I'm a tad confused. Given the Q/A below, does this now mean that we can freely review our actual AdWords ranking without having to go through a proxy server to avoid a regional/local ranking penalty?
Q: does this mean the ads will now actually *be* in the positions we expect, or only that we, the account owner, will *see* them in those positions when *we* check (i.e., a form of cloaking)?
A: They'll actually *be* - that is, in so far as this is possible, given that a fixed (or assured) position has never been a part of the AdWords program.
Thanks,
Marls
[edited by: jatar_k at 10:08 pm (utc) on July 27, 2005]
I'm a tad confused. Given the Q/A below, does this now mean that we can freely review our actual AdWords ranking without having to go through a proxy server to avoid a regional/local ranking penalty?Q: does this mean the ads will now actually *be* in the positions we expect, or only that we, the account owner, will *see* them in those positions when *we* check (i.e., a form of cloaking)?
A: They'll actually *be* - that is, in so far as this is possible, given that a fixed (or assured) position has never been a part of the AdWords program.
Marls, thanks for posting your question in a new thread, rather than in the Alerts thread. Much appreciated.
Sorry for the confusion. Assuming that I have understood your question correctly (and also correctly understood the question that you quoted), then the answer is that you should now be able to see your ad essentially as you did previous to the tuning of the algo.
This is not a guarantee, however - as actual position has always been highly variable, depending on the competitive landscape, which can easily change from one search to the next.
AWA
Unless I've totally missed the point of other threads (entirely possible!), I was under the impression that if we searched for a KW on G to see the actual ranking of one of our ads, then that ad's position from a regional standpoint (where you’re geographically located when you do this) receives more impressions and fewer click throughs resulting in a lower CTR for that geographical region and therefore a lower ranking for that geographical region.
Is this still true?
Thx!
Recently a number of advertisers have had difficulty seeing their ad in the expected position, while searching on their own keywords. We have reviewed several reported cases of this occurrence, and have now further tuned the algo in order to prevent this occurrence in most cases.
AWA
Thanks.
Does the ad position we see correspond to what others see...
...or is it merely a cosmetic adjustment being made for each account owner individually, to palliate objections about the discrepancies in expected ad position?
Context:
* Position has never been fixed in the AdWords program.
* It has always been possible, literally, for ad position to shift from one search to the next - whether the searches are being done by the same person, or different people in different locations. This is an expected behavior.
* Because your position is not fixed, it is expressed as Average Position. Average Postion is not an estimate. Rather, it is the exact average of all actual positions, for whatever number of impressions one is looking at.
AWA
