Advanced PPC Flashcards
What is the goal of the search process?
Discover solutions to problems
Why is it important that your ad convey that your brand has the solution to their problem?
Convey relevance and importance
What is the buying funnel?
The process users go through to determine whether to buy a product/service. It is important to understand user’s buying decisions at each stage so can create appropriate messages.
What are the 4 stages of the buying funnel?
- ) Awareness
- ) Consideration
- ) Buying
- ) Retention
Do keywords change throughout the buying funnel?
Yes (keywords and behavior changes throughout the funnel)
At what stage do users tend to use broad keywords in their search?
Awareness
What type of keywords are used in the consideration phase?
More specific keywords (two keyword terms; more category specific)
What types of keywords are used in the purchase phase?
Long tail keywords; product/brand name is now being used
What are the different types of keyword types?
Describes the:
- ) Product
- ) Problem
- ) Condition/symptoms the problem solves for
- ) Product names and part numbers
Do keywords need to be tailored to the audience that you are targeting and what they would be most likely to input?
Yes
What does the match type do?
> > Determine the conditions under which the ad will be served to the visitor
> > How the search term and keyword must relate in order for your ad to be served
What is a semantic match type?
Semantic match types will match to search terms that have the same meaning as your keyword.
Semantic = meaning
Exact match, broad match, broad match modifier
What are syntactic match types?
The structure (format) must match.
> > Phrase match is a syntactic match type (the exact keyword in the same order must be presented; can have words before and after and ad will still display; plurals, singulars, misspellings)
Which report helps you identify which keywords are working well in your search campaign?
Search Term Report
What do you have to keep in mind with negative keyword match type?
- ) Where it will be placed in the account
2. ) What the negative keyword match type will be
What is the impact of negative keywords in an ad group?
If placed in the ad group it will just impact the keywords in that ad group
Helps to create organization
What is the impact of negative keywords in a campaign?
Impacts the keywords in that campaign across multiple ad groups
Ads will not show for negative keywords used anywhere in the campaign
What is the impact of negative keywords in a campaign negative keyword list?
Ads will not be displayed for any campaigns with that negative keyword across all campaigns that reference that negative keyword list
What is an n-gram analysis?
Helps you identify patterns across query data
Where should you go to look for good keywords for your PPC strategy?
- ) Website
- ) Talk to SEO team
- ) Sales team - how customers talk about product
- ) Product team - can provide case scenarios for advertising
- ) Sitemap and feeds
- ) Analytics - Google Search Console (keywords people used to find your website; sort by conversions and conversion rate to find the best keywords to use.)
- ) Internal site search
- ) Google Keyword Planner
What are the 4 different ways that you can use Google Keyword Planner?
- ) Site crawl and suggest keywords
- ) Input keywords and see performance results
- ) Complete projections and forecasts on cost and project clicks
- ) Filter results to create a keyword list
Does Google Search Consule tell you your organic position for keywords?
Yes
> > Good approach to include keywords in your organic and PPC campaigns
What are 2 good reference points to help with defining ad group categories?
- ) Product catalogue/feed
2. ) Website site map
When creating a keyword list should you consider adjectives, adverbs and word modifiers, such as colors, sizes, destinations, travel, etc.?
Yes
What is the typical structure of a website?
● A typical site breakdown is: o Home page o Category page o Product page o Form
What is a feature?
Characteristic of a product/service
What is a benefit?
Proves why the feature is useful to the user
What is a unique selling proposition?
What makes a product or service unique.
Addresses how your product solves/addresses customer needs
More narrow than UVP because just focuses on the needs of the customer (Think selling is in the name and what it does is describe solutions)
What is a unique value proposition?
- ) What the product is
- ) Who it is for
- ) How solves the customer’s problem
(More robust than USP because defines the audience, the product and impact)
At what stage of the buying funnel do benefits keywords work best?
Awareness
Retention
At what stage of the buying funnel do benefits and features keywords work best?
Consideration
Should you use different calls to actions at different stages of the funnel?
Yes
What are dynamic search ads?
They insert keywords from your website directly into the ad to align with the user search query
What is the if/ function in dynamic search ads?
Allows you to insert logic-based business rules - if this, then insert that
The if/default ads allow you to specify conditions. For example, if the ad is displayed on a mobile, the text displayed is Call us, and if the ad is displayed on a computer, the text displayed is Contact us.
What is the countdown feature in a dynamic search ad?
Allows you to specify a timeline/ count down. For example, you can specify that a certain offer is valid for six hours”. And the time is dynamically updated in the ad based on the time left.
What is the Ad Customizer Feature in a Dynamic Search Ad?
The ad customizer feature allows you to dynamically update your ads from a feed. You can add a placeholder in your ad and then that data is pulled from the feed.
What is the responsive search ad feature for dyanamic ads?
Acts like modular content. Create multiple headlines, descriptions and call to action copy and Google Ads will optimize for the best combination
The responsive search ad feature allows you to provide multiple headlines and multiple descriptions. This allows Google to offer the best possible combination.
Why is prequalifying copy in an ad important?
- Helps to ensure that only certain users (your target audience) clicks on the ad
What is a Complete Ad?
- Means using most of your characters (at least 20 characters for headlines and at least 80% of your description length)
- Get higher conversion rates and CTRs
What is Single Ad Group testing?
>>Most comment >>A/B testing (test two ads) >>Gain insights on ads within an ad group >>Good to do for high-traffic ad groups >>Good for branded ad groups
What is Multi-Ad Group Testing?
> Testing patterns across ad groups to find out which works best for a campaign
> > Get insights across a segment
Good for ads that use a template (so somewhat standardized for comparison sake)
Small data accounts
Market research
What is the benefit of Single-Ad Group testing?
Helps to determine messaging focus. Should ads be action-oriented, benefits-oriented or features-oriented.
What is the benefit of Multi-Ad Group Testing?
Test several factors, including:
- price, location, shipping, quality, call to action, display URL
- Need to segment the data to ensure that results do not get affected (double counting)