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March 4, 2015 HOW TO REACH YOUR GOALS WITH SMART BIDDING Lauryan Feijen Online Advertising Strategist @LauryanF

How to Reach Your Goals With Smart Bidding

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March 4, 2015

HOW TO REACH YOUR GOALS WITH SMART BIDDING

Lauryan Feijen

Online Advertising Strategist

@LauryanF

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ABOUT ME

o PPC since 2009

o Responsible for Quality & Learning @

o Excel nerd

o Music lover & musician

o Husband & dad

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HOW CAN WE MANAGE OUR BIDS

o DEFINE OUR TARGET

o REACHING OUR TARGET

o OVERCOME OBSTACLES

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WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO GO

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WHAT’S IN YOUR LUGGAGE?

o CPA VS ROAS

o VOLUME VS EFFICIENCY

o BRAND VS NON-BRAND

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MANUAL (ADWORDS INTERFACE)

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MANUAL (WITH EXCEL)

CPA BIDDING

ROAS BIDDING

𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒃𝒊𝒅 = 𝐶𝑃𝐴 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙 𝑥 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒

𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒃𝒊𝒅 =𝐴𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘

𝑅𝑂𝐴𝑆 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡

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MANUAL (WITH EXCEL)

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SCRIPTS AND AUTOMATED RULES

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FLEXIBLE BID STRATEGIES

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3RD PARTY PLATFORMS

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OVERCOME OBSTACLES

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POSSIBLE OBSTACLES KW already in top position New bid exceeds top-of-page bid estimates New bid less than first-page bid estimates Keyword has insufficient data

OVERCOME OBSTACLES

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TOP-OF-PAGE BID ESTIMATES

Workaround Cut off bids X% over the ToP bid estimate. Example 20%

Cut off

$ 1.50 New bid

$ 1.00 ToP est.

$ 1.20 New bid

(ToP x 120%)

OVERCOME OBSTACLES

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FIRST PAGE BID ESTIMATES How to handle o Check Quality Score o Other reason for keyword to be online? o Consider pausing the keyword Keep in mind FP bid estimates aren’t always accurate

OVERCOME OBSTACLES

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KEYWORDS WITH INSUFFICIENT DATA Fact: Not all keywords in your account convert How do we bid for keywords with insufficient conversion data? The question becomes: “How probable is it the keyword will convert in the future?”

OVERCOME OBSTACLES

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KEYWORDS WITH INSUFFICIENT DATA Probability of keyword X converting in future Using AdGroup, Campaign or Account averages Using ‘buckets’ of keyword themes Filtering out extremes

OVERCOME OBSTACLES

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OVERCOME OBSTACLES

BUCKETING KEYWORDS Cheap flights Barcelona Flight tickets Paris Cheap tickets Los Angeles New York flight tickets Low cost flights to Paris Economy flight Hong Kong

1 – Cheap 2 – European 3 – Intercontinental 4 – Flights vs Tickets

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FILTERING OUT EXTREMES Example: Bayesian rating system

Example Ex. 1 Ex. 2 Ex. 3 Ex. 4 Ex. 5

Avg clicks 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250

Avg conv rate 1.50% 1.50% 1.50% 1.50% 1.50%

Kw clicks 500 1.000 2.000 1 500

Kw conv rate 0.50% 0.50% 0.50% 100.00% 0.00%

Result 1.21% 1.06% 0.88% 1.58% 1.07%

OVERCOME OBSTACLES

Avg. Clicks × Avg. Conv. Rate + Keywords clicks × Keyword Conv. Rate

Avg. clicks + Keyword clicks

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