August 30th, 2007

Enhanced Tools and New Options

Write Ads Right(er)

Let’s admit it: Writing has gotten a whole lot easier in the last couple of millennia or so. I mean, would you write at all if you had to scratch out marks on a clay tablet with a wooden stylus? Fill your quill with ink from an ink pot every two lines? Or type so that every single letter is indelibly imprinted on each page, forcing you to correct using (gasp!) White Out?

I don’t know about you, but before computers, I may have had the urge to write, but rarely had I the fortitude. (Okay, so I’m not William Faulkner. So sue me.)

Thankfully, technology continues to take the drudgery out of writing, even out of writing ads for your Yahoo! Search Marketing campaigns. You can now create, edit, copy, delete and view all saved ads (up to 20) for an ad group in one place. More importantly, you can view the performance of your ads against one another with one click.

Still getting writer’s block? A recently released feature lets you view examples of ads by other advertisers using selected keywords, which we’ve enhanced for better usability. There’s also a handy best practices cheat sheet, right in the interface.

You’ll also notice that once you create a new ad you’ll be prompted to create another one. Creating a second (or third or forth) ad activates ad testing, which lets you compare how ads in a specific ad group are performing against one another in order to help you improve your quality index score. To learn more about ad testing and ad optimization, refer to our previous post.

Quality Medicine
Feeling irritable? Anxious? Down? It could be that your Sponsored Search account is suffering from a low quality index score. Fortunately, there’s help. We’ve enhanced the system to let you know when your quality index score is down. Every 30 days we’ll check your quality index temperature and, if it’s low, we’ll send you a notice via email.

You’ll also be able to check to see if you have ads with low quality index scores under the Account Summary tab at any time.

Clicking on the number of ads with low quality index scores takes you to the new “low quality index ads alert” page, where you can view those ads by account, campaign and ad group. You can also access suggestions for improving your ad quality. For more on this feature, visit the Help section.

Custom Report Recall
Riiiiing! Hello? It’s your new custom report view that’s calling. You now have the ability to save and recall up to 45 customized report views per account user for later reuse. Simply create a custom report view, save the configuration and your report will be saved in a drop-down menu so you can access it in the future. Want to see a specific report view each time you select a certain report type? Along with being able to “redial” a specific report, you can set a default report view to display each time you select the report type.

—Michael Mattis

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2. sem4u | August 31st, 2007 at 1:19 am

Some nice new features there but what advertisers are really crying out for is site exclusion. When can we expect this to be implemented.
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14. Frustrated.... | September 5th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

Did you think it was more necessary to help me build ads from three sentences (that I have to come up with), than to get publisher blocking going? Did you think it was more important to send me an e-mail when my quality is too low, than to give me an actual quality number on the ads so that when I am testing three ads I can tell which one of them is really the best since all three have three bars? Did I need to see my competitors ads in the interface since I can search for them myself easily, when we can’t even get Analytics to separate out truly non-refered traffic in the Non-Refered category of the referer report (they insist there is “masked” traffic they can’t pull out)? I DON’T CARE about these nicey nicey updates. Show me one with some REAL teeth. Get me the correct stats so I can optimize my account. Get me a more specific quality rating (5 bars doesn’t cut it with thousands of advertisers). Make the Ad testing feature quit deleting ads after less than 72 hours of testing. Do anything, that really helps..
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It took Michael Mattis 7 paragraphs before he began communicating the important “Enhanced Tools and New Options”. Michael needs to remove the (his) commercial message and say what is the succinct point that NEEDS to communicate about.
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I have yet to figure out how I can see the current day’s performance, how many clicks I have had, how close I am to my spending limit for the day. Any help on this would be wonderful. (the info from the previous day is useless for figuring what to do for the present)
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Great tool for advertisement!

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28. Business Financing Guru | March 1st, 2008 at 7:19 pm

The ad writing tool is helpful but still often runs painfully slow. Anyone know of any small business tools to help with ads? Something that suggests copy/keywords, etc?