Quality Score, AdWords Quirk In Delivery
We had a problem with our PPC campaign recently. Even though we had unoptimised the ad delivery we noticed one ad getting more traffic than the other. Now this did not seem like what should happen so we contacted Google thinking maybe we had found a bug in the delivery system.
In actuality we had found an impacting variable that is not generally known. Quality scoring impacts the delivery of your ads – one can get a better score and that will influence delivery even when asking for even flighting.
Obviously the QS impacts the real CTR – but behind the covers.
A rep at Google explained it this way:
Regarding the serving, this actually is a common question that we receive.
The system tries to equally rotate ads but there are other factors that
weigh into this rotation. In your case it does look fairly even for the
most part, however the system may be looking at the one ad as one with a
less quality score than the other, thus not serving it as often. Although
you have it opted into rotate more evenly it isn’t guaranteed that the
system will functionally work to an exact science. I know this isn’t the
answer you were hoping for, but this is what we have been told by
engineering!
Figured I would pass this along for comments. I have opened a forum thread here.
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