Online Media Operator Interview Preparation Guide

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Each month auction gets run billion of times, and the result are such that users find ads that are relevant to what they are looking for. The search engine processes the request and runs the auction that determines the ad positions and each advertisers CPC.

By creating ads that match properly with keywords and create tightly themed ad groups, you can target users to the campaign that helps in conversions.

Once the advertisers determine the keywords that they want to bid on, Google will enter a keyword from your account which is most related into the auction with the maximum bid specified as well as the associated ad.

Limit for Adword is

☛ Description line 1st : 25 characters
☛ Description line 2nd: 35 characters
☛ Destination URL: 1024 characters

No images are allowed in URL.

After creating account Currency and Time Zone, cannot be changed.

Be honest. Remember, not everyone can do everything.

Ad rank plays a huge role in defining the actual cost-per-click that your opponents pay, when someone clicks on their ads. Your CPC can be calculated by following way

Your Price = The ad rank of the person below you/ your quality score + $0.01

Google’s quality score determines how beneficial and relevant your ad is to the user, based primarily on your ad’s CTR, quality of your landing page and keyword relevance. Higher quality score keywords will save your money and earn better ad ranking.

Avoid, "I would like the job you advertised." Instead, give long-range goals.

Cost per acquisition (CPA), also known as pay per acquisition (PPA) and cost per conversion, is an online advertising pricing model where the advertiser pays for each specified acquisition - for example, an impression, click, form submit (e.g., contact request, newsletter sign up, registration etc.).

Adwords work on bidding system if the bidding price is higher your ad will appear on top of the Google page. Adwords works on “pay per click” that means you only pay the amount you have bid if someone taps on your ad as a result of a web search.

There are no specific types for Keywords however they are classified on the basis of how likely is going to be clicked by visitors

☛ Research Keywords: It tends to contain one or two words – Tea
☛ Consideration: It tends to contain two or three words – Green Tea
☛ Purchase: It must have more than three words – buy loose green tea
☛ Loyalty: This must be shorter- Starbucks

Nothing ... I am happy today, so I don’t want to change my past.

In our organization, trademark infringement is an issue that rears its ugly head every now and then.

This question tests not only candidate knowledge on Google's trademark infringement policy and best practices for bidding on a competitor's keywords, but also their conflict resolution skills. I usually choose to be an obstinate and prickly competitor that refuses to back down.

This final roleplay question can often get heated or weird, but is the ulterior goal is to simply test their conflict resolution skills.

Balanced is a good word to use, but remember the type of company you are interviewing at. Some companies may want someone who is aggressive and a go-getter.

Google Adwords behave differently to traffic that comes from Google Adwords or “Pay Per Click”. The traffic that comes through surfing often visits the website for information, whereas the traffic via pay per click knows what they are clicking on and what they want to buy. So few visitors through Adwords might be more valuable than million visitors.

Think carefully about your answer and relate it to your career accomplishments.

Adwords is the system that Google has designed to assist in marketing product or services in Google search engine and its affiliated sites. It will place a text ad that appears when people search for phrases associated to your offering.

☛ What part of your previous company’s funnel needs work? How would you fix it?
☛ How do you decide how much you can pay for a click in a PPC campaign?
☛ How do you decide which keywords you’d like to target?
☛ Have you used AdWords before? What campaign metrics did you look at?
☛ Describe a time you ran an A/B test. Talk about your process, results, and hypothesis.
☛ If you saw your average position drop week over week, what would you do?

☛ What is the relationship between content and SEO?
☛ What are the most common issues for on-page SEO ranking?
☛ What are your favorite SEO tools? Why do you use them?
☛ Is our website search-friendly? What would you do to improve optimization?
☛ What link-building strategies have worked well for you? What didn’t work so well?
☛ Describe an SEO experiment that you set up. Talk about your process, results, and hypothesis.

With Google Ad API, you can build an application that can do following things

☛ You can automatically generate keywords, ad text, custom reports and landing pages
☛ Develop additional applications and tools to help you manage accounts
☛ Synchronize Adwords data with your inventory system to manage campaigns based on stock

Don’t talk about what you want; first, talk about their needs: You would like to be part of a specific company project; you would like to solve a company problem; you can make a definite contribution to specific company goals.

Other than CPC the other two options are CPM (Cost per Thousand Impression) and CPA ( Cost Per Action ).

Believe it or not, some candidates tend not to ask further questions and launch straight into a very long, complex solution. What would you do if your boss gave you too little information? Was it an increase in CPC or CPA? Have competitors begun a bidding war? Did you turn on broad/phrase/exact matching. Do you have negative keywords?

If the question seems a bit vague or brief, ask the interviewer more questions to clarify!

My favorite response was the cheeky candidate that said: "If all else fails, reduce the budget by $400K and hire 3 developers and a dedicated SEO guy."

Different ad extension can enhance the increase in traffic. Some of the common Ad extensions used in adwords are Sitelinks

☛ Call Extensions
☛ Location Extensions
☛ Social Annotations
☛ Seller ratings
☛ Mobile app extensions
☛ Offer ads
☛ Communication Ad
☛ Review extension
☛ Image and drop down navigation Ad extension