Tuesday, May 18, 2004
"Cheap" and "Free" Keywords: Not Always a Bargain:
"BY Fredrick Marckini | May 17, 2004
...One category of defectors is consumers who only buy from the lowest-priced provider in any market. He asks the audience, "And what should we say to these customers?"
The answer is, "Bye-bye."
There's no loyalty from shoppers who buy only from the lowest-price provider. The moment a competitor lowers its price below yours, the customer leaves. There's such cost and effort associated with acquiring customers that in many service industries, customers only become profitable in the relationship's second or third year..."
They find that longer phrases are cheaper and can have higher conversion rates but, you'll get less querries:
"We tested these phrases and noticed some trends. Keywords and keyword phrases with solid conversion rates plummeted when "cheap" or "free" was appended onto them.
Specifically, conversions were 25 percent less likely when the word "cheap" was appended to any of the company's search terms.
This occurred in the insurance industry. Other verticals may experience different results.
A second phenomenon is the relationship between longer keyword phrases and higher conversion rate. We expect a specific query to convert at a higher rate than a broad keyword would. Not everyone grasps the greater benefit: More specific, longer phrases are often less expensive than broad keywords. Again, the plural of "anecdote" is "data."
Here's a study we conducted of Overture keyword bid prices:
[see graph]
Watch what happens when we plot a business-to-business (B2B) client's conversion rates:
[see graph]
The longer the keyword phrase, the higher the conversion rate. But often, longer keyword phrases aren't queried with the same frequency as shorter phrases. The trick is to identify as many of the longer phrases as possible. Google's new AdWords Automater system could be a powerful tool in increasing marketers' ability to identify more long, specific keyword phrases that can be purchased at lower rates to increase volume on these higher-converting, less-expensive keyword phrases..."
"BY Fredrick Marckini | May 17, 2004
...One category of defectors is consumers who only buy from the lowest-priced provider in any market. He asks the audience, "And what should we say to these customers?"
The answer is, "Bye-bye."
There's no loyalty from shoppers who buy only from the lowest-price provider. The moment a competitor lowers its price below yours, the customer leaves. There's such cost and effort associated with acquiring customers that in many service industries, customers only become profitable in the relationship's second or third year..."
They find that longer phrases are cheaper and can have higher conversion rates but, you'll get less querries:
"We tested these phrases and noticed some trends. Keywords and keyword phrases with solid conversion rates plummeted when "cheap" or "free" was appended onto them.
Specifically, conversions were 25 percent less likely when the word "cheap" was appended to any of the company's search terms.
This occurred in the insurance industry. Other verticals may experience different results.
A second phenomenon is the relationship between longer keyword phrases and higher conversion rate. We expect a specific query to convert at a higher rate than a broad keyword would. Not everyone grasps the greater benefit: More specific, longer phrases are often less expensive than broad keywords. Again, the plural of "anecdote" is "data."
Here's a study we conducted of Overture keyword bid prices:
[see graph]
Watch what happens when we plot a business-to-business (B2B) client's conversion rates:
[see graph]
The longer the keyword phrase, the higher the conversion rate. But often, longer keyword phrases aren't queried with the same frequency as shorter phrases. The trick is to identify as many of the longer phrases as possible. Google's new AdWords Automater system could be a powerful tool in increasing marketers' ability to identify more long, specific keyword phrases that can be purchased at lower rates to increase volume on these higher-converting, less-expensive keyword phrases..."
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