The Google Display Network (GDN) is the #1 ad network, reaching 89% of internet users worldwide. It allows advertisers to place text, image, video, and mobile ads across Google's vast network. Advertisers can increase their reach through unique targeting options like keywords, placements, audiences, and topics. Key considerations for running successful GDN campaigns include: setting up separate campaigns for search and display; using negative keywords for contextual targeting; reviewing placement performance to exclude underperforming categories; and testing different ad formats and variations to prevent ad fatigue. Proper conversion tracking and analytics integration are also important for measurement and optimization.

1. Google
Display Network Preparation
Overview - Google Display Network (GDN)
 #1 ad network
 Reaches 89% of internet users in the world
 Expansive number of diverse websites
1. Types of display ads
 Text ads on websites
 Image ads on websites
 Video ads on websites
 Ads of mobile websites
2. GDN Increases your Reach
 Unique targeting options let you increase your
reach, even if you already advertise elsewhere
 Inventory comes from AdSense & DoubleClick
Ad Exchange
3. Targeting method
 Keywords: Pages that contextually matches the theme of your keywords
 Placements: You choose the sites, apps & locations for your ads
 Audiences: Show ads to people who have visited your site in the past through Remarketing or to people interested
in topics through interest targeting.
 Topics: Similar to audience however you can choose the topic a particular person is interested in. Eg: A user’s
interest is in music however often he likes to read about politics. So, here the user’s interest is Music (can be
reached through ‘Audience’ targeting & topic is politics.
2.1 Keyword Contextual Targeting
 Theme of a keyword in an ad group is used to match ads to the theme of a page on the GDN
 Use negative keywords.
Eg: You are promoting a coffee shop & use keywords like Java, coffee & beans, then you may wanna use
negative keywords like Javascript, Indonesia & Programming. Google will understand that you are selling coffee
& won’t show your ads on IT related sites (cos of the negative keywords)
2.2 Placement Targeting
a. Placements can include entire websites, specific parts of websites, apps, game sites, video sites
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2. a. Separate Search & Display Campaigns
b. The best practice is to set up separate campaigns for display network rather than run them out of your search
campaigns.
c. Different settings may be more effective on different networks or for different campaign types
d. Allocate different budgets & control spend more tightly
2.3 Reach & Frequency
a. Metrics in Reports
 Reach: How many users have seen your ad
 Frequency: How many users have seen your ads several times
b. Control Targeting
Frequency capping: Works only on Display network & not on search
 Limit the number of times your ad must be shown (daily, weekly or monthly) to the same user on the Display
network
Note: You can restrict your ad (a particular ad or the whole ad group or the whole campaign) to be shown
multiple times to a user. Neither make them see too much (over doing it might impact negatively) nor make it too
less for them to see your ad (for branding & their reaction purpose)
2.4. Site Category Exclusions
 Some categories you can exclude – Below
the fold
Eg: A user can see the ad (right then &
there), the moment a webpage is opened is
Above the Fold. When a user has to scroll
down the webpage & your ad appear is
called Below the fold.
 Use the Placement Performance Report
(PPR) to find ideas for site categories to
exclude
Note: PPR will show you the webpages that
your ads are been shown & exclude the
irrelevant webpages.
Eg: Your ads are showing on some mobile app
which are not performing well or your ads are
shown on some porn site which might impact
your brand image, hence you use Site Category
Exclusions which informs Google that you wants
your ads to be shown on all the webpages
except these sites (you mention the webpages names/category)
3. Display Planner helps with Targeting
 Generate keyword ideas for
contextual targeting
 Generate placement ideas for
placement targeting
Note: If you are looking for keywords to ads
on display network, USE DISPLAY PLANNNER
ONLY cos keywords work differently on both
the networks. As in search, the ads look for
the keyword on the site whereas on Display
Network, the ad looks out for the theme of
the site.

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 Targeting Tips
- When adding new placements, set the bids at the ad group level until you get enough data to make
decisions for individual placements
- Generally, wait for 2-3 weeks to accrue some data before making optimizations
4. Quality Score for Display
It’s an estimate of how well Google expects an ad to perform on a placement, based on performance on this placement
& similar placements.
4.1 Impact of Quality Score
 For CPC Ads
- Determines the eligibility of an ad to participate in the auction
- Helps to determine the rank of the ad
- Helps to determine the actual cost of a click
 For CPM Ads
- When using CPM bids, QS is not a factor
5. Ways of Bidding
 CPC
 Conversion Optimizer
- Targets a CPA
- Advertisers still pay a CPC
Basically, you pay only when an acquisition happens yet you pay only for the click.
 CPM
- Great for branding
- Only available for Display
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4. 6. Types of Ads
a. Text Ads
- Easiest to create & biggest reach
- Best Practise: Always create a text ad, even when you have
other ad formats to increase your reach
b. Image, Video & Rich Media Ads
 Can only appear on GDN & not on Google Search
 Create your own or use the Ad Gallery (a.k.a. Display Ad
Builder)
 Ad Gallery:
- Save time with prebuilt templates & build ads at scale
- Benefit: Get metrics of “Mouseover Rate”. It means,
Google gives you the stats of those who didn’t really
clicked on your ad but was mousing over which is
engagement. This means, users were reading the ad
or paying attention to it.
Note: This report is only available on Ad Gallery.
Tip for Ad Gallery
 Review all selected ad sizes & make edits for those sizes where the text & image don’t fit.
Tips to Create Compelling Ads
 Have a compelling call to action to set correct expectations with users of what they can do when they click
 Use a landing page that directly relates to what your ad promotes
 Use colors that complements your brand
 Include a visible display url
Eg: You want users to enrol in free consultation. You created the ad using “Request a Free consultation”
& after clicking the ad, the user lands on your page. It should be difficult for the user to see “Request a
Free Consultation” tab/link as that’s what he came for.
7. Why Ad performance may decline?
 Find out with the reach & frequency report
 If your ads never change, users may stop noticing them
Note: Ask yourself whether the users have seen this ad too many times now & hence they have stopped
responding to it. Then it’s time to make variations in your ad (change of color, message, image, etc).
8. Ad Extensions
 Enhance ads with additional information
 Ad extensions available for GDN
- Location Extensions
- Call Extensions
 You can edit ad extensions without losing historic data
9. GDN Tools
 Display Campaign Optimizer
- Helps manage bids & find new placements.
- Set your target CPA & the Display
Campaign Optimizer automatically finds
the best placements at the right prices to
help you boost conversions
 Conversion Tracking
- Review conversions for ads, keywords,
placements
- Search Funnels:

5. o View Through Conversions
o Assisted Conversions
o PS: View through Conversion
- Google also shares a report which is View Through Conversion
- Eg: A user saw your ad but dint took any action on the ad. Later, he goes to your
website & makes a purchase. Google shares this report under View Through
Conversion Report.
- This report is available only when you are using conversion tracking
10. Analytics columns in Report
See 4 GA metrics in AdWords:
 Bounce Rate: Ratio of sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting
with the page.
 Page /Visit: Average pages viewed per session
 Avg.Visit Duration: Avg.number of seconds the session lasted
 % new visits: Percentage of users who don’t have the GA cookie when they first visit from AdWords
11. Placement Performance Report
Gives information about where your ads have appeared.
 Conversions
 The exact URL where the ad appeared
 Get ideas for site category
12. Ad Scheduling: Schedule your ads as per your convenience
13. AdWords For Video
 Place video ads on YouTube & the DN
 Part of TrueView Family of ads – Pay only when the user decides to view the video (PPV)
 TrueView Ads: You only pay for interested users
o In-Search or In-Display, pay when the users chooses to watch your video
o In-Stream: When the user doesn’t skip the 5 seconds video or watches an ad for 30 seconds or till the
end of the ad.
Note: If you want to show display ads on YouTube, you can ads YouTube.com as a managed placement.
14. YouTube Overview
 The world’s #2 largest search engine in the world (1st
is Google)
 Different search behaviours than in Google Search, making this an ideal addition to search campaigns
- People search for emotions, celebrities, quotes, actions
 Target demographically & engage users with sound & motion
 “”Watch” pages have the most ad impressions
15. YouTube Home Page Masthead
 You cannot create this as on AdWords. You’ll have to call a Google rep.
 Bought on a reservation basis
 Price on CPD (Cost Per Day) basis – fixed daily cost
15.1 Reservations
 Buy impressions at a fixed cost that varies by placement & country
 Great for branding campaigns
 Priced as CPM (you buy impressions) or CPD (Cost Per Day)
 Management & reporting done by Google Reps
 On Schedule Indicator (OSI)
- The percent likelihood the campaign will deliver all impressions booked.

6. 16. Video Tool
Use the video tool to target specific categories of videos
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 Have a compelling opening image click-to-play ads
- Use an eye catching image
- Inspire the user to act with a strong CTA
- Use a non-commercial feel
 Keywords : Use comments & tags as ideas
 Traffic may fluctuate as user behaviour changes
Thank You!