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🚀 Welcome to the Google Ads section of our blog! 🚀

Here you will find a treasure trove of valuable information to become an online advertising expert and take your campaigns to the next level. Whether you are a beginner taking your first steps or a seasoned pro looking to hone your strategies, we have something for you! !

What is Google Ads and why is it crucial for your business?

Google Ads is the world's most powerful online advertising platform. It allows you to create ads that appear in Google search results, on partner websites, and on other platforms like YouTube.

Why is it so important? Because it helps you:
  • Reach your target audience: Target your ads to people who are searching for your products or services.
  • Increase your brand visibility: Make your brand stand out in a competitive market.
  • Generate more leads and sales: Attract potential customers and increase your conversions.
  • Control your budget: Define how much you want to spend and adjust your investment at any time.
  • Measure your results: Analyze the performance of your campaigns and optimize your strategy.

What will you find in this category?

Get ready to discover a world of knowledge about Google Ads:

  • Campaign Types : Explore the different campaign options (search, display, shopping, video) and choose the one that best suits your goals.
  • Bidding Strategies: Learn how to optimize your bids to maximize your ROI.
  • Writing Effective Ads: Create ads that grab your target audience's attention and drive clicks.
  • Keywords: Master keyword research and targeting to reach the right people.
  • Landing Page Optimization: Create landing pages that convert visitors into customers.
  • Tracking and analysis: Use Google Ads analytics tools to measure the performance of your campaigns.
  • Expert Tips & Tricks: Leverage ClickOnline's expertise to optimize your campaigns and get the best results.

Who is this content for?

Whether you are:

  • An entrepreneur who wants to promote his business online.
  • A marketer looking for new ways to generate leads.
  • A student who wants to learn about online advertising.
  • Or just a person curious to know the world of Google Ads...

...you will find valuable and useful content in this category!

Don't wait any longer! Dive into our articles and start mastering Google Ads with ClickOnline.

Low Performance Keywords

Low-performing or low-search-volume keywords are words that have generated very little search traffic on Google.

 

This can be due to several reasons, for example, low relevance in user searches due to the unclear and unclear nature of the term, the presence of spelling errors, or simply words that the user rarely or never uses.

 

AdWords tracks the number of searches for each keyword worldwide over the past twelve months.

 

Keywords that have received very little or no traffic during that period could be excluded from the ad auction. This practice allows for more effective ad delivery (based on past experience) and reduces the keyword volume in the system.

 

AdWords can reintroduce a poorly performing keyword into the ad auction at any time, especially if users start searching for that specific term. In that case, that keyword will begin participating in the auction within a day or two.

 

It's important to note that a poorly performing keyword will still appear as "Active" in your account, even if it has been temporarily removed from the auction.

As a tip, it's best to pause any keywords that display the "Low Search Volume" message, as they don't contribute anything positive to the account or, in this case, to the ad group where it's located.

The keys to URLs in Google Adwords

Destination URLs are those that, by definition, take us to a specific website when we click on them.

Within Google AdWords we find the possibility of giving them a more in-depth use.

There are destination URLs and visible URLs.

Destination URLs, as we've already explained, are the links that will take us to the website we want to promote. These URLs aren't the ones users will see in the ads, but they must meet the following requirements:

- They must have a maximum of 1,024 characters

- They must link to a page that works correctly

- You cannot link to a website that is under construction.

- Must link to a website programmed in HTML

 

Visible URLs in Google AdWords are those that users see in the ads we show them. We can also get profit from this, but they must meet certain requirements:

- Have a maximum of 35 characters.

- They must contain the domain of the site we are promoting

- They must include the domain extension, “.com”, “net”, etc.

- They must comply with the Google AdWords editorial policy. Now we can see where to take advantage: Once we've entered the domain in the ad, we'll still have excess characters in the ad, something we need to capitalize on. The best practice for this is to include the domain followed by a slash (/) and a descriptive word for the site where the ad links.

But if this seems like too little, we can still take it one step further and leverage that word in a site so important that the term becomes a keyword on our list. This will give us a higher quality score while significantly improving the CTR, given that the user will be very receptive to this ad.

In other posts, we'll look at how to incorporate keywords into ads and why.

 

Search Network - Content and Display Network

In order to fully understand everything we can learn about Google AdWords, we need to understand the tool's enormous potential. We often hear about the Google search network, the content network, or the display network. When we refer to the Google search network, we're not just referring to Google Inc.'s search engine. We could give many figures about it, such as the fact that 100 billion search queries are made on the search engine per month, which means 3.333 billion queries per day, or more than 38,576 queries per second ! However, this figure has most likely increased since this post was written. We want to emphasize that when we refer to the search network, we're not just talking about the search engine itself, but also Shopping, Maps, Images, and Groups, as well as search partner sites, such as AOL. The Display Network was previously called the Content Network, so we'll refer to it as the Display Network, although the more nostalgic among us sometimes miss the term Content Network. This network is made up of more than a million web pages, videos, and mobile applications where Google ads can appear in the form of graphic ads, text ads, videos, etc. This number, of course, is constantly growing. But it is undoubtedly of an unparalleled size. It is very important to differentiate the two main networks, as it will be extremely useful to know how to differentiate them in order to implement a successful strategy in our Google AdWords campaigns. You can have the best product in the world, but if no one knows about it, it's as if you don't have it at all. - Josef Ajram - Triathlete and Trader

Google AdWords and the famous secret of the Quality Score (I)

 

To rank a website well in Google's search engine, it's essential to have a good Quality Score in our Google AdWords accounts . But what is a Quality Score? How is it measured? How does it affect our accounts? How important is it? Many questions and very few answers. Google has never revealed the secret formula for defining a Quality Score . What we do know is what affects the Quality Score level, and thanks to our experience managing Google AdWords campaigns, we can assure you which variables are important and should be taken into account to optimize our accounts. Before looking at everything we must take into account to achieve a good Quality Score, let's take a look at its importance. With a good Quality Score in our Google AdWords campaigns, we can lower costs per click and also increasingly position our websites in the top positions. A little trick to keep in mind: Every time we create a Google AdWords campaign, our Quality Score level will always start at the highest level. From there, AdWords penalizes us with the Quality Score variants we'll discuss in the next post. Did that seem like too little? Learning marketing takes a day; unfortunately, knowing how to apply and master it takes a lifetime. Philip Kotler.

Ad Group. Tips and Setup.

  Ad groups are probably one of the most important parts of Google AdWords and the one that those new to AdWords account management may find most unfamiliar or unfamiliar. Let's shed some light on this. An ad group can contain one or more ads targeted to a list of keywords and/or locations. The most useful tip we can take away is that ad groups should reflect as much as possible the section of the website we want to promote. That is, define ad groups based on the same website themes and be as faithful as possible to the sections we want to promote. We can assign a CPC to the entire ad group, although we can later vary it for each keyword. To create them, simply go to the "ad groups" tab and click "new ad group." Once created, we'll see the status of the ad group, the default bid for the Search Network and the Display Network, and the statistics reported by the group itself. If we click on the name of the group itself, we'll go to the list of words it's composed of. Just as each ad group has a list of keywords, it can or should also have a list of negative keywords. The advantage of ad groups is that they allow us to be very specific, which is why we encourage you to be generous when creating them. The more specific ad groups we have, the better the campaign will perform. Let's look at an example: An online fashion e-commerce store: We can create, for example, one ad group for men's clothing and another for women's clothing. From here, we can create more: men's summer clothing, women's summer clothing, etc. But the big advantage would be to be much more specific, for example, an ad group for men's summer casual dress pants. Even if we have a large volume of ad groups, this practice is much better for AdWords than having a few general groups. It's not enough to simply ask your customers what they want and give it to them. By the time you've achieved it, they'll want something new. Steve Jobs, Apple

How to create the perfect AdWords ad

Today we'll see how to create the perfect text ad in AdWords. The first thing we need to be clear about is that the perfect ad in AdWords doesn't exist. We can have a very high CTR, but we'll never have the perfect ad. This is where the important part comes in. A highly recommended practice, one that most AdWords professionals use, is to have at least two ads per ad group in their Google AdWords campaigns. This gives us the ability to analyze how users respond to two different ads, even if the difference is minimal, and thus make decisions. How do I do it? Easy. First, let's configure the campaign as follows: In the advanced settings section, expand the " Ad delivery: ad rotation and frequency capping" menu and select "Rotate indefinitely: Show lower-performing ads more regularly with higher-performing ads and do not optimize." This option is intended only for those who will optimize their campaigns regularly. This way, we ensure that our ads are published equally, regardless of the results they obtain. When the AdWords ads begin to be published and a reasonable amount of time passes (it will always depend on the number of times they are shown), we will begin to see the statistics that AdWords shows us and with that, we will make decisions. We will have to pause the ad that gives us the worst statistics and at the same time create another ad to compete with the one we already have. With this, we will ensure that our ads improve over time and therefore bring us better results. Later, we will see more tips for creating perfect ads in Google AdWords, or rather, almost perfect ones. Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. David Ogilvy.