Google AdWords Sitelinks Now Uses Related Ads

Feb 14, 2012 at 3:40pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google announced a new version of their AdWords Sitelinks. They call them “enhanced” sitelinks for AdWords.

Enhanced Sitelinks look at the other text ads in your account and when it makes sense, they will combine those text ads for your single ad and make it into an AdWords listing with sitelinks. Google said they “incorporate text from ads in your account that are related to your sitelinks,” to make up the new sitelinks.

Here is the example given:

Say you’ve created sitelinks for your pizza restaurant campaign, and your ad displays sitelinks as shown here:

Now, let’s say your account also includes the following text ads:

With this enhancement, your ad could now look like this:

Google said in their tests it has lead to a much higher click through rate, saying the CTR was “significantly higher.”

Here are more details on AdWords Sitelinks.

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http://fr.linkedin.com/in/eloicasali Eloi Casali

In b4 SEO rage
http://www.adwordsanswers.com David Rothwell

The new AdWords Enhanced Ad Sitelinks are one of the most significant developments yet in ad serving – but questions still remain about how they are actually implemented.

Google’s wording seems to indicate they will pull them from anywhere in the account – which is consistent with what they do with keywords.

More here

http://www.davidnrothwell.com/google-introduces-enhanced-ad-sitelinks-strongest-performing-experiment-7308/
http://fr.linkedin.com/in/eloicasali Eloi Casali

The primary thing Adwords looks at is the destination URL (which causes issues for people with 3rd aprty tracking tools btw …)

THEN, it will go and look at ad copy similarity.

Basically the REQUIREMENT is the same URL
and the REFINING is through the ad copy.

>> Should not take into consideration ads that are paused.

I am setting up ‘fake’ adgroups (no keywords) with ads highly relevant to my sitelinks to try and control which ad it pulls and displays. should work, unless it only uses ads-whose-keywords-are-in-an-auction.
Drew Nichols

Does anyone know if this program is still in place. I tried several keywords and never was able to replicate it.