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Custom channels. is the description important?

         

csdude55

8:59 am on Apr 16, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I'm not entirely sure that I understand how the Custom Channels work, or if there are "best practices" for them. The documentation is pretty vague on them.

What I do know is that I had created one channel for my site and added all of my ad units to it, then gave a description for my site. That seemed to be generating a lot of revenue, so later I created a separate channel for each ad unit, and in the description described both the site and the ad placement and value. This generated more revenue. It's confusing, though, because now I have each ad unit linked to two channels; I'm afraid to remove the original one because I don't want to lose advertisers that are targeting it.

So the question I have is, how, exactly, does the Description work? Should it be loaded with keywords for advertisers to find, or is it just a description they'll read after they've already found it?

londrum

2:08 pm on Apr 18, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I wouldn't mind knowing the answer to this as well.
Does anyone know if AdWords users pay any attention to these channel things? Or do they just filter sites by the amount of traffic and click-thru rate, and stuff like that?

CommandDork

12:49 pm on Apr 19, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I cannot verify for sure but know that there is some weight given to the channel name itself - I've had days where a traditionally good-earning adblock went south. I changed the External Name to something else relying on keywords and saw a bounceback for a day or three. This tactic has saved my sanity on a few occasions and started about mid-2013.

Glad you brought this up because there is no concrete info online about it. Seems no one values channel descriptions / channel names much (but I do).

Maleda

12:50 pm on Apr 19, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I'd definitely like some more insight into this too!