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Consideration for responsive ads
When writing responsive ads, bear the following in mind:
- Use clear and concise messaging: It should be something that can be easily interpreted on its own. So that 40% discount was quite clear and it related also to the image that we chose.
- Consider appearance in all formats: Consider how the headline’s body copy images work together. Is your offer reflected in your image and in your copy and around the CTA?
- Use a CTA: What is the CTA that you want to choose? Obviously, Book Now suits hotel offers and different things like that but maybe download wouldn’t. So you have to choose what exactly is the ideal CTA for that.
- Preview multiple ad placements: Look at how the responsive ads look in different ad placements on mobile and desktop. Check whether it works across all the different placements and what might you need to alter in order to make it optimized for everything.
Guidelines
Just some guidelines for manually creating ads.
Do: Upload the correct sizes and dimensions
We had the option at the start of that to choose responsive ad or upload our own ads. However, we must choose the correct size and dimensions. Otherwise they won’t be shown. There are other options around the amount of copy that has to go in there and certainly the image size.
Don
Don’t: Exclude websites text-only websites
rsquo;t: Exclude websites text-only websitesPeople have a view that image ads are more impactful but not every single website shows image ads. So, in order for you to show on those websites, you need to show text ads. That’s where the responsive piece comes in, and that gives you the flexibility there. It makes yourself more eligible to appear across all the websites in the Google Display Network if you use both text display and image display.
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Cathal Melinn
Cathal Melinn is a well-known digital marketing director, commercial analyst, and ecommerce specialist with over 15 years’ experience.
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