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Welcome back to our series on AdWords Optimization Tips. A number of our readers have written in to ask about managing and optimizing their bids for best performance, so that is the topic we’ll address today. Please note that some of today’s tips are directed towards readers who also use Google Analytics, while others are general tips for all AdWords users.
When you are optimizing your bids, you should test how adjusting your bids and changes in your ad ranking affect your return-on-investment (ROI). Below, we cover a few tools and tips that can help you measure these results so you can make the best decisions for your campaigns.
Over the past several years, Google has encouraged academic research and participation in the area of click fraud detection. Our Ad Traffic Quality team is excited to continue this support and recently participated in the AdFraud 2007 workshop at Stanford University. The workshop was attended by more than one hundred participants from academia and industry, and provided an open forum for discussing the technical and social aspects of fighting click fraud.
We’d like to ask anyone still using AdWords Editor 3.5 to upgrade to the latest version (4.0) before October 3, 2007. After October 3rd, 2007, version 3.5 will no longer be supported. As you may already know, old versions of AdWords Editor are retired 60 days after new versions are released in order to optimize our resources and provide the best user experience for AdWords Editor users.
Back in July, we made Google Print Ads available to AdWords advertisers in the U.S. Today, we’re happy to introduce a free tool that will make newspaper advertising even easier: an ad creation tool that lets anyone design a customized and professional-looking newspaper ad in minutes.
Simply plug the text of your ad, image, and contact details into pre-designed ad templates, and the tool will automatically generate multiple designs you can choose from. If you need to change your messaging or resize your image, you can edit individual ads directly in the interface. And any ad you create using this tool can be reused as many times as you need in future print campaigns.
Recently, we announced new features for Website Optimizer, including the ability to easily create and launch A/B split experiments. Today, we’d like to share with you a new testing strategy for Website Optimizer as well as two opportunities to hear Tom Leung, Product Manager on Website Optimizer, speak about these latest updates.
Today we launched Google Gadget Ads, customized “mini-sites” that run as ads on AdSense publisher websites. These ads are interactive, engaging, and will appeal to your users, simultaneously providing value to advertisers while getting visitors to stick around your site. The end result is that advertisers get more engaged users, users have a richer ad experience, and publishers opted in to image ads may see increased competition for their ad space.
What does a gadget ad look like? We’re glad you asked. Below is a gadget ad that we’ve built to advertise our AdSense program.