Why is Adwords Search Term Report Delayed and Incomplete?
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The Search Term Report is crucial for identifying negative keywords when using phrase and broad match types. The more quickly negative keywords can be identified, the less ad spend that is wasted towards keywords searchs with poor relevancy for that campaign.
The reason I am so shocked is that I'm a developer. Google is a very big company that has allocated huge resources to developing their Adwords platform as it generates a huge amount of income for the company. Obviously their databases store every Adwords search query in realtime. I can see the data being a little delayed like the rest of the performance data displayed in the Adwords account but frankly, I cannot think of any huge technical barrier to showing a complete search term report within the same time frame as other Adwords performance data and displaying EVERY keyword match and not lumping a bunch into 'Other'
It seems this delay and lack of complete data on the Search Term Report would have the effect, especially with new advertisers, of increasing the cost per conversion due to wasted ad spend on keyword searches that had a phrase or broad match that are not relevant and the faster all or part of the search is added to the negative keywords list, the quicker the advertiser can stop/prevent wasted CPC costs.
However, conversely, the longer it takes to get this data and the more incomplete it is, the more revenue Google makes on this wasted ad spend. I'm not accusing Google of doing this on purpose. Ad relevancy may in some, but not all cases dissuade a click-thru on an irrelevant term, but then this still ends up lowering the advertisers CTR and indirectly potentially lowering Quality Score.
Has Google ever given a detailed explanation of why the Keyword Term Report is delayed and does not show ALL keywords? I can't imagine for a company like Google the reason could be a technical one. I've used Adwords for many years and I'm surprised while other things have improved this issue with the Search Term report has not been addressed apparently?
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