“Deb,
Here are the answers to your questions below:
> 1) I’m still waiting for the June and July numbers for the Google Ads results.
– this is what i have from my previous emails to Jan. Seems like June, July, August, there was a significant increase, most likely due to Summer.
March
48,823 “impressions”
280 “clicks”
April (campaign increased on the 23rd)
59,192 “impressions”
340 “clicks”
May 1st – 18th (this was the date I sent March, April, March to Jan Shandler)
46,948 “impressions”
298 “clicks”
This is what I pull from today for June & July per your request
June
82,102 “impressions”
655 “clicks”
July
80,834 “impressions”
624 “clicks”
August up until today
77,849 “impressions”
634 “clicks”
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> 2) You indicated that the monthly budget went from $500 to $1,500 during the 1st week of May with the intention of generating more traffic. Was any forecasting completed to support the decision to increase our budget by 200% in a single shot? Were any targets established? If so, how does the actual performance stack up against those forecasts/targets? If none were established I want to see how the performance compares to the pre-increase period. The limited reporting I saw from you last week indicates that we’re not seeing any incremental improvement for the additional expense. In fact, May performance (after almost a full month of increase) is about the same as March and slightly behind April. I am assuming that June and July were similar.
– Deb, based on my records, we had increased it for Jan because of the opportunity they saw with a limited budget of $500 started last year Feb 2014. I had suggested to go with a higher budget because the area is very saturated but we agreed to start off with a conservative budget which limited the # of keywords and the mileage coverage. This campaign was going on for about a year with i believe consistent ROI so there was a lot of potential hence the increase. It was at the time covering up to 3 mile radius. Now we are at up to 10 miles. Secondly, we’ve activated the Google Mobile Ad Display, Google Tablet Ad Display, and also Google Display Ads.
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> 3) You noted that the Click Thru Rate is actually over 3%. However, the numbers you provided work out to be about half that. You noted that the stats I saw were diluted but I still don’t know by what. I realize you attempted to explain this when we spoke, but I still don’t understand and I need some specifics here because I’m going by the impressions and clicks you sent me. If the click through rate is clicks divided by impressions (as it should be), they came nowhere near 3%.
– You are correct, the calculation i did was incorrect, the CTR is about 1.5-1.7% which is still considered very good. Anything over 1% are great #s.
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> 4) What is needed to revert the budget back to $500/mo until we get these issues resolved?
– Deb, in my opinion, there are no issues but if you’d like, simply let me know and I will be more than happy to reduce the budget from $1,500/m down to $500/m.
The average last year in 2014 at $500/m rate based on the data I had sent Jan, it averages out less than 100 clicks & 2,000 impressions. Before the increase, we didn’t have Google Mobile or Tablet Display, Coverage was about 3 miles, and no Google Display Ad was activated. Reducing the budget will significantly reduce the # of potential traffic.
Thank you and hope everything is clarified. I will await your decision.”
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