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Sarah Worsham / Aug 24, 2011

Benchmark AdWords Campaigns Against PPC Best Practices with WordStream’s New Free Tool

WordStream’s new AdWords Performance Grader helps marketers evaluate how their AdWords campaigns are performing and identify where to make improvements. Marketers are also provided with benchmark data as to how their campaigns perform in comparison to companies with similar budgets. “At WordStream, we have worked with thousands of small and medium-sized businesses to build out keywords for their AdWords campaigns. We’ve witnessed how many hands-on marketers have not yet mastered fundamental best practices of PPC ad campaigns,” said Larry Kim, WordStream Founder and Chief Technology Officer. “We built this free tool to provide advertisers with an easy to digest snapshot of how their ad campaigns are performing and to tutor them on how to make changes that will boost their performance and save money.” WordStream’s AdWords Performance Grader is available to use free at:

http://www.wordstream.com/google-adwords

The Grader examines key campaign features including:

  • Effective use of negative keywords
  • Quality score for text ads and keywords targeted
  • Click-through rates
  • Impression share
  • Long-tail keyword optimization
  • Text ad optimization
  • Landing page optimization
  • PPC best practices.

The Grader’s interface is easy-to-use and clearly points out how you’re doing and where you can improve with your AdWords campaigns, providing an overall score similar to other graders:

By looking at the metrics for your campaign, the Grader is able to provide you with some feedback on how you can improve:

And by comparing your results to others with similar budgets, WordStream can give you feedback on how you stack up:

Give WordStream’s free AdWords Performance Grader a try and let us know what you think.

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Sarah Worsham (Sazbean) is a Webgrrl = Solution Architect + Product Management (Computer Engineer * Geek * Digital Strategist)^MBA. All views are her own.

Business + Technical Product Management

My sweet spot is at the intersection between technology and business. I love to manage and develop products, market them, and deep dive into technical issues when needed. Leveraging strategic and creative thinking to problem solving is when I thrive. I have developed and marketed products for a variety of industries and companies, including manufacturing, eCommerce, retail, software, publishing, media, law, accounting, medical, construction, & marketing.

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