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Google Ads Responsive Search Ads: What They Are & How to Use Them

Google Ads Responsive Search Ads: What They Are & How to Use Them
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So let's go to today's topic, the responsive search ads. I would just want to go through with you as to why we are doing this and what are the results we are achieving. it's not only for one keyword. It is literally for hundreds of keywords. I think we've got over 200 keywords of which our videos are getting ranked on Google page one, but it needs consistency.

You need to keep on doing this over and over and over again, it won't happen just by uploading one or two videos. Okay. now I'm going to take this website for dentists. Now, this is exactly what I'm trying to do. Now. You must see what I'm trying to do and understand why am I doing this? I can pick up any keywords, but I specifically picked up dentists because if I go dentist, Google Ads, I've only got one video so far.

I need more. This is what we are doing. I believe someone sent me a question last week about what's the best niche for Google Ads. It could be any niche. What I'm trying to do is to consolidate my presence for this niche, by having multiple videos. Then we have all these, started writing blog posts about Google Ads for dentists and so on.

I can see my competitors, what they are doing and how I can increase my rankings to rank above them. It's for a reason why I do all these things. It's not just, you know, wake up one day and think, okay, what shall I talk about today? It is all scheduled in and we work in at least two to three weeks in advance.

All of the sessions are planned and then we start promoting them. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm going to come on to all these comments later on...all right. This is the dentist website. They are right across from us. I just searched for dentists near me, and obviously they are the nearest dentist for me. I will look at the website, see who they are, what they do.

Then we start writing ads. Oh, I go into my...in fact what I'll do is I'll split the screen up. It will be much easier for everyone to see how I write these ads. I know it's a bit smaller on your screen, but I won't be able to zoom in a bit more, but at least you'll get the gist.

All right. first thing you want to do is to put in the URL and then the part one, and part two, make sure that you have your keyword in there, which is the dentist clinic or dental clinic or whatever that I'm going to look at the webpage and Bupa, dental care, Leighton Buzzard. This is our town. I need to be careful.

If I am writing an ad with a trademark in it, but if this is for the main company, then I'm sure it will get approved. I'm going to go ahead with Bupa and its okay. 33 characters, take one out. Then I go through, I think there was a services page and all the information over there. Go on there.

This is ideal. Look, they're giving me all the information I need to write these ads, right. I also saw somewhere, which was quite important. This is very important over here. This is our national health service. Obviously they're taking on private clients as well. NHS and private clients or patients welcome excessive capitalization. You need to be careful with Google might flag this up, but I could appeal and get it approved.

If it is then I will just put in call now for an appointment what else is there... free wifi parking is good. On-Site and on-street parking emergency appointments. Okay. that is very important...emergency dental... have I spelled this wrong... All right. now as I start writing these headlines and descriptions, you will see that the ad strength is going to change from, or to go average to good and excellent. you want it to be as good as possible. then you'll start to see all these little light green boxes turning into dark green.

Then I'll put in free car parking and wifi. That's good. Then what I want to do is to put in some more keywords, treatments and services. Now you see these two have started to fill up. That means I'm heading in the right direction. As I put in more more headlines, you will also get ideas based on your website and existing as now, because this is a test account.

I'm not getting much, but if it was for an account where you were running dental ads, Google already knows who you are, what you are trying to do. We'll just put that one in over here, and it's amazing how good these recommendations are because they're pretty good. sometimes all I need to do is to just keep clicking them and populating the headlines.

The other thing which I had noticed on here was that they also treat children and child-friendly dentists. you can put in children friendly dentist, and those of you who have done or run Google Ads for dentists, you know, that this is quite important for children or for nervous patients. It's very important that you do that. Then you can put in something like hygiene, or tooth whitening, something like that, and you can go under the treatments and prices.

Then this is also good wheelchair friendly, accepting dentists referrals, and so on. Let's go to the treatments and see what they do. Okay. I'll get a long list of... see now children, adult, sedation, dentures, hygienist, all of these... Root canal. These are all good keywords to write for your ads. What I'm going to do is I had made some notes over here to save some time.

I'm just going to copy and paste them. It will save a bit of time and then I can go on and move on to the questions. We cater for nervous patients, fillings, crowns, and veneers, opening times is really important. They're open six days a week. Then on a Sunday, if they are closed, then you don't run the ads.

You schedule them from Monday to Saturday and so on. Now, what you can also do is you can pin a headline so that this will always come up because this is what I want to do, I want to put the name or the brand name right at the top. Now you can see that two of these have been ticked off.

Although you will get these as coming up as include more popular keywords in your headlines. I mean, I have put in quite a fair few keywords in here, but as the ads start to run through, you will find that it has gone from average to good to excellent. Then I will put in the description. Now you see it's putting up the description, but it's not the full one, regardless.

It's very little, I can use more character count. You want to use as many characters as you can to utilize and leverage these ads. Because if you don't, your ads are going to look smaller compared to your competitors who have used the full 90 characters and the 30 characters over here.

It’s commonly known that the way consumers search for things on Google is constantly changing. A recent statistic shows that 15% of search queries, every day, are new searches that Google has never seen before. 

As a business, you need to be on top of the trends that consumers create, and it’s more important than ever to make it easier for consumers to connect with your business through relevant and helpful ads, this is easy with Google search ads. Using responsive search ads within your ad campaign is a great way of keeping pace with different trends as they shift and evolve.

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These two factors are a powerful combination meaning that advertisers that move over from text ads to responsive search ads, using the same exact assets, see an average 7% more conversions at a similar cost.

Furthermore, responsive search ads will be the only search ad type that can be created or edited in search campaigns. The reason for this change is to simplify the way you and your business create search ads and make it much easier for you to increase performance.

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How Can I Set Up Responsive Search Ads For Success?

Here are some of the best practices when it comes to creating effective responsive search ads:

Repurpose high-performing content from your already existing expanded text ads.

  • Businesses and advertisers who constantly improve on their Ad strength for their responsive search ads from ‘Poor’ to ‘Excellent’ see a 9% increase in clicks and conversions.

Constantly check your Google Ad account’s Recommendations page.

  • These personalised suggestions can help your business to improve responsive search ads from the get go.

Pin headlines or descriptions to specific positions in your responsive search ads.

  • If you have specific messages that always need to be shown in your ads, this feature is particularly important for your business.

Use ad variations to test different assets at scale and pinpoint their performance throughout your campaigns

Analyse the success of your ad campaigns on impressions, clicks and conversions

To boost your success, even more, use broad match keywords and smart bidding within your responsive search ads. These three factors combined can help you reach new, high-performing queries and increase and optimise your bids in real-time. 

Uzair Kharawala

Written by Uzair Kharawala

Partner at SF Digital Studios, a Google Premier Partner agency. Uzair has been helping businesses grow with Google Ads since 2002 and teaches it every week on YouTube.

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