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Introduction
Zeta Google AdWords Keyword Generator is a small utility application that enables you to generate combinations of keywords for using in Google AdWords, the advertising service of the Google search engine.
This is useful when you want go get keyword combinations for your AdWord campaigns.
The application generates combinations by performing a Cartesian product of up to 15 keyword groups.
Background
Currently I am doing a lot of campaigns with Google AdWords for the Content Management System (CMS) "Zeta Producer Desktop".
When dealing with keywords in Google AdWords, one of the major headaches I got was to define meaningful, real-world-aware keyword combinations for which I want my ads to be shown by Google.
Since I am a developer, it sounds quite simple to develop an application to automatically generate the keyword combinations based on multiple groups of keyword.
Which lead to this tool...
How to Use the Tool
1.) Define your Keywords
You start by defining groups of keywords. You can add keywords into up to 15 groups, distributed over 3 tab pages.
Usually 3 to 5 groups are more than enough. Please note that the maximum number of total keyword combinations that is allowed by Google is 2,000. This number can be reached pretty fast when having too many groups or too many keywords in one group.
2.) Define your Options
You can define further options like the minimum and maximum number of keywords that must be present to be added to the result list.
3.) Let the Application Generate your Keyword Combinations
When you are done and content with your keywords and settings, click the "Generate keyword combinations" button.
All keyword combinations will be created. Depending on the number of keywords, this can take some time. You can interrupt the process anytime.
If the generation is finished, grab the keywords and insert them into your Google AdWords campaign as you do normally.
4.) Save your Settings
To archive and access your settings later, you can save them to a file.
To do so, simply click the "Save" button. Please note that you can only save if the "Name" field is filled.
Epilog
Probably lots of other tools similar to mine, and much more complex ones, do exist. A quick search before developing my tool lead to no real results, but I'm quite sure there are such tools.
In addition, as of posting this article, the tool is exactly one day old. Yesterday, it did not exist. Today it does. So it is likely that I made some minor or major errors when designing and developing this tool. Please be aware of that!
The reason why I still do a release today is that I am quite keen on getting early and qualitative feedback from you, the CodeProject community. I am sure I will get it.
So please download and try out Zeta Google AdWords Keyword Generator and keep the feedback coming :-)!
Planed Enhancements
History
- 2008-12-21: Initial publishing of this article
