Enhanced Pay-Per-Click Sitelink Extensions

Enhanced pay-per-click sitelink extensions offer advertisers additional exposure by incorporating expanded copy on sitelinks and aim to prompt higher click-through-rates by appearing more informative and relevant to consumers.

In mid-February, Google announced an expansion on its basic sitelink extensions – enhanced sitelink extensions. According to Google, while ads with regular sitelink extensions maintain a click-through-rate of 30% higher than those without extensions, enhanced sitelink extensions aim to increase this further by doing the following:

  1. Combining your text-based ads into one large ad and increasing visibility
  2. Including additional, relevant information to consumers, getting their attention and prompting them to click-through

Google in fact stated that initial consumer perception of ads with these enhanced sitelinks was that the ads were more relevant and click-throughs were much higher than with regular sitelink extensions. The following article will show examples as well as tips on how to increase the likelihood of your ads displaying this new feature.

To read the full article, go to Milestone Insights.

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