{"id":2425,"date":"2020-01-23T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suisseo.ch\/en\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2020-01-23T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:30:10","slug":"10-google-ads-tricks-to-fully-optimise-your-account-part-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suisseo.ch\/en\/blog\/sea\/10-google-ads-tricks-to-fully-optimise-your-account-part-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Google Ads tricks to fully optimise your account (part 2\/2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are unlucky enough to have missed the first part of this article, you can catch up here<\/a>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the rest of you, lucky ducks, I hope you are sitting comfortably. Let\u2019s get going:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6# The average position<\/span><\/h1>\n

To compare results to competitors, Google has long been using the metric of Average Position. However, starting September, the firm will be sunsetting this approach. Here are some reasons for the change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider an average position of 1.3, you would think that you are always at the top of the page, right? Mostly first, sometimes second, on the odd occasion third\u2026 and yet the reality is somewhat different. To understand these results a little better, we\u2019re going to show you 3 metrics that offer a much more accurate vision of reality: top of page rate, absolute top of page rate and lost impression share.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Take a look at the following results:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Looking at these three measures, it\u2019s easy to see that some opportunities have been lost. Let\u2019s start with lost impression share. This figure simply shows the number of auctions your ad has lost. More than 2 out of 10 times, your ad is simply not displayed. Of these 8 times, top of page rate indicates that it is not positioned well 71% of the time. And finally, the absolute top of page rate shows that, of these 8 times, it is in first position 58% of the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality is therefore as follows for the 10 auctions the ad has participated in:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n