An ad group is a set of ads and related keywords that are defined for a specific campaign. You'll see the Create an Ad Group page as you go through the process of creating a campaign or adding an ad group to a campaign. Use this page to give your ad group a name and to select the method for distributing ads and for matching a search term to an ad.

• Quick Summary

• About Distribution Tactics

• About Match Types

Quick Summary

To complete this step:

1. Enter a unique name for the ad group. The name can be up to 50 characters long and can't duplicate an ad group name in the campaign.

2. Select your distribution tactic. You can select Sponsored Search, Content Match or both.

3. If you select Sponsored Search, select the match type.

4. Click the Next button.

About Distribution Tactics

The distribution tactic is the method used to distribute ads in this ad group. You can select either Sponsored Search or Content Match – or both.

• Sponsored Search is a pay-per-click distribution tactic that displays your ads in the sponsored search results at the top, along the side and across the bottom of search results pages for searches that relate to your keywords.

• Content Match is a pay-per-click distribution tactic that displays your ads alongside relevant articles such as product reviews, news articles, etc. on the Yahoo! distribution network. With Content Match, the content of your ad title, description and destination page are used to determine its placement.

About Match Types (Sponsored Search Only)

If you selected Sponsored Search as a distribution tactic, select the match type for this ad group. The match type determines how a search term is matched to your ads. You can select either Standard or Advanced match type.

• Standard match type ads are displayed for exact matches to your keywords, as well as variations in case (that is, differences in upper- and lowercase letters), singular and plural forms of the keywords, common misspellings of the keywords and topics relevant to the keywords, ad titles and ad descriptions.

• Advanced match type ads are displayed for a broader range of searches related to your keywords, titles, descriptions and/or web content. The advanced match type may display your ad for more searches by expanding match possibilities. Unlike the standard match type, the advanced match type may display your ads when the keyword is part of a phrase or term. For example, with advanced match type, the keyword “suede shoes” will match a search for “blue suede shoes” or “shoes with leather and suede tongues”. The primary benefit of the advanced match type is its simplicity – you don't need to enter every variation of a keyword to get matches.