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Google AdWords has launched the Google Display Planner, which is a combination of three long time AdWords tools: the Contextual Targeting Tool, Placement Tool, and Google Ad Planner. Its goal is to give advertisers the tools in one place, with the convenience of being built into the AdWords platform.
To help make the transition to the new Google Display Planner easier for advertisers currently using the Google Ad Planner, they have also created a help guide for those familiar with the Ad Planner make the change to the new Display Planner. It includes everything from how to access the tool to creating and saving media plans within the tool.
They also have a webinar for the Google display planner, but unfortunately it's not occurring for a month and a half. But, if you plan to use the display planner, you might want to sign up now so you don't forget.
If you're currently using the Contextual Targeting Tool or the Placement Tool, Google will be retiring them within the next three days. The Google Ad Planner will be deprecated sometime in early September. Clients using the Google Ad Planner should export any existing media plans and site lists before it gets deprecated.
Google has been streamlining the many tools they provide for AdWords advertisers in order to give more tools in the same place, to make it easier for advertisers to find them, and to integrate them with within accounts to make importing and exporting data easier. Earlier this year, they launched the new AdWords Keyword Planner, which combined the AdWords Keyword Tool and Traffic Estimator.
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The Google Display Planner is a great tool to expand the reach of your display campaigns while targeting relevant users for your business. The Google Display Planner has been rolled out recently and it has a very smart way to identify great display network keywords, placements, topics, and interests.
Getting started with the Google Display Planner
You can locate the Google display planner by logging in your AdWords account and selecting “Display Planner” under the “Tools and Analysis” menu.
In the Display Planner:
- Tell Google what your customers are interested in. You can use a word, a phrase or a set of keywords separated by comma.
- Give Google your landing page URL in order to find relevant targeting suggestions.
Please keep in mind that you can also decide to insert either the keywords or the landing page only if you prefer to not run both of the targeting settings above.
- Select the country and language that you would like to target and click on “get ideas”.
Once your request is processed you will get a great choice of keywords, placements, interests, and topics to target.
What can you do now?
- Create new ad groups based on what the tool suggests. You will be able to customize the results to match your strategy
- Filter results by text ads, square and rectangle images, skyscraper images, and leaderboard images
- Filter results by mobile and video ads
- Show only above the fold ad spaces
- Filter the operating system of app placements
- Find out more about age and gender of the available weekly inventory for your search results
- Add the results directly to your account. They will be added as paused in order for you to work on them and create tailored advertising strategies.
You can put together planned ad groups in the “your plan” part on the right sidebar by going on one or more of the “ad group ideas” or “individual targeting ideas”. You may next assess the plan and get an approximation of impressions, unique visitors, and costs. Fiddle with it until it best fits your campaign objectives and then download the plan or add it directly to your campaign.
Some general rules to set up a top notch targeting on the display network
- Create custom advertising messages for each ad group
- Use as many image dimensions as possible to test various placements
- Use both text and image ads
- Customize bids by placement
- Add negative placements when websites do not perform well
- Change your display ads every 3 to 4 weeks to keep your content fresh and attractive
- Use all of the targeting methods (keywords, placements, topics, interests)
Conclusion
The Display Planner is used to make your research for placements more. The Display Planner is easy to get to from the AdWords user interface and is consequently capable of importing chosen ideas and placements straight to your campaigns. The Display Planner is easy to use and a great tool that saves you time.
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