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AdWords – How to increase your Quality Score?
What Is AdWords Quality Score?
Quality Score in Google Ad words is an important metric used by Google to determine the order in which ads are listed on the search engines Sponsored Links. Quality Score looks at a variety of factors to determine the relevance of keywords and ads for a given search query. Generally speaking a high Quality Score will result in ads displaying in a better position on Google search results and at a lower cost per click (CPC).
Yahoo Advertising has it’s equivalent to Google’s Quality Score measure, called Quality Index.
The Importance of Quality Score
Many Australian businesses competing online incorrectly assume that advertiser who bid the highest amount per click will be the highest listed website in the sponsored links of Google search results. This is incorrect. Our extensive PPC experience indicates that there is huge scope for Australian businesses to significantly reduce their AdWords expenditure through improved campaign set up and boosting the Quality Score of campaigns.
Google uses Quality Score as the basis for measuring the relevance of PPC ads and determining their minimum Cost Per Click (CPC) bid for its search network. This score is calculated using your keyword’s click through rate (CTR) on search result pages, and the relevance of your ad text, keyword, and landing page content to the search keywords/phrases.
AdWords Quality Score impacta on the position of your ads in the search results and also determines whether the ad will show or not! This is fundamentally the same for the other top pay-per-click (PPC) networks such as Yahoo and Bing. For greater transparency Google now shows keyword quality details at the keyword level in individual AdWords accounts. Google classifies your score into such categories as Great, OK or Poor and this is a great help when trying to diagnose why your PPC bid is so high.
Simple steps to boost AdWord Quality Score
To increase your quality score and returns on PPC spends here are a few simple steps:
- Always begin/continue ad text testing even if you feel you have an ad that is a clear winner. There are always ways to enhance the ad message and speak more convincingly to your target audiences.
- Use the dynamic keyword insertion technique to increase keyword relevancy to users, and in turn, increase click-through rates.
- Adjust keyword bids to increase the ad placement (i.e. higher ranking) for better CTR.
- Improve ad text/keyword relevance within the ad body copy as it enables the ad to ‘connect’ better with a user’s search term.
- Use dynamic keyword insertion (DKI) tools to use DKI even in the headline to catch users attention more quickly/effectively.
- Search for more ways to make your ad content (including headline) more customer focused based on ongoing consumer behaviour and competition research and using these insights to develop tight (relevant) keyword clusters.
- Consistently measure your quality score and strive to improve it over time (even if it’s a slow growth). Soon AdWords will notice the improvements for a better ROI.
- Enhance keyword relevance of the landing page to maintain consistency from keyword query, to your PPC ad text, and finally to your website’s (relevant webpage) landing page. Always ensure that there is a logical progression for the prospect/customer. This will deliver higher click-through rates and also better conversion rates.
Improve Your Quality Score to Improve the Return on Your Online Investment
As is generally thought, quality score analysis and its usage is about generating an improved ROI from your AdWords campaign. What is true if you keep monitoring and testing new scenarios whilst staying committed to measurement your business will achieve better results.
We all have the ability to improve our quality score albeit with some help from known tools and experts. Get more from your AdWords campaign by signing up to a FREE AdWords Health Check from roi.com.au today.
Posted on May 15, 2011
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