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But it wouldn't appear for phrases such as:
food that's bad for my health how food affects my health
According to Google's estimate, my ad would be (on average) 8.6 in
list of all AdWord ads for that phrase. And I would receive approximately 12 clicks on my ad each day (on average).
Lastly, I can narrow
relevance of my keyword phrase even more. I can enter it like this:
[health food]
This means that my ad will only appear if someone searches specifically for:
health food
And it won't appear for any other search terms. The search must include only those two words in that order. My ad will only appear for people who search for my keyword phrase exactly. So it won't appear if someone searches for phrases like:
health food recipes vegetarian health food
According to Google's estimate, my ad would be (on average) 8 in
list of all AdWord ads for that phrase. And I would receive approximately 2.1 clicks on my ad each day (on average).
You can see that there are some significant differences in
amount of traffic I would get from each of these different bids. In this case, I may do best by bidding on "health food". It would get me about 300 clicks a month more than [health food]. And it would get me about 90 clicks a month more than
words without quotes.
And that's just for a single keyword phrase.
You may have noticed that
term [health food] was still positioned about
same as
other two terms (a little better even). But it would have received *much* fewer clicks. This is probably because far fewer people search for health food without any other words.
So when you set up your next AdWords campaign (or when you check your current campaigns), you should check which of these methods will get you
most clicks for some of your more popular keyword phrases.

Dave Brown is a self-taught marketer and software developer. He also publishes the uncommon and uniquely original newsletter on making the most of your life - A Fresh Perspective. You can learn more at http://www.dave-brown.com