Google AdWords Lab 1 2/28/2013 CS190: Web Science and Technology, 2010

Google AdWords Lab

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Today's Plan

 Quiz!

Search Advertising (more details)

Start Project: Google advertising challenge

Anatomy of a Search Ad

Ad Generation

• Headline:

• Ad Text:

• Landing URL

Well Written(describing product) Poorly Written (vague, generic, dull)

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“Search keyword insertion”

“Landing Page”

5 Spring 2009 Eugene Agichtein CS 190: The Web:

Ad Quality Score + Landing Page Quality

• Search engine needs repeat customers

• Needs to improve user experience for long term

• Bid transformation:

– (Bid $ amount) x (Ad Quality Score)

~ (Bid $ amount) x

(CTR rate + relevance)

In other words, rank by expected revenue for Google

• High quality ads → Lower bid amount

Details for quality score: https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10215

Main difference between Yahoo and Google until 2007

Improving PPC ROI

Landing Pages

• Targeted pages that are part of the website often outperform the home page as a landing page (Clovis)

Website Home Page

Average Conversion Rate: 1.17%

Targeted Website Page Average Conversion Rate: 2.40%

Improving PPC ROI

Landing Pages

• Specially-created landing pages often outperform website pages, even targeted ones, as the landing page

• Use A/B testing (Clovis Group) or multivariate testing (Dale and Thomas)

Website Home Page

Average Conversion Rate: 1.17%

Targeted Website Page Average Conversion Rate: 2.40%

Special Landing Page Average Conversion Rate: 12.5%

OK

BETTER

Keyword Selection: What keywords to bid on

?

• Match by topic/relevance:

– Keyword Tool

– WordTracker

• Analyze keyword demographics

– (See earlier discussion)

• Negative Keywords

– E.g., “Dove” (soap) vs. Dove chocolates vs. Lonesome Dove (book) vs. Rita Dove (poet)

• Association with desirable (sponsored) events, people

Keyword Selection: How much?

Demographic Targeting: Honda

Element

• Target Demographic: Young, single males

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxPg7CwtG2w

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkAGfS__mk

Competition Waits Though…

• For every Honda Element, there is a GM

Pontiac

• TV Campaign from GM: “Google Pontiac”

• Mazda bids on keyword “Pontiac”

– 69% of Pontiac traffic goes to GM

– 2.43% goes to Mazda according to HitWise

Campaign Settings

Geo-Targetting

Meet hot young singles in your mom's

basement today'? .... *&$% GeoIP.

Starting project 2

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Today:

Setup Google AdWords account;

 Create and use dedicated gmail

address shared by whole

team.

http://adwords.google.com/

MUST be set up in US dollars (USD)

- SHOULD NOT have any billing information

- any campaign created must be PAUSED, so the credit does

not run once it is applied.

Register your adwords account:

http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/discover/index.html

Use Professor's real e-mail address

Project 2 cont'd

• Once verified, students will be notified through email.

• Log in to this dashboard again; enter the Customer ID

number of the AdWords account and Google will credit

your account with

USD $250

to participate in the

Challenge (allow few days for this to occur)

• Your 10 digit customer ID (CID) is at the top right

corner of your AdWords account. Enter the correct CID

as once entered, it can not be edited again.

Project 2: Google Ad Campaign

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– Pick your teams: 2 or 3people each. Preferably, not same as Project 1

– Pick a small business (or non-profit or student organization) with a website that has not

used google AdWords in previous 6 months

– Sign up for Google advertising challenge

• Today/tonight: Setup Google AdWords account; send your CID to me

• Monday 3/4, send professor your campaign strategy (1 page, including website of business you want to promote). I will give you feedback in class on Tue.

• Thursday (3/6) Your Advertising campaign starts and continues at least through spring break.

• Thursday 3/21 each group does a short presentation about campaign results.

• Wednesday, 3/27, submit a short (1-2 page) report about your ad campaign.

 Note: If you want to be considered in the Google competition for fame, fortune, and

Example: Emory CS PhD Program

•

https://adwords.google.com/select/snapshot

Another Example

• Site: Atlanta Mission (

http://atlantamission.org/

)

• Campaign goal: increase # of donations

– (could be raise awareness, etc)

• Think of the keywords

• Think of the demographics/targetting

• Think of your budget (plan using keyword traffic

estimation tool)…

"Homework": plan your Ad campaign

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• Pick a “business” – preferably, non-profit/student

org, but real small business OK

• Follow the multimedia lessons in Google Adwords:

http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/index.html

Especially:

– 1(a, c)

Further Reading:

Student Guide to the Challenge

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http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/student_guide.pdf

Note that it contains additional requirement only

needed to participate in Google’s competition. Not

required for the class project.