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Search Engine Land » Channel » PPC » Seeing Double: Yahoo, Bing Search Ads Show Duplicate Copy In Headlines And Ad Text

Seeing Double: Yahoo, Bing Search Ads Show Duplicate Copy In Headlines And Ad Text

Change effecting top line ads said to boost click-through rates.

Ginny Marvin on January 12, 2015 at 12:33 pm

Maybe I've missed this, but what's with Yahoo/Bing repeating D1 in both the headline and text? #ppcchat pic.twitter.com/2MVhNmmEuN

— Matthew Umbro (@Matt_Umbro) January 9, 2015

Last week, an astute Matt Umbro noticed that search ads on Bing and Yahoo were showing description line one of the ad copy in both the ad text and ad titles.

When the first description line is formatted with punctuation at the end, Bing Ads typically shows that as a Long Ad Title in top line ads. What’s new now is that that copy is being shown twice: in the long ad title and then again in the ad copy itself.

Eric Couch, who recently joined the paid search team at Microsoft from Hanapin Marketing, told Umbro that the new duplication has proven to produce higher click-through rates.

Just heard back from @ecouch11 at @bingads – duplicate D1 is indeed intentional and has shown significant CTR gains… #ppcchat

— Matthew Umbro (@Matt_Umbro) January 9, 2015

Reached for comment, a Microsoft spokesperson told us,

“We are constantly evaluating opportunities to increase click volume for our customers around optimal Long Ad Title treatments while retaining the advertisers message. While individual advertiser results may vary, in general we are seeing Bing Ads Long Ad Titles treatments improve ad CTR by 10-15 percent”.

It’s not clear if the change went into effect broadly before last week, but you may want to look back at your CTRs to see if you can see an impact on top line ads and make note of the change.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.


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Ginny Marvin was Third Door Media’s former Editor-in-Chief (October 2018 to December 2020), running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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