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pet vet  
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 More options Jun 17 2008, 9:24 am
From: pet vet
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Jun 17 2008 9:24 am
Subject: why singular version has a lower "quality score" than plural version
I have the both singular and plural versions of the same (one word)
keyword in the same ad group, with the same add & landing page.  Yet
the minimum bid for the singular version is $ .50 while the plural
version is $ .20, all other factors are the same.

keyword         Poor Minimum bid: $0.50         CTR 1.97%
"keyword"     Poor Minimum bid: $0.50         CTR 0.60%
[keyword]       Poor Minimum bid: $0.50         CTR 1.32%
keywords        OK Minimum bid: $0.20           CTR 1.33%
"keywords"    OK Minimum bid: $0.20           CTR 0.62%
[keywords]      OK Minimum bid: $0.20           CTR 0.44%

Funny thing is the Ad and the landing page use the singular keyword
most often.

Can you explain why?


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AdWordsPro Google employee  
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 More options Jun 17 2008, 2:45 pm
From: AdWordsPro
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:45:07 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Jun 17 2008 2:45 pm
Subject: Re: why singular version has a lower "quality score" than plural version
Hello pet vet,

I can't really speak to your particular keywords, of course - but as a
general principle it is quite possible for the singular or the plural
of a word to be a historically more relevant fit to a particular ad
and site.

For example the keyword "tires' is likely to be historically more
relevant than the keyword 'tire' to an ad and site selling tires -
because folks do not commonly search using just the keyword 'tire'.
Same principle for 'dog bowl' vs 'dogs bowl' and so on.

AdWordsPro


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AdWordsPro.Sarah Google employee  
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 More options Jun 18 2008, 2:24 pm
From: AdWordsPro.Sarah
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Jun 18 2008 2:24 pm
Subject: Re: why singular version has a lower "quality score" than plural version
Hi Pet Vet,

A few more things to think about:

Match type does not affect your quality score. (If you look at your
example, you will notice that the broad, phrase and exact match of the
keyword all have the same quality score).

The question then is, why does ‘keyword’ have a lower quality score
than ‘keywords’?  I would look to see how many impressions each
keyword has. From the data you provided, I want to guess that
‘keywords’ has more impressions than ‘keyword.’ If this is the case,
it may just be that the system needs to gather more information on
‘keyword’ before it can make a statistically significant determination
on the quality score for the keyword. (Until it has enough
impressions, the system will use performance data for ‘keyword’ across
all AdWords accounts. If ‘keyword’ has historically performed poorly,
then the keyword will start with a ‘poor’ quality score until you
accrue enough impressions to change the determination).

Hope this helps…
AdWordsPro Sarah

On Jun 17, 6:24 am, pet vet wrote:


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