{"id":2338,"date":"2021-03-22T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/22\/google-ads-tests-smart-matching-match-type\/"},"modified":"2021-03-22T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:04:28","slug":"google-ads-tests-smart-matching-match-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/22\/google-ads-tests-smart-matching-match-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Ads Tests Smart Matching Match Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, @PPCGreg spotted Google testing a brand new match type in Google Ads named &#8220;Smart Matching.&#8221;  What is Smart Matching? I have no idea but Google Ads confirmed it was a &#8220;small tests that select advertisers have opted into.&#8221;  But I have no idea what makes this match type &#8220;smart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:UCg8P_nGCaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=UCg8P_nGCaA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:hl8ANDcrVaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=hl8ANDcrVaY\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:V-t1I-SPZMU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=V-t1I-SPZMU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:Gu391qSwH_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=Gu391qSwH_A\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:cGdyc7Q-1BI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:MbsSfiz-sEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=MbsSfiz-sEw\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seroundtable.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Zq-eVk8cmwM:_NJ67FalDj4:qj6IDK7rITs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SearchEngineRoundtable1?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/SearchEngineRoundtable1\/~4\/Zq-eVk8cmwM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, @PPCGreg spotted Google testing a brand new match type in Google Ads named &#8220;Smart Matching.&#8221; What is Smart Matching? I have no idea but Google Ads confirmed it was a &#8220;small tests that select advertisers have opted into.&#8221; But I have no idea what makes this match type &#8220;smart.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}