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oogle AdWords is Google’s flagship advertising product and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Google’s text advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two content text lines.
Google’s AdWords division is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company’s third-largest facility behind its Mountain View, California, headquarters and New York City office.
Pay-Per-Click advertisements (PPC)
In this method, Advertisers specify the word that should have their Ads and the maximum amount they are willing to pay per click for that particular word. These Ads will be displayed when user searches Google search engine on google.com or the relevant local/national Google server for example googloe.co.in, the ads for the relevant words will be shown on the right hand side of the screen as “Sponsored Links”. Sometimes this Sponsored Links will also be shown above the main search results.
The major criterion in this Google Adwords is selecting the appropriate word that matches your advertising. The ordering of the paid listings depends on other advertisers’ bids (PPC) and the “quality score” of all ads shown for a given keyword search. The quality score is calculated by historical click-through rates and the relevance of an advertiser’s ad text and keywords as determined by Google.
The auction mechanism that determines the order of the ads has been called a “generalized second price” auction. Here in which, advertiser should pay for each and every click done by the user.
Google also introduced site-targeted advertising. Using the AdWords control panel, advertisers can enter keywords of interest, and Google offers to place ads on what they claim are relevant sites within their content network. Advertisers then bid on a cost per impression (CPM) basis for placement. Advertisers can also enter domains directly. Google will provide a list of related sites that you can select along with your entered site.
Site targeting campaigns are mainly designed for branding purposes, as the ROI will almost always be considerably lower than a traditional content-targeted campaign. Your ad will take up the entire ad block (as opposed to being 1 of 4 ads in a traditional AdSense ad unit), which will make it more prominent but cost quite a bit more.
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