Search Term Opportunities

Search Term Opportunities shows a list of search terms that you are not appearing on with a Paid ad, but your competitors are, in the last 7 days.  

The top left corner displays the total potential search terms and clicks. You can filter these results by desktop or mobile. To view the complete list of opportunities, click the 'Review all search terms' link at the bottom. You can choose to export the graph data in various formats including PNG, JPEG, PDF or as a SVG vector image by clicking on the menu button in the top right corner.

The columns and calculations for the page are identical to Search Term Detail and are covered in this help article.

• Reasons for Not Appearing
• Rejected Opportunities
• FAQs

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 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

• Missing Organic Terms - any search terms where you are appearing in the top 3 organic results and your competitors are appearing on paid ads but you are not. 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 Google Ads* - search terms that do not match any keyword in your Google Ads keyword report, and we have not seen you advertising on them in the last 7 days.  Useful to find new terms that can make a big impact on your performance. 

• Underperforming Google Ads* - terms that match keywords that you have in your Google Ads 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 if you have not yet linked your Google Ads 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 Google Ads 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. Click the hyperlink in the bottom left corner to view all 'Rejected Opportunities'. There are two ways to reject an opportunity:

1. Click on the search term, then click Reject Opportunity
2. For multiple terms go to Exclusions and edit 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. Note it can take a few days for changes to either of the above groups to be reflected in the app.

FAQ

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

Rejected terms are removed from Search Term Opportunities only. Ignored will remove the term from the account completely, which means you will no longer be able to see data for this term in your reports.