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Expanded Text Ads are coming to Google AdWords. Are you excited? But more importantly, are you ready?
Expanded Text Ads were one of several huge AdWords changes Google announced
So what exactly is changing? Here are 10 things advertisers need to know about Expanded Text Ads.
Expanded Text Ads are 2x bigger than current text ads. The new ads are designed to maximize your presence and performance on mobile search results with a bigger headline and an extra long description. (And with a mobile-first mindset, whatever works on mobile is going to get applied to desktop too.)
Expanded Text ads will show across all devices – desktop and mobile – and will wrap automatically based on device size.
Google is calling this the biggest change to text ads since AdWords launched 15 years ago.
Several months ago, Google began thinking about what an AdWords ad would look like if they created AdWords in today’s mobile-first world, where more than half of the trillions of searches conducted on Google per year are done via a mobile device.
Google’s first move toward creating a unified experience across devices came in February when they killed off right side ads on desktop. Now with the constraints of desktop right-side ads gone, this change seems like a natural progression from the super-sized headlines introduced in 2011.
Expanded text ads are 2x bigger (math nerd alert: technically 47 percent bigger) from today’s AdWords text ads.
You now have a total of 140 characters of ad copy space to use, marking the end of the current 25-35-35 limits. No comment from Twitter as yet about their thoughts on Google adopting a 140-character limit. Here’s a little more info on the changes from the AdWords blog:
So make all those extra characters count. Create eye-catching and emotional ads that searchers can’t resist clicking on.
Advertisers will have two 30-character headlines when Expanded Text Ads become available later this year.
Advertisers currently are limited to a 25-character headline.
Advertisers will have one 80-character description line.
Advertisers currently are limited to two 35-character description lines.
AdWords will automatically extract the domain from the final URL.
Advertisers can then add up to two paths to enhance the display URL (using up to 15 characters).
Yes! More text means greater visibility. Early reports indicate that Expanded Text Ads are seeing CTR increase by as much as 20 percent.
so we expect increasing the character counts of headlines and description should result in more clicks.
Google hasn’t officially revealed when all advertisers will have access to Expanded Text Ads.
However, we’ve heard that the current plan is to release Expanded Text Ads to all advertisers in July. By September AdWords will no longer allow 25-35-35 ads.
Raise your Quality Scores now! Quality Score is already the most important metric in your AdWords account, but it’s about to become even more important.
Businesses that occupy the top spots will take up the most valuable SERP real estate – especially for commercial queries. It could make anything below position 2 or 3 on mobile devices irrelevant!
Additionally, you’ve got a lot of ad text optimization ahead of you. You’ll need to make sure your text ads are all rewritten to take advantage of this new format. Google is giving you 2x more space with Expanded Text Ads – so be ready to use it to your advantage!
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Rohit Shelwante is a Digital Marketing Consultant having 11+ years of experience. He works closely with B2B & B2C businesses providing Digital Marketing Strategies that increases their Search Engine Visibility.
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