Both the study of copywriting and what makes for good classified ads will help a lot with putting good Adwords ads together. What perhaps serves as an obstacle for many people is you don't have much room to work with in PPC ads. If you want to see improvement in your PPC conversions, then continue reading to discover three points for writing better Adwords ads.
You'll need to know the strongest benefits of your product or service. You can't just use your ad space to write about the features of the product and expect to get clicks. For example, if you're selling web designing software that can help you design websites quickly, the benefit here is that it helps the end user save time – and that's what you highlight in your ad. People respond much better when they see what is in it for them – the benefit. Or you always conduct a test, and write an ad that explains the software language your great software was written in – we'll bet you don't get one single click, try it. So your benefits will speak to some people, not all, but some will click on it. So make a list of all the strong benefits of the product you're promoting and sort out 2-3 benefits that you can include when writing your ad copy.
Of course, you will want to test your ads, always, and you can find the benefit that converts the best in your ads.
You will do what you want, but if you want to get good at this, then you will never steal the copy from other PPC ads. A common notion among new Internet marketers these days is to copy the ads of the successful AdWords advertisers to duplicate their success. But if that were true, nobody would be coming up with worthy ad copy! The only path to improvement is to learn how to write ads, and learn the principles involved with copywriting, etc. Your aim should be to create an ad that gives results and the best way to do that is to write it in your own way.
If you put into crafting out a unique ad copy for your campaign, your ad won't get lost in the large chunk of ads that you see on Google.
Make sure your file extensions are optimized for the particular keywords you're using. There are advantages to including your particular targeted keywords within the ad headline and possibly body copy, but also as we noted be sure to have them in the file extension for the display URL. Writing powerful AdWords ads is not hard to do, but you need to know how to do PPC advertising, and then you can work on your ads.