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Saturday 4 April 2020

Google Ads: Top 20 Terms You Need to Know


1. Campaign - An ad campaign on Google Ads is made up of your ad groups, and has the same budget, campaign type and your other ad settings. It’s generally what you first set-up when you advertise, and it helps you organize your different paid advertising efforts. You can run multiple campaigns at any time from your Google account.

2. Ad groups - An ad group is your set of keywords, budgets and targeting methods for a particular objective, within the same campaign. For example, if you are running an ad campaign for a shoe sale, you could set up ad groups to target for online sales, women’s shoes and men’s shoes. You can have multiple ads in each ad group.

3. Campaign Type - Your campaign type is where you want your ads to be seen. Google has:
  • “Search Network only” (which means Google search only)
  • “Display Network only” (which means your ad shows up in Google’s Display network of websites, videos, YouTube, Blogger and more. This is also known as AdSense)
  • “Search Network with Display Select” (which is a combo of search and display)

4. Keywords - Keywords are very important in your Google Ads. They are the words or word phrases you choose for your ads, and will help to determine where and when your ad will appear. When choosing your keywords, think like your customer and what they would be searching for when they want your product, service or offer.

5. Quality Score - A quality score is the measurement from Google based on the relevancy of your ad headline, description, keywords and destination URL to your potential customer seeing your ad. A higher Quality Score can get you better ad placement and lower costs.



6. Impressions - An impression is the measurement of how many times your ad is shown.

7. Ad Rank - Your Ad Rank is the value that’s used to determine where your ad shows up on a page. It’s based on your Quality Score and your bid amount.

8. Ad extensions - Ad extensions are extra information about your business, such as your local address, phone number, and even coupons or additional websites. They’re what shows up in blue below your ad descriptions.

9. Call to Action (CTA) - A CTA is literally the action you want your searcher to take. Good CTAs in your ads are short, action oriented words such as “Buy”, “Get”, “Act Now”, etc.

10. Click Through Rate (CTR) - Your CTR is an important metric in your account settings. It measures how many people who have seen your ad click through to your link destination.

11. Landing Page - Your landing page is the page on your website to which you’re driving traffic from your ad.

12. Optimization - Optimization in Google Ads is like optimization elsewhere in marketing. It means making the changes in your ad that get you higher results for your objectives.

13. Bid Strategy - Your bid strategy is basically how you set your bid type to pay for viewer interaction with your ads.

14. CPC - Cost-Per-Click is the most common bid type on Google Ads. It means you pay every time a person actually clicks on your ad.

15. PPC - Pay-Per-Click is the same as CPC.



16. CPM - Cost-Per-thousand impressions is a bidding method that bases your costs on how many times your ads are shown (impressions).

17. Headline - Your ad headline is the header of your ad copy.  It generally shows up in blue when your ad is live.

18. Destination URL - Your destination URL is the landing page your ad is directed to when it’s clicked. Your destination site can be a specific page. You can change it for differing ads within ad groups. Your audience does not see it in the ad.

19. Display URL - Your display URL is what shows up in your ad copy. You can keep this simple and clean to increase your brand recognition, trust, and conversions.

20. Remarketing - It is a way to connect with people who previously interacted with your website or mobile app.

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