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:
> 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?
