Optimize ads for branding

• Try different ad formats. To promote brand awareness, try visual ad formats like image ads. Graphical messages can grab attention and allow a customer to engage with your brand. Incorporate different ad formats into your ad groups to entice a user to visit your website.

Track and learn from your ad performance

• Run an Ad Performance report and use that data to identify low and high performing ads. For high performing ads, you can try testing a small variation of that ad with different messaging or a different landing page to see if you can get even better results. If ads are low performing, you might consider deleting them or editing them to be more like your high performing ads.

• Depending on your goals, you might use different metrics to measure your ads' success. Remember that your ad with the highest CTR may not have the highest ROI. And when measuring an ad's ROI, consider cost-per-conversion as well as the conversion rate.

• It's difficult to predict what will perform best for you before you actually try it. Test out several versions of ad text to evaluate which one performs the best for your business. Keep in mind, however, that including too many different versions of an ad will make it more difficult to manage and accurately assess ad text performance.

Optimizing Language and Location Targeting

Overview of Optimizing Language and Location Targeting

It's key that you choose the right targeting options for each of your ad campaigns. This helps keep your ads effective and your return on investment high. By choosing the right targeting, you will be able to reach your potential customers in the areas you serve or do business in.

Your ads are targeted to reach a certain audience based on the language targeting and location targeting you chose. With this information, AdWords works to ensure that your ad appears to your chosen audience.

To help assess where and who you should target, answer these questions:

• Where does your business sell or provide services?
• Who is your intended audience?

All advertisers must choose a language and location to target, so it's important to understand what's right for you. Be sure to target only the languages and locations that are relevant for your business. For example, if you ship your products to locations within a certain distance of your business, target just that region. If your ads are written in French, target only users who speak French. By targeting the right audience, you'll make sure that your ads appear only to people who are potential customers.

Note that your location targeting settings will affect your ads on the Display Network as well as on Google. For example, if your ad targets France, it will not be shown to users in Japan, regardless of whether the user is searching Google or browsing a website in the Display Network.