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Hi! I’m Katy Tonkin!
• VP of Digital Strategy at Point It
• Passion for International PPC
• Love to cook & read crappy books on my
Kindle while on airplanes
• Hate email chains more than 4 emails
long – pick up the damn phone
• Really dislike bio slides
• Might have a potty mouth (sorry)
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Baidu Match Types
Match
Type
Function Sample Keyword What Will Show Parity to
Google?
Exact
If ads & landing pages are extremely relevant,
the exact keyword group will appear above
the organic results on the left.
Exact Match Exact Match
Phrase-
Core
Ads appear on exact phrase, even if they
include one or more words before or after it,
additional word in the middle of your keyword
and words in any order, exclude one or more
words before or after it or word in the middle
of your keyword
“{new iphone}”
New iphone
shanghai new iphone
New red iphone
Special edition iphone
Phrase Match
with varying
modifiersPhrase-
Synonym
Ads appear on exact phrase, even if they
include one or more words before or after it,
additional word in the middle of your keyword
and words in any order
“new iphone”
New iphone
shanghai new iphone
New red iphone
Phrase-
Exact
Ads appear on exact phrase, even if they
include one or more words before or after it
“[new iphone]”
New iphone
shanghai new iphone
Broad
Ads appear on the right of search results and
compete with ‘right match’ ads for position.
Broad Match Broad Match
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Yandex Match Types
Operator Function Sample Keyword What Will Show
Parity to
Google?
+
“Fix” prepositions, conjunctions, &
pronouns which wouldn’t normally
show in Yandex
Home +in Seattle
Home in Seattle
Seattle Home in
Wallingford
Not in
Google/Bing
! Fix word New! York! Hotel!
New York Hotel
Cheap Hotel in New
York City
Modified Broad
Match
“ “
Show only words in between “ “ in
any order, but no words between
them
“winter coat”
Winter coat
Coat winter
Phrase, MBM, &
Exact mind
melded
- Exclude specific words Date idea –cheap
Date idea
Bad date idea
Negative
Keywords
[ ] Fix Word Order Cell phone
Buy cell phone
Cell phone accessories Phrase Match
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Naver
Exact match only
Baidu
Same keyword w/multiple
match types can’t be in
same ad group
Yandex
Segmentation only for
budget management
International Engine Battle
Segmentation
Wins
(by default)
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Query Length by Language + Match Type
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PT JP DE EN FR IT RU
Broad Broad Match Modifier Phrase
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*Japanese Characters
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% of Times a Query Triggered an Impr by Match Type
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FR PT IT JP EN DE RU
Broad Broad Match Modifier Phrase Exact
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Looked and felt
really good
No significant
impact to CPC,
Revenue, or ROI
We’ve Tested Match Type Segmentation
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Segment Structure into Match Type
Specific Campaigns When…
Need control over budget & other settings
Segment Structure into Match Type
Specific Ad Groups When...
Need to leverage modifiers or ad group
settings
The Final Word
China & Russia emerging markets
Searcher behavior & PPC execution is evolving very quickly
This graph represents how much longer the query was than the keyword that caught it, showing how much further phrase match stretches than broad or broad match modifier terms
Per unique query, Portuguese speakers average 10 words per query
Japanese, English, and German speakers average 9 words per unique query
French and Italian speakers average about 8 words per unique query
Russian speakers have the shortest average per unique query of 7 words
Phrase match captures queries, on average, 2 words longer than that of broad match, in most countries
In French and German-speaking countries, phrase match captures queries about 2.5 words longer than broad
In Russian-speaking countries, given the shorter average unique query length, there is no significant difference in each match types ability to capture queries of varying lengths
NOTE: only in German and Italian-speaking countries does broad match modifier capture er queries than broad match
French-speaking countries see 41% of unique queries captured by phrase match
Italian-speaking areas see the most picked up by broad match modifier
German and English speaking countries get more than half of unique queries picked up by broad match
Phrase match twice as efficient as broad in most languages (DE, EN, FR, PT) – amplified in Bing
Only for Japanese does broad match outperform phrase
Often higher CTR likely from better KW fencing
Campaign:
More effective campaign budget management by match type
Easy negative keyword management
Less match type cross pollution
BUT Many campaigns to manage
It’s where the search engines are investing their time
It’s where the tool providers are investing their time
It’s what your customers want you to do