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After you have optimized your Google Ads quality score and set your bid strategy, there’s an additional feature in your campaign optimization called bid adjustments.
This works on different levels:
If most of your conversions happen on a desktop you might want to increase your bids by 10%. If most of your research happens on a mobile and it’s research, you might want to reduce your bids by 15%. You might say, “I want to drive the research traffic, but at the same time I want to pay a little bit less for it.” And you can add your bid adjustment to your devices by choosing the Devices section in the left-hand tab, and adding your bid adjustment there. It’s very straightforward, and it’s literally you add a percentage bid adjustment up or down depending on the device, a mobile, tablet or desktop, and what you want to do.
Your location targeting allows you to bid for certain locations. It’s set up in exactly the same way as mobile and on desktop bidding. So, over in the left-hand menu you’ve got your locations tab, and beside each location you’re able to add a percentage up or down depending on how much you want to bid up or down for that particular location.
We’ve also talked about ad scheduling as an important factor for driving efficiency in your campaigns. So, you’re able to bid up and down at certain points of the day. You can turn your ads on and off at certain points of the day and days of the week. And you can say, “I’m willing to pay 20% more for traffic between 11:00 in the morning and 2:00 in the afternoon, because that’s when most of my conversions happen.” So you can bid more aggressively at the time when you know conversions are likely to happen, and therefore hopefully beat the competition to those clicks. It’s a very good way of deep diving into the purchase timings around your activity.
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ABOUT THIS DIGITAL MARKETING MODULE
This module begins with the key concepts of paid search and demonstrates how to set up a Google Ads account and create a paid search campaign. It explains how to manage a paid search campaign budget effectively and outlines the different methods that can be used to optimize your paid search campaign. It also covers how to measure and report on the success of a paid search campaign.