You may want to think
of each keyword match type as a fishing net.
Global Search results now show a pop - up preview that highlights the location
of the keyword match.
There are three levels
of keyword match (green means match, red means no match):
A concise guide to the types
of keyword match options that Google offers and the main advantages and disadvantages to each.
There are three types
of Keyword Matching you can use.
Resumes are usually ranked according to the number
of keyword matches and other criteria, so are LinkedIn profiles.
The ATS will then scan all the resumes in its database and rank the candidates by the number
of keyword matches their resume contains.
of keywords matched the search engine would show the results in descending order i.e. from highest matched keyword to the lowest matched keyword.
The way in which companies use their search for keywords varies; some companies may weight keywords based on importance where other companies consider all keywords equal; some companies may strongly take into account how many
of the keywords match the skills, education, and other words they are looking for while others may be more lenient.
Not exact matches
This means that Google isn't just focused on looking for exact
matches of certain
keywords in the content.
In nearly every case, however, we have found it to be more successful and deliver a significantly better return on your SEM investment by focusing on the hundreds or even thousands
of more specific
keywords that more closely
match the services, products, brands, and locations that you sell or serve.
What's required is a stream
of fresh content, updated
keywords to
match seasonal searches and new promotions across devices to build a highly successful, well - nurtured marketing engine to produce the results expected
Instead
of matching keywords in queries, its new strategy is to manage more complex queries by attempting to understand the meanings and relationships
of words and concepts.
The basics
of a
keyword - targeted ad is it is ranked on a search engine page result (SERP), which is based on the particular
matched keyword cost - per - click (CPC), advertisers bid, and Quality Score.
Usually I recommend using broad
match when you want lots
of traffic and you have the time to regularly add negative
keywords (see step 8 in my increase your AdWords ROI).
Phrase
match keywords will trigger ads when the exact phrase is part
of the
keyword typed into Google.
It usually creates a lot
of adgroups to really narrow down on the
match type and
keywords.
Keyword research is the simple art
of better understanding the terminology your potential customers are using to find the products you're selling, then
matching your website and marketing terminology.
I have a list
of keywords and am doing exact
match and have few
keywords with broad
match modifier.
At the bottom
of that page, you'll have a list
of keywords (broad
match) that are trending.
I find lots
of beginner have not been familiar with negative
keywords and their
match types.
These close variants expanded the reach
of these exact and phrase
keywords by an estimated 7 % by including common misspellings, plurals, and grammatical stemmings
of these phrase and exact
match keywords.
Sometimes it is possible to find the perfect exact
match keyword that converts every time thanks to the data that you gather on phrase
match keywords over a period
of a couple
of weeks.
To understand how your choice
of keywords can affect when your ads will be shown to searchers, you need to know a little about the different
keyword match types that Google uses.
The modified broad
match keyword will only trigger your PPC advertisement if ALL
of the
keywords in your
keyword phrase are used by the Internet user.
Relevancy with the help
of phrase
match keywords increases incredibly and quality scores normally improve too.
Depending upon how you have set up your PPC campaign, if a searcher enters one set
of words into the search box your ad will appear; the same search with a different
keyword match choice will not trigger your ad.
The broad
match keyword will be triggered when any
of the words in the
keyword are used by the Internet user and in any order too.
If you really want to take advantage
of the power
of the phrase
match keyword, use the data that you gather on them to then select certain
keywords as exact
match keywords.
It will be assumed that you wish all
of your
keywords to be assigned the broad
match type.
If your PPC campaign does not include exact
match keywords, you are really not trying hard enough to make the very best
of what you have with your PPC advertising.
The example above (click to englarge the chart image) shows that changing the
keyword from broad
match to phrase
match would most likely help accomplish our goal
of cost per conversion under $ 100.
Make sure that the title
of the content
matches the body, or much better put heart into it, in which will exceed the expectations
of your targeted audience, since sometimes marketers often misuse titles
of their pages / posts just to optimize their targeted
keywords.
Negative
match keywords can be helpful in controlling costs
of advertising, since they limit the chances
of irrelevant words triggering a showing
of your ad and resultant clicks that have no chance
of resulting in a sale.
Broad
match keywords also help to account for any kind
of keyword variation possible too.
Tracking «broad -
match»
keyword performance requires a combination
of analyzing web logs, analytics and conversion tracking.
This is why when working with a phrase
match list
of keywords you still need to construct a fairly extensive negative
keyword list.
Of course, there is a lot more strategy to
keyword choices than just the
match types and knowing when to use each.
Essentially, broad
match keywords are the
keywords that tend to cost the most for the PPC advertiser to run because the number
of Internet users who might enter the phrase into the search engine query box is bound to be very high.
Getting your name out there is important and using broad
match keywords to bring in new Internet users by the plentiful is one way
of getting things done.
Always pay close attention to broad
match performance and if top performing
keywords are identified, break them out
of the broad
match for better tracking.
Balancing
matching options, words versus phrases, and general versus niche
keyword selections to accurately segment your audience enables you to improve quality scores (a measure
of relevance as perceived by the search engines,) find less competitive «niche»
keywords, and expand impression exposures within your budget parameters (e.g. synch to Google's recommended daily budget.)
Broad
matched keywords also don't distinguish between plural and singular search terms so your ad will be shown regardless
of the syntax used by the searcher.
Note: it's important to use broad
match because the volume
of long tail
keywords is already fairly limited.
The new version
of Market Samurai uses exact
match search with
Keyword Planner so it might not be an alternative but rather a tool that makes using
Keyword Planner more convenient.
Due to the lack
of transparency on the Display Network when it comes to search terms data, and the fact that all
keywords are treated as broad
match, Tip # 1 above will provide a good way to identify and add negative
keywords.
A sudden explosion occurs when one
of your random long - tail
keywords is suddenly
matched on a major search, or a news event causes that
keyword to get a spike in traffic.
For example one
of my clients sells pirate hats like you would wear to a costume party, so we could try a phrase
match for «pirate costume hat» and add the negative
keyword - Pittsburgh so that people looking for a Pirates baseball cap would not see my clients» ad.
Note that the most generic prefixes and suffixes (like «the») have now been almost entirely broad -
matched out
of existence, so if you see a prefix or suffix getting no traffic, this may be the reason (and you should probably delete that
keyword to clean up your account).
Note that I don't count
match types as part
of the total number
of keywords in your campaign — in other words, if you have 5000
keywords but you
match each
of these three times, your account would have a total
of 15,000
keywords, which I still think is acceptable without «overdoing it.»