Google Ads
Google Ads is a paid advertising service that provides the opportunity for advertisers to promote their products or services to people who are already searching online for them via Google’s Search Engine. This is accomplished by the placement of ads above and below the list of search results that are visible when people search with Google.
Advertisers pay when Internet searchers click on the ads. This is known as Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC).
The Google Ads platform allows advertisers to target specific geographical areas, including locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Google’s text advertisements are short and quick to read. There are also image ads available, which can be of different sizes, as determined by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standards. (However, Google Ad Grants are only for text ads.)
The ad displays are triggered by the keywords that online searchers are using.
Google Ads provides advertisers the opportunity to set a daily budget for advertising. The ads continue to be displayed online throughout the day until the budget is expended. Or, if the budget is large enough and there are not enough clicks, the daily budget is simply not fully utilized.
When using Google Ads, keywords are fundamental to determining the cost of advertising. Each keyword selected will have a Cost-Per-Click (CPC) bid amount. The bids specify the maximum amount the advertiser is willing to pay each time someone clicks the ad. A higher CPC bid can allow the ad to show at a higher position on the page, which makes the ad more visible.
In other words, advertisers can use the Google Ads platform to create ads that are relevant to the keywords that people are using to search.
In brief, Google Ad Grants is a scaled-down version of Google Ads.
Nonprofit organizations can take advantage of free use of the Google Ads platform by way of the Google Ad Grants program.