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What is Kliken Ads?

Learn how Kliken Ads shows your products and offers across the open web to find new customers and bring past visitors back.

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Written by Charles Fox
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What is Kliken Ads?

Kliken Ads is a way to show your products and offers on websites across the open web, not just on Google or Meta.

With Kliken Ads, you can:

  • Reach new shoppers who are browsing news, entertainment, and other sites

  • Bring past visitors back to your store with retargeting

  • Promote your products using images and short text, without managing every ad placement yourself

It is designed for store owners who want more traffic and sales from beyond the big search and social platforms.

Where Kliken Ads appear

Kliken Ads run on a network of websites across the open web. This can include:

  • News sites

  • Blogs and content sites

  • Other websites your ideal customers visit

Your ads can appear in different formats, such as product tiles or display-style ads, depending on the site and placement.

Types of campaigns: prospecting and retargeting

Kliken Ads includes two main types of campaigns:

  • Prospecting campaigns: Find new people who are likely to be interested in your products or services and show your ads to audiences that look similar to your ideal customers.

  • Retargeting campaigns: Follow up with people who have already visited your website, reminding them about your products or services as they browse other sites and helping recover visitors who left without buying or completing a key action.

Most stores benefit from using both: prospecting to reach new people, and retargeting to bring past visitors back.

How targeting works

Instead of asking you to manage long lists of keywords, Kliken Ads focuses on audiences and lifestyles.

Kliken Ads can take into account:

  • Geographic location – where your customers are based

  • Interests and behaviors – what types of products, services, and content they engage with

  • Demographic signals – basic characteristics appropriate for your business and region

  • Your website visitors – who has already visited your site and what they looked at

Kliken uses this information, combined with machine learning, to decide who is likely to be a good fit for your products, which people should see prospecting ads, and which past visitors should see retargeting ads.

You do not need to build these audiences manually. You choose your goals, locations, and budget, and Kliken Ads helps handle the rest.

What you control vs what Kliken handles

What you control

You focus on:

  • Connecting your website or online store

  • Making sure your products, prices, and content are up to date

  • Choosing your target locations, the types of customers you want to reach, and which products or categories to promote

  • Setting your monthly ad budget

  • Reviewing performance and adjusting as your business needs change

What Kliken and the ad networks handle

Kliken Ads and the underlying networks handle:

  • Building and updating your audiences based on lifestyle and behavior

  • Choosing where and when your ads appear across the open web

  • Adjusting who sees prospecting vs retargeting ads

  • Using machine learning to improve results over time

You get the benefit of advanced targeting without having to manage each site or audience by hand.

Requirements for using Kliken Ads

To use Kliken Ads effectively, you need:

  • A working website or online store

  • For product-based campaigns, a store and product catalog that Kliken can connect to

  • Compliance with the advertising rules and policies of the networks where your ads will run

If your business or products do not meet the relevant policies, your campaigns may be limited or rejected by those networks.

How Kliken Ads fits with other Kliken products

Kliken Ads focuses on the open web. It works well alongside:

  • Google Shopping and Search campaigns to capture high-intent searches

  • Meta (Facebook and Instagram) ads to reach people on social platforms

  • Social Boost to keep your Facebook presence active with automated posts

For a high-level view of all options, see:

  • Overview of Kliken products and services

  • How Kliken helps you advertise online

Managing Kliken Ads and getting help

You can view and manage your Kliken Ads campaigns by logging in at https://www.kliken.com/login.html.

If you need help choosing or setting up Kliken Ads, you can contact support at [email protected].

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