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zebedde64
08-20-2005, 07:10 PM
If you are using google ad words on a pay per click campaign

the broad match of the phrase
insurance jobs would appear when any variation of the words insurance jobs appeared in what was put in the box such as uk insurance jobs / london insurance jobs / leeds insurance jobs etc

I am pretty sure I am right in this thinking. is that correct please let me know if not.

However what i am a little unclear of is by specifying an exact match phrase ie) "insurance jobs" it would only appear when the exact match was put in ie someone actually using the advanced search or wrapping speach marks round the text. ( is that correct?)

I am trying to help someone who appears to be suffering from click fraud . I had it myself b4 but I knew the ip adresses so it was easy to deal with google as they were fixed ip's. I suspect these to be proxys with human clickers ( maybe his competitors ) or robots as the all of the huge costs are against " these type phrases in the engines" with speach marks wrapped around his key phrases ... he is in a fairly competitive sector but page impressions and click throughs for the same phrase without the speach marks are a fraction of the " wrapped keywords"

I am installing a click fraud monitor package tommorow so will have a better idea but want to see if I have a case for him for the search engine to refund him at all we are talking tens of 1000's here over an 18 month period you can see the trend ...

But this "wrapped keyword phrases " ppc high impressions and ctr as opposed to the search phrase just being entered is confusing me a tad. 95% of his clicks are generated this way - has joe public got that savvy ?? and this is a consumer product ??? surely not - could you please check yr own exact matches and broad matches some of his ctrs are as high as 60% !!! for "exact match wrapped keywords" average ctr is running at 25% overtime for these wrapped keywords

On my own site I know for a fact that " wrapped keyword insurance jobs" generates significantly less like 5% of what i get for the phrase insurance jobs.

Why i am a bit confused is that he uses both the " wrapped keywords" and also the - phrase on its own as both 2 and 3 keyword phrases yet on the adwords campaign it is the " wrapped keywords " that are showing many 1000s of impressions and clickthroughs as oppposed to the broad matched

Take for example " christening gifts " wrapped had 72,927 impressions yet no wrapped christening gifts had only 13800 over a 6 month period - do you see where i am coming from I suspect that the wrapped keywords are being targetted for clickthroughs

There are about 6 sets of keywords wrapped like this that the have a huge impression rate and click through as opposed to the broad match of the same phrase.


So some clarification on your thoughts if you have any experience of this matter. Thank you .

seobook
08-20-2005, 09:07 PM
well the greater you fine tune your words

bla fla <-- broad
"bla fla" <--phrase
[bla fla] <-- exact

the more inclined you are to be targeted better (and thus have a higher clickthrough rate), because you are only showing where you asked to show.

since CTR is factored into effective bid price AND the exact or phrase match usually gets a higher clickthrough rate, Google AdWords is more inclined to show those ads than the broad ads since their effective bid price would be viewed as being higher.

a good example of the targeting is like the word beatle...a friend of mine stated that people might want to look out to negative match stuff related to the bug if they are advertising a car, but on broad match beatle could also be showing up for stuff like beatles lyrics

click fraud is also more likely to occur on the broader terms since there is more competition in those markets, there are higher search volumes, and higher bid prices

I have had some terms that commonly have like 15 - 40% CTR, but not usually on exceptionally high volume terms.

zebedde64
08-20-2005, 09:23 PM
Thanks for the reply ...

But I am still unsure of my understanding of this so if search query @ the engine is >>> 2 word phrase ( without any quotes wrapped round )

or >>>> " two word phrase " ( with the quotes wrapped around) both of which are advertisers keywords with the same bid price.

why is it showing the " wrapped quotes phrase " as the one getting most of the impressions and ctrs ??? he is still bidding the same money for the other without the quotes but that is not getting a fraction of the impressions ?

sorry to be a pain but it makes no sense

zebedde64
08-20-2005, 09:51 PM
Just another point re these ads

the " wrapped phrase " and >>> the keyword phrase ( not wrapped ) are in his title of the ad in question so the relevancy should be the same it is the same ad for "keywords appearing like this " and not wrapped but both have the same keywords to trigger the ads

like my >>> insurance jobs + " insurance jobs" according to hitwise i get the highest amount of traffic for these keywords but on my stats it is the insurance jobs not " insurance jobs " that delivers most of it. organically or ppc

seobook
08-20-2005, 09:59 PM
"" = phrase match
with many terms there is a higher CTR and more impressions for the generic regular term than some of the random broad traffic that would not match it...see the beatles lyrics example mentioned above

AussieWebmaster
08-21-2005, 02:34 AM
Are you referring to keyword insertion?
use {Keyword: Alternate text} where Keyword is just that "Keyword" not the actual keyword - this tells Google to insert it so if you have a few words in the adgroup the keyword searched gets put into the title which promotes a higher CTR. The alternate text is when the word or phrase is longer than 25 characters and then it is used as the default back up... leave it as just {Keyword} and if it goes over 25 characters the title is then left blank!!!

zebedde64
08-21-2005, 06:29 AM
Hiya,

Thanks for the replies I realise that i am not explaining this very well apologies for that.

One last try .

In campaign tools when you examine a particular campaign # in detail.

ie ) today , yesterday, the week, month, all time etc.

It shows a list of your keywords, impressions, ctr, cpc etc for each keyword
in the list.

For this query what i dont understand is that say for example
" buy a map" with the quotes wrapped round it has 90% more clickthroughs than the same phrase that does not have the quotes >>> buy a map.

yet they both have the same £5.00 maximum bid price .

he doesnt sell maps its just an example what he does sell is an unsual service of which there are 4/5 players in that sector and alll agressive bidders for the keywords. When the campaign first started it went from very few traffic impressions in the the low 100s to with a low ctr on only a couple of keywords then it jumped massively across a whole raft of them all with " the target keywords like this " yet the >>> phrase ( not with quotes ) has remained at a static lowish level which does get clickthroughs at a reasonable level and impressions.

I though that if you went to google and put in the search box ( no advanced search for exact phrase ) so put in >>> buy a map rather than " buy a map " in quotes it would show more as there would be more instances

ie) how can I? where can I ? buy a map for ? these would cause the ad to trigger .. most people do not use the " putting the search in quotes "



does this seem any clearer ? It is really causing me a headache now :confused:

Thank you

seobook
08-21-2005, 11:37 AM
the function of "" when you are buying AdWords ads is to match whenever that phrase is in the search query, even if the search query does not have quotes around it.

AussieWebmaster
08-21-2005, 12:20 PM
the function of "" when you are buying AdWords ads is to match whenever that phrase is in the search query, even if the search query does not have quotes around it.

LOL... thanks for the qualification....

zebedde64
08-21-2005, 12:55 PM
Thanks .. clarification indeed but still a tad :confused: as does it not say in the google ad word guidelines that the broadmatch is the default setting .....

and seeing as both >>> phrases & " phrases " ( wrapped quotes ) were inclusive in the list from day 1 i am confused why it would favour "phrases" >>> rather than phrases!


I operate my own site in the very competitive jobsboard market i am the only niche that specialises in my sector and the big muliti sector jobsboard boys you know the ones are all screaming they do insurance jobs now ! so its competitive

"insurance jobs" organically no1 uk google insurance jobs ( not wrapped ) >>> no 2/3 its jumping a bit . referrers re my ppc google and yes i do track with tracking urls 95% are from >>> insurance jobs not " insurance jobs"

this is what is causing me the headache ...

he has x product ...... search term would be a variant .... where can i , where do i , how can i , " key phrase " this joe public remeber and it is an unusual product

sorry to bang on .....

but 0 impressions for " whatever competitive element of exact phrase " cause it shows by all accounts to suddenly 100s of click throughs and impressions on the same >>> targeted exact phrase some are 4 + 5 word strings at 10 / 20 clicks a day ! @ £ 3.00ish and daily over 10s of other v v accurate " speech mark terms " that broad match would trigger. This hasd been going on for 18 months I have 6 sets of words that spiked massivelyand 2 run into 10's of 1000s of pounds yet these words never appeared b4 they were searched for by " this keyword accurate phrase match " now they consistently run at between 30- 50 % ctr ???

Cheers

anyways ... thanks for help so far

Zeb