What is Quality Score?Google doesn't just place the person who bids the most at the top of the list of adverts. Google believes that well-focussed adverts that lead to relevant, valuable and informative landing pages are better for their customers.
Thus Google rewards advertisers for providing what it believes the customer wants. They believe this is better for their business in the long run than merely getting the most money they can from advertisers.
The way Google rewards advertisers for creating campaigns that its searchers find useful is by putting the 'quality' of the campaign on an equal standing with the advertisers bid price.
The Quality Score is what Google uses to rate an advertiser's campaigns.
Minimum Bid Quality Score:This is the QS you can see in your Google Adwords account. It is calculated based on the following critera:
- The quality of the landing page.
- The relevance of your landing page to the keywords and adverts in your ad group.
- The relevance of the keywords in your ad group to the text of the adverts in your ad group.
- The historical CTR of the display URLs in the ad group.
- The historical CTR of the keywords on Google.
- Your account history, based on the CTR of all keywords and adverts in your Google account.
- Other relevance factors (which Google chooses not to mention further).
The weighting of each of the above criteria to the overall minimum bid Quality Score is a Google secret, but it is likely that
the most important thing is the relevance between the landing page, the keywords in the ad group and the text of the adverts in the ad group and the overall quality of the landing page.
You can see this Quality Score in your Google account.
You can see the minimum bid and quality score for your keywords by looking at the
Quality Score column for an ad group.
If this column is not shown on your screen select 'Show quality score' from the '' drop-down box just above the column titles.
The real quality score will be a number but Google gives you a rough idea of how good your quality score is by listing it as '
Great', '
Ok' or '
Poor'.
Ad Rank Quality Score:This is the Quality Score used to determine where your advert appears in relation to other advertisers' adverts. It is calculated differently to the minimum bid quality score.
Ad rank quality score is calculated from the following:
- The historical CTR of your keyword.
- The historical CTR of your advert.
- The historical CTR of your display URL.
- The relevance of the search query entered to your keyword.
- The relevance of the search query entered to your advert.
- Your account history, based on the CTR of all keywords and adverts in your Google account.
- Other relevance factors.
Again, Google doesn't tell us how much each of the above contributes to the overall QS but
CTR is likely to be the major factor.
The quality of the landing page does not count for the Ad Rank Quality Score (whereas it's one of the main components of the Minimum Bid Quality Score).
The quality score will then combine with your maximum CPC (Cost-Per-Click) to give your ad a rank.
The exact details of how it works are a closely guarded secret by Google.
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