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What Happens When An Accounts Has Lots of Broad Match?
Heavy use of broad match can lead to cross pollination in your account.
To see how this affects your account, run a search query report, place in a
pivot table and see how many keywords are matching to each query.
Using more controlled match types [exact] and negatives keywords allows
you to steer traffic to the most efficient keywords.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/analyzingyourkeymetrics-7areasfinalco-150416163653-conversion-gate01/75/Analyzing-Your-Key-Metrics-7-Areas-You-Must-Examine-for-PPC-Account-Success-25-2048.jpg)
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Analyzing Your Key Metrics: 7 Areas You Must Examine for PPC Account Success
The document discusses key metrics for optimizing PPC accounts, focusing on seven essential areas: quality score, impression share, account structure, keywords, ad extensions, display ads, and campaign segmentation. It emphasizes the importance of quality scores for ad placement, various keyword strategies, and the effective use of ad extensions to enhance ad rank. Additionally, strategies for managing PPC budgets and optimizing ad delivery across different devices are highlighted.
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- 1. Cassie Oumedian, Sr.Digital Specialist – Hanapin Marketing Analyzing Your Key Metrics: 7 Areas You Must Examine For PPC Account Success
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- 3. Cassie Oumedian –Hanaping Marketing - @cass_oumedian Cassie Oumedian is the Sr. Digital Specialist at Hanapin Marketing with over 7 years of PPC experience working on some of the worlds largest brands. At Hanapin, she helps Enterprise, Small and Medium size businesses analyze their PPC accounts to help identify gaps and opportunities within their digital PPC strategy. When not creating pivot tables, you will find her golfing or catching up on Games of Thrones. Thue Madsen - KISSmetrics - @ThueLMadsen Thue is the KISSmetrics Webinar Wizard and Marketing Ops Specialist. Before joining forces with KISSmetrics, he was a Ly driver in SF, which is also how he ended up as a KISSmetrics marketer. Whenever Thue is not trying to automate everything around him, you can find him fishing and hiking in the Sierras.
- 4. 1 2 Table of Contents 1. Quality Score 2. Impression Share 3. Account Structure 4. Keywords 5. Ad Extensions 6. Display 7. Segments
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- 8. An estimate ofthe quality of your ads, keywords, and landing page. Higher quality ads can lead to lower prices and be er ad positions. The components of Quality Score (expected clickthrough rate, ad relevance, and landing page experience) are determined every time your keyword matches a customer's search. What is Quality Score?
- 9. How is QualityScore calculated? Click Thru Rate Landing Page Relevance Ad Text Relevance Keyword Relevance Historical Performancec Device
- 10. Why is QualityScore Important? Ad Rank = QS + Max CpC + Ad Extensions
- 11. Why is QualityScore Important?
- 12. What Does andDoesn’t Ma er Regarding Quality Score? Se ling the (Quality) Score Using Quality Score to Guide Optimizations
- 13. What is agood Quality Score? An ideal range of 7 to 9 tend to have a solid structure that has the best balance of relevancy, efficiency and growth.
- 14. Bing Quality Score Newupdates released in Feb include Market Estimate QS when not enough data is available.
- 15. Facebook Relevance Score Relevancescore is calculated based on the positive and negative feedback an ad receives from its target audience. The higher an ad’s relevance score is, the less it will cost to be delivered. Sounds familiar….
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- 19. Impression Share ! ! Search impressionshare: The impressions you’ve received on the Search Network divided by the estimated number of impressions you were eligible to receive. Search Lost IS (budget): The percentage of time that your ads weren't shown on the Search Network due to insufficient budget. This data is available at the campaign level only. Search Lost IS (rank): The percentage of time that your ads weren't shown on the Search Network due to poor Ad Rank in the auction. Note: Lost IS (rank) won't be shown on your Ad groups tab if you ran out of budget at any point during the date range being examined. Search Exact match IS: The impressions you've received divided by the estimated number of impressions you were eligible to receive on the Search Network for search terms that matched your keywords exactly (or were close variants of your keyword). Not available for Shopping campaigns.
- 20. Impression Share From myexperience a total search impression share of 75% + would be considered good as this means your account is showing up for majority of auctions available. This is factoring in a balance of all the match types.
- 21. Impression Share High lostimpression share due to rank is primarily tied to quality score and bids. Improving Quality Score and bid optimizations will help improve lost IS due to rank. IS Budget Rank Exact IS
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- 24. Account Structure ! ! Typically liketo see accounts have 60-70% of volume from exact match with 30-40% through broad match modified and phrase.
- 25. Account Structure ! ! What HappensWhen An Accounts Has Lots of Broad Match? Heavy use of broad match can lead to cross pollination in your account. To see how this affects your account, run a search query report, place in a pivot table and see how many keywords are matching to each query. Using more controlled match types [exact] and negatives keywords allows you to steer traffic to the most efficient keywords.
- 26. Account Structure 10-15 keywordsper ad group we’ve found allow for tighter themes, resulting in higher quality scores. How Many KWs Per AdGroup?
- 27. Account Structure ! ! Having 2-4ads per ad group allows for ongoing ad testing to help improve click thru rates and conversion rates.
- 28. Account Structure ! ! Clear andconcise account structures allow for a more controlled and efficient environment for growth. Segmenting by match type and bid tier help funnel traffic efficiently. AdWords quality score also takes into account structure as part of the quality score algorithm.
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- 31. Keyword ! ! What types ofkeywords do you have in your account and how do they perform? Head Terms vs Long Tail.
- 32. Keyword ! ! Are you running SQRsto expand your account and exclude poor performers?
- 33. Keyword ! ! Are negative keywordsblocking relevant traffic in your account? Avoid using broad match negatives to help avoid issues with conflicting negatives. Regularly audit your negative keyword lists to ensure you are not excluding relevant traffic.
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- 36. Ad Extensions Ad Extensions area Big Deal!
- 37. Ad Extensions In additionto max CPC bid and quality score, Ad Rank will now factor in the expected impact from ad extensions and formats. Ad Rank is also becoming a bigger factor in determining whether ads are eligible to display with extensions and formats.
- 38. Ad Extensions ! ! Don’t forgetabout Bing Ad Extensions!
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- 41. Display ! ! How to tellif your display campaigns are broken? Start by reviewing Display Placement Reports to see if your ads are showing up on relevant sites.
- 42. Display ! ! Are your displaycampaigns assisting other channels or campaigns?
- 43. Display ! ! Are they actuallydriving conversions or just branding? If placements are not driving actual conversions or assisted conversions, be sure to exclude placements to increase efficiency.
- 44. Display ! ! If you noticemobile apps are driving irrelevant traffic, you can exclude them by adding the above placement exclusion to weed out inefficient traffic.
- 45. Display ! ! Are you over-servingads to users? AdWords Reach Metrics are available at the campaign level allow you to see how frequent your ads are showing to unique users. By reviewing CTR and CVR at the various reach metrics, you can then set a frequency cap on your display campaigns to prevent over-serving Ads to users. Key metric for remarketing campaigns
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- 48. Segments ! ! Segment your campaignsto see hidden areas where your account could be wasting money or needs further a ention Repeat offenders of hiding performance through segments include: - Search Partner Network - Device Mobile and Tablet - Top vs. Other
- 49. Segments ! ! How Do SearchPartners Perform for your account? A er reviewing the data, you can then determine if you need to expand search partners, or maybe exclude them all together to help increase efficiency.
- 50. Segments ! ! How are mobileand tablets performing? Adjust mobile bid modifiers to help optimize for optimal conversions and CPA/ROAS.
- 51. Segments ! ! Bing mobile andTABLET bid adjustments Bing offers Tablet bids adjustments from -20% up to +300% to help optimize tablet performance
- 52. 2015 KISSmetrics GuideKISSmetrics Demo h p://kiss.ly/growth h p://kiss.ly/demo
- 53. Questions? Cassie Oumedian Senior DigitalSpecialist Hanapin Marketing @cass_Oumedian cassie.oumedian@hanapinmarketing.com Thue Madsen Marketing Operations Specialist KISSmetrics @ThueLMadsen tmadsen@kissmetrics.com
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