Online advertising is a crucial part of
any digital marketing strategy for an organisation. There are various online
advertising platforms and services available nowadays. Pay-per-click (PPC) is
one of those online advertising services which have gained a lot of buzz in the
digital marketing field. The most prominent one is Google AdWords and is
popular among a majority of digital marketers.
Paid Marketing is one the crucial marketing strategy in Digital Marketing. To implement Paid Marketing strategy in Google AdWords, one must have in-depth understanding of the theoretical and practical implementation using the interface. Pay Per Click (PPC) is the the crucial marketing strategy to target audience looking for our product/service on search network.
Digital marketers who are skilled in AdWords are highly valued and you can get good job opportunities in some of the top organisations across various industries. You can acquire a certification or get skilled through a professional course in Google AdWords or PPC.
Explain how Google AdWords work?
Google AdWords works on the basis of a bidding system, where the bid price and quality score determines if an ad will appear on the top of Google page. Higher the bid and quality score, better are the chances of an ad being on top.
What is PPC marketing?
PPC means Pay Per Click. It’s a marketing strategy to drive traffic to our website via search engines and partner sites. Advertiser will only pay if he receives the visit click on his ads.
Why do you think PPC is important in digital marketing?
PPC is important in digital marketing for the following reasons:
You can reach the right customer at the right time.
PPC shows results quickly as compared to organic campaigns.
PPC can be effective in advertising odd products which are difficult to find easily.
What is meant by Campaign Management?
Campaign management is a process of creating and managing an advertising campaign for a company on Google AdWords. In this we have to divide the campaign based on AdGroups and select relevant keywords for each adgroups. Manage the ad formats and bidding for keywords etc. Campaign manager overall responsibility is to manage the campaign and provide a Positive ROI.
What is DFA ?
Double Click for Advertisers. DFA is an ad server which is used to track impressions and clicks for your creatives on various networks. You can’t buy inventory through DFA. You can only track the performance of your campaigns. Main functions of DFA is ad trafficking and reporting.
What is DFP ?
DFP stands for Double Click for Publishers. If the publisher prefers to manage themselves the ads which will be broadcasted on their websites, they use DFP. For example most of the public sites like way2sms.com, w3schools.com etc use DFP for ads.
What is DBM?
DBM (DoubleClick Bid Manager) is a demand-side platform (DSP) from Google. This helps in buying display media ads using programmatic strategy.
What is Ad Trafficking?
Ad trafficking is a process of setting up an ad campaign from a technical aspect. Which means Setting up the campaign, tracking links, the creatives etc… It is usually performed using an ad server or an advertising platform. For example Ad Trafficking is used in DFA/DFP.
Do you think DFA is an ad exchange?
No DFA is a not an ad exchange. The purpose of DFA is to track and analyze the impressions/clicks received on the ad creatives.
What is Click Tag?
Click tags are used to track the number of clicks on the link from different sources.
What is Google Publisher Tags?
GPT is an ad tagging library to dynamically build ad requests. GPT takes key details from you such as ad unit code, ad size, and key-values, builds the request, and displays the ad on web pages or mobile apps. Its is used for tracking purpose.
What is difference between direct marketing and branding ?
In a direct marketing campaign the advertiser is interested to target the audience who are most relevant to the business. The major metric to consider in this type is conversion rate, which explains about ROI. Most common campaign types are Search Network Only, Shopping Campaigns, Dynamic Search Ads etc.
In Branding campaign an advertiser needs exposure of his brand on major sites and applications. The most popular methods are Display Ads, Remarketing, Youtube Ads and custom ads target.
Which settings cannot be changed after the AdWords account is created ?
Time Zone and Currency cannot be changed after account creation.
What is Google AdWords Double Serving policy?
It means that an advertiser cannot advertise for same keywords/websites from multiple accounts. The purpose of this policy is to avoid showing ads of same companies or companies with common ownership. So the users can see the the ads from different providers. Read more about this here
What do understand by Quality Score?
Quality Score is a metric which is calculated for each keyword between 1 to 10. The QS defines the quality of keyword compared with Ads and Landing Page. This metric is used to calculate the AdRank, which is used to calculate the ad position.
What is the impact of Quality score on CPC and Ad Position ?
Quality Score is inversely proportional to CPC and Directly proportional to Ad Position. That means higher QS means lower cost and higher position.
What is Actual CPC ?
The actual cost of a click for an advertiser in an auction. The actual CPC is calculated in realtime and we cannot know the Actual CPC, but we can see Avg. CPC.
Actual CPC = (AdRank to Beat/QS)+$0.01
What Kind of Quality Score you can achieve for keywords ?
In my past campaigns I achieved the QS of 7 – 10. I can improve the quality score by using optimization techniques in campaign.
What are the Factors which affect Quality Score ?
Quality Score depends on the following metrics
CTR of the Keyword
Relevance of Keywords and Ads
Landing Page Quality
Historic Account Data
How can you Improve Conversion Rates ?
By creating ads which match perfectly with keywords and creating tightly themed ad groups so we can get targeted users to best landing page. Also by improving the Landing Page quality we can improve the conversions.
Is PPC Advertisement effect ranking of websites on search engines ?
Never, Search Engine don’t mix them. Google and other search engines rank both organic and ppc results separately
Can you tell me limit of character used for PPC Ads ?
Different Search Engines have different Limit on ads character as for Google you can put maximum 25 for headline and 70 for description 1 and 2 combined.
Google AdWords works on the basis of a bidding system, where the bid price and quality score determines if an ad will appear on the top of Google page. Higher the bid and quality score, better are the chances of an ad being on top.
What is PPC marketing?
PPC means Pay Per Click. It’s a marketing strategy to drive traffic to our website via search engines and partner sites. Advertiser will only pay if he receives the visit click on his ads.
Why do you think PPC is important in digital marketing?
PPC is important in digital marketing for the following reasons:
You can reach the right customer at the right time.
PPC shows results quickly as compared to organic campaigns.
PPC can be effective in advertising odd products which are difficult to find easily.
What is meant by Campaign Management?
Campaign management is a process of creating and managing an advertising campaign for a company on Google AdWords. In this we have to divide the campaign based on AdGroups and select relevant keywords for each adgroups. Manage the ad formats and bidding for keywords etc. Campaign manager overall responsibility is to manage the campaign and provide a Positive ROI.
What is DFA ?
Double Click for Advertisers. DFA is an ad server which is used to track impressions and clicks for your creatives on various networks. You can’t buy inventory through DFA. You can only track the performance of your campaigns. Main functions of DFA is ad trafficking and reporting.
What is DFP ?
DFP stands for Double Click for Publishers. If the publisher prefers to manage themselves the ads which will be broadcasted on their websites, they use DFP. For example most of the public sites like way2sms.com, w3schools.com etc use DFP for ads.
What is DBM?
DBM (DoubleClick Bid Manager) is a demand-side platform (DSP) from Google. This helps in buying display media ads using programmatic strategy.
What is Ad Trafficking?
Ad trafficking is a process of setting up an ad campaign from a technical aspect. Which means Setting up the campaign, tracking links, the creatives etc… It is usually performed using an ad server or an advertising platform. For example Ad Trafficking is used in DFA/DFP.
Do you think DFA is an ad exchange?
No DFA is a not an ad exchange. The purpose of DFA is to track and analyze the impressions/clicks received on the ad creatives.
What is Click Tag?
Click tags are used to track the number of clicks on the link from different sources.
What is Google Publisher Tags?
GPT is an ad tagging library to dynamically build ad requests. GPT takes key details from you such as ad unit code, ad size, and key-values, builds the request, and displays the ad on web pages or mobile apps. Its is used for tracking purpose.
What is difference between direct marketing and branding ?
In a direct marketing campaign the advertiser is interested to target the audience who are most relevant to the business. The major metric to consider in this type is conversion rate, which explains about ROI. Most common campaign types are Search Network Only, Shopping Campaigns, Dynamic Search Ads etc.
In Branding campaign an advertiser needs exposure of his brand on major sites and applications. The most popular methods are Display Ads, Remarketing, Youtube Ads and custom ads target.
Which settings cannot be changed after the AdWords account is created ?
Time Zone and Currency cannot be changed after account creation.
What is Google AdWords Double Serving policy?
It means that an advertiser cannot advertise for same keywords/websites from multiple accounts. The purpose of this policy is to avoid showing ads of same companies or companies with common ownership. So the users can see the the ads from different providers. Read more about this here
What do understand by Quality Score?
Quality Score is a metric which is calculated for each keyword between 1 to 10. The QS defines the quality of keyword compared with Ads and Landing Page. This metric is used to calculate the AdRank, which is used to calculate the ad position.
What is the impact of Quality score on CPC and Ad Position ?
Quality Score is inversely proportional to CPC and Directly proportional to Ad Position. That means higher QS means lower cost and higher position.
What is Actual CPC ?
The actual cost of a click for an advertiser in an auction. The actual CPC is calculated in realtime and we cannot know the Actual CPC, but we can see Avg. CPC.
Actual CPC = (AdRank to Beat/QS)+$0.01
What Kind of Quality Score you can achieve for keywords ?
In my past campaigns I achieved the QS of 7 – 10. I can improve the quality score by using optimization techniques in campaign.
What are the Factors which affect Quality Score ?
Quality Score depends on the following metrics
CTR of the Keyword
Relevance of Keywords and Ads
Landing Page Quality
Historic Account Data
How can you Improve Conversion Rates ?
By creating ads which match perfectly with keywords and creating tightly themed ad groups so we can get targeted users to best landing page. Also by improving the Landing Page quality we can improve the conversions.
Is PPC Advertisement effect ranking of websites on search engines ?
Never, Search Engine don’t mix them. Google and other search engines rank both organic and ppc results separately
Can you tell me limit of character used for PPC Ads ?
Different Search Engines have different Limit on ads character as for Google you can put maximum 25 for headline and 70 for description 1 and 2 combined.
What is Invalid Click and How Google
determines the invalid clicks
Invalid clicks are the fake clicks, unintentional and malicious software clicks. Google has a sophisticated mechanism and algorithms to automatically detect and filter the invalid clicks from user account. Invalid clicks in AdWords
What are PLA Ads?
PLA stands for product listing ads. This ad strategy is used to advertise products ads on Google search and partners. This campaign is also called as Shopping campaign mostly used by E-commerce websites.
What is meant by Converted Clicks ?
Converted clicks is a metric which tracks the total no of clicks which resulted in conversions. This metric is deprecated by Google.
What is Remarketing Audience and how to generate this list?
Remarketing audience are the users who visited our website. Using Google Remarketing tag in our website, we can add the users as our audience list.
Invalid clicks are the fake clicks, unintentional and malicious software clicks. Google has a sophisticated mechanism and algorithms to automatically detect and filter the invalid clicks from user account. Invalid clicks in AdWords
What are PLA Ads?
PLA stands for product listing ads. This ad strategy is used to advertise products ads on Google search and partners. This campaign is also called as Shopping campaign mostly used by E-commerce websites.
What is meant by Converted Clicks ?
Converted clicks is a metric which tracks the total no of clicks which resulted in conversions. This metric is deprecated by Google.
What is Remarketing Audience and how to generate this list?
Remarketing audience are the users who visited our website. Using Google Remarketing tag in our website, we can add the users as our audience list.
When will be CPV charged for a in-stream ad for a video of 60 secs length?
If the user watches 30 secs of the video. CPV will be charged in the account.
What is meant by Search Queries?
Search queries are exact keywords for which your ads were triggered.
What is meant by Price Extensions?
Price extensions is a now format of extension, to display the price of the relevant products
