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Basic PPC Google Adwords Definitions: Quality Score

By Andrew Redfern @ 31st March 2008 6:13 pm

Google Adwords has a number different abbreviations associated with its sponsored listings systems; two of the most important factors associated with the performance of your campaign are its Cost-per-click (CPC) and Clickthrough Rate (CTR).

Google describes these two on its website as -

Cost-per-click (CPC): Under its cost-per-click (CPC) pricing model, AdWords charges your account for each click your adverts receives. You won’t incur any costs if your ad is displayed for a search query and users don’t click it.

Clickthrough Rate (CTR): Your clickthrough rate (CTR) is a metric that helps show how your ads are performing. The more relevant your ads are, the more often users will click on them, resulting in a higher CTR. The system calculates your CTR as follows: Number of ad clicks/number of impressions x 100.

The quality of the Google sponsored listings are automatically determined by over one hundred different factors they include factors that Google likes to keep secret; but the diagram below shows the main aspects of go into making a keywords quality.

Google Quality Score

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