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How to Segment Web Marketing Keyword Lists by Destination URLs

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When you have a complete web marketing keyword list organized by ad groups and match types, you can segment the list even further. This situation applies if you want to drive visitors to a specific product or place, but starting a separate ad group doesn’t make sense.

Some of the keywords indicate specific colors for rose wedding invitations: red and pink. Rather than drop visitors off the product page for rose wedding invitations, you can take them one click further by using a keyword destination URL for each color.

Select the URL for the product page of the pink rose wedding invitation, for example, and direct visitors there specifically for the keywords pink rose wedding invitation and pink rose wedding invites.This strategy works especially well if you have only one type of product but still want to have the keyword so that when someone does search on it, your ad appears.

Both Google and MSN offer keyword destination URL targeting:

  • Google: You have to use the offline AdWords Desktop Editor or go through an export and import of an Excel spreadsheet using the AdWords template.

    The desktop editor is a free download from Google AdWords and is the easier choice.

  • MSN: Follow these steps:

    1. Log in to your adCenter account and click the ad group’s name to open the ad group.

    2. Click the Keywords tab to open the entire keyword list for that ad group.

    3. Click the Columns button in the navigation area and select the Dest. URL check box. Then click OK.

      The Destination URL field now is visible.

    4. Click the keyword(s) that you want to add a keyword-level destination URL to.

    5. Enter the URL and click the Save button.

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About the book author:

John Arnold is a renowned marketing trainer and speaker as well as an entrepreneur and small business advisor. Arnold continues to train and advise small business owners as a Constant Contact regional development director.

Michael Becker is the managing director of North America at the Mobile Marketing Association. Becker has written more than 80 articles on mobile marketing and is an adjunct professor of mobile marketing at Golden Gate University.

Marty Dickinson is the president of HereNextYear.com, a company that combines writing, speaking, and internet strategy to help clients become recognized authorities in their fields. Dickinson also works as a business consultant to web designers and SEO specialists.

Ian Lurie has been a digital marketer for over 25 years. He created and sold the digital agency Portent, Inc. and provides consulting and training services.

Elizabeth Marsten is the senior director of strategic marketplace services for Tinuiti. Marsten has experience in Google AdWords, Microsoft Ads, Amazon Advertising, Facebook, and other platforms.