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content network or site-targeted campaign?

duplicated effect?

         

makee

10:26 am on Oct 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I've used content network for 1 year and the conversions are really good on a few number of content websites.

May you try to create another site-targeted campaign for these well-performing websites to maximize the effects? Or, if they serve the same thing?

And can I choose one specific page, rather than the whole domain, for site-targeted campaign?

Thanks for help!

thecloser

2:47 am on Oct 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

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You can create a site-targeted campaign to effectively try to squat on those sites, even specific pages on those sites (if the site owner has elected to have that option I believe).

My results have always been mixed in site-targeting sites that have done well on regular content network distribution. I'm not aware of anyone completely scaling out their conversions to the level they expect though.... It kind of depends on the traffic patterns of the site you're targeting as well I think.

tomasvdb

10:34 am on Oct 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Content targeting and site targeting may be used in parallel and Google will figure out what the 'best' ad is to show if both would compete for the same spot.

I'm not sure how they would define the 'best' ad though, would it be on CTR of both ads, or the ad that would generate the most money for Google? (i.e. the higher priced of the two).

You can apparently enter specific pages where you want your ads to be shown, as long as that page resides only (max) 2 directories deep in the domain (e.g.: 'www.mydomain.com/mypage.html' would work, whereas 'www.mydomain.com/category/products/mypage.html' wouldn't.

Personally i'm approaching site targeting carefully, as it is difficult to assess the perfomance of various sites beforehand and it might end costing you much more than anticipated. I'd suggest to use content targeting to find good performing sites that you can then use in site targeting.

heiniquadrassel

8:33 am on Oct 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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tomas,
are you sure that adwords will choose between your site-targeted and your content network ads and only display one at a time?

because, for one of my clients I have the same ads running both in site-targeted and content network campaigns. Each campaign has only one adgroup conatining both a text and an image ad.

What I found is that sometimes, both one of my image ads and one of my text ads get displayed on the same page at the same time.

How do you explain that?

tomasvdb

9:42 am on Oct 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Ads compete but as far as i'm aware there is no competition across different ad types. so it would be possible to have both a text and an image ad on the same page because the image ad and the text ad occupy different sections of the site (an image ad cannot be displayed in a text space and vice versa)