With thousands of sites on Google’s content network, your campaigns have the potential to reach millions of viewers. However are you reaching the audience you are looking for?

Enhanced Online Campaigns combine keyword-targeted along with placement-targeted campaigns. This type of campaign allows you to get more control over who sees your ads; you decide which sites your ads will be seen on and what keywords are relevant to your site. Your ads will only show when both the keyword and placement match. Target demographically, by industry or choose specific relevant sites.

By creating different ad groups, you can choose to target different sites or demographics and create specific ad copy for that ad group. For example, if you sell flowers, you might have an ad group focusing on Father’s Day and another ad group focusing on wholesale. The ad copy, keywords and placements will all be different, but all relevant to your business.

You can set custom bids for specific placements. After choosing your sites, test your campaigns then run a paid placement report. The paid placement report lets you review what sites are getting the best results. You can eliminate under performing sites and bid more for higher performing sites to maximize your ROI.

By leveraging Google’s enhanced online campaigns, you can deliver your message to a more precise audience than with a content campaign.

We have all heard this saying or perhaps have said it ourselves in the past couple of months, in this economy. Advertisers are looking for ways to keep their name out there without the expense of advertising.

One such option for advertisers to take advantage of is the Google content network from Google Adwords. Google’s content network is a large network of Google properties, including gmail, websites, news pages, and blogs. Sites such as About.com, TheNewYorkTimes.com, Lycos.com, FoodNetwork.com, just to name a very few, are all part of the network.

Google’s content network reaches 642 million or 75% of worldwide Internet users per month; more than any other property or network. The content network is a great way to expand the reach of your message or brand.

Unlike the search network, where specific keywords and search terms are designated to ads, content network ads are targeted based on user themes.  Getting started is easy. New campaigns are automatically opted into the content network so when creating campaigns, you do not need to do anything to begin advertising there. You can even target your potential customers by actually selecting websites with the most relevant content to your products or services. By running a placement report you can determine which websites are getting the best results and then optimize your campaigns by removing underperforming sites. Google also has the option to bid more for specific sites that perform better by using the placements feature. Other ad formats are accepted, such as image and video ads. The content network also allows for more creativity when it comes to ad copy. Remember that your audience is not actively seeking you, so you need to grab their attention and generate interest and excitement about your products or services.

If branding or attaining maximum traffic is one of your advertising goals, create a content campaign and test it.  With over 700 billion impressions every month, you will see that your reach is dramatically increased. Most advertisers would agree that while Google’s content network has its benefits, it is best to compliment content campaigns with search campaigns.

You have just searched in Google for a specific product. You are ready to buy and your credit card is in hand. But wait! The page will not load. Annoyed and agitated, you click on the next ad to make your purchase. Let’s face the facts; time is a precious commodity and patience is not something people have a lot of (online shoppers in particular). That being said, there are few things more frustrating than clicking on a paid advertisement and then having to wait for the page to load. Most shoppers simply will not wait and as a result you (the marketer) pay for that click and unfortunately get absolutely nothing from it. You didn’t even get the chance to show what you have to offer! In addition, this will certainly increase your bounce rate and do absolutely nothing to improve your conversion rate or quality score.

It is always important to have your website pages load efficiently and accurately, but even more so now that Google has announced that they will be incorporating “landing page quality” into their quality score. Your quality score is a critical piece of the puzzle within Google in terms of paid rankings. The better your quality score, the better your positions. Google has always tried to provide the user with the best possible experience and this new metric should be in place in the next few weeks. Thus, all online marketers should take this time to ensure that their web pages are up to speed, literally and figuratively. Check out the latest buzz from Google!