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What is Google Ads?
Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.
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What is Google Ads?
Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.
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What is Google Ads?
Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear. There's no minimum spending commitment, and the program can be paused or stopped at anytime. With Google Ads the user reaches people as they search for words or phrases as they browse websites. Ads can appear in Google search listings and on partner websites. Remarketing and retargeting techniques can be applied to increase return traffic and make sales. With cost-per-click (CPC) bidding, Google Ads charges users when visitors click on ads.
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Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.
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The most common users of Google Ads are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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January 23, 2023
Ad Management with Google Ads
Score 10 out of 10
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Google Ads is a very platform to manage paid advertising that is sought to be shared within the Google search engine as well as the allies that receive advertising from them. It allows you to obtain a better scope of conversion of visits into sales of your website. It can be considered as a great management tool for advertising management in internet search engines.
- Management of suitable content for advertising
- Administration of programmed resources for advertising
- Management of the balance and distribution dedicated to publicity and specific announcements
- Improve the content planning and budget allocation development interface
- The interface of the android application is improved for visibility of its content and management.
- Content management for advertising
- Administration of funds for advertising within the Google search engine
- If it has been reliable in a certain development of advertising exposure.
It is part of the Google suite of tools for content management for advertising and ads in the Google search engine.
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The use of budget within the Google Ads platform can be managed effectively and guided in a specific way in the content that you want to advertise.
No, I did not need to contract premium support, I received the necessary attention under free support.
No
- Advertising campaign tracking is easy to understand.
- Design the advertising process model to be followed.
Yes
It is very efficient when used from mobile devices due to its content adaptability and multi-screen adjustment.
March 03, 2022
Google Ads is Complicated and Has Zero ROI
We use it to market events and fund-raising functions. We need more attendees to business events and we need to raise funds. We use Google Ads to get the awareness of our company! It's difficult to get attendees to live events after Covid 19. We also use the keyword planner tool to research keywords to use in designing websites for ourselves and others.
- Keyword Planner.
- Demographic Targeting.
- Location Targeting.
- Budgeting and lack of controlling and stopping the amount spent.
- It's very challenging to create display ads.
- It's very difficult to use Ad groups.
- If it was easier to create ads more people would use it.
- Keyword Planner.
- Demographics Research with Keywords.
- Minimal if any impact on my ROI.
- I have not seen an uptick in sales or conversions.
- Meta for Business (formerly Facebook for Business)
Neither platform seems to perform in my opinion. Google Ads is much more complicated while Facebook Ads are simpler to implement and run. No positive ROI on either though!
- Keyword Planner.
- The ad platform itself especially Ad Groups.
November 11, 2015
The one and only. Other products add value, but do not replace it as a required resource.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
AdWords is used to implement inbound marketing programs for our client base. It is used specifically within our department, where the execution and management of ad campaigns is done. It's Primary use is as an implementation and reporting tool. It has a friendly, albeit slightly slow, interface with very handy automated reporting processes.
- Simple reporting interface. Beneficial to pulling adhoc reports to perform custom analysis.
- Easy to use, friendly UI. While it is a bit slow, it's relatively easy to navigate.
- Large knowledge base. Very easy to access knowledge base. Organized well. Allows everyone from beginners to advanced users to find answers to questions about the product
- Quicker UI. Clunky feel at peak hours of the day.
- Simplicity of measuring conversions
- Granularity of reporting
- Some processes cannot be automated.
AdWords is the defacto provider in this industry. SME's should be ready to dive deep. Larger purchasers may see a bigger benefit in account automation through automated bidding/testing, etc. from some other providers.
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AdWords UI is the only free option when it comes to advertising on google. 3rd party products can be expensive, clunky, lack full list of features and functions, and are complex for day to day users.
No change necessary. End all be all.
- UI Reporting - Easy to use, quick, intuitive. Lack of complexity within UI reporting
- Easily Scaled - Use of simple copy/paste functions, and the inclusion of adwords editor make scaling accounts easy and fast
- Knowledge Base - In interface links to helpful KB articles. Thorough and additional chat support available
- Bid Adjustments - Layering makes this feature difficult, but all the while useful.
- Auction Insights - Data is unreliable, difficult to use/interpret, and is misleading in terms of completeness
February 04, 2015
AdWords Review
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
AdWords is used predominately by the search and digital display advertising teams within our company. Through AdWords we can manage paid search campaigns that also include managing ads on Google content network and Google domains across the world. For digital display we use it for banner based media buys on Google and its partner networks. We also manage YouTube video advertising through AdWords.
- AdWords has a great capability to manage a client’s budget in the most micro possible way. The structure that Google has created to setup adwords PPC helps you create a channelized method to control your cost and manage your visibility, through creating campaign and ad group structures wisely.
- We can monitor bids for every keyword separately that present in the list, which I think is amazing flexibility and write ads for each particular category of keywords. For example if you are bidding on keyword [white shirt] you can have an ad that specifically speaks to that particular keyword. This helps advertisers stay extremely relevant to searches and hence increase the chance of brand interaction through Google paid ads.
- Google’s intelligent algorithms help with conversion optimizations which will automatically determine the max CPC. (Maximum willingness to pay per click). It can also target people who have abandoned a particular task on the site and can target those users for the next couple of days to drive them to the client’s site again to finish the task. Example – hotel booking sites constantly remarket to people who don’t finish a hotel booking.
- One scope of functionality that I find missing is that what if a user is not as advanced to select the best keywords for their business. Google has facility to do topic targeting on content networks, and that facility should be extended to PPC. For example if the clients want to sell shirts they can select apparel as a category and have a chance to appear on relevant searches.
- Google AdWords also has a long way to go as far as mapping online to store purchases, since a lot of time the final decision is made online but the purchase happens in the store. Google is putting steps in place to get closer to this but there are several enhancements that are possible.
- AdWords has had a very positive impact due to its nature of low cost in client acquisition and its ability to track a sale or order generated through AdWords ads. Other mediums like TV, print, and radio can't have a foolproof sale conversion measurement but AdWords can, if it's setup accordingly.
I have used Yahoo and Bing’s platform as well to do PPC marketing & they are far behind AdWords in terms of bringing innovative stuff to the table. They often catch up with AdWords' capabilities in three to six months.
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