Quality Score is a key factor in the success of an Adwords account. It contributes significantly to the profitability of an Adwords account as it is a key determinant of the actual CPC that an advertiser pays. If you are in need of a refresher on how quality score is calculated and works then you..
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Blog articles focusing on Pay per click (PPC).
Google kill 2 birds with their Dynamic Re-marketing Ads
At the back end of last month (June 2013) Google announced the release of Dynamic re-marketing ads. This is one of the most interesting tools that Google have given to advertisers, and specifically retailers in a very long time. Dynamic re-marketing ads allow advertisers to show past visitors ads that are dynamically generated based on..
Adwords Script to track Quality Score on Account, campaign & Ad Group Level
Warning: this post is a bit more technical than most of our posts as we go into some depth on Adwords scripts. BUT – do not worry – if you follow the post through you will hopefully be able to just follow the instructions and achieve what you need to achieve with no coding at..
Interview with an Adwords Quality Score junkie
I spend a lot of time studying and obsessing over the quality score of our clients in their Adwords account as I know what a difference it can make to performance. Here and here are some previous posts on Quality Score. Over the past month or so I have become acquainted with someone who is..
Why is my CTR so damn low?
With Google Adwords (or SEO for that matter) when you find a keyword that converts well and that gives you good orders/leads at a great cost per conversion you want more from it. You want to squeeze as much traffic out of it as possible as you know that the more traffic you get the..
Crudely reverse engineering Google Adwords Quality Score Formula
This has given me a headache – there are a lot of spreadsheets coming up so brace yourself. I set up a new clients account last week and was taking them through it when a question that they asked gave me an idea. Just take a moment to check the QS of the keywords below:..
Getting your head around Google Adwords Enhanced Campaigns
Google Adwords is a highly intelligent and well built marketing tool. But because it has evolved over a number of years with layer upon layer of new functions, a well constructed campaign is usually pretty complex. Some of the considerations we have to go through when we start working on a new account are: Geographic..
Save time with Google Adwords Automated Bidding Rules
Over the past year Google have really invested in giving advertisers the ability to set up rules to help them automate and scale the management of their accounts. This screenshot shows you where you can find the rules in the Google Adwords interface. The screenshot was taken on the Keywords tab but the rules are..
How Google have made us all bid higher on Adwords
Hats off to Google; they are an incredibly bright bunch over there. Adwords is perhaps the most intelligent ad platform ever built and Google keep on adding new dimensions to it which make it both more customisable and at the same time less accessible to the average small business owner and also slightly tougher to..
Product Listing Ads in Google Adwords Are Cheap (So far)
Over the past month Google shopping has been transitioning from a free service that allowed advertisers to submit a XML feed of their products to the Google Merchant Centre and then benefit from a good amount of free traffic to a paid service through Google Adwords called product listing ads. Not surprisingly a lot of..
