Commerce Max プラットフォームのキーワードモデルの仕組み

Commerce Max プラットフォームを使用すると、独自の特定のキーワードをターゲットにするか、プラットフォームによって自動的に生成されるキーワードをターゲットにするかを決定できます。 検索プレースメントでは、手動キーワード管理モデルと自動キーワードモデルという2種類のキーワードモデルが可能になります。

自動キーワードモデルで広告を配信すると、SKUにとって最も関連性が高く、かつ最もパフォーマンスの高いキーワードをターゲティングできます。これにはコンバージョンと利益の最大化に向け、エンジンが特定する上位の検索値とロングテールの値が含まれます。  

自動キーワードモデルは92%以上の高い関連性を示しており(手動モデルでは39%にとどまる)、その結果、キャンペーンの勝率が高まります(自動モデルを採用したキャンペーンの66%が70%以上の高勝率を達成)。これにより、最終的にはさらに堅牢なパフォーマンスを実現します。


このレベルの関連性は、Criteoエンジンが検索ページと商品ページから取り込むファーストパーティデータに基づいて、新しいキーワードをSKUに常に紐付けるアルゴリズムと関係があります。 このモデルは、他の潜在的なキーワードよりも優れたROASを達成する上位のキーワードと、ロングテールキーワードの両方を特定します。

自動キーワードモデルによって追加された検索語を管理するには、ネガティブ(除外)キーワードツールを利用して特定のキーワードをターゲットしないようにするとよいでしょう。

キーワードマッチング

Commerce Max プラットフォームを使用すると、Criteoの高度なアルゴリズムをもとにキーワードの選択を手動で調整できます。

自動キーワードモデル

長年にわたるCriteoの機械学習とファーストパーティデータの収集に基づいて構築されたCriteo自動キーワードモデルは、関連性とパフォーマンスの最も高いキーワードの自動ターゲティングを通じて、最適な広告配信と最小限の入札単価のフィルタリングを実現します。 これには、ヘッド、ロングテール、スペルミスの語が含まれます。

Criteoのキーワードモデルは、コンバージョン、収益、スケールの促進に最も効果的なキーワードを特定します。 また、キーワードの調査と選択の負担を軽減することで、キャンペーンの設定を迅速化することもできます。

手動キーワードターゲティング

広告グループで選択したプロモーション対象のすべての商品には、高度なキーワードモデル(上記を参照)によって自動的に関連付けられたキーワードがすでに設定されています。 さらに、広告グループレベルでの手動キーワードターゲティングツールによって、そのモデルではカバーされない語を無効にしたり、新しい語を送信したりもできます。

  • リアルタイムのネガティブ(除外)キーワード機能を使用すると、特定の部分一致または完全一致の語を除外できるため、必要なトラフィックのみを獲得できるようになります。

  • 手動でキーワードを送信できるため、そのキーワードがリテーラーによって承認されれば、キーワードを追加できます。

Commerce Max プラットフォームは、ユーザーの柔軟性とコントロールを最大化する設計になっており、 ユーザーはマッチングをどの程度まで厳密に、具体的に行うかを選択できます。Commerce Max プラットフォームの自動キーワードモデルは、広告グループで選択された商品に基づいて、100を超えるキーワードを広告グループに自動的に関連付けてターゲティングします。 その後、広告グループはターゲティング用に割り当てられた語と一致する検索語を使用している買い物客をターゲティングします。


キーワードマッチングは、ネガティブターゲティングとポジティブターゲティングの両方で、部分一致または完全一致のいずれかに設定できます。

マッチタイプ:

部分一致と完全一致は、キャンペーンの配信に与える影響が大きく異なります。

  • 部分一致は範囲が広く、入力した語に類似した単語やバリエーションもブロックします。

  • 完全一致はもっと厳密で、 入力した語と完全に一致する検索語のみをブロックします。


左側の画像は、ネガティブキーワードの一致が広告配信とターゲティングに与え得る影響を示したものです。

Automatic and Submitted Keywords Compared

Automatic and submitted keywords come from different sources and do different jobs:

Automatic keywords

Submitted keywords

Where they come from

Our keyword model, from your products

You enter them manually

Can they be turned off?

No, always active

Optional

Match type

Broad and exact

Exact match only

Approval needed?

No

Yes, reviewed by the retailer or by us

How many

The model associates more than 100 per line item. The interface shows the top 100

Up to 1,000 per line item

Best for

Coverage and scale with no setup

Niche terms, misspellings, specific intent

When submitting your own keywords is worth the effort:

  • You have identified high-performing terms the model has not included.

  • Your products are niche or specialized, where automatic coverage may be thinner.

  • You want coverage of misspellings or alternative forms.

  • Your line item has a tightly scoped product theme.

When it is not: if you want broad coverage with minimal setup, the automated model already does that. Manual submission is fine-tuning, not a substitute.

Submit Your Own Keywords

Submitted keywords are added in Step 2 of the line item creation or editing workflow, in the Additional Keywords section below Keyword Targeting Strategy. You can also submit them from the Keywords page of a live line item.

To submit keywords during setup:

  1. In Step 2, find the Submitted Keywords section.

  2. Enter your keywords, one keyword or keyword string per row.

  3. Click Next to save the step, then work through the workflow and click Launch.

Your keywords do not enter review until you launch. If you stop before the Review step, nothing is submitted.

The Rules That Decide Approval

  • A keyword must be relevant to all products in the line item. Relevance is judged by searching the term on the retailer's site and comparing the organic results to your line item's products.

  • Competitor brand names cannot be submitted. They are automatically prohibited and deactivated from your line item. To target competitor terms, use conquesting.

What Happens to Each Keyword You Submit

  1. Already mapped by the automated model → automatically allowed.

  2. Contains a competitor brand name → automatically prohibited.

  3. Anything else → reviewed by a Criteo reviewer for relevance.

You are notified in the platform when your keywords have been reviewed. You can also have that notification emailed, from your Account Preferences.

Keyword Tips

  • Keywords are not case-sensitive.

  • Duplicate entries are de-duplicated automatically.

  • Special characters are permitted, but may be parsed.

  • Negative keywords take priority. A keyword in both your submitted and negative lists is treated as negated.

Where to Find the Keywords Page

The Keywords page shows every keyword on a line item, automatic and submitted, with its status and its bid. It exists only at line item level. There is no campaign-wide keywords view.

To get there:

  1. Click a campaign name to open the line item dashboard.

  2. Click the line item's name, or click the ⋮ icon in the Actions column and select View Details.

  3. You land on the line item's Products page.

  4. In the top panel, click the Manual Keywords or Automatic Keywords tab.

The page has two tabs:

  • Manual Keywords: every keyword you submitted, with its status and bid. Also includes any automatic keyword you have given a custom bid.

  • Automated Keywords: the top 100 most relevant keywords associated with your line item by our model. You can view them and add keyword-level bids.

What Keyword Statuses Mean

Every submitted keyword carries one of three statuses, and the status determines whether your bid on it does anything.

Status

What it means

Effect of a keyword bid

Approved

Active for targeting

Takes effect immediately

In Review

Being reviewed by the retailer or by us

No effect until approved

Rejected

Did not meet approval criteria; will not be targeted

No effect at all

Set Bids at the Keyword Level

A keyword bid sets a specific cost per click for one search term, replacing the bid the line item would otherwise submit. Keyword bids can be added for both manual and automatic keywords.

To set or edit one keyword bid:

  1. Click the line item's name to reach the Products page.

  2. Click the Manual Keywords or Automatic Keywords tab in the top panel.

  3. In the Keyword Bid column, click the pencil Edit icon next to your keyword.

  4. Enter your bid in the pop-up.

To edit several at once: tick the checkboxes beside the keyword rows, click Edit Bid in the top right, and enter your bid.

Your keyword bid must be at or above the line item's minimum bid, which is shown below the entry field.

How Keyword Bid Hierarchy Works

With bids possible at four levels, this is the order that decides what goes into the auction.

A keyword bid replaces the bid that would otherwise be submitted: the line item CPC as adjusted by the optimizer.

How it interacts with everything else:

  • Max CPC always wins. If your line item has a Max CPC, it caps the keyword bid, however high the keyword bid is.

  • Keyword bid beats product bid. Where both apply, the keyword bid takes precedence.

  • A search page bid multiplier still applies on top. A 200% multiplier on the search page with a $1.00 keyword bid submits $3.00 to the auction.

  • The retailer's minimum bid is still a floor.

The resolution order is: keyword bid, then product bid, then line item CPC. The page type multiplier applies to whichever bid won, and the result is clamped between the minimum bid and the Max CPC.

To learn more, please see Adjust Your Sponsored Products Bids for product bids and page type multipliers.

How Stemming and Match Types Work

Stemming means one keyword covers its variations. A keyword bid is applied to the stemmed keyword, so the same bid is used for every variation of it.

A $1.00 bid on jean also applies to:

  • jean · jeans · jean's · Jean · Jean's

It also covers variations in special characters, word order, and spacing:

One keyword covers

And also

brians

brian's

remote control

control remote

mac & cheese

mac cheese

company, inc

company inc

follow-up

followup

racecar

race car

chocolaté

chocolate

Use this deliberately. You do not need to submit or bid on every variant of a term, because one keyword covers the set.

Match types. Match type availability differs between positive and negative keywords:

How Keywords Appear in Your Reporting

Three reporting dimensions describe your keywords.

Dimension

What it shows

Search Term

The raw search term, exactly as a shopper typed it

Stemmed Search Term

Only the stemmed form of the term

Search Term Type

Whether the term matched a keyword you entered, or a stemmed variation of one

Both Search Term and Stemmed Search Term can contain keywords you submitted yourself. The difference is that Search Term shows raw shopper data, while Stemmed Search Term shows only stemmed forms.

Entered Vs. Searched

Search Term Type takes one of two values, and they sound alike but mean different things:

  • Entered: the search term matches exactly what you submitted as a manual keyword.

  • Searched: the search term does not match one of your submitted keywords exactly, but it does match a stemmed variation of one.

If you look only at Entered, you will undercount the traffic your submitted keywords generated, because stemming means most of it arrives as Searched.

There is no single "keyword report". Keyword data reaches you through the Share of Voice by Keyword report and through keyword dimensions and filters available across the reporting suite. To learn more, please see Available Reports and Insights and Insights Reports.

Best Practices for Keyword Targeting

  • Rely on the automated model for coverage. It is designed to give you scale from launch with no setup.

  • Use manual keywords sparingly, to fill genuine gaps or emphasise strategic terms.

  • Create a separate line item when a keyword is relevant to only some of your products. A keyword that is irrelevant to any product in the line item will be rejected.

  • Review your negative keyword reports regularly to refine traffic quality.

  • Give new products time. The model gathers data as exposure grows, and performance improves with it.

  • Use exact match for precision and broad match for reach when negating.

  • Audit keyword-level reporting on a schedule: every two weeks, or monthly.