Search Term Opportunities

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Search Term Opportunities shows a list of search terms that you are not appearing on with a Paid ad, but your competitors are.  You can view all of the opportunities by clicking the ‘Review all search terms’ link in the bottom left corner. The columns and calculations for the page are identical to Search Term Detail and are covered in this help article

 

Rather than looking at a long list of all terms, you can click to 'View' the terms in one of the six segments which will filter only for opportunities that match the specific criteria:

  • Missing Brand Terms - search terms that contain any of your brands where competitors are showing ads but you are not. Useful as your competitors are taking clicks from people searching for your brand.

Please contact us using Live Chat or support@adthena.com if you want to check or update the list of brand words Adthena has defined.

  • New Terms - new search term opportunities that have been discovered in the past 7 days. Useful if you review the suggestions frequently
  • Top Organic Terms - any search terms where you are appearing in the top 3 organic results. There are Paid ads from competitors appearing on the terms. Useful if you have additional budget and want to take away Total share from competitors.
  • Low Cost Terms - are defined as search terms that have few competitors and are in the bottom 10% of estimated CPCs. Useful if you are looking for tail terms with less competition and therefore less cost.
  • Not In Adwords- search terms that do not match any keyword in your Adwords accounts and are in the top 10% of estimated clicks. Useful to find new terms that can make a big impact on your performance.

Please contact us using Live Chat or support@adthena.com if you have not yet linked your Adwords account, but would like to.

  • Underperforming Adwords - terms that match keywords that you have in your Adwords accounts, but you are not showing a Paid ad on page one of the SERP. There are a number of reasons for this, with the action to take detailed below.

Please contact us using Live Chat or support@adthena.com if you have not yet linked your Adwords account, but would like to.

 

Reasons you might not be appearing on a Search Term

Possible Reason

 Possible Action

search term does not exist as a keyword in your Adwords account
  • add the keyword

you have the keyword but it is not getting any impressions
  • check status of keyword, group and campaign
  • check you have a live, approved advert in the group
  • check campaign budget
  • check other campaign targeting settings like geo
  • check not being blocked by a negative keyword

you have the keyword but it is appearing on the second page of SERP
  • increase CTR/QS with new improved ad copy
  • increase bid

you cannot bid on the term (competitor brand, product not currently sold, etc.)
  • add the term to the group Rejected Opportunities (Built-in Group)

suggested term is not Important to your Whole Market
  • add the keyword to the Ignored Search Terms (Built-in Group)

 

 

Rejected Opportunities

Search terms that you are unable to bid on, such as a competitor’s brand or a product not currently in stock, can be rejected. There are two ways to do this:

  1. Click on the search term, then click reject opportunity
  2. (to do this for a number of terms) Edit the Search Term Group: ‘Rejected Opportunities’
    1. Upload a CSV file containing a list of terms to reject
    2. Use the text filter, then ‘Add All’ to add all terms containing a word(s) to the group

Check back 24 hours later and all rejected terms will have been removed from Search Term Opportunities.

 

FAQ

What date range are the 6 segments based on?

The  6 segments are based on the latest 7 days of data to ensure they are as up to date as possible.

There are terms in the list that are not opportunities as I cannot bid on them (from a business perspective), how can I exclude them from the list?

See the ‘Rejected Opportunities’ section above for a description on how to remove terms from this list.

I rejected some terms but still see them in the list?

It will take until the following day for the list to be updated. Check back 24 hours later and you will see that the list no longer contains any of the terms you rejected

What is the difference between Rejecting and Ignoring a search term?

Rejecting removes the term from Search Term Opportunities only. Ignored will remove the term from the account completely, which means you will no longer be able to track click share, spend, etc. on this term.

Can I update the bar chart to see just Search Terms?

Clicking either 'Search Terms' or 'Potential Clicks' in the legend of the bar chart will remove it temporarily from the chart.

 

Related Articles

Search Term Detail

Search Term Groups

Add search terms that aren't currently included

Priority Terms and Ignored Terms

How do I see a list of search terms included in a Group

 

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