Adwords Tip – Search Terms Match Type Transcript
Good afternoon this is Thomas Green with ethicalmarketingservice.co.uk, this is just a little tip I have found something in AdWords that either is new, or has escaped my attention for quite some time and that’s segmenting keywords by match type.
If you go to keywords in your AdWords interface, you’ll see the various keywords that you’ve bid on, this is all time data so these are old campaigns that are now removed, if you go to segment and then search terms match type, what will actually happen is underneath the keyword it will basically tell you what the data is depending on what much type the search term was.
So in this particular instance, the “richest man in babylon” is the keyword and the data that it’s made up of the match type, is actually underneath it and you can see that in this particular example.
The majority of the the data comes from exact match, I actually set my campaigns up splitting by match type just because as far as I was aware, this wasn’t previously available.
If you are aware of when this was introduced, maybe just let me know in the comments section, because I didn’t say see any announcement from google anywhere that this was introduced, but if you don’t set your account up by splitting by match type, this should be quite interesting because you’ll be able to see the various the click-through rates of the search term and also if you’re tracking accurately, you should be able to see how the match types are performing based on the conversions.
In this instance the click-through rate for exact match, is considerably higher for phrase match and broad match and if the conversions were the same, then obviously I would much prefer to pay a higher bid for something which was converting much higher.
Just a little tip it’s going to be a bit of a short video today, just because I was looking for something that I hadn’t previously covered before and that perhaps might be new and this is it. So again keywords and then segment by search terms match type and it will drop down a little bit of additional data below.
This should be quite interesting and another example might be if the keyword has a higher cost per conversion and you segment by match type, perhaps broad match might be performing badly, but the other match types might be performing well and then you would remove the broad match and just have the match type as phrase or exact, or you might bid less for it.
I hope that’s helpful as always feel free to put your requests about particular topics in the comments section and if you are interested in AdWords management feels free to visit us at ethicalmarketingservice.co.uk and thank you very much for listening.
About the author
Thomas Green is a Certified Adwords Professional and specialises in direct response marketing. He has over 6 years PPC experience and has a straight forward approach to what works and what doesn’t!
