Dec 26 2007

Yahoo Quality Score – 5 Bar Experiment Part 2

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  • Published December 26th, 2007 in Pay Per Click by Jonathan Volk
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First, if you have not already, read Yahoo Quality Score - 5 Bar Experiment Part 1.

Well, this "experiment" has turned out to be rather boring as a series. I make one easy change and look back in 48 hours and boom a 4 bar quality score. DOH. So what do I do? I get ready to post about it today to find that the 4 bar quality score turned into a 5 bar this morning. DOH Again.

I guess it goes to show how easily a 5 bar quality score can be achieved with some proper tuning. A couple reasons why I think it jumped to such a high quality score:

  • Removing excess keywords increases the "relevancy" of the keywords to the Ad
  • Removing excess keywords can increase Click through rates

I went from hundreds of keywords down to about 50 or so keywords that were actually pulling in impressions and clicks.

I think I'm going to continue this challenge in part 3 with a new, harder experiment - maybe even in google. :)




Related Posts:

  • Yahoo Quality Score – 5 Bar Experiment Part 1
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  • Quality Score with YSM and Adwords.
  • Great Videos On Google Quality Score
  • Evading the Google Adwords Slap – Guide to a Great Quality Score
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    2 Responses to “Yahoo Quality Score – 5 Bar Experiment Part 2”

    1. Josh says:

      I would love to see some stats in terms of the net increase in traffic with this experiment. Maybe some percentages like… By going from X bars to Y bars I saw a xx% increase in clicks and a yy% decrease in overall CPC. Thanks for the good info, keep it coming.

    2. Florian says:

      Great info on your blog!

      am wondering why, for this YSM campaign you are making the test on, you don’t do 1 keyword = 1 adgroup, like you would do on an Adwords Search campaign?

      is there an advantage for QS to do so on YSM?

      Or is it because this is a Content network campaign?
      Thanks

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