As a PPC Management Company, one of the most disputed questions in pay-per-click (PPC) search marketing, “should you buy your own name or not for PPC advertising?” There are a few reasons why an advertiser might consider buying their own name including:
- Inexpensive
- Competitors are buying your name
- Quickly attract customers
Valid Reasons for Buying Your Own Name
With this said, we feel inexpensive and to quickly attract customers are not valid reasons why to spend the extra money buying your own name. This is due in part because customers are looking specifically for you. If you purchase your own name, at a high percentage of your customers will click it, which will distort your PPC advertising data.
For instance, if you are tracking inbound phone calls, without keyword spotting 95% of your inbound calls could be from your branded name keywords alone and you would none the wiser. This is a problem because a vendor might take credit for something you might have converted organically. If this is the case, it’s possible the rest of your campaign isn’t as effective as you might think. So what if your competitors are buying your name, what should you do?
Competitors Buying Your Name?
If your competitors are buying your name, we recommend that you use a separate dynamic or tracking number for your own branded keywords. This will allow you to assess what percentage of your total inbound phone calls come from your name branded keywords versus products/services keywords. Only then, can an advertiser understand the true value of their PPC search marketing campaigns.
About Actuate Media
Actuate Media is a digital marketing agency with offices in Seattle and Tampa. Our team has run hundreds of digital advertising campaigns nationwide including Search Marketing, SEO, Display Advertising, Video Advertising, and more. We are proud to have completed Google Partner’s Specialist Challenge and we are Google Ads & Analytics, certified specialists. Our digital agency implements a data-driven approach connecting advertising results and analytics, aggregating the data for future analysis allowing our partners to make smart advertising decisions in the future to gain a competitive advantage.
