Google Ads Location Targeting | Expert Tips and Tricks | Google Ads Geo Targeting

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Today we're talking about Google Ads location targeting (sometimes called Google Ads geo targeting) and why it's so important. ESPECIALLY if you have a limited budget, you need to keep an eye on the location targeting section of your Google Ads.
So, we're going to show you how to look at it, some examples, and some tips that will help your budget go MUCH further.
Hope it helps!
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[@MikeMancini]

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[@MikeMancini]

Glad you enjoyed it!

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[@ViveroSiempreVerde]

Hola Mike, muchas gracias por tu video. Ha sido de gran utilidad para mi. Un saludo cordial desde Colombia

[@nadeemnarah1378]

Thanks again.... bro

[@MikeMancini]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

[@CharlesCarroll-jz3hm]

You're doing a good job.

[@MikeMancini]

Do you have any bad experiences with Location Targeting? Let us know in the comments below to hopefully help someone else from making the same mistake. Also check out our Google Ads Tutorial (where you watch us set up a campaign): kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHexdKaiZrqirrM

[@MikeMancini]

Thanks for watching today.

[@elitesupremecleaning1566]

Nope! The best way to see the best return is to target a specific clientele base that fits your business. Works perfect for me for the last 3 years!

[@viel.anthony]

Great video, should help me get started on the right foot. We're a small business (10-ish employees) with about 4 million dollars in revenue, and we're taking money that is being used for radio and tv and using it for online ads to generate leads. I do have a couple of quick questions for you, if I may: - Would you suggest the ad(s) to point towards our website, our facebook page, or a landing page that's ad-specific? - We have two main competitors in our area: what's the best way to target either people that have looked at their website, or even better, that have been to their showrooms? The latter would be the most important for us at this point I think as one of the two has very high traffic. They're also in a remote/industrial area so it would be quite easy to target. Cheers!

[@adamskayneh9744]

thank you so much Mike, ive made a mistake of targeting all of the USA, i got only one sale in spending 50$. now i am gonna do it the correct way

[@MikeMancini]

Awesome Adam. Glad it helped!

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Thanks for the video! Loved it very much!

[@NbaLive4ever]

Wow the zip code clicking trick was great! I had to previously search each city one by one and find out their zip codes and that was a headache. Thanks for that!

[@MikeMancini]

Glad I could help and thanks for watching.

[@johnmacdonald6021]

Good video Mike. I couldn't agree more with making sure the location setting has "people in" and not interested in the location, especially if you are in a major metro area. Another major money suck is the foreign zip codes that are identical to US zip codes. Catch those or waste dollars. Question what Google Recommends.

[@Indigenousim]

Great tip Mike that solves my problem, Thank you

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You explain it very well!

[@DrLoendi_Business_Coach]

Hi Mik, Great info - I learned a lot today, about the adds, and how to think smart.

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The video is great, informative!

[@johnnybest72]

I definitely needed to watch this video. I do internet marketing using Microsoft Ads (Bing) platform. This is a very informative and helpful video. Thanks for sharing Mike.

[@MikeMancini]

Glad it was helpful!

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Everything is great!

[@digi-to-logist]

Superb Video Mike.. i was so confused with Location Targeting. Just a quick query - Instead of selecting an entire state / city do we need to breakdown the locations into pincodes so as to find the best performing pincode locations and then expand? Thanks in advance

[@MikeMancini]

If you break it down into Zip Codes, when it comes time to optimize for locations, you can just bid down or delete an existing zip code that is wasting money. It's the right way to do it. Thanks for watching!

[@clarewynne1858]

Thanks Mike, really helpful, great video...we haven't started down this road yet, but I actually have three companies that we will be doing the Google Ad Words with...appreciate you.

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Really helpful video, it's help me alot to target better areas. Thanks

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[@MikeMancini]

You're welcome!

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[@sangeetamehto9183]

Hey Mike, Glad to have this video. Can you list down some recommendations to implement geo-targeting in SEO for a website that targets these countries - US, UK, and India..!

[@MikeMancini]

Sorry, SEO is completely different than Google Ads. You'll have to ask someone else about SEO. I don't know it that well anymore.

[@sangeetamehto9183]

@@MikeMancini No worries..But I must say your videos are way to informational and helpful at the same time. Keep spreading your valuable knowledge and keep growing..Have cheerful day ahead.

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Thx for sharing. Truly, well put together…

[@MikeMancini]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

[@digitalcreatist4642]

Thanks

[@Yiu981]

thanks for the shearing the details. i knew that google not place the add when targeting very small area like zip numbers. you get very small impressions. I don't think it is that easy to target it may cost more or equal.

[@MikeMancini]

Glad it was helpful!

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Thanks for the video!)

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This was a huge help, thank you

[@MikeMancini]

Sure! No problem. Hope it helps.

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Beyond competition.

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[@MikeMancini]

Absolutely. Thanks for watching.

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[@MikeMancini]

Thank you for watching.

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[@MikeMancini]

More coming soon. Thanks for watching!

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[@MikeMancini]

Glad to hear it!

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Well explained..

[@MikeMancini]

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[@MikeMancini]

Glad it helped.

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[@MikeMancini]

You're welcome!

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[@SHABSOL]

Great video Mike. I've 2 questions. 1. The desired pockets can only be identified after getting some data right? Especially for an online business where customers don't necessarily have to prefer a nearby local business? 2. How do you suggest these pockets can be found for an online business?

[@MikeMancini]

Yep... it's all about gathering the data. You simply have to spend in pockets and look for the right area. Come up with parameters that you can spend "X" amount in a certain area and if it's not performing up to a certain standard, you move on. But start with a state (not necessairly a city). You will find that pockets inside of that state will use a majority of the budget.... see how it performs and evaluate to keep spending there or move on. It's all one big test.

[@SHABSOL]

@@MikeMancini Thanks. How much you normally suggest should be spent to get enough data to decide if fine to move on to the next state?

[@Elmilan788]

Hello Mike! how are you! Amazing video!!! Subscription made! I have a question.... under settings there is no location.... I launched a KZbin Video Campaign in different countries... but I don't know where to find them for the analysis!!! Plz help me...

[@MikeMancini]

On the left hand side of the screen, there should be a LOCATIONS tab. If you don't see it, at the bottom of the column, there should be a "More Options" tab (or something like that... I can't remember exactly what it's called). Click on that and then you should see the LOCATIONS tab. Hope it helps.

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Thanks this video helped out, my interface is a bit different perhaps and software update.

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[@MikeMancini]

Thanks for that.

[@joannelewis1009]

Good video!

[@christiankurirandersen7766]

Nice and easy explained. What about the "tourist" issue. Here I mean I like to advertise my service to tourists coming to one specific airport/City. I think this is not easy to target "all other countries than my own country", but for all with interest in this city/airport, or other citizenships already in town. I tried the option you showed to target people "regulary in or show interest.". I do not see other locations, from other countries clicking. It is a bit opposite your case here, or what?

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Great video Mike. What whiteboard software are you using there?

[@MikeMancini]

It's the XP-Pen Deco Pro. Thanks for watching.

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Nice @11:45

[@cancan740]

You have a expert google ad account

[@MikeMancini]

And so can you. You just have to change your view from smart campaign to the advanced one.

[@dominiquegate3470]

Interesting stuff, but I have such a question, how to analyze an advertising company correctly? according to the formula or what indicators exactly do you need to look at?

[@kasio24]

Thanks for you help. all sond good but in SudAmerica for Example in my contry Colombia the postal Code is real. but in into in the google Ads not is exacting location, only for radio in this case how to made. thanks

[@nadeemnarah1378]

Great tutorial Mike... Thanks

[@MikeMancini]

You're very welcome. Thanks for watching.

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Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@MikeMancini]

Hope it helps!

[@estephanypagenkopp7255]

Such a great video! I have a question ... for eCommerce stores - let's say we have a well-known brand that ships to the entire US but there are certain locations that perform the best ( with a lot of sales) . Would we do the same thing here? only target that location? even though the budget can be between $5K to 7K/month. Just not sure if we would be missing out on sales on other locations

[@MikeMancini]

You will always miss out on sales at different locations. What you want to find are the areas that bring in 80% of your sales, and put the majority of your budget to those. Use the additional 20% for testing new areas.

[@estephanypagenkopp7255]

@@MikeMancini thank you so much!!

[@ronc7513]

Interesting.

[@fernandogarcia1022]

actually working with a law firm in the US and i am bleeding out from locations where we had no conversions, thank you very much sir, can i hire a call with you for an account review?

[@ratfinder7812]

Great video, really detailed and informative. But, Google is giving me warnings about using zip code targeting. Any suggestions?

[@MikeMancini]

They give you those warnings if your ads that you're running are related to housing and other socio economic factors where you may be trying to target a certain area (think lower income). They do this to keep predatory lenders (types of businesses like that) from preying on people. However, if you're not targeting those areas, you can simply ignore them and you should be able to continue.

[@edwardmartin5023]

Hello, how effective is such advertising?

[@degreestudentsallchannel]

Awesome ❤

[@itzarseo3075]

Sir thank you so much for your help. 🤝

[@MikeMancini]

Absolutely. Glad it helped.

[@ChrisEightyNine]

What would you do in a situation where you have a regional campaign that covers several areas and want to show a different local phone number based on the targeted locations? Do you really have to split the locations out by campaign or ad group? It doesn't look like the call extension setup has any specification of certain location targets among all those in the campaign that has the ad. Wishful thinking: perhaps Google intuitively looks at the assets area code and user location to algorithmically pick the right extensions from several?

[@alyssahigginson8942]

Hi Mike, Great info. I was curious if you know a way to target at an even more specific level. I have a client that wants to target down to the level of stores. For example, someone visited the Walmart located on 1st street, so they are targeted in our "Walmart on 1st" ad group. Do you have any advice?

[@ecostrong]

Thanks for the video. Is there any way to exclude locations by ad group or does it always have to be at the campaign level? I want to test 2 ad groups against each other by excluding poor performing locations and I don't want to create a new campaign to do this.

[@alexandergentileserrano3374]

Thanks for share! but not available in my country.

[@ravindersingh5112]

Hello mike.. Does it work for promoting music as well. I know the city which i want to target and who can like my music .. is this ads work for promote youtube music on youtube or is this the ads which comes up on google search engine when we search something.

[@ranaumer1991]

Hey, thanks for the info! Question, if we exclude a whole state and then click on a zip code area and then click remove...would our ads now run in that specific zip code? Or would that be excluded too because we excluded the whole state? Thanks in advancs!!

[@MikeMancini]

If you exclude an area, it will not run ads in that area. You have to add the zip code you want to serve and if it's in that area it won't work.

[@sevdamurat4455]

Friend I tried many many times but I am sure not locaiton targetin DOES NOT WORK with ACCURACY. I am pretty sure. They have around %50-60 accuracy but n matter what you do ther location targeting does not work INSIDE city. It is more successful by city wise but inside a city it can not target with radius correctly.

[@Frank-Felker]

Thanks for the great video Mike. What geo-targeting do you use when running ads for real estate agents or mortgage lenders? I tried zip code targeting but YT would not run them. I switched to radius but am still on "restricted" distribution for "Targeting in Housing, Employment or Credit" THANKS!!!

[@MikeMancini]

Frank, you need to take a look at this. Hopefully it will help. support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/9997418?hl=en

[@MrAbrock123]

Great video Mike. Quick question...when selecting keywords for these zip codes, do we still use location keywords on top of the targeted zip codes or should generic keywords be used instead since we're already targetting by zip codes?

[@MikeMancini]

You can still use location keywords as well.

[@joeboulton2638]

Hey Mike, any new videos coming? Love your content!

[@MikeMancini]

I'm getting back on the KZbin bandwagon and you can expect more videos VERY SOON. Thanks for watching!

[@loveempowermentclinic]

Thanks a lot! What if I'm looking for online clients for psychotherapy? I live in Sydney but I can target anyone who speaks English in the world. I wanted to start small but I don't know how small to start. Only Sydney or Australia? I want to expand eventually to hire more providers.

[@blackriversnet822]

I've conducted research for the wealthiest black communities in the U.S. I'm on a measly $35-$50 daily budget. I have all the zip codes I need. What size population should I go for?

[@MikeMancini]

It's not about population necessarily, it's more about finding the pocket of people that are the right fit for your business. And wealthy areas tend to have the most competition (which means higher cost per click), so be careful with that.

[@blackriversnet822]

@@MikeMancini Thank you kindly Sir. I appreciate your experience and sharing your knowledge. I definitely plan on sticking around to learn more.

[@derekfeske1547]

Great video! Quick question, I took a look at my ads/campaigns locations settings and I have the entire county selected and the zip codes inside that county selected along with the cities. This makes the county and cities and zip codes an even darker shade of blue. Could it be possible that I’m wasting money on my cost per conversion advertising by doing this? Should I just select the county and that’s all? Thanks for any info on this seems like I’m blowing a lot of money on ads and getting just ok results.

[@williamcourterwelch]

Thanks for this video. So I am running an ad and it shows Neighborhoods at the end of the ad. The neighborhoods are counties that are in Pennsylvania, where I used to live. I now live and am advertising in Florida. I cannot figure out where this is coming from. Thank you for your time.

[@Maximus8723]

Rahmet!🙏

[@kannansubbaraj6198]

I am providing google ads service to this car service company and they are always getting customer outside geo location even after selecting the option "people in that area or regularly visited area". Is there anything i can do to overcome this problem