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Increasing choice and relevancy in search ads
As part of our ongoing commitment to helping users find the information they're seeking online, we’re happy to announce the launch of Ad Sitelinks. Ad Sitelinks is a new AdWords feature that allows you to extend the value of your existing AdWords ads by providing additional links to content deep ...
Inside AdWords: Introducing AdWords Comparison Ads
adwords.blogspot.com — Speed -- Comparison Ads shows targeted offers in less than a second. There are no long forms for users to fill out - Users see specific offers immediately and only need to fill in additional information if they wish to further refine their results. ... (more) Inside AdWords: Introducing AdWords Comparison Ads
Translate your AdWords campaigns with Translator Toolkit
Translate your AdWords campaigns with Translator Toolkit
adwords.blogspot.com — If you advertise to customers in multiple languages or countries, you've probably spent time translating your advertising campaigns. To help make translating faster and easier, today we’ve added AdWords campaign support to Google Translator Toolkit , ... (more) Translate your AdWords campaigns with Translator Toolkit
Keywords That Click
Keywords That Click
searchenginepeople.com — Keywords and click are two of the most popular words on the Internet.  Countless readers will have visited this blog post because they realize the importance of those two words. We should immediately warn you that many may find the content of ... (more) Keywords That Click
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Google AdWords Launches Ad Sitelinks
Search Engine Watch Blog — Google is introducing sitelinks to AdWords. If you're not familiar, sitelinks are links to pages deeper on a website. We've seen them in organic results for quite awhile. Ad Sitelinks are only being launched to advertisers that meet a high-quality threshold. If your account qualifies, go to your Campaign Settings Tab, then to the "Ad extensions" section. Look for "Show additional links to my site." Here's a sample ad provided by the Inside AdWords blog (click to enlarge): ...

Google AdWords Sitelinks Now Available For Some Advertisers
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — The Google AdWords blog announced that the Sitelinks within AdWords , which we saw in August, is now officially available for some advertisers. A Google AdWords ad can have up to four Sitelinks in the ad. Google named them “Ad Sitelinks” and are similar to the organic Sitelinks . Google said these ads give users “more options, you can create richer, more relevant ads that improve the value of your brand terms and other targeted keywords.” This option is only available to advertiser “whose ads meet a certain high quality threshold.” How do you add these ad ...

Google AdWords Ad Sitelinks, Now Official
Search Engine Roundtable — ... , now it is official. The Google AdWords blog announced it last night, telling us this is a feature specifically designed to provide "users with more options, you can create richer, more relevant ads that improve the value of your brand terms and other targeted keywords." The feature will show up to four additional links under the main ad for ads that "meet a certain high quality threshold." Of course, this is a lot like ...

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/4/009
MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing — Advertising: AOL advertising revenue continues to fall. Ad Campaigns: AT&T sues Verizon over '"There's a Map for That" Ad. 'Stealth' Droid commercial looks amazing. Gaming: Playfish sees social games as industry driver. Search: Google launches Ad Sitelinks. Google adds "Page Preview" to search options. Social Media: Microsoft reveals new-look MSN. Smartphones: T-Mobile reports widespread outage. Verizon's Droid data plan is cheaper than you think. Sony Ericsson starts some early buzz for late ...

More Ways for Google to Embed Themselves in Your Conversion Stream
SEO Book.com — ... pushing reverse billing fraud would do. Search competition is important, because without it, consumers lose out on choice. You can see the absurdity of Google's position when they claimed sitelinks on AdWords ads increase user choice . Giving the most dominant players in any market more share of voice only aims to consolidate the marketplace further. If they wanted to increase user choice they would show more result diversity on the page and/or more search results on the page, not just show you more from a big spending market leader. When you think about ...

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seroundtable.com 5/12/2009 — We know Google allows products in AdWords now and we even know a way to make it happen for your ads. An anonymous reader just sent me screen captures of Google testing a new way of displaying those products. Here...
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