AdWords experts talk a lot about Quality Score and how important it is for getting better results, but we realized that not everyone understands how AdWords Quality Score system works and why it matters for your AdWords campaigns. This post provides a detailed explanation about how Google's Quality Score rating system works along with some tips on how you can improve your scores.

AdWords has a few dirty little secrets they don't want you to know about. The first is that their "Quality Score" is weighted to provide more clicks for ads with the highest click through rate (CTR). Why? Because they make money every time someone clicks your ad. The second is that the advice AdWords and its reps give isn't always in your best interest. In fact, more often than not, it mostly helps Google to make more money by getting you to bid on more keywords or by increasing your budget (although you can get some really good advice from AdWords reps from time to time).

Ad extensions are one of the most underutilized Google AdWords features. For some, it's an extremely useful tool to drive more traffic to your website, but for many others, it's underutilized or simply ignored. For local businesses competing in the paid search space, this should never be the case. AdWords Extensions, when used correctly, allow you to take up more real estate in the SERPs. This is done with the addition of extra information pertaining to your business such as contact info, product info, reviews, and more.