Lecture 7 Flashcards
Paid search, also referred to as search advertising, search engine marketing (SEM), or pay-per-click (PPC), is the process of
advertising on search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
Search marketers use paid search in conjunction with SEO practices and software to form
a comprehensive search marketing strategy
Why is Search Advertising Important?
Allows advertisers to place their product in front of people who are already looking for it
Search Advertising is important because…
Targeted ad based on people’s searches reduces the
audience to those already seeking out a product or service
• 3.5 billion searches performed per day on Google
SEO is about
optimizing your website to get better search result rankings (organic listings)
SEM is
a form of marketing focused on increasing a website’s visibility in search engine result pages through optimization and advertising
How are Search Ads Priced?
Auction style cost per click model, not based on impressions
Bid on keywords (similar to eBay auctions)
Ranking and CPC depends on variety of factors:
Competition Bid Amount Landing Page Relevance Ad Relevance Quality Score
Quality Score
CTR - Are users clicking on ad at an efficient rate?
Landing Page - Does the destination URL identify with the ad copy?
Historical Perform
Ad Relevancy - Does the ad copy relate to the keyword query?
Keyword Relevancy
Quality Score =
The Ad Rank of the person below you / Your Quality Score + $0.01
Search Advertising Trends
Mobile Prominence
Personalized PPC
Keyword Importance Waning
Mobile Prominence:
In May 2015, Google reported that more searches are performed on mobile devices than PCs in the US
Personalized PPC:
ads will continue to become more data driven, resulting in an increase in remarketing campaigns
Keyword Importance Waning:
Experts predict that keywords will be knocked off as top priority in PPC strategies with the adoption of product listing ads (PLAs) and search engines’ growing focus on semantic search
Search Advertising Software
Help businesses advertise on search engines
such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
Typically used by marketers to identify,
target, and bid on relevant keywords,
gaining more prominent positioning in SERP
for engaged users
Leveraged to create and optimize ads, as
well as track conversion and return on ad
spend (ROAS)
It can include 1st party (Google, Microsoft, and
Yahoo!) and 3rd party platforms (to manage
campaigns across multiple engines)
Customer Modeling
Process of predicting and forecasting behavioral aspects of customers’ future perspectives
Includes identification of marketing and campaigning targets and optimizing predictive analysis
Framework for Model Developing
Describe the case and the define the goal. Ex: Who will subscribe?
Select all available data types (internal and external) and remove points that are obsolete, redundant, incomplete
Select variables with predictive power and transform them if needed to avoid overfitting
Run the model and validate the data
Implement the model or select different data
Types of Customer Modeling
- Reactive
- Proactive
- Recommendation Engine
Reactive Modeling
Bayesian
Artificial Neural Network
Business Rules
Proactive Modeling
Logistic
Time to Event
Bayesian