Welcome toadvertising on BingWebinar

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Microsoft Advertising adCenter: Intro to Search Advertising Basics.We look forward to helping you expandyour online reach with Bing.

Host: Cedric Chambaz,Marketing Lead, Microsoft

Expert presenter: Katrina Morris,Search Media Strategist, Microsoft

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Bing – more organised, visual results

Unique UK experience: London-based team working to ensure a quality search experience

Bing Visual Search: A more visual search experience

Bing is where decisions are made.

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Create your first campaign with these building blocks:

Budgeting, bidding, and targeting: Decide how much you want to spend and who you want to reach.

Ads and ad groups: Organise your ads into groups.

Keywords: Select the words that trigger the display of your ads.

It’s simple to get up and running with Microsoft Advertising adCenter.

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Carefully choose the words and phrases that are most relevant to your products and services.

Example: If your business only sells flights, don’t bid on keywords like ‘flight simulation’

Choose among broad, phrase, and exact match to expand your keyword reach.

Example: if your keyword is "red toy boats" and you have selected match types exact match and broad match, then your ad could serve if a customer searches for “boats red toy” or “ red toy boats”.

View match types tutorial.

Select theright keywords.

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Achieve a more favourable ad position on Bing results pages and drive more site traffic.

Increase your potential to receive more ad clicks and conversions.

Over time, build a solid history of relevant ads and high click-through rates, helping your ads to display in the top position more often.

For more tips and examples, view the video tutorial on bidding.

Bid competitively.

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Attract customers with compelling ad copy.

Use popular keywords in your ad titlesand text.

Speak in your customers’ language,using tone and vocabulary that matchyour target audience.

Be specific, with a call to action and the product’s price, if applicable.

Use what works, and remove what doesn’t. Monitor your ads’ click-through and conversion rates.

For more tips and examples, view the video on ad copy best practices.

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Microsoft Advertising adCenter is committed to a safe, relevant search marketplace, the highest quality online experience, and helping you get your ads live quickly.

Our editorial review ensures that ads are following Editorial Guidelines, and that they’re well-written and relevant to users’ search queries.

If you feel strongly that your ads or keywords were disapproved incorrectly, you can appeal the decision. Simply contact adCenter Support .

Follow our Editorial Guidelines.

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Microsoft Advertising adCenter offers an Ad Preview Tool, which lets you quickly confirm that your search ad is showing up correctly on Bing.

Check your settings if you suspect that your ads aren’t appearing as expected.

Make sure your account, campaign, ad group, ads, and keywords are all active.

Review your budget to ensure that you have budget dollars remaining.

Your targeting and language and marketing settings might be preventing you from seeing your ad.

Looking for your ad?

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Use adCenter reporting tools to find out what is working, and then maximise those opportunities.

You can request reports by time period within three categories: delivery, billing & budget, and targeting.

Measure your success.

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Keywords

Bids

Ad copy

Landing page

Each of these elements of a campaign can be adjusted to help improve your campaign results:

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Click-through rate

Traffic volume

Relevance

Cost per click

Fine-tune your marketing strategy by focusing on these key performance indicators:

For more tips and examples, visit our

Support Center.

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Our search experts can assist you with planning, creating, analysing, and optimising your first search advertising campaign with the QuickLaunch Program .

To be eligible for this program, we ask that you set a budget of £250 a month.

QuickLaunch is the smart way to jump-start your success.

We can helpyou get started.

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Subscribe to free Microsoft Advertising adCenter marketing communications:

Free expert advice

Inside scoop on special offers

Optimisation tips

Video tutorials

Highlights from Support Center

Notes from the Community

Get your information straight from the experts.

Select your preferences by signing in toMicrosoft Advertising adCenter.

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Bing will soon help you reach more consumers with less effort.

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Two search giants joining forces to offer advertisers a new choice in search: Your potential customers will soon be making a decision on Bing and Yahoo! Search.

Cost-efficient way to connect to a larger, highly converting audience: With the combined power of Bing and Yahoo! Search, you have access to an audience of 23 million searchers in the U.K. providing 435 million monthly searches.1

Unique Bing and Yahoo! Search features create loyal users who want to make travel plans, find local restaurants, or compare prices on hot products.

Reach Yahoo! and Microsoft combined audiences through a single global platform, adCenter.

A new competitive choice.

1. comScore qSearch (custom), November 2010.

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Question and answer session.

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Microsoft Advertising has plenty of resources to help you stay on top of your search efforts.

Microsoft Advertising adCenter newsletters and bulletins: Sign in to https://adcenter.microsoft.com/?mkt=en-gb to select your preferences

Microsoft Advertising adCenter Support: https://support.adcenter.microsoft.com/default.aspx?productkey=Adcenterss&mkt=en-gb&st=1&wfxredirect=1

Microsoft Advertising Support Center: http://advertising.microsoft.com/uk/support-centre

Microsoft Advertising Community: https://community.microsoftadvertising.com/Communities/Advertisers/adCenter/Default.aspx

Microsoft adExcellence: http://advertising.microsoft.com/uk/support-centre/training-accreditation

Now is the time to extend your reach with ads on Bing.

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