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At Einstein's Eyes, we spend an inordinate amount of time concentrating on making online marketing campaigns succeed. We all want campaigns that drive countless visitors who convert into prospects and customers. Because of our relationship with Google we often interact with their Account Strategist. The other day, I heard an interesting quote from one of them:

“The most important metric is Quality Score.”

Quality Score is the metric Google uses to diagnose keyword performance on the search page. Quality score is a number 1-10. The score is derived from these factors:

1. Landing Page Quality
2. Ad Text – Relevance and Enhancement
3. Expected Click Through Rate

How to influence those factors is a bit too technical to cover in this article, but it is something our staff works to improve everyday. Back to why it is so important. Let's look at a specific example in the Google Advertising world. When you bid in the online world your success dictates where you rank on the page. This process is highly dependent on Quality Score. Simply:

This is not necessarily obvious upfront.  Even seasoned marketers miss this. Every opportunity, every bid is effected by quality score. Let me illustrate with a real life example. After some work on the campaign of 'Client Zeta', we realized that a key word phrase 'super key word phrase' had a Quality Score of 3. That Quality Score was detrimental to the effectiveness of the campaign. After some simple modification, the Quality Score was raised to 5. Not a great score but usable. This improved the account tremendously. The best way to see the results is the cost per click.

Each click was now $20 less in the exact same position. The same amount of traffic. Just that change alone will save potentially thousands of dollars per quarter. And that frees up budget for the client.

To sum up, Quality Score can ensure success for an ongoing campaign. There is a small caveat. Sometimes we see clients obsessed with Quality Score. A great score does not mean that a keyword is a great fit for your campaign. Occasionally, for some reason that only Google knows, a keyword ranks wonderfully, but does not have any value for your campaign goals. So whether you are going alone or have somebody managing a campaign for you, Quality Score deserves a look.

If you need additional help or support with your online marketing, don't hesitate to reach out to us at 972-997-8200 or sales@einsteinseyes.com

Most marketing people know, the main element in any Internet marketing strategy is a good website. But what good is your website if nobody visits it? How do you build traffic to your website? How do you get more people to click on your website pages? One sure way is to engage in some level of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. Simply put, PPC advertising (or, cost-per-click, as some call it) uses online “banner” ads to entice web surfers to click on the ad, which then takes them to the advertiser’s website. So, as a PPC advertiser, you’re not paying for “position,” you’re paying for “clicks.”

In February, the Google giant released news of enhanced campaigns—a newer, better, easier way of advertising across the technological dimensions. Before, to show ads through mobile devices, tablets, or desktops, you would need to set up different campaigns to efficiently optimize Google Adwords. Now, after the implementation of enhanced campaigns, you can reach potential customers with the right ads based on their location, time of day, device type, and other contextual factors. This is all done without the cluttering of multiple campaigns. For example, before, a pizza company would need a separate ad campaign for people on desktops—these ads will link them to the ordering online landing page—and a separate campaign for people on smart-phones—these ads will have a call-to-order option extension with the mobile ads. After, however, with one single campaign, you can set reach out to people at home and on the go with the correct ads, site link, apps, or extensions.