Google Bid Types, Ad Types and Key Metrics

👤 Diwas Poudel 🕒 17 Aug 2022 📁 TECH

On the internet, you may find a wide variety of advertising programs. Some examples of these programs include Google Adsense, Bing Adsense, Chitika, Amazon Associates, Yllix Media, Infolinks, Adsterra, PopAds, RevContent, PropellerAds Media, and others. These all help to earn money from advertisement. Among all of them, Google Adsense is one of the most well-known advertising systems that can help a website in generating revenue.If you want to create personalized ads in minutes for free, try Adobe Express here.

Bid Type
Google Ad Type
Adsense Key Metrics

Bid Type

There are many different forms of bids available, such as CPC (cost-per-click) and CPM (cost-per-mille) (cost-per-click). In comparison to other bidding types such as CPM (Cost-Per-thousand impressions), CPE (Cost-Per-Engagement), etc.

CPC is the most effective and widely utilized option. Google Adsense is an internet advertising program that uses the CPC (Cost-Per-Click) bid type. This bid type is also known as PPC (Pay-Per-Click) or Impression (CPM) bid type. This bid type enables publishers (anyone who wants to put ads on their sites) to insert a small amount of JS code into their sites, and then ads that are targeted and relevant to the content of the site will appear. These cost-per-click advertisements can be displayed on part or all of the website's pages, and they are of great use to both advertisers and website owners. CPC adverts can be found on both Bing and Google ads.

Google Ad Type

Google provides support for a wide number of ad formats, any of which may be displayed on your pages. It's possible that Google will show you the following ad types that it supports.

Text
Image
Rich media
Flash
Video
Animated image
Audio
Link units

Adsense Key Metrics

When you log in to your Google Adsense account after your website has been reviewed and approved by Google Adsense, you will be presented with a large number of Google Adsense key metrics and terms, some of which may be confusing. My buddy, I am here today to talk to you about the essential metrics for Google Adsense. Let's start.

Google AdSense key metrics include clicks, impressions, conversion rates, page views, clickthrough rates, cost-per-click (CPC), cost-per-thousand (CPM), and revenue per thousand impressions (RPM).

google adsense key metrics

1 Clicks

Clicks represents the total number of times advertisements were clicked. The more clicks you get, the more money you make.

2 Page View

Every time a user views/looks at a page that contains advertisements, that is counted as one page view. No matter how many advertisements are displayed on a certain page, just a single visit of that page is counted each time it is viewed.

For instance, if a page has four ad units and it is visited three times, then the page will be considered as having three views. Therefore, it is extremely vital for you to do weekly page view checks in order to monitor the effectiveness of your advertisements.

3 Ad Impression / Ad View / Impression

If a user lands on a page that contains four advertisements and that page is seen five times, then you have five page impressions and twenty ad impressions (five times four advertisements). On the other hand, if a page does not have any advertisements on it, then that counts as one page view but does not count toward ad impressions. The number of impressions is often measured in sets of 1,000.

According to Google, an ad view is only counted if at least 50% of a particular ad is displayed for one second or longer.

4 Query

A query is a request made to Google's system each time an ad unit is displayed. Google counts a query every time it is asked to display an ad unit, whether or not targeted ads are shown.

5 Click Through Rate (CTR)

The CTR percentage indicates how many advertisements are clicked by viewers.It is calculated by dividing the number of ad clicks by the number of impressions, page views, or queries received.It determines how frequently visitors click on your advertisements.

Formula:

CTR = number of clicks / number of impressions, views, or queries

Query CTR

The query clickthrough rate (CTR) is calculated by dividing the total number of ad clicks by the total number of searches that were reported in Google.

Query CTR = Clicks / Queries

For instance, if you received 10 clicks out of a total of 1000 queries, the click-through rate (CTR) for those queries would be.10%.

Page CTR

Page CTR is calculated by dividing the total number of ad clicks by the total number of page views.

Formula:

Page CTR% = ( Clicks / # of page views ) * 100%

Ad CTR

Ad CTR is calcuated by dividing the total number of ad clicks by total no. of page impressions.

Ad CTR = ( Clicks / # of page impressions ) * 100%

Note:

CTR is the most important metrics in Adsense and considered the major reason for disabling of your account.

How many CTR is considered as best ?

CTR should be no higher than 9–10%, but it must be lower than 4–5%, and if it is 1-2%, then it is excellent; however, it should not be higher than that. Please take into account that I am only considering about this for the blog site and not for YouTube.

CTR might be as little as 0.05 percent or as high as 20 percent.

The overall CTR is impacted when there are an excessive number of impressions but a low number of clicks.

6 Conversion Rate

The percentage of clicks that result in the customer making a purchase as a direct result of advertising. For instance, if one customer out of one hundred who visits your website actually makes a purchase, then your conversion rate is 1%.

7 CPC (Cost Per Click)

CPC bidding is a mechanism for generating revenue from internet advertising in which the publisher, who is referred to as "you," is compensated for each click on an advertiser's ads.

The cost-per-click (CPC) is determined by taking the entire cost of all of your clicks and dividing that value by the total number of clicks.

Cost-per-click ($) = Advertising cost ($) / Ads clicked (#)

Example: The CPC rate will be greater for someone who buys an iPhone rather than someone who buys a pen drive via ads because the cost of an iPhone is significantly more than the cost of a pen drive. Therefore, the advertising code for the iPhone will almost certainly be higher than that of the pen drive. We can therefore say that CPC is exactly proportional to the cost of advertising.

Note: The higher the CPC, the more money you will make from each click on an advertisement.

8 CPM (Cost For Thousand Impression)

CPM is an abbreviation for "cost per 1000 impressions." The Roman numeral for 1,000 is represented by the letter "M" in CPM. In the Google ad auction system, CPM ads compete with cost per click (CPC) ads, and the system will display whichever ad is expected to generate the most revenue for you.

The cost-per-thousand-impressions, or CPM, is determined by first determining the entire cost of the advertisement and then dividing that figure by the total number of impressions then multiplying the total by 1000

Formula:

CPM = cost/impressions x 1000

If a website publisher charges $3.00 CPM, an advertiser must pay $3.00 for every 1,000 ad impressions.

9 Page Revenue per thousand impression (RPM)

RPM is a reporting feature, and the amount that is displayed there does not represent the actual amount that was paid to a publisher. RPM is not an accurate representation of how much money you (the publisher) have made. The Rate Per Impression (RPM) is determined by dividing the Estimated Earnings by the number of Page Impressions, Page Views, or Queries. In consideration of this, RPM can be further subdivided into the following three categories: ad RPM, page RPM, and query RPM. RPM are measured in groups of 1,000 rather than individually.

  Ad RPM (also called as eCPM) = (Estimated earnings / Ad impressions) * 1000

  Page RPM = (Estimated earnings / Number of page views) * 1000

  Query RPM = (Estimated earnings / Number of queries) * 1000

Example 1: If a publisher earned $25 from 2,500 page views, then

  RPM = ( Estimated Earnings / Page views) * 1000
  RPM = ( 25 / 2500 ) * 1000
  RPM = $10

Example 2: If a publisher earned an estimated $80 from 40000 ad impression, then

    Ad RPM  = (Estimated earnings / Ad impressions) * 1000
    RPM = (80/40000)*1000
    RPM = $2.00

10 Bounce Rate

Every blogger has to reduce your overall site bounce rate to increase your website search performance. Website will receive higher bounce rate if the visitor visits your site on any page( probably called as an entrance page) and leaves without visiting other pages (or link) on the same domain.

Bounce rate equation:

  Bounce Rate (Rb) = (Total number of visitor who are viewing just one page only) / (Total visitor coming to the page).

For example, say 100 visitor comes to the landing page( home page ) of your sites within say a month, and 50 of those visitors exit or leave your site after viewing just a homepage, then bounce rate of the homepage would be (50/100) * 100% = 50 %. Each page on your site may have a different bounce rate.

This all explains above are Google Analytics and Google Adsense Metrics and dimensions