Adwords Quality Score Basics (part 2)

By Author: Giotto De Filippi
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Read previous post first for Part 1: http://www.ppchacking.com/2009/02/adwords-quality-score-basics/

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Now we need to ensure that the content of our landing page will get a good quality score. This quality score will be determined instantly by the adbot who will visit your site as soon as it knows the destination URL -- so be careful your landing page has to be 100% ready before you make your advert.

Basically the adbot has an algorithm to determine what the quality of your site is. This will then later on be blended with other factors like the CTR.

This algorithm is different than the typical SEO algorithm Google uses as here incoming links are completely irrelevant: a brand new site has the same chances to get a good quality score than a very old established site. The judgment is done exclusively about the content of the site itself and not the reputation of that site on other sites (incoming links).
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... br />What we suggest is the following:

1) Ensure you have the keyword in the main headers:

Title
Meta Description
Meta Keywords
H1,H2,etc
Body

2) Ensure you have a decent amount of pages (Adbot punishes 1 page sites). Its fine to just put some links to internal pages that are just articles in the footer.

3) Have the following pages:

Privacy Policy
Terms And Conditions
Return Policy
Contact Us
About Us

I know this may seems stupid but I guess somewhat they have determined that quality sites always have those pages (possibly because their legal department asks them to do so -- which means they are big enough to be able to afford a legal department!)

Doesnt seem to really matter what you write in those pages, just try to write a decent amount of text so that the bot is happy.

If you follow those rules and you bury those pages in the footer even of a single page sales letter you should get a pretty good quality score. I rarely get less than 8 or 7 depending on the keyword if I do all this properly.


Giotto De Filippi is an expert consultant with both Adwords and SEO. He writes on his blog PPCHACKING.COM giving advanced tricks about how to get better results with Adwords. A lot of emphasis is put on the Quality Score technology Adwords uses. He has 10 years Internet Marketing experience and has worked both for very large corporate clients and small to medium business - consistently achieving noticeable improvements for his customers.