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This page answers the questions covered by the article There Is No Keyword: Why ChatGPT Ads Depend on the Conversation on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, there is no keyword list in ChatGPT ads. The conversation is used to infer what the person needs, then candidate ads compete for a labeled sponsored card below the answer. Match types and search-term mining matter less, while the clarity of the offer and the landing page matter more.
According to groas, there is no advertiser-supplied keyword list to match against. The system can use the broader conversation to generate queries and embeddings that nominate candidate ads, guided by one- or two-sentence, plain-language hints at ad-group level describing the buyer moment, such as homeowner with a burst pipe needs help tonight. The hints guide semantic matching and do not guarantee an impression.
Read more: Replace the query with the whole conversation
The article states that groas manages ads inside ChatGPT for one flat fee, with bids and budgets worked around the clock and a landing page for every ad group. According to groas, that coverage includes owning the landing page and conversion feed rather than running ChatGPT ads without them.
Read more: What the weekly work looks like without keywords
According to groas, removing keyword builds does not remove management but changes the jobs to rewriting the buyer-moment hint, fixing the page behind it, verifying Pixel, Conversions API, UTMs and call tracking, and adjusting bids, budgets and hints from outcomes. The article states that groas runs ChatGPT ads for one flat fee, and warns that anyone offering to run ChatGPT ads without owning the landing page and conversion feed is offering half the job.
Read more: What the weekly work looks like without keywords
According to groas, better candidates have a distinct job, a page that clearly offers to do it, and a conversion they can count, such as burst pipe repair tonight or a travel page for a four-day Lisbon itinerary under $1,200. Early tests cluster around researched purchases such as travel, ecommerce and home services, and inventory is narrow with ads appearing in Free and Go tier chats. One reported early test saw around 0.5% CTR as CPMs fell from roughly $25 to $10.
Read more: Use the mechanism to predict who should test
The article states that measurement combines a browser Pixel and server-side Conversions API, with reporting for impressions, clicks, spend, CTR, average CPC or CPM, and conversions. Clicks can carry UTMs to the landing page and the stated default attribution window is seven-day click and one-day view. The advertiser cannot read the conversation that triggered an ad, so the article recommends judging the test on counted jobs and revenue inside the chosen window, not CTR alone.
Read more: Measure the job, not just the click
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