Paid Advertising
Impressions
The number of times your ad or listing was shown, regardless of whether anyone clicked or interacted with it.
Definition
An impression is counted each time your ad is displayed on a screen. It's the top-of-funnel reach metric that measures exposure, the raw count of how many times your message had the chance to be seen.
In depth
Every time an ad loads in a search result, a feed, or on a website, that's one impression. The count says nothing about whether the viewer clicked, called, or even noticed, only that the ad was served. Impressions sit at the very top of the marketing funnel, one step before clicks and several steps before a booked job.
For a remodeler or builder, impressions tell you how much visibility your budget is actually buying in your market. If your ads are barely registering impressions, no amount of clever copy will help, because too few homeowners are seeing you. Rising impressions in your target zip codes mean your name is circulating where the work is.
The mistake is treating impressions as a success metric on their own. A million impressions that produce no calls is just expensive wallpaper. We read impressions in context, against click-through rate and impression share, so they tell us whether the ceiling is reach or whether the real problem is the message.
Worked example
A roofer's search ad is shown 8,000 times in a month, giving 8,000 impressions, of which 320 turned into clicks.
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