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Pay Per Click Bid Management - Step Two

4. Effective PPC Bid Management, 4.5 PPC Bid Management-Step Two

Effective - Step Two: Filtering with No Clicks and No Conversions

Filtering with No Clicks & No Conversions identifies irrelevant in an account. It also identifies that have lost traffic and/or conversion based on previous bid optimizations. This is usually an interesting set to monitor. You can further break this list down to two sets:

You don’t have to take 5 as the deciding position, based on your accounts historical performance, you can choose any position that you know is the cut off limit for you. Based on the suggestions above, if positions are better than 5 that should tell you that the just doesn’t have search volume and hence is not right for your account. Pausing/deleting those would be wise. On the flip side, with worse than position 5 are the ones that you can further test to see if they are worth keeping in your account or not. Now there is no hard and fast formula for this, so simply increasing bids by percentage amount for these and follow up monitoring should tell you over time if they are keepers or not.

  • It is advised that you base this decision on a large chunk of data - hence the first logic to check if there is at least 2 months worth of data available.
  • Depending on your product/service, only a weeks worth of data might be enough for you to conduct this analysis due to the high volume of Impressions, Clicks, & Cost.
  • Always keep track of your and changes as that can effect conversions too.
  • This analysis has helped me identify any that have no search volume or their was set too low to prove their relevancy to the account.

Lost Impressions, Clicks, & Conversions:

  • Could be due to Seasonality?
  • Could be due to Increased Competition?
  • Could be due to previous (maybe a was not converting as effectively, or bid was decreased aggressively)?

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@ August 1, 2008

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