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You're considering using automated bidding to make your campaign management process more efficient. What are three ways that automated bidding can improve efficiency?

• Integrates a large variety of signals to evaluate user intent

• Saves time and marketing resources

• Sets the appropriate bid for each and every auction

Which two asset types can also be served as account-level automated assets?

• Dynamic sitelinks

• Dynamic callouts

Where can you go to view your bid status, performance trend over time, and conversion delay reporting?

Bid strategy report

As an advertiser, creating your first Search ad in Google Ads is a simple five-step process. What is the correct order of the five steps?

Sign in to the Google Ads account → In the page menu on the left, choose the + button → Choose your objective, select Search ad, and enter campaign details → Review campaign settings and ensure the ad meets Google's editorial guidelines → Select Publish campaign.

What are two ways optimization score can help marketers succeed?

• Speeds up implementation for enhancements to campaigns

• Determines which campaigns to prioritize for improvements

Jim has created a Google Search ad with a bid of $5. Two other advertisers in an auction have bids of $2.50 and $2. How much would Jim pay for the first spot in the auction?

$2.51

How does value-based bidding work?

Value-based bidding is a Smart Bidding strategy that uses machine learning to drive the highest conversion value possible, by bidding for conversions that drive business objectives

How can marketers predict the impact of applying recommendations on their optimization score?

Each recommendation shows its impact on the optimization score as a percentage.

What are two types of value-based Smart Bidding strategies?

• Maximize conversion value

• Maximize conversion value with target ROAS

You manage marketing for a small business on a tight budget and you need to drive as many conversions as possible. In which two ways can Google Ads help?

• Google can help you set a fixed daily budget to align with your marketing goals and maximize your performance.

• Google has Smart Bidding strategies to help you maximize conversions at your average daily budget goals.

Jasmine is the director of marketing for a chain of clothing stores. She's been given a set budget and needs to drive as many potential customers to her website as possible. What automated bidding strategy should she use?

Maximize clicks

What determines whether a Search ad shows in the results for a query, and in what position?

Ad Rank, which is based on a variety of factors to show useful ads.

A web development business wants more potential users to submit an interest form. Which campaign objective aligns with this business's goals?

Leads

You're a marketing executive at an airline company... What are two advantages Performance Planner offers you?

• Performance Planner forecasting is powered by billions of Google searches conducted each week.

• Performance Planner leverages machine learning for forecasting.

Brenda's working on improving a Google Search Ad's Quality Score... What change to Brenda's ad might improve the Ad Rank?

Adding seasonal messaging during the holiday season.

Your marketing company has created an enticing ad that receives many clicks relative to impressions. What effect could the ad have on the Google Ads auction?

The higher expected click-through rate could lead to a higher Ad Rank.

How many responsive search ads can you have in Google Ads?

There's a limit of three enabled responsive search ads per ad group. If you have text that should appear in every ad, you must add the text to either Headline position 1, Headline position 2, or Description position 1.

Which three factors impact a Search ad's auction-time ad quality?

• Expected clickthrough rate

• Ad relevance

• Ad landing page experience

Your client owns a manufacturing business that makes specialized hiking and rock-climbing gear. Which two Google Ads campaign types could they use to increase brand exposure and reach audiences interested in hiking and rock climbing across the web?

• Discovery

• Video

What are two benefits of using broad match, Smart Bidding, and responsive search ads together?

• They help advertisers reach the right user, at the right price, with relevant ads.

• They help save time so marketers can reinvest in their most important priorities.

What's a benefit of using Smart Bidding with broad match?

Broad match with Smart Bidding helps make sure that you’re only competing in the right auctions, at the right bid, for the right user. It achieves this by picking up on contextual signals present at auction time.

You want to improve the relevance of an ad with a particular set of keywords. What action should improve the ad relevance?

Highlighting product uniqueness.

Assets assist in providing users with which two things they want from their search queries?

• Information based on their moment

• Relevant information

What is the advantage of automating your bid over using manual bidding?

If you don't bid efficiently, you could miss valuable conversions.

Ben is managing a campaign with $7,000 investment, 1,400 conversions, and $5 CPA. Which Performance Planner plan will help him sell excess inventory?

An investment of $9,600 to generate 1,600 conversions with a CPA of $6.

Which searches can an ad show for broad match keyword "car window repair?"

• automobile glass replacement

• replace car window

Which three solutions will enable you to build strong conversion measurement foundations when implementing value-based bidding?

• Enhanced conversions

• Global site-wide tagging

• Consent mode

Which method should you use to implement and test broad match successfully on broad match campaigns to help analyze conversion data?

You can use the Conversion Tracking feature in Google Ads to track the number of conversions that are generated by your broad match keywords.

What does Performance Planner automatically do?

Forecasts how your current campaigns will perform in the future

What are the two current keywordless campaign types that marketers can use to drive incremental reach?

• Performance Max

• Dynamic Search Ads

The advertising director for a guitar manufacturer wants to optimize their Google Search campaign. How can they use the optimization score?

To find how close their campaign is from being optimized for performance to its full potential.

With billions of searches on Google every day, how does Google AI help marketers maximize search ad performance?

With Google AI, broad match and Smart Bidding match ads to queries and adjust bids in real time

You want to try multiple combinations of headlines and descriptions using responsive search ads. What are two benefits?

• More relevance

• Greater flexibility

After implementing Smart Bidding and broad match, what are three campaign best practices you should follow?

• Use responsive search ads

• Be mindful of negative keyword targeting

• Monitor Quality Score

Which three best practices could you follow to expand your reach with broad match?

• Make use of responsive search ads and AI-powered creative.

• Organize all ad groups to be in alignment with a common theme.

• Use brand restrictions with broad match for branded campaigns.

Google Ads was designed to help businesses achieve online success. What are its three core principles?

Relevance, control, and results

How should marketers use AI-powered Search ads to accomplish their business goals?

Leverage broad match, Smart Bidding, and Responsive Search Ads together

What are three signals broad match uses to match Search ads with queries?

• Interests

• Geographic

• Device

What are three benefits of opting-in to automatically apply recommendations?

• You can opt in without increasing your budget

• You're regularly implementing best practices to your Google Ads accounts.

• You'll see improved campaign performance

What are three efficient ways for marketers to apply recommendations that impact optimization score?

• Opt in to apply certain recommendations automatically.

• Review and apply individual recommendations within each of the categories.

• Use "Apply all" to implement every recommendation with one click.

Theo has an optimization score of 75%. What does this mean?

The campaign could improve by following the listed recommendations in Theo's account.

When visibility is the campaign goal, which bidding strategy should an advertiser choose?

Target impression share

An electronics company is launching a new TV... How will phrase match benefit the campaign?

Their ad will appear if the search terms include the meaning of the keyword.

What's one way Google AI helps marketers connect with potential customers?

Google AI understands nuance in human language and connects marketers with people searching for what they offer.

The marketing director for an electric car company chose leads as the Google Search campaign marketing goal. What result can they achieve?

Increase email list signups from potential consumers.

Karen's optimization score is lower than it was a month ago. She accepts an optimization recommendation. What will happen?

It will improve upon acceptance.

A marketing manager wants to use Google Search Ads to capture consideration from customers searching for camping equipment. What's a key benefit?

Search ads can appear on relevant searches by potential customers.

You launched Wonder Boots and want traffic only for searches solely for the product name. How can you do this?

Using exact match

Every ad contains a URL displaying your website address. What's an advantage of using optional path fields?

To give users an idea of the content they'll see upon clicking the ad

What are the three basic components of a Google Search ad?

Targeting, ad formats, and bid strategies