My Google Rep talked me through several opportunities for my PPC clients that I am going to show you below, some I knew, and some were ah-ha moments for me. I trust that at least one of these little gems will also help you with your PPC clients.

…but before proceeding the following MUST be accomplished in order to see some of the items below:

Search & Display Networks

Click on EACH campaign, in my case one of my campaigns is called “California”

Click on Settings

Under the General section

Check the TYPE

If it does not say Search & Display Networks – All features

Click the Edit button and set the type to the following:

Click the Save button

Now, you may proceed…

Google Sitelink Extensions:

Sitelinks are additional URL extensions that can be added to your pay-per-click campaign.

Click +New Extension

Select the campaign to apply the extensions to and then add each link name and the URL associated to it. Click Save to add the links.

Once these links are filled in, your add will contain additional lines like these:

Google Call Extensions:

To add phone numbers to each pay-per-click ad, go to the Ad extensions tab and click.

Click +New Extension to add a phone number.

In the near future, I was told the “all devices” option will no longer be a charge of $1.00. They will be free. Until then, chose “Only smartphones…” and then enter the phone number associated to the site. Click Save.

Multiple Campaigns? No problem!

Once added, if you have multiple campaigns

Click +New Extension

Click Choose Campaign

Click Select extension

Click the existing phone number or

Choose Create new extension to add a different phone number.

Display Networks:

Categories Exclusions

NOTE: This next step should be done across all campaigns.

Click Display Network tab

Click on Placements

Click Exclusions

Click Categories

Under Campaign level

Click Add exclusions

Make sure that the following (or some of the following) depending on your needs, are added to each campaigns’ exclusions:

• Parked Domains
• Error pages
• Sexually suggestive content
• Juvenile, gross & bizarre content
• Profanity & rough language
• Military & international conflict
• Death & tragedy
• Crime, police & emergency
• In-game

Google Ads:

Google Ad Builder

Here is the fun SEO stuff! Recently, Google added this “Ad Builder” tool. So easy to use!

NOTE: If you did not do the “Search and Display Networks” at the beginning of this blog, you will not see this.

Click Ads tab

Click +New Ad

Click Ad Builder

Click on Suggested under Featured

Like something off of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Google-O-Matic does its magic by pulling together the image from the URL along with some verbiage and gives you 6 suggested ad variations from which to pick. So, pick one!

You can also preview how they are going to look in each size by highlighting the image and choosing “Preview Sizes”

Once you have selected the suggested ad variation, the next screen will show you each ad size.

If the ad is highlighted YELLOW, adjustments need to be made to fit in the ad space. You can see below that 4 of the 6 ads require some changes, most likely to the verbiage:

Once all of the ads are GRAY

Click Preview and Save

NOTE: Ads are reviewed within about three (3) business days and then an approval is made.

Google Text Ad

Another element that might be of interest to some is the use of the variable “keyword:” If you have not heard of this option, it is a “dynamic keyword insertion” that changes the title based on what the end-user is typing BUT be sure to put it in front of an actual KEYWORD. It will look like this:

{KeyWord:Community Assoc Loan}

{keyword:} Use this option and it will make the title lowercase.
{KeyWord:} Use this option and it will capitalize all the words in the Google AdWords title.

To create a Google Adwords ad with dynamic keyword insertion:

Click on the Campaign to add to

Click on +New Ad

Click on Text Ad

Choose an Ad Group

Final Thoughts

My team has implemented these suggestions on our own cient sites and we have seen great results, albeit, we should since the recommendations were from the source itself.

Try one or two, test, and then add another. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at seo@atomicdc.com or comment below.