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After Setting up many successful adwords campaigns for Australian businesses, I have noticed these common Adwords mistakes:

1). Not enough keywords. Too many people have less than 100 keywords. I have built huge lists out using free software as this: Or even better software here. Give your ad a chance.

2). Not using [exact match] or 'phrase match' here is a free tool to use with your new keyword lists. Most people have the keyword without wrapping.

3). People use only 1 ad. You have to write at least 2 ads, so you can constantly dump the worst performing one. You need to measure what is going on. Split testing is a major key for success. You need to rewrite every ad once a day.

4). Daily budgets are too low. Rarely does your daily budget hit maximum level. So by increasing it you will appear more daily.

5). Not enough keywords in the ads themselves. Many business owners only have the major keywords in the headline, and many more do not even have the major keyword headline. This is a major mistake.

6). Lack of understanding of impressions. Impressions are the amount of times that people are searching the internet per keyword. Click on the impression on the top, look at all time history and find out which keywords are searched the most. Then make sure those keywords appear through the ads.

7). Not using popular impressions for 1 campaign. Say you find that the keyword 'making money' is popular (it is). Make a new campaign just for that one keyword. With exact match [make money]. That's it. 1 keyword in the campaign.

8) Having too different many keywords in 1 campaign. You should have one base keyword per group. Wealth keywords being in one group for example, make money keywords in another group.

Then delete it out of your big list campaign. You will know exactly what you will have to bid to be on top spot per campaign. I always drop it down so I am not paying top dollar.

Then you can repeat for the top 20 words. Make sure you put the keyword in each ad, and have at least 2 ads per campaign.

9). Not using excitement in their ads.. fast.. amazing tips.. secrets.. inside information.. fast track..

10). People are using exact amounts in their clicks. Most people did at 10 cents, 20, 30 , 40, $1.00. Try increasing to 0.11, 0.21, 0.32.. You get the idea. 1 or 2 cents extra puts you higher than the guy stuck on the exact amount.

11). Not capitalizing their display URL. Have a look what's stronger.. www.australianonlineseo.com or www.AustralianOnlineSeo.com Your eye gets drawn to the one with the most capital letter. Just a note only use caps for the start of each word.

12) Do it themselves. One of the most deadly mistakes is that many Australian businesses do their own Adwords. They burn a lot of cash and most often the campaigns simply are not effective. They must seek Adwords management from a team that has runs on the board. That way, the business can concentrate on what they do best.