Clip 2 - Understanding Google Adwords (ADS) - Quality Score

9 important questions on Clip 2 - Understanding Google Adwords (ADS) - Quality Score

How can you influence your Quality Score?

By optimising all the factors regarding the Quality Score.

What are the five main factors that influence the Quality Score?

  1. Historical Performance;
  2. (Expected) Click Through Rates;
  3. Add Copy Relevance;
  4. Keyword Relevancy;
  5. Landing Page Relevance.

Shortly explain Historical Performance.

Once your ad starts running, Google will start tracking whether people are clicking on the ad regarding keywords shown.
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Shortly discuss (Expected) Click Through Rate, regarding its relevance for the ranking of Google.

Higher click through rates will be considered to be more relevant to Google. Expected means: it looks at how many clicks the ad received previously.

What is Ad Copy Relevance? List the 2 points.

  • This is where it becomes important that the Keyword your bidding on is reflected in the ad body, ad description and URL of the ad itself. The more relevance, the higher the quality score is.
  • Looks into whether you have an extension or not.

What is an extension? E.g. Site link extension or rating extension.

Links on Google that are within the website shown in the advertisement.

Shortly explain the Landing Page Relevance.

You want your consumers to directly land on the relevant page, e.g. To make reservations.

Then there are 2 other factors which are not directly taken into account for the Quality Score but are still relevant. Which 2 are these?

  1. Vertical QS Tax: related to how much you are bidding;
  2. Overall Account Quality: quality of the website and other adds you might be running.

Where does Google present the information regarding your Quality Score so you can see how they are performing?

On your Google Ads Dashboard, for each of the keywords and advertisements.

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