Pros and cons of using Bing Ads over other advertising mediums

Bing Ads allows marketers to put their business in front of local customers, while providing them easy solutions for their needs. Whether you’re a small to medium business, or a national brand with a local presence, you’ll find solutions to target and grow your customer base with it.

Statistics show that, “After Google, Bing is the second biggest search engine.” Whenever a search is made on Bing, it conducts an auction to determine which ads are shown on search results pages and in which order they are displayed.

Pros of Bing advertising:

• Less competition with cheaper costs per click:

Bing is a great advertising platform for small business. Bing Ads uses an auction dynamic that is similar to the AdWords auction, so advertisers on Bing have numerous benefits including low competition, higher ad position, and cheaper costs per click.

• Writing ad copy is easier:

Both Google AdWords and Bing ads provide the same word count for titles and ad descriptions; i.e. 25 and 70 characters respectively. In Google AdWords, we have to divide ad description into two lines containing 35 character each. On the other hand, Bing Ads allows marketers to describe ads in single line. This doesn’t make much difference, but marketers don't have to split the ad description into two lines.

• Provides great customer service:

Undoubtedly, Google provides the best customer service, but when it comes to Bing, their services are amazing, as well. Bing representatives are extremely helpful and provides the best solutions available for the issues encountered. Bing provides quicker and more effective solutions compared to Google customer services

• Bing allows you to Advertise on Two Networks:

There are two types of Bing networks: the “Bing Search Network” and the “Bing Content Network.” This gives advertisers the option to run paid advertising on either one, whichever fits their campaign best.

Cons of Bing advertising:

• Ad extensions:

As compared with Google AdWords, Bing ads are slightly less advanced in terms of Ad extensions. AdWords offers lots of extensions to its users, such as app extensions, call extensions, location extensions, call out extensions, review extensions, etc. Bing Ads offers only some of the extensions, such as call extensions, location extensions, sitelinks.

• Lower CTR:

According to comScore, ads showing on Google generally get higher click through rates than ads showing on Bing. Bing ads naturally hold lower click through rates across the network. It also has lower visitor rates which effect this factor more.

• Negative keywords:

Use of negative keywords in Bing Ads is not similar to that of Google AdWords. The keyword will be treated automatically as a broad match (unless you add the exact or phrase match symbols) in Google AdWords, while in Bing Ads it will be treated as an exact match. For example, if you set “tulip” as negative keyword, Google AdWords won’t show your ad for “tulip, red tulips, tulips for home, etc.” In Bing Ads, it won’t show your ads for “tulip,” but will run your ad for “red tulips, tulips for home, etc.”  For Bing Ads, you need to add a synonym and phrases related to the negative keyword for the best results.

• Geographical presence:

Google AdWords is available in almost all countries, whereas Bing Ads are available in only few countries.