As discussed in Optimizing Your Quality Score Part I and Optimizing Your Quality Score Part II
There are four main components to your Quality Score.
Post Written by Michael Villanueva, Pay Per Click Consultant.
Previously we discussed Click Through Rate and Keyword Relevancy. In this article we will touch on the other two. Ad Quality, and Landing Page Relevancy.
The third part of your Quality Score includes the ad copy. A good analogy of how ad copy works is comparing it to a hotel greeter. The job of the hotel greeter is to welcome customers and patrons to the hotel, while making sure no unwanted guests come into the hotel. Ad copy does the same thing for a website. The ad copy acts as a prescreening tool for customers. The ad copy must be a clear and enticing message about what a website has to offer. Continuous ad copy testing is a good way to test to improve and compete in the competitive landscape of any industry.
The final piece of quality score includes the actual website or landing page. The message from the ad copy to the landing must be continuous and clear. Once a potential customer comes to view a website they will take an average of 7 seconds to find what they are looking for. If your website does not allow a user to find what they are looking for in 7 seconds, the visitor you have paid for will have left your website. The amount of time a visitor spends on the landing page is a good indicator of the quality of the landing page. We highly believe Google keeps track of this.
Before you attempt to improve your quality score, it would be a good idea to benchmark your starting point. The Google & Yahoo interfaces both have quality score indicators. Yahoo has quality score indicators for both keywords and ad copy shown on a bar chart. Google has a similar feature, but you can also run a quality score report on Google that shows a more detailed report on quality score.
We wish you all the best in your Quality Score optimizations! Stay tuned for Optimizing Your Quality Score Part IIII.
