{"id":869,"date":"2008-12-16T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T15:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:11:59","slug":"google-is-automatically-targeting-mobile-users-with-your-regular-adword-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/google-is-automatically-targeting-mobile-users-with-your-regular-adword-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"Google is Automatically Targeting Mobile Users with Your Regular Adwords Ads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the an internet research firm eMarketer, there are approximately 405 million mobile phone users with internet capabilities.&nbsp; With recent changes in Google Adwords, there is an auto feature for mobile ads placement.&nbsp; If you haven&#8217;t notice, it is automatically selected for you when you write text ads in Adwords and you have the option to opt out.&nbsp; Of course not all devices are going to have these ads delivered to them, only iPhones and other mobile devices with full Internet browsers will be targeted.&nbsp; To write ads for other phones with internet capabilities, you must follow Google&#8217;s guidelines on writing for these devices.&nbsp; Fewer characters are allowed in mobile ads than in standard text ads, and each ad must link to a mobile landing page.&nbsp; Regular Adwords image ads needs to have the content network turned on in order for them to show.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Learn more about Google Mobile Ads Placement\" href=\"https:\/\/adwords.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=107265&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the reach of users have dramatically increased without any extra efforts.&nbsp; Google certainly knows how to open markets for advertisers.&nbsp;&nbsp; This gives Adwords and PPC managers a new role and that is to study the implications on their client&#8217;s advertising performance and budgets.<\/p>\n<p>We can think of one benefit for advertisers and that is their phone numbers suddenly takes center stage and certainly becomes an obvious call to action.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the phones, certainly Google phones and Iphones will be the focus of this now new channel.&nbsp; Google is a smart company and moving at lightning speed.&nbsp; Nevertheless, Google has always made it easy for advertisers and PPC managers to benefit from the changing landscape.&nbsp; They are changing how to reach customers with advertising faster than anyone or any industry can predict.&nbsp; The result will have to be determined after some data can be gathered.&nbsp; This a positive step for the industry or any industry for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the an internet research firm eMarketer, there are approximately 405 million mobile phone users with internet capabilities.&nbsp; With recent changes in Google Adwords, there is an auto feature for mobile ads placement.&nbsp; If you haven&#8217;t notice, it is automatically selected for you when you write text ads in Adwords and you have the option to opt out.&nbsp; Of course not all devices are going to have these ads delivered to them, only iPhones and other mobile devices with full Internet browsers will be targeted.&nbsp; To write ads for other phones with internet capabilities, you must follow Google&#8217;s guidelines on writing for these devices.&nbsp; Fewer characters are allowed in mobile ads than in standard text ads, and each ad must link to a mobile landing page.&nbsp; Regular Adwords image ads needs to have the content network turned on in order for them to show. Learn more here&#8230; Suddenly, the reach of users have dramatically increased without any extra efforts.&nbsp; Google certainly knows how to open markets for advertisers.&nbsp;&nbsp; This gives Adwords and PPC managers a new role and that is to study the implications on their client&#8217;s advertising performance and budgets. 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