share tweet share pin it e-mail share Google has opened up its shopping ads to external providers and there is greatly increased competition for product ads. Around one third of ads in the British, German and French search results are provided by external services, Searchmetrics’ 2018 Google Shopping Study reveals. However, traditional product and price comparison portals are hardly found in these ads. Most are occupied by marketing agencies who bid for ads on behalf of online shops. Now, several large comparison sites, including Idealo and Comparado, have made a complaint to the European Commission. Their position is that Google Shopping’s distribution of ads is no fairer than before and they demand that the EU take further measures against Google. Shopping Study 2018 Google Shopping today: The competitive landscape In June 2017, the European Commission found that Google had been abusing its market dominance in the area of shopping ads, and … [Read more...] about Google Shopping 2018: Fake Competition?
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Google Shopping 2018: Does more Competition mean fair Competition?
Google has opened up its shopping ads to external providers and there is greatly increased competition for product ads. Around one third of ads in the British, German and French search results are provided by external services, Searchmetrics’ 2018 Google Shopping Study reveals. However, traditional product and price comparison portals are hardly found in these ads. Most are occupied by marketing agencies who bid for ads on behalf of online shops. Now, several large comparison sites, including Idealo and Comparado, have made a complaint to the European Commission. Their position is that Google Shopping’s distribution of ads is no fairer than before and they demand that the EU take further measures against Google. Shopping Study 2018 Google Shopping today: The competitive landscape In June 2017, the European Commission found that Google had been abusing its market dominance in the area of shopping ads, and issued a 2.4 billion Euro fine, as well as demanding that Google … [Read more...] about Google Shopping 2018: Does more Competition mean fair Competition?
Five Ways to Improve Google Shopping Results
Ever since Google Shopping transitioned into a monetized service last year, marketers have been looking for ways to get the most out of it. After all, the service is making quite a name for itself. In fact, in the fourth quarter of 2012, Google Shopping sent 96 percent more traffic to sellers compared to Amazon Product Ads. For some marketers, the approach to Google Shopping is to treat it like any other comparison shopping engine (CSE). While Google Shopping is a CSE, it also acts a lot like paid search. This makes sense when you consider how seamlessly consumers can flip back and forth between search, shopping, and product listing ads within Google. It’s not uncommon to see clicks start in one of these channels and then lead to a conversion in another. Because of this close interaction, you can be successful in Google Shopping by applying many of today’s proven paid search strategies, yet not all of them will work. With this in mind, here are three key points to know … [Read more...] about Five Ways to Improve Google Shopping Results
5 Steps to Launching a Profitable Google Shopping Ad Campaign
With the holidays just around the corner, now is the best time to expand your product advertising in e-commerce, which includes Google Shopping campaigns. According to RKG’s Digital Marketing Report, these types of product listing ads consistently demonstrate improved conversion rates over other forms of ads, such as text ads in search. Unfortunately, as the popularity of Google Shopping ads increases, so do costs per click. That means you’ll need to focus more on the setup and optimization of your campaigns to ensure they remain profitable while still targeting the right audience. Although product listing ads lack the option of traditional keyword targeting, they can still be optimized to help you maximize your ad campaign’s performance. In this post, I’ll show you the five best ways to ramp up your returns in Google Shopping ad campaigns. 1. Master the Feed to Google Everything in your shopping ads is fed to Google. You start out with Google crawling your … [Read more...] about 5 Steps to Launching a Profitable Google Shopping Ad Campaign
Can you manage your inventory with Google Shopping?
There are a number of reasons why they might want to do this. They might have high stock levels of a particular product; some ranges might be out of date, and they wish to sell off remaining stock; or perhaps a product is not selling as well as they had hoped, and they wish to boost the sales. On the face of it, Google Shopping seems like a good platform for this task. Advertisers can pay more to increase the exposure of a particular product, rather than bid on keywords alone (as is the case with standard text ads). Hence, advertisers often believe Google Shopping is the ideal means to proactively manage inventory and stock levels. However, behind this approach is the assumption that there is a direct relationship between what consumers search for and what they end up buying. So let’s take a closer look at the data to see how consumers actually behave. Do consumers always buy what they search for? For a deeper insight into what is actually going on in Google Shopping, we analyzed … [Read more...] about Can you manage your inventory with Google Shopping?