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PAY PER CLICK(PPC)

Building Successful PPC: Understanding CampaignSettings

Once your account structure is solidified, it’s time to create your first set of campaigns.

The first step after creating your campaign is to assign the settings attributed to each.

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Campaign settings are applied to each ad group within that campaign. That said, things

like daily budget, network selection, and locations, among other settings, are uniform for

the entire campaign.

Let’s dive into the standard settings within every Google AdWords campaign.

General

Once your campaign is named, your next step is to choose the type of campaign you

want. There are three campaign types to choose from: Search Network Only, Display

Network Only, and Search and Display Networks (There are some other more technical

options too but let’s just focus on the basics for now). This selection will determine the

networks on which your ads will show.

What’s the difference between the Search Network and the Display Network?

The Search Network is a group of search engines that allows advertisers to sponsor text

ads appearing after a user searches using a keyword or string of keywords.

The Display Network is a huge group of partner websites that display both text and

banner ads. These ads are not triggered by users searching on Google.com, but by the

targeting you set up (interest targeting, topic targeting, placements, etc).

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Pro-tip: Use a descriptive campaign name that uniquely identifies your campaign. When

picking where your ads will show up, stick to one network. Do not set your campaign to

serve ads on the Search and Display Networks within a singular campaign.

Networks

When opting into a Search Network-only campaign, it’s time to determine your ads’

reach across Google’s Search Network.

Once within the Networks section, you have a choice to display your ads on Google.com

and Google’s search partner sites. Search partners are other search engines that are

affiliated with Google. Some examples are aol.com and about.com. By showing your ads

on Google’s search partner websites, advertisers should see an overall increase in

impressions and clicks.

Pro-tip: When launching your initial campaigns, begin with Google’s Search Network

only. Once you begin working to build volume and increase daily spend, look at enabling

search partners.

Devices

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Within the ‘Devices’ category, advertisers can determine whether to bid more or less

depending on if the user is on a mobile device.

Are you a locksmith and potential customers want to find you when they’re in a pinch and

scrambling for help on their mobile device? Increasing your mobile bid adjustment could

help attract customers stuck with only a phone.

Are you a B2B firm selling high-powered software to executives? You may then want to

avoid spending your advertising budget on people searching from their phone.

These bidding decisions are handled in the ‘Devices’ section of your AdWords account. In

order to change your device preference, we must adjust our mobile bid modifiers. To

eliminate mobile targeting, set your mobile bid adjustment to -100%. If creating a highly

targeted campaign meant to attract mobile users as much as possible, increasing your

mobile bid modification to the maximum of 300% will help spur mobile traffic.

Pro-tip: To leverage device bid adjustments, think about what devices your customers

use to find you. More importantly, think about what devices they use to convert with you.

Then tailor your strategy based on that.

Locations

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New campaigns by default are set to serve all of the United States and Canada. This

default setting is not always the most effective, depending on how your business is set up

to serve your customers.

First, start by thinking about where your target market is located.

Targeting can be broken down into geographies by country, state, city, zip code, Nielsen

DMA region and even congressional district. Advertisers may also set a targeted radius

around any given custom location, like a store address.

Pro-tip: Keep in mind the capabilities and scope of what your business delivers. If you are

a local business with a physical location, be conscious of how far your typical customers

travel to get to your store. If you don’t ship internationally, keep your targeting within the

United States.

Languages

By default, all new campaigns are set to target English language users. Unless your

website or landing pages aren’t in English, we don’t recommend targeting additional

languages within a singular campaign.

Bidding and budget

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Bidding and budget

The bidding and budget section in the campaign settings allows advertisers to not only

set their daily budgets but also how baseline keyword bids are determined in a campaign.

Within AdWords, you have two core options for making keyword bid adjustments–manual

or automated. Setting your bidding method to a manual strategy puts the control in your

hands. This method is ideal for advertisers with the understanding and ability to review

and change their keyword bids on a regular basis.

Additionally, there are a number of automated strategies advertisers can use. Each

automated strategy is designed around a different methodology–selecting the right one

is up to the advertisers.

After determining which campaign bidding method to use, it’s time to set up a daily

spending budget. Setting your daily budget is fairly straightforward, but when doing so,

be sure to keep in mind that AdWords can spend up to 20% more than what your daily

budget is set at.

Pro-tip: Manually setting your keyword bids provides an advantage if you have the time

and ability to do so.

After getting through these standard campaign settings, it’s time to move forward in our

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Google AdWords campaign building. Look for our next post on building your keyword

lists.

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