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Bidding According to Match Type

January 21, 2015 by Brad Geddes Leave a Comment

Bidding According to Match TypeFrom the Market Motive Forum: I recently received the following fantastic question regarding bidding according to match type from a Market Motive student.

“I’ve seen people who split their ad groups into the three match types like this:

  1. Exact
  2. Phrase
  3. Broad

I understand that by taking keywords that perform well and moving them up, then adding them as negative keywords for the previous group, we can ensure that they show for the exact match and not the broad match.

Can we simply not leave the different match types in the same group ‘Marketing Training’ and adjust the bids so that the bid amount for exact match > phrase match > broad match? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Discipline Specific, Discipline: PPC Advertising Tagged With: Forum, pay-per-click, PPC

Does Adding Conversion Tracking to Websites Decrease Quality Scores?

October 28, 2014 by Brad Geddes Leave a Comment

market motive quality scoresFrom the Market Motive Forums: Trying to Determine Why Quality Scores Went Down

Quality scores are critical to an AdWords account as they influence the rank and cost-per-click (CPC) of ads. I recently fielded a great question in our member’s only forum regarding the decrease of quality scores and if this happened due to adding conversion tracking to a website.

A student had an AdGroup with solid overall quality scores of 7+. There was even one term that had a perfect 10 out of 10 score. When conversion tracking was added to the website, there was a dramatic decrease in quality scores on that very same day.

So what’s the deal? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Discipline Specific, Discipline: PPC Advertising Tagged With: Forum, pay-per-click, PPC

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