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welcome to the Ultimate God for Google Ads chapter three.

you guys have no idea how many takes that took us, right?

we're 45 minutes into our day already.

We're gonna go over search campaigns now.

We went over search campaigns in chapter one, but that was specifically for brands.

Mm-hmm.

. So brand search and then generic searcher.

Very different beasts, aren't they?

John?

yeah.

Use different match types, different bidding strategies.

And we're gonna kind of walk you through a scenario for each because

sometimes in search you wanna be really, inexpensive in your C P C looking for

a specific type of person, but may not have, a really nailed down keyword.

Or the other way where you have your keywords really optimized.

You're looking for position and.

You are gonna want to really own a, market for, small select group of

keywords that potentially may not scale.

So we're gonna go through a couple of different scenarios.

Let's find uh, the pros and cons for each and tell you exactly how

to beat Google at its own game.

Now, question for you, John, that I know is on everybody's mind.

How much information do you hold back and reserve only for clients?

A little tiny bit.

It's more of just like the.

Newest strategies that we don't wanna release to the public just

yet because we have a lot of clients and a lot of our clients are in

competition with, other agency clients.

So we might test something that we haven't released yet and test for a few months.

And once we get all of our clients on board with the new strategy and it's been

working, then we shoot a video about it.

To say like, Hey, here's what we saw.

This is what we did, here's the results.

I think videos are kind of useless when you're like, Hey, I'm gonna test this out.

I'll let you know how it goes.

And people are like, all right, cool.

So it's a confidence factor.

, I mean, once we're confident we release everything, right?

Yeah.

That was the answer I wanted.

Oh, there you go.

here.

I'm a man of many words.

. I'm excited, man.

Let's do it.

Let's dive in.

Cool.

All right.

first thing, lemme just get this So this is, should be a fairly

familiar screen to everyone.

This is when you're clicking on a create a new campaign and.

There's a few different ways that you could run a search campaign.

For the most part, it's gonna be really simple just to set

up without a goal guidance.

It's a search campaign.

It, you don't really necessarily need to choose a campaign objective.

It's just gonna choose a bidding strategy for you.

But we're gonna discuss different bidding strategies and why

they're useful in each scenario.

But we're just gonna click create a campaign without a goal guidance.

Click search.

This one here, I'm in a different client account right now, but I

just needed to, needed to have something that was available.

Choose whatever conversion actions you want to track for search.

Could be phone calls, could be you know, imported leads that you're

counting again could be whatever it is.

Just choose the specific conversion goals that are right for you.

can skip this part here and I'm just gonna call this a search campaign.

because I'm, so bidding strategy, again, this is where things get a little bit

wonky, where you can choose a different bidding strategy that would probably work

better for you in exact phrase match.

But right now it's not giving us any choice.

We have to choose an automated bidding strategy, which is why

it's called you versus Google and the ultimate guy to Google ads.

So, Not ignore this part right now, but if you wanted to use manual and we'll talk

about why you want to use manual after we create the first one you can just, you

have to choose an automating strategy.

Then afterwards, go back in and change it cuz it's horrible.

This one here is maximize conversions.

This is the bang strategy here.

This here is maximize conversion value.

Either one you choose, you can set a t roaz or you can set a t c.

For clicks.

I don't recommend this one, not for the strategy of the strategy

we're gonna be talking about broad match, but it's, really interesting.

The, I always would recommend using a conversion-based bidding strategy.

Whatever you can.

If you wanna run manual, that's gonna be a different scenario.

And we'll talk about that afterwards.

But For broad match, which is what we're talking about now, we're gonna create

a broad match search campaign, and we're going to really need an automated

bidding strategy because broad match can go like its name, extremely broad.

You can have fire cues show up for no joke, 10,000 different

variations of that word.

If you're optimizing for clicks, you are going to get some relevant,

some irrelevant, and that's it.

Google did its job, it says, I got you the most amount of

relevant and irrelevant clicks.

That's bad because you got the most amount of irrelevant clicks you could.

So you kind of asked what you wanted of Google and maybe not thought about it.

Is that actually what you want?

It's kinda like, choose your wishes.

You only get three.

Choose 'em carefully.

Same thing with impression share impression share is going

to move you up to the specific impression share that you want.

Twitter, it's first page, top of page number one.

But.

The intent of user is not taken into consideration with

these, bidding strategies.

So you're not necessarily optimizing for conversions.

You may want them, you probably do want them, but don't focus on volume

or positioning In a broad match campaign, you want to use conversions.

Or conversion value if you're choosing a value for the specific type of conversion.

know, especially for the folks that are just starting out, there used

to be use cases for maximize clicks especially with exact match search.

Mm-hmm.

, if you knew the exact phrase, this is how you crack the

code on real estate investing.

I don't even know if you remember.

so like we knew the exact phrases that converted, but when I say we,

I mean you , and then it was just maximized clicks on those phrases.

But with the expansion of match types, do you think that using those.

More broad bidding strategies narrows the match type expansion, or do you

think it's just a catastrophe all around?

I think it's a slight catastrophe for, a click-based bidding

strategy, like maximize clicks.

Because when you look at the surface of Google, you're looking just at what the

metrics that Google gives you maximize clicks looks very good, cuz maximize click

does is it starts at the bottom of the page, sometimes page two and slowly works

its way up in CPC to gain you the most amount of clicks for your daily ad spend.

The problem is when you look at the conversions and then you look at the close

rate, your close rate is often lower.

Because what you're doing is you're putting yourself at about third or fourth

on the page, potentially fifth considered.

and Tried to get a local appointment from your neighborhood.

And you're, if you're the third or fourth considered, sometimes it

means that they couldn't work with a first or second in the search.

And then they get to you and they say, yes, I, need, can I come in for you?

I have this.

of two medical plan that no one else takes, and you're like,

yeah, I don't take it either.

So now you're getting quote unquote conversions, but they're

not actually turning into sales.

So maximize clicks.

Would any viable strategy for maximize clicks?

Like is there any reason that you'd use it?

Yeah, I would say that if you wanted to find a good position without having

to run manual, you can run exact match on maximize clicks and give it about

two weeks at a healthy enough budget.

And I'd say, , I can get a 60% top search impression chair at $2

and 87 cents for these keyword, And then you turn it into manual.

And then you take that 2 76, you bump it up to 3 25 and you try to get a

good second position and you nailed it before you have to kinda like save

$5 and then you find out that you overspent, then work your way down.

So there is a use case for It's just you have to invest into it.

That's really smart.

Yep.

Cool.

So we're gonna take conversions.

I'm just, I'm not gonna use a T C P A target.

John, you can get more conversions at a similar CPA by setting target

and staying unconstrained by budget.

I know it's so funny too, because they say unconstrained by budget, but literally

what this does is constrain the budget.

it's so dumb.

I don't understand.

We, we get calls from Google and they're like, Hey, we, you should

set a target return on Aspen.

I'm like, why would I cut my budget in half?

They're like, huh?

And it just happens every single time.

And then I show 'em like five use cases in that same accountant.

I'm like, this is why I'm running max conversions.

And then they all just kind of, they're like, oh, okay.

That, I guess that makes sense until the next person from Google calls

me and we do it all over again.

But a target cost per acquisition, this is really important to know about bidding

strategies, target cost per acquisition tells Google, I'm gonna put this at 50.

do not spend a dime unless.

Fairly certain that you are gonna get a conversion at $50 or under.

but if Google says this conversion's gonna cost me $91, it says, I'm

just not gonna show my ad because I'm gonna fall outside the goal.

So when it says unconstrained it's incorrect.

What this will do is if you hit target c p a and you type in 40 and I've

set my, budget to a thousand dollars a day, it's gonna spend $238 of it.

Let's just say.

And now we're ta-da, we're all done.

Like, good job.

You got all the leads that you wanted.

But then you turn this off, for example, and you find that it starts two test more.

And sometimes I've seen the CPA lower because what Google

doesn't know about a person is.

If they're going to convert or not.

So it hides, but if it did show, would they have converted?

We don't know.

So sometimes you can actually get the same or lower C P A by removing that T C P A.

it's really an odd scenario where I'll give you a good example too.

If you're emergency clinic, that's what we'll we'll talk about right now.

Vet veterinary clinic if you're an emergency.

How is Google going to ever use its historical information about

a user to show your ad or not?

whether you're a 19 year old male or a 71 year old female, there's nothing

about your demographic that is going to be a signal to Google because your

dog's choking on a chew toy right now,

So what's interesting about that is it it starts to limit, its.

About a person.

It says, well, this person likes crocheting.

They watch MASH on tv.

They go to church.

I don't think that this person is gonna convert because they typed

in my dog as choking on a chew toy.

it's, kind of becomes irrelevant at that point.

Situational is different than, Demographic.

So understand your audience and understand that Google is going to make predetermined

decisions based on what it thinks a user is going to or is not going to

convert on emergency short sale cycles.

I'm thinking like, if you have a restoration company that needs to or

emergency plumber all those automated bidding strategies do is hurt

your campaigns because they don't.

What a person is going to convert on when all of your audience

demographics are different because it's a situational issue.

So just know that for, example.

Cool.

So here we see Google again.

Screw us up here.

Search partners should be tested, but should be monitored.

I actually have a different campaign to share with you.

I just did a evaluation on an account the other day.

Actually it was yesterday.

I don't know time very well.

But this account here, which is really funny, you'll see this, this will be

blurred, But pretty high spend account.

You'll see this here, so last 30 days.

This is a, small case for it.

I'll, I'll share with you the progression as to why this is bad and why I

say you have to watch it carefully.

So here's the Google Display Network and then here's Search Partners.

What you'll see here is in this campaign, which is blurred, we have 56,000,

59,000 at the top, and then we have 861 at the bottom, which is the bottom

of the search, and we spent $1,200 on display, another 3 28 on search partners.

Now, the search partners did get a.

And it was actually a fairly it was a good conversion.

Now, the cost per conversion was more than double what the average cost per

conversion is at the top of Google.

So they spent 3 28 instead of 1 41, and then the $1,279 that they

spent on display got nothing.

And it gets exacerbated when you're talking about High CPC or low CPC areas.

So this here is a Google display network.

Now this doesn't look that bad.

Out of $2,000, they spent $300 on the display network and they got

zero conversions, where at the top it was getting 258 at $6 a conversion.

So that's huge.

Google top $6 conversions, display network zero.

And they spent about 15% of their budget.

Here's the fun part.

Now fast forward from last 30 days to last seven days, and what's interesting

about this is the display network.

As soon as this loads, So here's what's fun is now last week though,

we still spent 225 on a thousand.

Now this is 25% of our budget.

It's gotten worse re more recently.

Why?

Well, it's a higher C p C than the top of search.

That's bad . That's not good.

But Google loves money.

So now they've figured out that the display network is more

expensive than the top of search.

And now I'm spending a quarter of my budget, I'm still not getting conversions.

So when I say Google Display Network, absolutely watch it.

You need to watch it.

We always spend 13.

Since on the search partners, we didn't get anything.

But all you have to do is go into your campaigns, click segment, click

top versus other, and it will tell.

Where your ads are showing and, what is a conversion?

So as at the top usually is the best.

And then display network or search partners.

Sometimes these work really good.

They can absolutely work really, really well.

Most of the time they don't.

But Google will default because be a good parachute salesman.

right?

You need this to save your life.

Sometimes they make a little whoopsy daisy.

But I've never heard any complaints from a person whose parachute didn't open.

I'll just say that.

Good stuff, . So let's turn those off because that's just not a good idea.

I know.

Google, no, wait a minute.

John , if you were to enable search network, you'd expand your reach with

Google search partners, . You know, what's the best thing about this?

Lie right here.

How display works is when you run out of search Audience.

It takes the delta between what you've spent and what your daily budget is

and just blows it on a random audience.

On display, , we have more inventory to sell . Right.

It's like, okay, you're spending $2,000 a day.

And you may only have budget for $400 of inbound search.

Like let's say you're that dentist looking for a cosmetic procedure and

you can spend $400 a day, which is awesome, but you said 2000 because

you want to capture everything.

If you enable search or display, you're gonna spend $1,600 running banner ads.

On random sites and only $400 on what you want, but you'll spend the full

budget and you're none the wiser.

And Google may, has made, you know, four times this money or five times high.

Can't math.

But that's what's really interesting is it will eat into your daily budget

when the search volume is too low, but you'll still spend your full, spend.

And it's, so bad.

It's such.

So, yeah, just know that's what that does.

All right.

Locations, again, it's up to you.

Whatever your locations need to be, just make sure that you open up this

location options and tick this box here because we don't want people who have

shown interest in your target locations like United States, cuz in your ad

shows, obviously in different countries.

Anybody that has an interest in the United States, who are those people?

Man, that is a wide audience.

So make sure this is click.

So this way people that are in or regularly in your target locations are

only gonna be the ones that see your ad.

If people travel from to and from a specific place, you're gonna show

the ad to where they're currently in, even though they may travel to a

location that they are frequently in.

So just know that that's a difference there.

Typically it's pretty good though.

It doesn't really usually go out of the country too much.

But if you are looking at a map and you're talking about a very specific geographical

location, like let's say Phoenix, Arizona, people that are in Scottsdale or Mesa

or Tempe or Chandler, if they work in Phoenix, they're gonna see your ad.

So just know that there's a margin of error because people are

mobile and you're targeting their mobile device kind of by default.

Next for search I actually usually just click off all

English and use all languages.

You're gonna be bidding on search terms.

Now here's the funny part is Google is getting multilingual.

I've actually been seeing search terms in different languages that when I , when I

Google translate 'em, cuz I always speak horrible English, I see that it's a search

term that is actually really, really good.

Like it might say like dentist's office near me, but written in Spanish.

That's okay.

As long as, that's person is maybe bilingual that's searching

or the, company may be bilingual.

It's great, but just know that Google will do that and sometimes that's okay.

Just depends on if you can just outta curiosity.

And if you see a lot of that, let's say dental office is a really good example.

You don't have dental practitioners or you know, a hygienist who speak Spanish.

Mm-hmm.

, should you just come in here and jump pump in English to protect.

You can, I would pump this one over to English, which is good.

But you can also negative out those keywords, mm-hmm.

so that that will be, and make sure their exact match.

But you can negative 'em out.

Sometimes you get a little bit of a kind of a cat and mouse game where

you're just constantly like whacka ball.

It's like a new one comes up.

You cancel that one until a different one comes up.

But what's nice is it's very infrequent.

Probably if there is a high Spanish speaking population, it seems to be

like one out of every hundred times.

So it's not too bad.

But just know that's something you have to contend with.

Well, and if there's a high Spanish speaking population, it's dangerous to

have English only because they might have settings on the browser that would

inhibit them from being able to see your ad, even if they're searching in English.

Yeah.

And it might be something really, really simple like an

emergency chiropractic, like they.

Are gonna come in, they need it, they're gonna pay Right.

It, you don't have to have a big sales process.

And sometimes some of that is maybe a little bit, not

fluent in English can get by.

Great.

it, just think about those situations too, there.

Audience segmentation.

This one you can overlay an observation, which I think is a good idea.

Be very careful with this.

These change very often.

So what I mean by that is if we're looking at let's just say autos

and vehicles, and we're looking at specifically motor vehicles and we're

looking at, new, this is good, this is usually a fairly static audience.

Now there's outliers that sometimes mess you.

in October, November, 90% of all of our conversions in pretty much every

account in the United States have like holiday shopper and Black Friday

shopper and things that are seasonal.

So just know that this is not a static in-market audience.

They ebb and flow Between in market and outta market specifically for you?

So let's say I'm a car dealership and I'm losing autos and

vehicles, motor vehicles, new.

Good.

Now the bad part is my motor vehicles is also technically a new

scooter that is a motor vehicle and that is autos and vehicles.

You might have a really good week and then you might have a really bad week.

That's because the RV people moved in and the car people moved out.

So don't treat this as a static audience that's.

Perfect.

Just, it's gonna have an ebb and flow to it, so just be careful about it.

I usually like observation, make bidding adjustments if and when you want, and only

on manual, because target c p a just kind of ignores your bit adjustments anyway.

So just know that that's a thing here.

But I use a sparingly just because it's not always dependent.

My keywords usually are really dependent.

They work well, or sorry, dependable.

They work well.

Audience segments, little bit of wishy-washy depending on the industry.

Here's funny as automatically created assets.

This is actually not bad.

This one, I've seen some good stuff out of it.

So one of the things was they actually were able to scrape my homepage hero

image, and then they used a cropped version of that as a image extension.

If you.

Don't want to, or if you're not gonna monitor very closely or you're not

really caring about exactly how your ad sounds, you can use the automatically

created assets and it basically just says, Hey, we're gonna help you

generate headlines and descriptions and other assets, which is ad extensions.

But this will Fully automate your ad building experience.

Question about this.

If it pulls an automated assets, During the campaign build process,

you get to review and approve 'em.

Are you also now giving Google the permission to change and update

those ads in on an iterative scale?

Yeah.

Which sometimes is good, sometimes bad.

if you start to revise your website, it'll revise the ads to It'll take in your

page title and your page description and your H one through H six tags in order,

primarily in order to build its ads.

So if you really like your website and you're like, your pay title is.

No that, that's probably gonna be in your ad, but if you have like, your homepage

is the world's best Google Ads agency.

There you go.

There's ad headline number two, for example.

So just know that it's gonna be pulling and customizing within

reason what's on your website in order to build your content.

So it's like final Google expansion.

Yeah.

Or like a DSA campaign, right?

Yep.

Dude, this is, we're just, every time I see something like this, it's one step

closer to just giving Google a domain name and a credit card and letting it go.

You know what's good is like people like us that actually works well.

This may be the gateway drug to Google Ads , it's like, yeah.

People that are just kind of starting off and then we don't

want something that's just good.

People that are like low spend, they don't really care and they

just wanna have them automated.

Those wouldn't be like a good ad as agency client because typically

your fee's gonna be more than what they're spending in Google Ads anyway,

like four or $500 a month maybe.

So I think this is good because it does help.

Like, kind of make that first step into Google.

And if they start to see some success and they want to scale,

but they don't know how, then they, then they become our clients.

So I like it.

I kinda like it's a little bit nerve wracking because you see, you

know, some odd things, but then if you hop in, you're like, yes, it

only made actually seven out of 15.

Your quality your ad strength is actually average.

We need to get that up to excellent.

Do we need create another rsa, blah, blah, blah.

Like we can shepherd them through again, using that term.

As of yesterday the process of actually getting this thing built out and having

a really, kick ass Google Ads account.

So I'm gonna use, I'm gonna turn this off right now.

Ad rotation.

Leave that alone.

I don't even know why they, even offer this.

It's weird.

And then what's funny is you can do not optimize and then when you

create the campaign, auto apply, comes in and changes that for you.

Anyway, , Start the end date.

Leave that ad schedule again.

This may be relevant to you in a search campaign if you have a brick

and mortar location and people that need to answer the phone.

all you're missing out on the people that are finding you the day before and

then calling you the day after, because, you the day before, but they found you.

So just know that that's a thing.

We're gonna skip u t m parameters and dynamic search ads.

We're not talking about that in this one here.

All right.

Now we're gonna use keywords and ads.

I'm gonna use that emergency clinic again.

What I'm gonna do actually is I'm gonna use an actual emergency clinic.

So I'm gonna enter into url to scan, and I'm gonna ask it to

give me keyword suggestions.

I do like this here.

It works pretty well.

I, again, like it's, 90% there if for broad match.

It's, it's amazing, honestly.

So here's the keyword.

And inside of the Google Keyword Planner, that's what this is here.

This area right here is exactly the same as if you went to Keyword

Planner and did the, did the, actually can I open this up in the tap?

Cool.

It's the same exact thing.

If you go into Keyword Planner and you can discover your keyword, start

with the website, paste that in there, use the entire site, get results.

A lot of times this is gonna be almost identical.

It's the same tool.

So you can kind of see all the search rooms here.

This works really well for Broad.

The reason why I say it works well for Broad is because exact match.

I'm not gonna have, emergency vet care and emergency vet care near me.

I'm just gonna choose exact match vet care as I'm still gonna have near

me because exact match keywords are close variance, which is basically

also a phrase match, everything we knew about match types is gone now.

Broad match.

Still very broad phrase.

Match is more like broad match modifier used to be, and exact match

is now phrase match, and there is no such thing as exact match anymore.

For the sake of the education here, John, just let's assume that we're mm-hmm.

, there's maybe some newbies that are watching.

Will you show them the difference between broad phrase and exact, just visually so

they know what that, what they look like?

Sure.

So you're talking about like what they look like.

Yeah, just do the quotes of the brackets.

Yep.

So this is a broad match.

What this will do is broadly match to any search term that is closely related.

So you may, so this could be 24 Animal vet could be like all day pet hospital.

It can even just be Vet

You can either choose to use that or not.

Animal vet, I've, you can have like how to tranquilize a horse?

I kid you not, that would show up.

So it is so broad.

Bench is really an articulation of intent.

Hey Google, we want people whose intent could be 24 hour animal bet.

And then Google from an AI perspective says, okay, I think

someone who wants to tranquilize a.

Needs a 24 hour animal vet.

Right.

And you could get how to tranquilize a hor horse inside of 24 hour animal Yeah.

That's what's really scary is like this thing will go very broad.

So when you're talking about maximize clicks, you're gonna get every

irrelevant and irrelevant search term.

Wow.

Regardless, anybody going to Google and typing in a question that has to do about

animal health, you're gonna show up.

That's the bad part.

with maximize conversions.

It has a built-in sort of like a negative keyword tool inside of it

because with maximized conversions, it says, I've gotten three clicks in the

last three days of how to tranquilize a horse and I didn't see a conversion.

I'm gonna stop showing up for that keyword.

So it has a fail safe in there that it will stop overspending For keywords that

do not convert, those keywords that do not convert are the irrelevant ones.

You can negative out those irrelevant search terms, but just

know that you're the police that show up like after a murder to try

to stop it from happening again.

A lot of times it's one impression, one click, it's not gonna happen

again, and you're just gonna get us.

Have you used that analogy before the police that show up

after the murder hit ? Yeah.

Right.

And what's funny is like, you know, that was how to trick lies a horse.

But then the other search was, can a horse die after being tranquilized?

Then you're showing up for that one.

You're like, oh God, I got negative that one out and you're

just gonna play Whack-a-Mole.

It.

There's basically try.

Exclude the English language from your negative keywords.

That's exact match is what you're doing.

You're basically just trying to make an exact match scenario.

Just use exact match.

Broad match is gonna be all the different ways, shapes, and

forms that people can type in.

Anything related to these keywords here, usually they're pretty good.

Like if you have a good search volume for these here, 90% of that will be that

you know, that open now emergency pet clinic, you know, that kind of stuff.

It'll, it'll be close enough and it'll be 90% effective.

And over time it.

You know, 99% effective after about three months.

So this is still very good because especially with a animal emergency

clinic, people are panicking.

They're looking for someone.

Now that turns me in, turns this into the the bad idea as to why

you would not want to use broad.

So if you would not wanna use broad, because you are not gonna

wanna show up for every single variation of pet emergencies, you

want to be found at the top because.

These are people that will pay thousands of dollars to the first

person that answers the phone, cuz Pluto's throwing up constantly.

So just know that's the crazy part is and this is an animal, animal emergency

clinic that we're talking about here too.

So I have some experience in this.

But top positioning could be the great profitable night or not.

So when you see 24 hour vet here, for example, if I use phrase, which

you put the quotes around this.

Now what this is gonna do is you'll get terms like open.

You will get 24 hours, you'll get, open at 11:00 PM like you'll

get some variations of hours.

And then Animal Vet, you'll get Emergency Vet, animal Hospital, animal Clinic, like

you'll still, what's the biggest variation you've ever seen in phrase match?

I had one for us, it was like the best, or like top Google Ads agency

and I just show up for ads a.

Just ads.

And I was like, where's the other half of my search string?

It was just gone.

I know there's probably some more, but that was like the one that was

like, this isn't even, it's closely related and yes, it included one of

them, but phrase match used to be, it needs to have at least these four

search terms in the search string.

They cannot be animal vet that's open 24 hours.

That wouldn't.

It had to be a 24 hour animal vet.

It couldn't have anything between, it had to be a rag weight.

You can have things in front, you can have things behind like, what is a

24 hour animal vet that is open now?

Like that would show up, but not what is an animal vet that is open

24 hours that would not show up.

So I understand why Google changed it from phrase match to close variant which

means we know what you're doing and we'll give you like what we think is the most

relevant and the tighter you make that match type, whether it's phrase or exact,

which looks like this, this exact match.

It's still not gonna be exact match.

You will get much closer though.

So a 24 hour animal vet might be animal vet that's open 24 hours, or animal vet

that's open now, like you'll get those.

But they're gonna be very, very consistent close to what the keyword is now.

We're talking about exact match or phrase match, or we're talking about

needing to show up fairly frequently.

And at the top, you're gonna want to use a manual bidding strategy.

You're gonna want to bid to a very specific placement.

That's gonna be important.

Broad match.

It doesn't help you.

If you have an emergency situation and you're found on the bottom of

the page, you're dead in the water.

Because you don't see blood and then be like, edible vet now, and then scroll

all the way down and be like, oh, thank God you're not, you're just gonna hit

the first thing that you see because your beloved family member is hurt.

It's the same thing with calling 9 1 1.

That's why there's only one number for it.

Can't just call a private hospital.

Be like, what do you charge for?

You know, it doesn't work like that.

It's an emergency.

You need it now.

So the same thing with, emergency, plumbing, animal

services, whatever it may be.

that has a high sense of emergency bid for.

, and that's a use case for Exact on Broad.

You're not always at the top.

You're at the top when certain criteria is met, where that's a good keyword

that shows good amount of conversions.

And then O bid fairly aggressively for, so you can still work well, but

generally you're not breaking into like 95% top search impression share

or absolute top search impression share, which means number one.

At all.

It just doesn't work that way because to maximize conversions, you need to

pay less cost per click to get more clicks, to get more conversions.

That's how you maximize the conversion.

how deep you can dive down this rabbit hole.

I mean, each of these, the bid strategy that you're using is gonna influence

the key phrases that you use is gonna influence the ad copy that you like.

It's just you have to keep it all.

It's three dimensional.

Yeah.

And it, and then it changes cuz then people are like,

what's the best bang strategy?

I'm like, tell me everything you know about yourself and I'll help out because

it's so situational, , it's horrible, but it's good stuff at the same time.

keeps us, you know, busy.

So that's, I'm gonna use broad.

These keywords are absolutely fine.

Just know that only about five of these are gonna show up most

often because they all overlap.

24 hour man a 24 hour animal vet also is gonna show up for a 24 emergency vet.

So these keywords are gonna overlap.

That's okay.

Broad It's not an exact science.

It's more of like a shotgun approach.

Like any keyword you think is closely possible, fine.

This will show up for no joke.

A million different search terms.

This p that's a potential.

So your keyword strategy on broad is easy.

Ads again, I'm just gonna skip the ad.

Build out.

in depth, but because I, I'm not creative at all, but just let me just see here.

Do I still have that one?

So here, I'm just gonna use this here phone number.

Can be really important if you're a lead generation and you're okay.

I'm gonna skip the in-depth ad creation here just because it's gonna be you

know, fairly, fairly situational.

But I wanna make some key points for lead generation.

You will wanna make sure that your phone number is visible in the headline, if

that's something that you're going to be tracking and you can take calls.

that is super important though for, search ads, especially lead

generation e-commerce, not so much.

We are gonna have to blur this one out here, so I just wanna make note.

That's what you see blurred out on the screen.

That's just the call extension.

So that's static right now, even though I didn't add it.

it's in the account, so just know that that's what you're missing there.

It's just a client's phone number, so I don't wanna share it, but the headline.

And the ad strength, we discussed this in our brand campaign to leave, you know,

your ad headlines not pinned because you're gonna give lower add strength.

Does it really matter a little bit?

you can see a little bit of variation between C P C, but it really depends on

if that keyword's getting conversions.

Sometimes you'll have a low add strength, but you get 15% clickthrough rated and $4

conversions, and everything's hunky dory.

At that point, it doesn't really matter.

Google's just gonna reward you for having a good ad that matches

what with the good keyword.

But this is where I would say it's gonna be really important for a really

well diverse ad, especially if you're gonna pay for that top placement

with phrase or exact on manual.

Do you wanna make sure that your ad is very well built out?

Because when you bid for position, any chance that you can get to lower your

C P C by having l let's say, a good ad strength with a well diversified ad.

It's gonna save you a lot of pennies.

You could you know, save actually probably about two or $3 a cost per

click at least for having, a good top placement with a good ad strength.

So that's what I wanted to kind of touch upon there.

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But any chance that you can to save money by having a really high quality ad with

a high add strength is going to be good, especially on manual, because you're

gonna want to bid for that top placement.

And those top placements get very, very expensive to give you an.

For let's say, an emergency clinic type of keyword.

If I go into the keyword planner, for example, and I'm gonna use this website

here, and I say, top of page, high, bid for 24 hour vet in Fort Lauderdale.

To be number four on the page is five bucks.

To be number one is gonna cost you $75 and 93 cents, one penny higher than here.

So just know that this is well known in Google ads that if you

have something of value to a person that is needing it quickly, that

top position becomes very expensive.

Or if.

Lead could be worth a lot of money.

Like let's say D U I attorney.

Did I spell attorney wrong?

I did.

It's okay if you have a d u I you're probably gonna misspell attorney . How do

you spell attorney ? I think you got it.

I was it that I was like, so it looks wrong.

Okay.

It looks good enough.

It's, I had a brain part there.

But the top of page range high in the let me do this actually,

is I need to remove that.

D U I attorney.

You can get like in, oh my dear God, Williamson County . Apparently Williamson

County likes to party cause , it's the hundred $35 to be number one.

But you can see here like Georgetown Williamson drunk driving accident

attorney in the United States is $353.

So you can get some really crazy CPCs cuz potentially these could be thousands

and thousands of dollars in profit.

So people pay dearly.

. So your add strength could be the difference How An Uber, just

outta curiosity in Williamson County I was gonna try that.

See if I can . Oh, barely No one takes Uber's there, so it doesn't matter.

Why's all driving drunk , right.

So that's, Differences between phrasing, exact and broad on search.

It is highly, highly situational.

Actually, you know what, I'm gonna give you a tool and I'm gonna use this

actual client account, and I'm gonna share with you how this looks in real

time because I think this can also give you some insight into how this looks.

So I'm gonna share.

And here's why I think this is important, which is the for the U versus Google.

I think this is important.

I sorted by average cost descending, my average cost is $30.

My C P C bids are a hundred manual cuz I'm looking for a

very, very high placement now.

You'll see the exact match.

Here is what I'm using and I'm using all of my good quality keywords, and I'm

paying sometimes $99, or sometimes I'm bidding a hundred and only paying 23.

It's just depending upon who is who I'm competing with.

So when you see that the top of page bid is a hundred dollars, that

could also be, only three hours a day and only when they overlap 6%.

So don't use it as gospel.

I know I need to be number one.

I need to own this without question.

If you look at last week here you'll see something died off very quickly.

we had a lull here and then this fell off and then no.

Started seeing come back.

This is at a $70 bid.

This is at a hundred dollars bid.

I was still paying 30 bucks though.

But what happened was is we had a, we had a competitor hop in and

outbid us by about 5% and just killed the whole entire business.

When you look at from an entire month perspective, it went from,

you know, good consistency to nothing for one to three days, and

I'm still spending a lot of money.

If you look at my cost here, my cost is $500, $600, $500.

I spent do basically, you know, $1,500 to get nothing for three days in a row.

And then I bid up and all of a sudden it's like, oh, you know, three clicks,

three conversions, three conversions, nothing like two conversions.

It all of a sudden came back.

Now the clicks went from 16 clicks and to 24 clicks.

It's not that crazy, I had 16 clicks, nothing.

14 clicks, nothing.

10 clicks, nothing.

Five clicks at a good position, 20% conversion rate, 24 clicks, three.

30 clicks, three leads, converse rate, all of a sudden instantly

went up to like 10% to 20%.

So that was a craziness about bidding into positioning where if you have

a good position, you can get the 11% and 10% and 12% in, you know, 9%

conversion rates which is really good, but you need to be at that position.

And my position here, the search top impression share were the high

seventies and eighties and nineties.

So that big positioning that that good positioning is going

to bring us a really good result.

Also, the cost per convergence 6 78, the average animal emergency vet bill is 3000.

So we're gonna pay for it, but it's either you don't have any surgeries that

night or you pay for five, $600 leads.

It's just the name of the game when it's in high competition.

I have a surgeon sitting there twiddling his thumbs.

We're in a 15 hour radius and there's like eight other clinic.

So it's, and then you're just praying that there's a call and

you don't wanna pray that there's a call cuz it means an animal's hurt.

God.

I know.

Maybe just have a, like a, a chew toy that they ate.

Like something non, you know, non crazy.

But the dog's just throwing up like, we want something like that.

But yeah, it's so sad to listen these phone calls too as we listen

and manually score each one of these calls, it's, oh, I can't do it.

Oh, it's horrible.

But that's, that's the difference.

If I, when we were on broad, Nothing worked.

Oh, I'll give you a really good example of exact matches.

I think that this is important for everyone to know.

So I said animal clinic, exact match, and we got animal hospital near me.

Good.

I want that one.

It doesn't have the word clinic in it.

Only 50% of my exec match.

We're, we're showing in the search term.

So this is what I'm bidding on.

This is what I'm getting.

So you see clinic was not in there, and this is no longer exact match.

It says, Hey, exact match.

Close enough.

Good.

I'm okay with that because the close enoughs mean that it, it works well.

So animal hospitals, here's phrase, check this out.

Animal hospitals got Vet Fort Lauderdale.

That's actually not one that I really wanted it, it had a 50% conversion

rate, so I'm glad it worked.

But that could also mean that a person is not really needing a emergency clinic now.

They just need to schedule Fido for teeth cleaning, right?

Which I was paying $40 a click on that, so I just got lucky there.

But just know that it can go a little wonky, even with the phrase

match, go a little bit too broad.

Cool.

And that's search campaigns, . Oh, what's next John?

What do they have to look forward to next?

We're gonna talk about YouTube proactive campaigns.

Two.

Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

That's where we spend all our money.

Yeah.

We spend a lot of money on YouTube.

It's it's interesting.

We're spending, it's over a hundred grand.

It's the five grand a day on just YouTube.

Five grand a day.

Just on YouTube?

Yeah, just on YouTube.

Okay.

And what's interesting about it is the.

Conversion tracking.

You'll see.

It's horrible.

It's horrible because Google's not quite there, as you know.

Did you see a video from us two weeks ago?

But then you search the brand name sometimes it just gives it

all the brand most of the time.

Just gives it all the brand.

So we're gonna talk about setting up really good quality campaigns in

YouTube, the proper bidding strategy, the proper device management.

And then the targeting that is there's some really kind of ninja

tricks that you can do in the targeting that still work like.

Target a person based on what websites they've visited or showing

and a specific website and showing some really good intent there.

So that's next.

It's a lot of fun.

It's probably the most expensive network Google has, but it's the next tv.

I really think so.

Hmm.

Yeah, I think so too.

I don't even think it's the next tv.

I think it's TV now.

Pretty much.

Yeah.

, it's where people go, like to watch, learn.

Yeah, it's so funny.

It's, like people ignore YouTube because they, they don't necessarily

give it a good enough thought for lack of a better word.

And when you are in a buying decision and want to know more, you go to YouTube.

Right.

I mean, that's, that's where you go.

So you're in that process.

You're close to the decision making point.

Your bottom of the funnel could still be exactly cold traffic.

There's such a thing as cold traffic, bomb funnel.

Cold traffic doesn't mean top of funnel.

It means they just don't know where to purchase or who to contact yet, but they

know they need something very specific.

So YouTube is, is fantastic for, finding people in their buying decision

and then paying one to two pennies to put yourself in front of 'em.

So it's really cool.

Cool.

We'll learn that next time.

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