Google Adwords Arrow Trick To Increase Click Through Rates
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A few Mondays ago I answered this question where I revealed a little trick I like to use in my Adwords adcopy that makes my ads make a little arrow with the keywords like this:
Well a ton of questions emerged... Threads on forums poped up and I started getting email... The questions and comments ranged anywhere from "How do you do that?" to "Do you have any real data to support your numbers?".
So lets cover the first question - How is this done?
In my example I use Google Adwords. Google has a function {keyword:sub} that will automatically substitute the keyword where the {keyword:sub} goes and if it is to many chars then the "sub" is used.
For instance lets say you bid on keywords "Michael Jackson" and "Jay-Z" to send to ringtone offers. Then in Adwords you write your ad like this:
Title: {keyword:New} Ringtones
Headline1: Get The Latest Ringtones By {keyword:Artists}
Headline2: {keyword:New} Ringtones Instantly Sent To Your Phone!
In the case of the keyword Jay-z that would make
Jay-Z Ringtones
Get The Latest Ringtones By Jay-Z
Jay-Z Ringtones Instantly Sent To Your Phone!
Now with Michael Jackson Its to many chars so the ad shows like this:
New Ringtones
Get The Latest Ringtones By Artists
New Ringtones Instantly Sent To Your Phone!
So you see when you have a keyword that is to long for the ad it uses whatever is after the : in your keyword function. easy huh?
Next Question - Do you have any data to support this claim?
Well the truth is at the time I did not have any numbers a/b comparison because I did not use what did not work and really to test it I would have to lose some money... oh well... This morning I did some a/b testing with a ad that did not have the bold keywords forming a >
Here is the screen shot with results from this mornings a/b testing as you can see the ad copy forming a > is at .40% CTR where the normal is at .19%. So this was actually over a 200% increase in CTR. :
Well a ton of questions emerged... Threads on forums poped up and I started getting email... The questions and comments ranged anywhere from "How do you do that?" to "Do you have any real data to support your numbers?".
So lets cover the first question - How is this done?
In my example I use Google Adwords. Google has a function {keyword:sub} that will automatically substitute the keyword where the {keyword:sub} goes and if it is to many chars then the "sub" is used.
For instance lets say you bid on keywords "Michael Jackson" and "Jay-Z" to send to ringtone offers. Then in Adwords you write your ad like this:
Title: {keyword:New} Ringtones
Headline1: Get The Latest Ringtones By {keyword:Artists}
Headline2: {keyword:New} Ringtones Instantly Sent To Your Phone!
In the case of the keyword Jay-z that would make
Jay-Z Ringtones
Get The Latest Ringtones By Jay-Z
Jay-Z Ringtones Instantly Sent To Your Phone!
Now with Michael Jackson Its to many chars so the ad shows like this:
New Ringtones
Get The Latest Ringtones By Artists
New Ringtones Instantly Sent To Your Phone!
So you see when you have a keyword that is to long for the ad it uses whatever is after the : in your keyword function. easy huh?
Next Question - Do you have any data to support this claim?
Well the truth is at the time I did not have any numbers a/b comparison because I did not use what did not work and really to test it I would have to lose some money... oh well... This morning I did some a/b testing with a ad that did not have the bold keywords forming a >
Here is the screen shot with results from this mornings a/b testing as you can see the ad copy forming a > is at .40% CTR where the normal is at .19%. So this was actually over a 200% increase in CTR. :
