12. Devices
• Segment by desktop, mobile
• Treat tablets like desktop, unless…
• Segment by carriers, operating systems
13. Rotate vs. Optimize
Show your different ads in an ad group
in even impressions or let the search
engine decide which one is better and
show that one more often.
17. Standard Ad Delivery
Ads are shown evenly throughout the day in
accordance with the daily budget that you’ve
set and the maximum CPC you set at the ad
group levels.
18. Accelerated Ad Delivery
Ads are shown as often as possible throughout the
day until the daily budget runs out.
19. Using Accelerated to Your Advantage
• Daily budgets caps are never or almost never hit.
• Especially useful if you’ve increased those daily budgets and still never hit them.
• Consistent conversion pattern.
• Campaign has only very relevant ad groups in it.
• Campaign and ad groups are smaller in scale, less than 20 keywords in total.
• Trying to increase impressions, conversions, traffic.
20. Ad Scheduling
• Turn your campaigns on and off during different
days of the week or hours of the day.
• Increase or decrease bids during specific days
of the week or hours of the day.
23. Incremental Bidding
• AdWords: increase OR decrease your max
CPC by time of day or day of the week at the
campaign level.
• adCenter: increase in increments of 10% at
the ad group or campaign level.
28. Enhanced CPC/ Conversion Optimizer
Save money. Don’t try this…yet
UNLESS:
• You have conversion tracking enabled.
• Have a consistent (steady stream) of conversions coming in
every day (At least 20).
• Don’t care what your CPC is.
• You’re CPA focused.
• You know what your target CPA is and it doesn’t move up and
down much.
29. First Page Bid - AdWords
This means that on average, the maximum CPC bid
that you set for the ad group or keyword isn’t high
enough to show on the first page of search results.
30. Automated Rules-
Free feature on AdWords
• Use rules for keywords, ads, ad groups or campaigns to
raise or lower bids and budgets when certain conditions are
met.
• You choose the conditions. There are a LOT to choose from.
• Choose how often the rules run.
• Preview the changes that the rule will make when it runs.
32. Match Types
• Save money and time by utilizing more than
one match type.
• Go broad or modified broad with low
traffic, new keywords.
• Use phrase when you’re not sure.
• Use exact for high traffic keywords you want
to test out.
33. Match Types- Broad vs. Modified Broad
Modified broad (AdWords only) lets you add an
“anchor” with a + sign to a single word in a
keyword
For example: skinny jeans for men
Could be: skinny jeans for +men
34. Using Longtail Keywords
• “Longtail” keywords are typically 3 or more
words.
• Further along in the research process.
• Very specific.
• Higher converting.
• Lower traffic.
• Lower CPCs.
• They require patience.
36. Negative Keywords
• Free • How to
• Cheap • Make
• Wholesale • Create
• Discount • Download
• Printable • Used
• What are • Jobs
• What is • Careers
38. Top 5 Tips
• Set up separate campaigns, never combine with Search.
• Set separate budgets.
• Don’t use the display and search results together when making
decisions- optimize them separately.
• Use negative keywords AND negative placements.
• Set and focus on goals other than CTR or conversions.
39. Account Structure
• A well structured account is the best way to
save money.
• Campaigns need to be well organized.
• Ad groups need to be tightly themed and not
excessive.
• Keyword lists terms need to be closely
related and not exceed 25 in an ad group.
Don’t get too carried away with this setting. Mobile is growing but if you have a less friendly site, disable it and the bad user experience. If your site is something mobile conversion friendly (say, reserving a table at a restaurant) then set up separate mobile campaigns from desktop/tablets. Tablets, unless you have a specific app or program that is meant for tablets can be treated as a desktop.
When you add more than one ad into AdWords the default setting is to “optimize” and show the ad that will get the most clicks- not conversions. If doing an A/B test, you want to “rotate.”
AdCenter rotates by default then determines which ad is the better for clicks and will automatically set to show that ad more often until you add or edit and ad for a reset. The functionality to set to “rotate” is set to be released in Q3.
Campaign level setting.
Campaign level setting.
AdWords is campaign level only and the time zone you chose at account set up is what is being used to determine which “9am” to use.
Adcenter uses the IP location of the user to determine time zone.
AdWords is campaign level only. adCenter is both ad group and campaign- if you enable different schedules at both levels, ad group level will trump campaign. You can also only increase in increments of 10% and not decrease.
Go one step further in your quest to save money- target by gender or age. Often I find that what I end up doing is excluding demographics rather than increasing bids. MSN uses their info from MSN customers to determine age and gender.
Enhanced CPC will adjust your Max. CPC bid up or down for each auction in an effort to improve your return on investment.
Don’t freak out immediately if you see this! If this is by a keyword that is highly important to you, then you’ve got some work ahead of you. If it’s not, it’s not the end of the world. In some cases, it’s a good way to save money. Say it’s a keyword that you’d like to be relevant for, but don’t have the time or resources to really go after it. Instead, you could be showing a later times when an advertiser’s budget runs out, a searcher performs several queries around the same keyword or if Google determines for this particular seacher- you’re more relevant. Just don’t throw money at it blindly to get that warning to go away.
This requires that the word “men” appear in the query, so it will show for searches like “lucky jeans for men” or “mens skinny jeans”. Broad would allow the ad to show for queries like “skinny jeans women” “cheap skinny jeans” or “skinny jeans on sale.”
Don’t mix longtail terms with your high converting or exact match terms. They are great as broad or modified broad.
Dependable helpers that keep out the browsers, bargain hunters or job seekers- depending on who you’re trying to filter out. Consider your buying cycle and how it relates to your keyword list when compiling campaign level negative keyword lists.
Create a “master” keyword list- in AdWords you can create lists of negative keywords and rather than applying each list keyword by keyword to each campaign, just select the list in whole. Have a negative keyword list for materials, research cycle, do it yourself-ers, bargain hunters and so on.
Some tips on running ads on the Display and Content networks of AdWords and adCenter
Quality score for the search and display network are configured and awarded separately.
Write things down on paper first. Or Vizio or something. Wireframe it out for campaigns and ad groups at least. Sample keywords. Write ads last. Excessive is ad groups for single broad matched keywords, or 20 ad groups in a campaign. Consider how you’re going to be maintaining and looking in on this account when expanding.
