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Tapping The righT cuSToMerS Through The weB

Every business out there is trying hard to get their message across to the right set of audience. Here we discuss how the Google network helps in achieving this and the key trends in eCommerce platforms

- Rohan Bhargava, Co-founder, CashKaro.com

When it comes to capturing the right kind of prospect for your website, most of the companies have no idea how to do it. They often select the wrong platform and end up in noconversi­on. Google is smart enough to figure out the needs of marketing to reach out to new and existing audience.

Google Display Network is known for reaching out to 90% of the worldwide internet users with 2 million sites. GDN is a subordinat­e of Google AdWords which helps the business to reach out to the right kind of audience, at the right place, and at the right time. With Google Display Network, you can place your ad, whether image, video or simply text on the relevant websites. So, the ad would only be seen by the relevant audience. For example – an offer on baby diapers will be showcased to audience discussing or reading about diapering needs. The interested people will click on it and land on the website.

Brand Building or Relevant User Acquisitio­n

The idea of GDN is to tap the relevant user base. The paramount use of the same is ‘Brand Building’. With the help of brand building activities, organisati­ons wish to stay in the memory of people. It is an easy and noninvasiv­e approach of highlighti­ng the brand identity. –

Sign-up for Google adwords & get started!

Creating an account for Google AdWords doesn’t cost you a penny because it is absolutely free. You can simply sign up with Google AdWords. Create GDN aka Google Display Network campaigns. Run ads, measure the results, and optimise the performanc­e accordingl­y. AdWords charges you either for every click or per 1000 impression­s, based on the CPC or CPM model respective­ly.

Benefits over other platforms

Google AdWords gives you the upper hand when it comes to the perks of using GDN. Primarily, it gives you control over the placements or websites you wish to showcase your ad on.You can select the regions where you wish to run the ads. Scheduling of ad could be done as well. For instance, you can select the time slot in which you wish to run your ads.

There is no fixed or minimum budget for running ads on Google. You can run ads for as low as ₹100 a day. Once the ad is live, the payment is billed with the number of clicks. If there are no clicks, no amount would be billed.

Targeting a specific set of audience

You can further enrich your target by identifyin­g which set of audience you wish to capture. There are several parameters on the basis of which one can filter the audience. 1. Interest: Placing ads by predefined interest categories of the audience which are gathered fromtheir browsing history is tapping the audience based on interest. For example, if you regularly visit any tech related website or a blog that features technology updates, then you are likely to be placed under Technology Interest category. Topical: Targeting the users based on topic categories is Topical Targeting. For example, sports, news, food, entertainm­ent, health, parenting, etc. 3. Contextual targeting via Keywords: Using keywords to find the relevant webpages for your ads is referred to Contextual Targeting. For example, your key phraseis ‘best restaurant in Delhi-NCR’, then Google will display your ads on the webpages where there 2.

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