Keywords
Google Ads categorizes the level of relatedness between keywords and the search query under four different match types. The most accurate match type is “exact”. Accuracy widens through “phrase match” and “broad match modifier” to “broad match”.
Example Keyword: [buy chucks]
Will match to: buy Chucks
Will not match to: anything else
Example Keyword: “red sandals”
Will match to: buy red sandals, red sandals store, red sandals on sale, …
Will not match to: red leather sandals, sandals red, red shoes, …
Example Keyword: shoes
Can match to: boots, sandals, buy sneakers, cool chucks designs, shoe cream, red sneakers, …
Example Keyword: +sneakers buy (“buy” is still broad type in this example)
Will match to: order sneakers, buy sneakers, buying green sneaker, …
Will not match to: buy boots, order sandals, …
Example Keyword 2: +red +shoes
Will match to: red shoes, shoes red, red shoe, sheo red, shoes ret, …
Will not match to: bordeaux boots, pink sandals, …
- Grammatical variations
- Misspellings
- Abbreviations
- Close Synonyms
Crealytics attempts to create keywords in the exact and phrase match types rather than the broad match type. This approach comes with several advantages. First, due to the fact that keywords having exact/phrase match types trigger only highly related search queries, the overall costs decrease. Especially for long tail keywords (keywords containing multiple words), using an exact match type is much more effective and cost efficient. Due to less competition, the CPC is lower. Moreover, these keywords are more specific, leading to higher CTRs and QS. Overall, Crealytics recommends using a 60/40 ratio of long-tail keywords and short-tail keywords. A good long-tail keyword captures customers with a higher willingness to purchase.
Crealytics recommends separating broad keywords from exact and phrase keywords in your account. This prevents an overlap in the budgeting process and thus cannibalization of traffic from happening.
Negatives
For negatives, we consider only three match types: “negative exact match”, “negative phrase match” and “negative broad match”. Analog to the above, they cut off traffic around the negative keyword.
Read more about negative matchtypes in the Negatives chapter.
Assign broad match type keywords and exact keywords to different ad groups to prevent cannibalization of traffic from happening!
– Matthias Schmidt, Account Consultant