
"scientific" or empirical "evidence" that you are telling the
"truth". These are more power words for the person who is paying
attention.

Power words attract attention, spur reader curiosity and compel
readers to take the action that you want them to take.


Pay More Attention To Your Headline

The 25 to 40 characters that are available to you for your
headline are the most important part of your advertisement, hands
down.

On most websites, the headline is in bold print. The truth is
your prospect will not see your description at all, if their
attention is not captured first by your headline.

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always
plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be
understood." --- William Penn


Test and Track Your Results

If you do not take the time or effort to track your advertising,
you will never know what is, or is not, working for you.

Set up different landing pages for your ads to determine which
ads are producing results and which ads are failing to deliver on
their promise.

This one step will save you more money than you can imagine. It
will allow you to dump the dogs and build upon your successes.


Shades Of Gray

Ad tracking will enable you to pinpoint the effect of the
slightest changes in wording and presentation.

Changing one word in your headline or description could make the
difference between selling one unit and selling 500 units, but
without a tracking system that might never be apparent.

Let's compare two headlines:

* Read Our Wealth Tips,

* Read Our Wealth Secrets.

Which of these two headlines is more compelling to you?

Do you see how much of a difference one word can make in your
copy?

Play around with your copy to find text that is more likely to
compel your reader to visit your website.

The words you use in your copy can make all of the difference in
the world.


Stand Above Your Competition

The PPC advertising companies are going to hate me for telling
you this, but you don't need top placement in their search
advertising results, if your ad is written better than the ads of
your competitors.

The company with the most compelling headline is going to draw
the attention of the reader. It's not uncommon for the
advertisement in position five or six to get the click because of
a compelling headline and an attention grabbing description.

Fortunately for you, most of your competitors probably do not
understand how to write an effective advertisement. This will
allow you to quickly jump to the head of the class without
spending more money for those higher spots in the PPC bidding
process.


Start Small and Take Care With Your Advertising Budget

When you are testing new advertising copy, you should start
small. You don't want to spend $1 a click in a pay-per-click
advertising venue, using an advertisement that hasn't been tested
or proven successful. To do otherwise is a waste of valuable
resources.

Google Adwords ( http://adwords.google.com ) and Yahoo's Overture
( http://www.overture.com ) systems both require you to start
your bidding at five cents a click.

At http://www.7search.com , you can buy advertising for as little
as one cent per click.

At http://www.ExactSeek.com, the founding member of the ISEDN
(http://www.ISEDN.org), you can build an ad around a specific
keyword phrase for as little as $12 per quarter or $36 per year.
Your ad is then displayed through more than 200 ISEDN member
websites.


After You Have Mastered The Art Of Advertising...

After you have mastered the art and science of advertising, you
will learn the most important lesson of all.

All venues can produce exceptional results, if you have written a
compelling and effective advertisement.

When you write effective advertising copy, you will be able to
convert anyone's traffic into sales.





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