
How to Audit B2B Google Ads Accounts [+Free Template]
Google Ads is not getting any cheaper, so frequently auditing your account is critical to keep your campaigns profitable.
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In this step-by-step guide, I will walk you through the exact same process we use internally to audit our clientsâ Google Ads accounts.
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As a bonus, you can get a free copy of my 8-Part Google Ads Audit Checklist from Module 1, Lesson 5 of my B2B Google Ads 102 free course, so you can have it on hand while you go through the tasks below.
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So letâs get started đ
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Part 1 - Account Review
- Part 2 - Campaign Review
- Part 3 - Ad Group Review
- Part 4 - Keyword Review
- Part 5 - Ads & Extensions Review
- Part 6 - Landing Page Review
- Part 7 - Budget & Performance Review
- Part 8 - Visibility Review
- Resources to Master B2B Google Ads
- Google Ads Audit FAQ
Part 1 - Account Review
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First and foremost, you canât improve your account performance without mastering the basics. So letâs dive in!
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1. Billing Information
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Is your billing information correct?
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Checking this will ensure that your ads continue to run smoothly and you don't face any unexpected billing issues.
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To check your billing information, follow these steps:
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- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
â - Click on the "Billing" icon on the left-hand menu.
â - Click on "Settings" to view your current billing information.
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Here, you can view your payment method, payer details (name, address, etc), and other important details.Â
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Make sure all the information is correct and up-to-date. If you notice any errors, click on the pencil next to each detail to make the necessary changes.
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It's important to note that any changes you make to your billing information may take up to 24 hours to take effect.Â
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Additionally, if you have any pending charges on your account, you won't be able to make changes until those charges are paid off.
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2. Is your time zone correct?
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The accuracy of your account's time zone setting is more crucial than it may seem at first glance. The time zone affects how you schedule ads, interpret performance data, and manage billing cycles.
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You cannot change your time zone manually, and it can only be reset once, so as Google advises, choose your new time zone carefully.
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To request a change, youâll need to fill out this form and follow the instructions below:
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- The form must be filled out by an Admin user of a manager account.
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3. Do you have auto-tagging turned on?
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Auto-tagging is an easy 3-step process:
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- Sign in to your Google Ads account
â - On the left-hand side, under admin> click on Account Settings
â - Click on âAuto-taggingâ - check the box and save.
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Once you enable this feature, Google will automatically mark your source_medium as âcpcâ
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4. Did you turn off ad suggestions?
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Have you ever gone to your Google Ads account and noticed a bunch of changes that werenât made by you or anyone on your team?This probably happened because you didnât turn off the ad suggestions đ
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So follow these steps to have peace of mind:
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- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
â - Click on the "Campaigns" on the left-hand menu.
â - Click on "Recommendations" and go to âAuto-applyâ
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Make sure you turn off all of the recommendations that arenât relevant to your account.
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I personally like to turn off all of them, so I donât have any changes made by Google without my consent.
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5. Is your conversion tracking still working accurately?
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This is crucial because if your conversion tracking is not working correctly, you wonât feed Googleâs algorithm with essential data to make the best bidding choices for your conversion-based strategies.
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Hereâs how you can check if your tracking is in place:
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- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
â - Click on the "Goals" on the left-hand menu.
â - Click on "Conversions" and go to âSummaryâ
â - Youâll be able to see the status of your conversions - you want to see âActiveâ
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Pro-tip: If you see the status âNo recent conversionsâ - search for your keyword on Google and submit a test.
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If you donât see any activity and have been running Google Ads campaigns for a while, it probably means youâll need to see whatâs going on to ensure the tracking setup is in place.
Part 2 - Campaign Review
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Depending on the size and organization of the account, this step will take longer or shorter. So letâs go đˇââď¸
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1. Do your campaigns follow a logical naming convention?
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Having a solid naming convention in place isnât just about aesthetics, itâs the foundation for good account management.
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My campaigns usually have a naming convention that follows this structure:
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- Region (NA, EMEA, APAC)
â - Campaign Theme (Brand, NonBrand, Generic, Competitor)
â - Keyword Topic
â - Network (Search, Display)
â - Keyword Match Type (Exact, Phrase, Broad)
â - Device (Desktop, Mobile, All Devices)
â - Offer (Demo, Trial, etc)
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So if you have disjointed campaign names, itâs an opportunity to adjust that and make your life easier.
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2. Are you targeting the right networks (display unchecked)?
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You want to focus on the Search Network and search partners, avoiding the Display Network unless itâs a separate campaign.
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- Select the desired campaign
â - Go to âCampaign Settingsâ (on the right-hand side)
â - Click on Networks
â - Choose the desired Network and saveÂ
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- At the campaign level
â - Scroll over your campaign
â - Setting logo will appear
â - Click on the logo
â - Under Networks, choose the desired Network and save.
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3. Is your location targeting and options still accurate?
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If you have a proper naming convention, you should be able to tell where you intend to target your campaigns, but you still need to ensure the correct locations are selected.Â
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Similar to Networks, there are two ways to check your locations:
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- Select the desired campaign
â - Go to Locations (on the left-hand side - Audiences, keywords and content)
â - Click on the pencil icon
â - Choose the desired locations and saveÂ
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- At the campaign level > Scroll over your campaignÂ
â - The settings logo will appear
â - Click on the logo
â - Under Locations, Enter location(s) and Save.
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4. Are you targeting one language per campaign (with relevant ads + landing pages)?
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In a perfect world, your ads and landing pages should match the primary language of the targeting locations.
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Hereâs how you can change the language of your campaigns:
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- At the campaign level, toggle over your campaign name
â - Click on the icon setting once it appears
â - Under âLanguagesâ you can select the desired language and click Save.
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5. Is your daily budget still aligned with your goals?
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Being an effective marketer involves strategically allocating your budget over the designated campaign duration while achieving the goals.Â
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Ex. If your average cost per demo is $300 and you need to generate 10 demos, then you must have at least $3,000 - Now, if the plan is to run the campaign for 30 days, then you must allocate a $100 daily budget and check daily to make sure itâs pacing well.Â
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Generally speaking, I donât recommend running campaigns with less than $50/day for B2B campaigns, but this will obviously depend on your average cost per click.
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Check our Google Ads Budget Calculator tool if you need help to define your budget đ
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6. Are you using the correct bidding strategy?
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When youâre first starting out, getting as many clicks as possible is important to get some early conversions, so the âMaximize Clicksâ strategy is a good option.
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If you have more than 15 conversions, you can switch to the âMaximize Conversionsâ strategy if your goal is to get as many conversions as possible.
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If you have offline conversions set up, you can use the âMaximize Conversion Valueâ strategy or the âTarget ROASâ strategy. These will help you get more relevant conversions.
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Here are two ways to check your bidding options:
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- Select the desired campaign
â - Go to Setting (on the right-hand side)
â - Click on Bidding > âChange bid strategyâ
â - From the dropdown menu, select the desired bidding strategy and save.
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- At the campaign level > scroll over your campaign > Setting logo will appear
â - Click on the logo
â - Under Bidding, âChange bid strategyâ
â - From the dropdown menu, select the desired bidding strategy and save.
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7. Do you have the correct conversion actions set? (if applicable)
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Campaigns can inherit account-level conversions or have specific conversion actions set.Â
Both approaches are valid, but itâs essential to use the one that aligns with your campaign goals.Â
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For instance, if a campaign-specific conversion action set is used, make sure it includes all relevant actions in the conversion funnel.
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Follow the steps below to add/check conversion actions:
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- At the campaign level > scroll over your campaign
â - Setting logo will appear, click on the logo
â - Under Goals, âUse campaign-specific goal settingâ
â - Click the pencil iconÂ
â - Select the appropriate (previously tested) conversions and save.Â
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8. Are your ad rotation settings still accurate?
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Generally speaking, I recommend using the âBest Performing Adsâ option. This way, the Google algorithm will analyze your ads' performance and prioritize delivering the the ads with the best performance.
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But if you see that Google is serving some ads dramatically more than others, then you can select âRotate Ads Indefinitelyâ and Google will distribute each ad individually.
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For conducting A/B testing on multiple ads, I recommend selecting the "Do not optimize" setting to make sure youâre collecting more precise data.
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To review your ad rotation settings, follow these steps:
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- At the campaign level > scroll over your campaign
â - Setting logo will appear, click on the logo
â - Click on additional settings > Ad rotation
â - Click the pencil iconÂ
â - Select the preferred method and save.Â
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You can also follow the steps above at the Ad Group level
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9. Is your ad schedule still up to date?
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You can review your campaign's performance by day of the week and time of day, then adjust your ad schedule as needed. To do so, follow these steps:
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- Click on âOverviewâ on the left-hand side
â - Under the âDay & Hourâ table, you can choose the metrics that matter the most to you to view performance by Day and/or Hour.
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Now that you know which days and times generate the best results, you can tailor your ad scheduling accordingly.Â
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- Select the campaign or ad group
â - Click on Ad Schedule on the left-hand side
â - Click the pencil icon
â - Choose the optimal time and save.Â
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10. Are you targeting the right devices?
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Similar to the ad schedule, you can follow the same steps to find the best performance by device and make adjustments. Steps as follows:
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- Click on âOverviewâ on the left-hand side
â - Under the âdevicesâ table, you can choose the metrics that matter the most to you.Â
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You can now update your targeting by device accordingly.Â
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- Select the campaign or ad group
â - Click on âWhen and where ads showedâ on the left-hand side
â - Â Edit bid adjustment
â - To stop showing on a specific device, choose âDecrease with 100% ratio > SaveÂ
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If youâre using the device on the campaign naming convention, you want to make sure the campaign is targeting the device it has on its name.
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11. Are you excluding existing leads and sales from your campaigns? (bonus)
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A practical approach to lowering costs involves not targeting existing leads and customers.Â
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Google enables the upload of first-party data for use primarily in Remarketing Lists for Search Ads (RLSA) and for creating exclusions. Steps below:
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- Select audiences on the left-hand side
â - Edit exclusions
â - Select the Campaign or Ad group
â - Choose the previously uploaded audience > Save
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12. Do you have observational audiences added to your campaigns? (bonus)
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Gain insights into how different audiences interact with your campaigns without altering who sees your ads:
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- Select audiences on the left-hand side
â - Audience segments
â - Select Campaign or Ad Group
â - Under observation, choose what is important to you and save.Â
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13. Have you been actively running campaign experiments in the past? (bonus)
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With the Experiments feature, you can execute A/B tests without needing to set up new campaigns.
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If the outcome proves successful, the winning campaign can then be chosen as the primary one.
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Part 3 - Ad Group Review
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1. Are your ad groups broken out logically into related themes?
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There are generally 6 buckets of themes for search ads:
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- Brand
- Non-brand
- Competitive
- RLSA (Search Remarketing)
- Content
- Dynamic Search Ads
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A clear naming convention aids in quickly identifying campaign and group themes. Example:
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âCampaign: NA_Non-Brand_Search_EN_Exact_All-Devices_Demo
âGroup: Non-Brand_Software
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If there is no proper naming convention, then we have some cleaning to do:
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- Download the data at the keyword level
â - Delete: Ad spend < $ 1
â - Open a new column called âThemeâ beside the Keywords
â - Tag the Theme of the campaign/group according to the Keyword
â - Turn it into a pivot table to get the data by Theme
â - Update the naming convention
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If you donât do a good job separating your keywords into themed ad groups, it will hurt your quality score.
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Because if you have too many keywords in your ad group, itâs hard to make sure that the ads are relevant to all these keywords.
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2. Do you have less than 15 keywords per ad group?
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This is not a set-in-stone law, but it will help you mitigate the damage to your ad relevance.
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Google allows up to 15 headlines and 4 descriptions in Responsive Search Ads. The goal is for keywords within each group to have a relevant ad to boost the quality score.Â
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At the end of the day, you know you are doing a good job with your ad groups and how you structured your keywords if you see that your ad relevance is above average.
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3. Are your ad groups filled with relevant keywords, ads, and landing pages?
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Each groupâs keywords should align with an ad in the same language, context, and call to action as well as a landing page contextualizing the search terms.
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Hereâs a good example of a great message match from the CRM software folk.
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Theyâre bidding on the keyword âCRM software for startupsâ, their ad mentions âCRM for startupsâ, and if you click on the ad, their landing page talks exactly about CRM for startups. Everything is aligned.
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4. Are your best ad groups receiving enough budget?
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With accurate conversion tracking in place for your campaigns (we covered this in Part 1), we can see which ad groups bring more conversions at a lower cost per conversion.After reviewing the ad group performance, you can optimize your ad groups in these ways:
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- Pause the ad groups with more search volume that are just cannibalizing and eating up all the campaign budget without bringing conversions.
- Take the top performers' ad groups and put them into their own campaign.
- Run target CPA bidding and set different target CPA caps at the different ad group levels, so you can put a more restrictive cap on the one thatâs eating up all the budget and then put a larger one on the one that hasnât spent enough.
âPart 4 - Keyword Review
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1. Are your search terms as close to perfect as possible?
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Regularly checking the search term report has 2 main benefits:
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- Reduce CPA: Comparing the number of clicks to the number of conversions - exclude all irrelevant results.
- Increase Expected CTR: Compare the number of impressions to the number of clicks - exclude all irrelevant results.
How to check the search term report in Google ads:
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- Under âCampaignsâ on the left-hand side > Click âInsights and reportsâ
â - Select âSearch termsâ
â - Filter by campaign
â - Evaluate the above recommendations.Â
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2. Do you have a strong negative keyword list in place?
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Negative keywords help us reduce the wasted budget and increase the overall quality of ads.Â
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The broader the match type, the more important it is to have an extensive list of negative keywords.Â
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However, even with Exact match type, search terms must be regularly checked, and negative keywords constantly be updated.
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Maintaining a universal negative keyword list for your entire account can be beneficial. This list might include words related to profanity, employment, bargaining, etc.
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âTo avoid unintended blocking, please ensure these negative keywords apply to your business and do not overlap with any targeting keywords.How to create a new list in Google:Â
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- Select âToolsâ on the left-hand side
â - Under âShared libraryâ click on âExclusion listsâ
â - Select the âplus signâ
â - Add the list of desired negative keywords and name the list accordingly.Â
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3. Do you have the appropriate match types for your keywords?
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If you donât know which match type you should start with, then always start with the Exact match type and work your way up.Â
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If you donât get quality conversions with the Exact match type, then changing the match type wonât help.
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Generally, Broad match types have the highest wasted budget - unless the campaign is layered with a first-data party audience.Â
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4. Do you have underperforming keywords you can pause or optimize?
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Usually, 20% of the keywords are responsible for 80% of the results. Make sure to check the performance of each keyword and pause underperformers continuously.Â
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However, before pausing, analyze the relevance of search terms against keywords.Â
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If they align, evaluate the click-through rate (CTR) to determine if the ad copy requires updates.Â
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If users are still clicking on the ad without converting, consider revising the landing page.
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5. Are your keyword bids set at an optimal amount? (if applicable)
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If you're using automated bidding, you don't have to worry about this step.
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But if you're using manual bidding, sometimes your manual bid is too low, so your ads wonât show on the first pages of the results.
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I recommend that your Max. CPC amount is at least high enough to the first page bid estimate.
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You can find the keyword bid simulator by hovering over the small chart in the Max. CPC field.
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âPart 5 - Ads & Extensions Review
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1. Are your keywords in your ad copy?
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This is an easy way to increase ad relevance and ultimately get more clicks.Â
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I canât stress enough the importance of having a strong message match.
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When users encounter their specific search terms within your adâespecially if these terms are variations of your targeted keywordsâthe likelihood of them proceeding to your landing page significantly increases.
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2. Are you title-casing the beginning of each letter in your ad?
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Title casing is when you capitalize the letter of each important work in the sentence.
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In my experience, title casing works better on paid search because your ads will look more professional, and it will enhance readability.
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Running multiple ads allows for A/B testing or split testing, where different versions of ads can be compared to see which one performs better.Â
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By consistently testing ads, youâll drive a better click-through rate, and this will ultimately result in a better Expected Click-through rate, which will improve your quality score and reduce your costs while putting your ads in a better search results position.
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4. Are you speaking one-to-one, communicating benefits, answering objections, and providing a CTA?
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You want to make sure you are speaking one-to-one In your copy and not using corporate speak, where it seems youâre talking to an auditorium versus a person.Here are a few important points your ads should cover:
- Are you communicating benefits in the second headline to differentiate yourself from your competitors on the SERP?
- Are you answering objections? (If there are objections that you can answer on your copy)
- Are you providing a Call-to-Action (CTA) that moves people and motivates them?
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Hereâs a good example from Brevo:
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- We can instantly see the benefit: 9000 emails free per month
â - One-to-one communication: Donât let them overcharge you
â - CTA that motivates: Stop overpaying for email and get the best value in email delivery & email marketing tools.
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5. Are you using all the characters available in your headline, description & path fields?
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You donât have to use every single one, but I recommend you use as many as you can.
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Utilizing all available characters in Google Ads' headline, description, and path fields increases message clarity and impact, boosting click-through and conversion rates.Â
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6. Are you using as many ad extensions (assets) as possible? (Especially core ones)
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Extensions expand your presence on the search results page, improving the chances of receiving more clicks, which will increase your expected CTR and the overall quality score.Â
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While assets such as the business logo and name are best set at the account level, it's often better to tailor other extensions, like callouts, structured snippets, sitelinks, etc., to reflect the the messaging of each campaign or ad group.Â
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How to create new ad extensions in Google:Â
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- Select âCampaignsâ on the left-hand side
â - Under âAssetsâ click on âAssetsâ
â - Select the desired extension to see the ones you already have.
â - Click on the âplus signâ to add new ad extensions.Â
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7. Are you consistently testing new ad copy, types and modifiers?
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If you are not doing this, youâll know because you will see the click-through rate consistently going down week over week, month over month.
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If youâre auditing someone elseâs account, you can check the âChanges historyâ option to see if they are constantly testing new ads.
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For modifiers, you can use dynamic keyword insertion in your ad copies to dynamically test different variations.
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8. Are you sending searchers to relevant landing pages?
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In my opinion, this is the most important thing.
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If your prospects search for âCRM for startupsâ, your ads should say âCRM for startupsâ, and your landing page should say âCRM for startupsâ.
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This sounds basic and trivial, but the amount of people who miss this is dramatic.
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So make sure that you have a strong message match.
âPart 6 - Landing Page Review
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âRemember that success will come from half traffic and half your landing page, so I highly recommend deep diving into your pages individually as you go through this.
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1. Are you mirroring the message from your ad on the landing page?
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As I mentioned in the last step of Part 5, the landing page experience is a crucial element of the quality score.Â
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A page that fails to align with your ad's messaging is unlikely to offer value to the user.Â
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2. Can the searcher understand what you do & why in 5 seconds or less?
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This is called the five-second rule, and itâs essentially a test where if your prospects just look at the above the fold section of your landing page, can they understand in five seconds what you do and essentially why they should care?
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In this example from Microsoft Clarity, we can easily understand that this is a free tool that will help you get insights into the behavior of users on your website so you can improve your products.Â
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Itâs also used by 100k+ sites worldwide and is GDPR & CCPA-compliant.
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You donât want to be vague on your landing pages, and you want to make sure that they have the following:
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- Clear and concise headline
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â - Call to action (CTA) throughout the page
â - Quick loading time for all devices
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To learn more about landing page best practices, dive into the article below by Pedro CortĂŠs:
â10 Proven Landing Page Tips To Boost Your Conversion Rates
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3. Is your landing page loading fast enough?
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As mentioned above, the landing pages must load quickly on all devices. Tools like Lighthouse or PageSpeed Insights can help you better understand areas of opportunity.Â
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I recommend you run your page through PageSpeed Insights and apply anything applicable.Â
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Youâre probably going to need the help of a developer, but itâs definitely worthwhile to improve the page speed because this is a big factor in terms of your landing page experience for quality score.
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A simple thing to improve your landing page loading time is compressing the website images to reduce the file sizes.
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4. Do you have one clear call to action on your landing page that mirrors your ad?
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If your ad is talking about Downloading a Whitepaper but the landing page only has CTAs around Booking a Demo, then that will have a negative experience for the user.Â
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Align landing page CTAs with ad promises to ensure a seamless user experience and encourage conversions.
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5. Are you communicating benefits, answering objections, and providing a CTA?
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The higher the ask, the more context must be provided on the page. This is specifically true for the âBook a Demoâ CTA.Â
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Ensure you address objections while emphasizing the key benefits of your product that will solve the users' problems.
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I recommend that you talk with your sales team to get insights on different objections that come up in the sales process, this way you can add sections on your landing page to proactively communicate against those objections so that you can actually drive more quality leads.
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6. Does your form, chatbot, or online booking widget still work?
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Before launching any new offers, test the page to make sure everything is working as intended.
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- Submit a fake test lead and see if it actually routes into your CRM.Â
â - Go look for your lead record.
â - Check if the page isnât broken.Â
â - Review what the experience looks like.Â
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Make sure you audit that process because I can't tell you how many times people think their campaigns are failing, and then something just broke on the technical side.
Part 7 - Budget & Performance Review
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1. What is the spread of budget and performance by campaign theme? (NonBrand, Brand, Competitive, RLSA, Content)
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This is where you will need to export a lot of data from Google Ads and use Excel/Google Sheets.
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đ I recommend watching the Part 7 video above if you need a walkthrough on exporting and labeling the data to perform this analysis.
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Hereâs a common successful budget distribution you can use as guidance:Â
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- Brand: < 20%
- Non-brand > 60%
- Competitive > 20%
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You can use our free Google Ads Budget Calculator to find your ideal Google Ads budget.
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2. What is the spread of budget and performance by region?
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If you are targeting multiple regions, break out the campaign as such (ex: NA, EMEA, APAC).
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đ Check out the Part 7 video above if you need a walkthrough on the data analysis methodology using Excel.
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Look for the highest-performing locations for each region and make sure low-quality conversions are not wasting your budget. If youâre not separating your campaigns into regions, you can still check how the budget has been spread around different locations through the Locations report:
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- Select âCampaignsâ on the left-hand side
â - Go to âLocationsâ, under âAudiences, keywords, and contentâÂ
â - Select the desired campaign
â - Download the data under Location
â - Summarize into a pivot table to get:
- Ad spent
- Conversions
- Cost per conversion
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3. What is the spread of budget and performance by offer?
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If you are separating the campaigns by offer, break out the campaign as such (Demo, Trials, eBooks, etc)
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đ Check out the Part 7 video above if you need a walkthrough on the data analysis methodology using Excel.
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Hereâs how to download the landing page report:
- Select âCampaignsâ on the left-hand side
â - Go to âLanding Pagesâ, under âInsights and ReportsâÂ
â - Select the desired campaign
â - Download the data
â - On Excel:
- Delete: Ad spend <$1
- If there is no proper naming convention:
- Open a new column (Offer) beside the landing page (LP)
- Tag the offer of the campaign according to the LP
- Summarize into a pivot table to get:
- Ad spent
- Conversions
- Cost per conversion

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6. What is the spread of budget and performance by match type?
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If you are separating the campaigns by match type, break out the campaign as such (Exact, Phrase, Broad)
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Hereâs how to download the match type report:
- Select âCampaignsâ on the left-hand side
â - Go to âSearch Keywordsâ, under âAudiences, keywords, and contentâÂ
â - Select the desired campaign
â - Add the column âMatch typeâ
â - Download the dataÂ
â - On Excel, summarize into a pivot table to get:some text
- Ad spent
- Conversions
- Cost per conversion
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7. What is the spread of budget and performance by device?
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If you are separating the campaigns by devices, break out the campaign as such (Desktop, Mobile, Tablet, All Devices)
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8. What is the spread of budget and performance by week days?
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Check if youâre targeting all days of the week and if thereâs opportunities to exclude some days when the performance is not good, so you can free up budget for the strongest days.Hereâs how to download the day of the week report:
- Select âCampaignsâ on the left-hand side
â - Go to âWhen and where ads showedâ, under âInsights and reportstâÂ
â - Select the desired campaign
â - Choose âDayâ in the right-side navigation if you only want to see the day of the week
â - Download the data
â - On Excel, summarize into a pivot table to get:some text
- Ad spent
- Conversions
- Cost per conversion
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To learn more about how to create a winning Google Ads budget strategy, dive into the article below:
âHow to Create a Winning Google Ads Budget Strategy for B2B SaaSâ
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1. What is the search impression share by campaign theme? (NonBrand, Brand, Competitive, RLSA, Content)
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2. What is the search lost rank by campaign theme? (NonBrand, Brand, Competitive, RLSA, Content)
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3. What is the search lost to budget by campaign theme? (NonBrand, Brand, Competitive, RLSA, Content)
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4. What is the search top IS by campaign theme? (NonBrand, Brand, Competitive, RLSA, Content)
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5. Do 70% of your keywords have above 7 quality scores?
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âOptimization strategies you can adopt to improve your Quality Score:
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- A Google Ads audit can significantly enhance your campaign performance by identifying inefficiencies and areas for optimization within your account.Â
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âHow often should I conduct a Google Ads audit?
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10 B2B SaaS Copywriting Tips for Better Ad Performance
I donât need to be the one to tell you this, but B2B tech companies have it hard when it comes to getting their advertising to perform.
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Theyâve got complicated products. And sophisticated audiences (who are all but totally allergic to buzzwords and fluff). And together, they make communicating your company or productâs value super hard.
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Having helped countless B2B companies over the past 9 years Iâve learned more than a thing or two about writing copy for these companies.Â
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And today Iâm sharing with you my top 10 copywriting tips â tips you can use right away (literally, try them out after you finish reading this) to evaluate your existing ad campaigns and improve their performance, stat.
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TABLEÂ OFÂ CONTENTS
- Tip #1: Sell The Click, Not The Product
- Tip #2: Take Something Out Of Your Ad Instead Of Putting More In
- Tip #3: Write First, Edit Later
- Tip #4: Remember How People Interact With Ads
- Tip #5: Use The Slippery Slope
- Tip #6: Donât Be Afraid to Try Long Copy
- Tip #7: Try to Use Your Voice of Customer As Much As Possible
- Tip #8: Clear Before Clever
- Tip #9: Tie Benefits Back to Something Realistic
- Tip #10: Make Sure Your Copy Passes the âSo Whatâ Test
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Tip #1: Sell The Click, Not The Product
The first tip is more of a mindset shift: remind yourself that your ad is selling the click, not the product (as a whole).Â
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Prospects donât see your ad in isolation. They see it in the context of everything else that happens throughout their day, AND in the context of everything else they see on LinkedIn, Google, Facebook or whichever platform your ad is served to them. So unlike an ecom ad, the goal of your ad here is to build excitement and anticipation. You want your prospect to be inspired enough to click on the ad and go where they can learn more about what you have to offer.Â
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This still applies even if youâre providing a free trial, or something else that is free.
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Because if you have an average contract value of $50,000-$100,000/year your prospect is NOT going to click on your ad and buy right away.Â
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Instead focus on giving the prospect something â a tip, an idea, an emotional twinge â that will motivate them to click.
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This could be through:Â
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- The messaging you use (make sure youâre talking about how you solve business problems, not just âhey our product is really coolâ)
- The type of call-to-action (CTA) (making sure itâs not too pushy for people who didnât know you existed until now)
- The visual in your ad creative (making sure it hits an emotional soft spot)
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Remember: You can always go into more depth on the landing page. But that wonât happen if your prospect doesnât click through in the first place.Â
Tip #2: Take Something Out Of Your Ad Instead Of Putting More In
Focus on getting one really memorable takeaway across in your ad copy.Â
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Writing copy by committee is never a great strategy and itâs easy to end up with ads that are saying so many different things that the prospect wonât take away any one thing in particular.Â
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Letâs say your productâs main value propositions are: itâs fast, itâs easy to use, and it saves money.Â
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Instead of stuffing all of that information into the same ad, I would write 3 variations:
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- Ad Variation 1: FastÂ
- Ad Variation 2: Easy
- Ad Variation 3: Saves Money
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Test each message separately so you can see which performs better AND so the prospect can remember your core value proposition.Â
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Pro tip: you can say the same message 1,000 different times or more by repurposing the way you communicate that message to the market through different creatives, ad types, and copy.Â
Tip #3: Write First, Edit Later
There are so many times when we sit down to try to write an ad and itâs really hard.
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First get all your thoughts, ideas, and concepts out in a document, then let it sit for a couple of hours, and finally go back to it with fresh eyes. Â
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If you just try to write it in one session itâs going to be messy and youâll spend forever tweaking it.Â
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The idea is that you get to write a really stupid first draft. But you KNOW that itâs going to be bad. So that gives you the chance to get the bad ideas out to make way for the good stuff. Your goal is to come back later to edit and make it better.Â
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Iâve lost count of how many times my first line in the body copy becomes my headline or other parts of my copy shift places with each other because theyâre better suited for a different part of the ad. But Iâm only able to make these connections with fresh eyes.Â
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Pro tip: you can use ChatGPT for brainstorming but even still you need to let the copy sit. Give yourself time to process it so you can edit it and not just run with it at face value.
Tip #4: Remember How People Interact With Ads
Each element of your ad is a part of the puzzle.Â
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People will stop the scroll because the creative caught them. Then they'll look at the headline. Then they go up and read the body copy. And finally they go back down to the headline before clicking.
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The prospect's eyes are going all over the place which means you canât afford to have copy thatâs disjointed.
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The headline leads into the body copy and should support the creative. And the body copy should support the headline. All the elements have to work together.Â
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As Eugene Schwartz once said âcopy is not written, itâs assembled".
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Treat each element of your ad with equal importance and make sure it makes sense when you look at it from the eyes of your prospect.
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Pro tip: you canât create ads in isolation, you need your designer and copywriter working together to ensure each variable in your ad works together (headline, body copy, creative).
Tip #5: Use The Slippery Slope
Your first line of copy should get the reader excited to read the second line. The second line should motivate the reader to read the third line. And so on. Direct marketer Joseph Sugarman calls this the âslippery slopeâ. It makes sure your ad is interesting to read and that the ideas inside it are easy to digest.
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The best way to check and test your messaging for clarity and word choice is to read it out loud.Â
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If youâre in the middle of a sentence and you paused for breath, you should place a period. That will help your sentences flow more naturally one into the other.
Tip #6: Donât Be Afraid to Try Long Copy
I have a bone to pick with people who say ânobody reads online!â Because of course they donât â if they donât have something interesting to read.Â
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People binge on Netflix series, video games, novel trilogies, and more for hours in one go.Â
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When you have people's attention you can keep sharing with them new details. But you have to earn their attention, first. (Which wonât happen with clickbait.)
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What can you give them in your ad that will make them feel they got value from this interaction, no matter how fleeting it was?Â
- Did they learn something new?
- Did you make them feel something?
- Did you make them think for a second?
If you can do at least one of those three things youâll earn their attention.Â
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Itâs hard to do this in 150 characters which is why long form copy is so powerful.Â
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Donât be afraid to push up until that 600 character limit if needed.Â
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Long copy will also lead to a greater dwell time and provide so much more context and opportunity for you to build motivation so they have a reason to click through.Â
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The takeaway here is that people will read your long form ads if itâs interesting to them. But they wonât read even short copy if itâs terrible.
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Side note: When writing ad copy I create 2-3 variations for the headline and the body, usually testing out different lengths (short vs long).Â
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Hereâs my simple but effective copywriting template I use in Google Docs:
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LinkedIn ads template | Eden Bidani
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Pro tip: itâs easy for ads to get stuck in the same creative loops, donât forget to brainstorm new creative concepts to test.Â
Tip #7: Try to Use Your Voice of Customer As Much As Possible
If no one in the product marketing or CS team is interviewing your customers do this ASAP.Â
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Get on a call with them and ask them questions such as:Â
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- How do you use the product?
- What is the impact of your product?
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The goal here isnât to get testimonials, itâs to understand how your customers talk.Â
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Youâll walk away knowing the benefits that matter to them and challenges.Â
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Iâd also recommend talking with sales and asking them what are the top customer objections that prospects say and exactly how they describe it.Â
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Using the same words and language your customers use allows you to communicate in their voice.Â
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These insights are so powerful that not even ChatGPT can brainstorm this for you.Â
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For example I used to work with a company that created $700 work bags and I interviewed a customer that mentioned she used to carry around a âmom bagâ.
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What did she mean by that? âA shapeless, old ugly bag.âÂ
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That word âmom bagâ is so unique and reflective of the voice of our customers that using that in our landing page copy instantly resonated and resulted in tremendous lifts in conversion rates.Â
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Five customer interviews can be all it takes.Â
Tip #8: Clear Before Clever
Jay Abraham once said sometimes the easiest way to sell a horse is to say âhorse for saleâ.Â
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You have a fleeting moment with your prospects engaging with your ads.Â
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So even if you have to use specific, complicated terms (for your sophisticated audience)Â you need to focus on making your copy as clear as possible.
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For example, try to simplify your language as much as possible. Yes, this might result in you using less voice of customer, or using a different brand tone of voice, and other elements of your messaging. But clear will always convert best.Â
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Consider the words you are using and find synonyms that imply the same meaning with less cognitive load.Â
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John Carlton refers to these as âpower wordsâ for example:Â
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Sometimes you want to say fast but you should be saying swift.Â
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Swift implies a very different connotation than fast.Â
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How would you say this same thing to a friend? Is a great frame to have.Â
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Remember to avoid complicated and overdone words like omnichannel đ¤Ž
Tip #9: Tie Benefits Back to Something Realistic
Everyone LOVES to talk about benefits â think: âGrow your business!â, âTransform your workplace!", âWin more customers!â, or âOptimize your lifeâŚ!â đ
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Itâs not that itâs not true. They are. But theyâre just so high-level and vague people struggle to grasp them. You need to tie them back to something tangible â something realistic that your prospects identify with. Otherwise, they just come off as fluff.Â
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So make sure the claims you make in your ads are specific. And even better, back up your claims by connecting them to a feature or capability of your product.
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Take the step to connect your benefits back to something realistic.Â
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Pro tip: even better than talking about how your benefits connect to something realistic, SHOW PROSPECTS HOW this happens with supporting images or videos.Â
Tip #10: Make Sure Your Copy Passes the âSo Whatâ Test
You should be totally skeptical about your copy (just like prospects will be).Â
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People arenât stupid â even if they fall victim to clickbait they will bounce from your landing pages.Â
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Every time you look at your copy ask yourself so what? And pick it apart to see where itâs fluff.Â
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Sit back and look through to see where youâre missing proof points or what can be removed.Â
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Youâll be able to find all those tiny things that will throw people off reading your ads.Â
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At the end of the day your audience will look at the total sum of your ad (headline, body copy, creative) and if there are elements out of place such as:
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- Run on sentences
- Improper formatting
- Typos and obvious errors
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All of these details will affect whether the audience feels they can trust you with their click.Â
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So what allows you a third person frame to find what looks off, and what can be stronger.Â
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Pro tip: search for free ad mockup software on Google to find tools you can use to see what your copy will look like to your audience within the platform youâre advertising.Â
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Hope you found this article helpful! đ
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And if youâre in need of copywriting assistance check us out at CAPE Agency.
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How to Create LinkedIn Audiences that Convert
Sometimes, LinkedIn Ads fail due to poor creatives, messaging, or offers.Â
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But many times â and in my experience, most of the time â the problem is actually the audience.Â
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If you arenât reaching your ICP, itâs almost impossible to drive conversions.Â
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After running LinkedIn Ads for many hypergrowth startups, Iâve developed a methodology to ensure that Iâm getting in front of the right people and minimizing wasted spend for my clients.Â
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Iâll be breaking down my entire process below đ
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TABLEÂ OFÂ CONTENTS
- Step 1: Define your ICP
- Step 2: Brainstorm your targeting
- Step 3: Draft your audiences in LinkedIn Campaign Manager
- Step 4: Refine your audiences
- Step 5: Adjust based on insights
- Conclusionâ
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âStep 1: Define your ICP
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If youâre taking over a new account and donât have any audiences yet, hereâs where I recommend starting:Â
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1. Explore the website to get some initial ideas on the target job functions and industries of your personas.Â
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2. Talk to your clients. Are there certain industries, company sizes, job titles, or job functions that have historically driven more revenue?Â
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3. Listen to demo calls to gain a deeper understanding of a) what pain points their product solves and b) who resonates most with these pain points
âStep 2: Brainstorm your targeting
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Once you have a strong understanding of your ICP, itâs time to look at the targeting options available within LinkedIn Ads.Â
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To do this, you can make a copy of this LinkedIn persona database sheet, which contains all the job titles and industries available within LinkedIn Campaign Manager. Â
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If you want to target IT professionals, for example, you can add the filter Text contains âInformation Technologyâ, and youâll find all 389 IT-related job titles that are available.Â
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Based on these results, you can determine exactly what job titles (or job function + seniority) you want to target.Â
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Also, by looking through the industries tab, you can define the industries you want to reach in your campaigns.Â
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Pro Tip: LinkedInâs industry categorization can be a bit confusing. If you arenât sure what industries you should be targeting, look up your best-fit customers on LinkedIn. What industries are they in? These are likely the ones you should be targeting.Â

Step 3: Draft your audiences in LinkedIn Campaign Manager
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Once you have a solid understanding of your ICP and the job titles and industries you want to go after, youâre ready to go into LinkedIn Campaign Manager and create your audiences.Â
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Hereâs how you do it:Â
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1. Navigate to the audiences tab, on the left hand side of LinkedIn Campaign Manager.

2. Go to âSavedâ, and then click on âCreate Audienceâ

3. Click on âEditâ and input your targeting criteria.Â

4. Apply your targeting criteria (in the bottom right corner of your screen)

5. Save your audience so you can come back to it later. You can do this in the top right corner of your screen.Â

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Here are the top 3 audiences that Iâve seen the most success with for capturing demand (feel free to steal or adapt to your companyâs needs)
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1. Remarketing
90-day Website Visits + 90-day Video Views + 90-day Single Image Ad Interactions + 90-day Company Page Visitors + 90-day Content Lead Gen Form Submissions
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Target Locations
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Target Job Titles (Substitute for Job Function and Skills if audience is too small)Â
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2. Tier 1 & Tier 2 Accounts
Tier 1 & Tier 2 Account Lists
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Target Job Titles
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Target Company Size
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Target Locations
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3. Open opportunities
Companies in the open opportunity phase
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Target Job Titles
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Target Locationsâ
Step 4: Refine your audiences
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Now that youâve drafted your audience, youâre almost ready to launch, but not quite.Â
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Before going live, itâs important to refine your audiences by making exclusions.Â
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Otherwise, youâll end up wasting money on irrelevant people.Â
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Hereâs how you do it:Â
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1. Access the saved audience you already created

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2. Refine the Audience
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Look at the âMemberâ and âCompanyâ sections of your audience for exclusion ideas.Â
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In the member tab, you can see what job titles, job functions, and seniorities youâre targeting.Â
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For example, if youâre aiming to target the IT job function and 21% of your audience consists of Engineering or Military, you might exclude these irrelevant functions.Â

In the company tab, you can review what industries, company sizes, and companies youâre targeting.Â
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For example, if youâre aiming to target FinServ and realize that 13% of your audience is in Hospitals and Healthcare, you may want to exclude it from your targeting.

Go through all available options in your saved audience and refine as much as possible.Â
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Once youâre happy with the exclusions youâve made, you can add this audience to your campaigns.Â
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Here are the top exclusions that I typically make to avoid wasted spend (feel free to use as inspiration)
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1. Irrelevant Industries
2. Irrelevant job functions
3. Irrelevant seniorities
4. Up-to-date list of customers and competitors
5. Current employees
6. People who have visited the login or support pages
7. Poor fit titles (ie students, teachers, retired, interns, analysts)
8. Company sizes outside of ICP
9. People who have recently filled out demo forms
âStep 5: Adjust based on insights
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After making exclusions and launching your campaigns, your work isnât finished. In order to be successful with LinkedIn Ads, you need to continually check and adjust your targeting.Â
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To do this, make sure you look at your demographics report on a weekly basis.Â
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This can be found in the top right corner of LinkedIn Campaign Manager. To access it, simply select your campaign and click on âDemographics.â

Now, youâll be able to see the job functions, job titles, companies, industries, seniorities, etc. that your campaigns are reaching.Â



Look through all of these insights â are the people youâre reaching closely aligned with your intended targeting?Â
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Are there certain job titles, functions, companies, industries, etc. that you want to exclude?Â
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Doing this exercise may seem tedious or insignificant, but these small details are often the difference between success and failure. â
Conclusion
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To summarize, if you want to generate conversions on LinkedIn Ads:Â
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1. Make sure you get extremely clear on who you want to target.Â
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2. Consider testing proven targeting combinations, such as retargeting, tier 1 and tier 2 accounts, and open opportunities.
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3. Audit your audiences in LinkedIn Campaign Manager and make all the necessary exclusions to avoid wasted spend.Â
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4. After launch, consistently check your demographics report and adjust your audiences as needed.Â
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P.S. If you have any questions and would like to get in touch, feel free to send me a message on LinkedInÂ
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What are the best practices for refining audience targeting to minimize wasted ad spend on LinkedIn?
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How to get LinkedIn-like Targeting with YouTube Ads for B2B
LinkedIn has hands down the BEST targeting options available for B2B marketers.Â
Which leads most brands to only advertising on LinkedIn and not much else for social.Â
If youâre looking for a new channel to scale ABM and/or reach your ideal customer.
In this article youâll learn 3 YouTube Ads targeting methods worth testing đ
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Targeting option 1: Steal from LinkedIn
- Targeting option 2: Leverage tech
- Targeting option 3: Build custom audiences
Targeting option 1: Steal from LinkedIn
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Letâs face it LinkedIn is the BEST for account-based targeting.Â
The first-party company data they have is unmatched and updated regularly.Â
This is why 99% of B2B marketers are forced to advertise on LinkedIn.
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If youâre pushing a ton of site traffic from LinkedIn Ads and confident in your audience targeting.Â
Steal that LinkedIn Ads traffic by remarketing to them on YouTube! đĽ
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Build a retargeting audience using utm_source = linkedin for YouTubeÂ
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Or whatever your utm_source is for your LinkedIn Ad campaigns.
You can also further filter by utm_campaign if the size is large enough.Â
This way youâre getting in front of the same users on YouTube for a fraction of the cost.Â
Targeting option 2: Leverage tech
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Google allows you to upload contact lists for audience targeting.Â
These lists can include; existing customers, sales qualified leads, leads in nurture and so much more.
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As long as your matched lists exceed 100 in size you can use it for targeting or exclusion on YouTube.Â
Depending on your CRM (ex: Salesforce, HubSpot) there are different technologies you can use to automatically import contact lists into Google Ads for targeting.Â
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Some of those tools include:
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Hubspot <> Google Ads Integration
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If youâre a Hubspot user youâre in luck!Â
HubSpot makes it really easy to upload dynamic audiences to Google Ads via integration.

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Salesforce <> Google Ads Integration
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If youâre using Salesforce this also can be done via direct integration with Google Ads.Â
Simply link the two tools together via the Data Manager in your account.Â

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Using a CRM that doesnât have a direct integration with Google Ads?
If youâre in this bucket, I highly recommend exploring Zapier to automate your contact list uploads.Â
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Zapier will act as the bridge between your CRM and Google Ads, hereâs an example of how we automated contact lists imports from ActiveCampaign:

Targeting option 3: Build custom audiences
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Fun fact! Google owns YouTube, arguably the second largest search engine in the world.Â
The amount of behavioural data Google has is incomprehensible đ¤Ż
Lucky for us we can take advantage of it with custom audiences.Â
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Custom audiences allow you target based on:
- What they searched on Google: reach the same Google searchers on YouTube for a fraction of the cost. Â
- Interests or purchase intention: reach people based on relevant keyword interests or in-market behaviour.Â
- Websites browsed: add URLs to reach people who visit similar sites.Â
- Apps used: target users who use certain Google Play Store apps.Â
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Hereâs 3 ways to use custom audiences for B2B targeting:
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- Brand keywords of your target accountsÂ

- Company page & LinkedIn page URLs of your target accounts

- Google Play Apps of your target accounts (if applicable)

You can also target high-intent solution keywords, and competitor names.Â
The opportunities are truly endless in terms of the types of keywords you can target.Â
Start as specific as you can and expand based on your reach.Â
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10 Tips You Need to Know Before Hiring Your Next Ad Agency or Consultant
Working with an advertising agency, freelancer, or consultant?
After the past 12 years working in-house I know what good and bad looks like.Â
In this article Iâm going to share with you my hard lessons learned on working with these partners.Â
And if youâre an agency owner, freelancer, or consultant reading this (take notes!) đ
These tips are bucketed into four parts: people, product, process, and results.
Letâs dive in!Â
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Tip #1: Be clear on your communication needs and expectationsÂ
- Tip #2: Decide your meeting cadence
- Tip #3: Get clear on who and what for your tools
- Tip #4: Review your brand foundations
- Tip #5: Make sure your extended team knows the audience targeting
- Tip #6: Define your operational plumbingÂ
- Tip #7: Share your historical benchmarks
- Tip #8: Be clear on your naming conventions
- Tip #9: Have clear trackable goalsÂ
- Tip #10: Set clear timelines and deliverables
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[process] Tip #1: Be clear on your communication needs and expectationsÂ
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You have to be upfront about this from the beginning.Â
Where and how often are the two key questions here:
- Where will we be communicating? (ex: Slack)
- How soon should you expect a response? (ex: within 24 hours)
- How fast can I expect a certain task to be completed? (ex: 72 hours)Â
You need to tell your partners what you expect from them in terms of communication.Â
Steal this template:
âHey {Name}, I want to be really clear that with the agencies I work with I expect a response from my slack or emails within {timeframe, ex: 12Â business hours}â.Â
This is equally as important for those of us managing clients as it allows you to more effectively prioritize your communications with clients and triage your day.Â
[process] Tip #2: Decide your meeting cadence
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This tip connects with the previous around framing expectations.Â
You have to get clear on how often youâre going to be meeting, is it weekly, bi-Weekly, monthly?
Communicate your expectations on how often youâll meet and the options available.Â
By getting clear on your needs and how fast you want to get things done will allow you to answer this.Â
The best part about defined meeting cadences is that it allows you to hold people accountable.Â
Itâs a forcing function that makes sure youâre getting what you need fast enough.Â
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My preferred meeting cadence:
Weekly for the first six weeks to build trust and create momentum then move towards bi-weekly.Â
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Within the first 6-weeks of working with a new agency or consultant youâll want to ensure they are set up with:
- Systems access
- Clearly defined goalsÂ
- Clarity on your ICP and audienceÂ
From here everything is addressed and you can move to a bi-weekly cadence.Â
Again this is my personal preference align according to your needs!
If you want some tips on how to run an effective meeting check out my LinkedIn post đÂ
[process] Tip #3: Get clear on who and what for your tools
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The last thing you want is for it to take four weeks for your agency to get plugged into your system.Â
Get your new partners access to your systems as fast as possible so they can begin adding value.
Build a document with a clear list of all the primary tools theyâll need access for and who to contact.Â
If the agency, consultant, or freelancer youâre onboarding already has clear documentation already on how you can provide them access to their primary tools this is a green flag! đ˘
If you can take the initiative to build an internal version of this document even better.
You know your marketing operations person's name, make sure they know as well.Â
The more people working together across teams the more important this becomes.
[product] Tip #4: Review your brand foundations
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Make sure your agency, freelancer, or consultant understands your brand.
Your brand foundations consists of:
- What does your solution do?
- Whatâs your unique value prop?
- Whatâs your origin story?
- Who are your competitors?Â
- Whatâs your tone of voice?Â
Even better if your partners can sit in on a live demo (or at the minimum watch a recording).Â
If your partners donât get sold on the unique value you provide they will never be able to make an impact with the campaigns they create for you (and red flag if they donât want to know! đ´).Â
[product] Tip #5: Make sure your extended team knows the audience targeting
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We touched on this on tip #4 but this is so important it deserves its own tip.Â
Audience targeting is the foundation of everything youâre going to be doing.
You need to be absolutely clear on:Â
- Job titles
- Job functions
- Company size
- Industries
Really, really, really hone in on this! đ
Make sure your extended teams knows this as well.Â
This is where your buyer persona comes into play, if you need help on how to craft one check out Module 2 of my B2B Advertising Foundations course where I show you how to piece it together.Â
Give them as much customer information as possible because they have to know this.Â
They need to know what good vs bad leads look like.Â
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Pro tip:Â
Keep all this customer information in a shared document so your partners can refer back to it in the future when needed and setup a shared channel to monitor lead quality đĽ

[process] Tip #6: Define your operational plumbingÂ
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You need to be specific on how things should be tracked.Â
The goal isnât to just drive leads, itâs to scale legit qualified pipeline and revenue.Â
Work with your extended teams to map out your customer lifecycle operations.Â
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For example, they should be clear on:Â
- Once someone fills out a form, now what?
- How are leads being handed off to sales?Â
- How is the team being notified on new leads?Â
- How are they being followed up with?Â
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From here itâs piecing together the right UTM conventions for measurement, connecting forms in our marketing automation tools so be able to route appropriately.
Walk through all of these steps and the points in-between so things are tracked.Â
Take my word for it, defining this will save you a lot of headaches at the end of the quarter! đ
[results] Tip #7: Share your historical benchmarks
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You need to first understand your historical benchmarks so you can share them.Â
Reverse engineer your funnel to understand your performance between steps.
This will look different for every company but hereâs an example for sales led:
- Meetings Booked
- Meetings Completed
- Opportunities
- Pipeline
- Revenue

Knowing the difference between steps is crucial to improve efficiency.Â
If your agency or consultant isnât trying to reverse engineer your funnel thatâs a red flag! đ´
Share these historical benchmarks and hold them accountable.Â
[Process] Tip #8: Be clear on your naming conventions
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Your partners need to be able to jump inside your ad accounts and understand whatâs happening.Â
The first step is making sure they are informed on your naming conventions.
Align on naming conventions for:Â
- Forms
- Campaigns
- Creatives
And if youâre reading this and donât have existing naming conventions, ask yourself:Â
What are the questions Iâd like to answer from my campaigns?Â
For example, I want to know:
- Whatâs my performance by region?Â
- Whatâs my performance by campaign objective?
- Whatâs my performance by ad?
Then use these answers to include them in your naming convention.Â
This is a really small in the weeds tactical step but worth sharing.Â
[results] Tip #9: Have clear trackable goalsÂ
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Determine the metrics that matter that your advertising partners should track and the frequency in which they should be reporting on these goals to you.Â
I personally like to report on these weekly to make sure everything is pacing appropriately.Â
This also allows you to pivot quickly when things start to go off track.
When determining the metrics that matter, also brainstorm your leading indicators.Â
Leading indicators are clear metrics that help you determine early signs of success.
For example, depending on your campaigns objective it might look a bit different:Â
- Lead gen = qualified leads created
- Awareness = engagement rate by ad type
Just choose something that can happen quickly within the first 7 days of a campaign going live and is a relevant milestone that will ultimately lead to your end goal.Â
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đ˘ An early and specific goal is better than no goal at all.
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Without this clarity you or your partners wonât be able to prioritize what needs to be done.Â
If youâre struggling with deciding on your goals go back to tip #7 and understand your benchmarks.Â
[results] Tip #10: Set clear timelines and deliverables
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Defining the success metrics that matter and the roadmap to get there is CRUCIAL.
You have to be clear upfront timelines for both parties or itâs going to get squirrely đżđ
If itâs not defined upfront as you go things will go sideways.Â
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Communicate to your agency, consultant, or freelancer:
Hereâs what we expect from month 1, 2, and so onâŚ
Youâre hiring these experts to come in and solve a specific problem.Â
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The goal is to hold your partner accountable to the outcome and not tasks.Â
This keeps you focused on the things that matter (ex: funnel optimization, benchmarks, goals).Â
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Google Ads Quality Score: Everything You Need To Know (2024)
Mastering quality score is essential if you want to pay less per click and outrank competitors.
In this article youâll learn the 80/20 of what you need to know about quality score.Â
Letâs dive into it!Â
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Quality Score SimplifiedÂ
- How is Quality Score Calculated?
- How to audit your Quality Score?
- How to improve your Quality Score?
- Quality Score FAQ
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Quality Score SimplifiedÂ
Back in 2005, Google released Quality Score.Â
This is a number from 1-10 that Google created to determine how relevant your ads are to what people are searching for (1 being the lowest relevance, and 10 being the highest).Â

Google wantâs people who search to find what they are looking for.
This way they come back to Google and search again in the future.
Quality Score is how they gamified the system to achieve this objective.Â
Itâs the perfect trinity between advertiser, searcher, and Google:Â
- Advertisers are rewarded with lower costs when having higher quality scores
- People searching for answers on Google will now find more relevant informationÂ
- Because people find relevant information they use Google again in the futureÂ
Before Quality Score was introduced Google was filled with tons of irrelevant ads leading to a poor experience for searchers and ultimately less people using Google in the future.Â
(In my opinion) Quality Score was one of the most important features released that transformed Google into the most dominant search engine in the world.Â
The secret to improving Quality Score is relevance.
How is Quality Score Calculated?
Ad relevance, landing page experience, and expected CTR are the three variables that go into calculating your Quality Score. Depending on how relevant each is to your keywords youâll have a final score between 1-10 (1 being the lowest relevance, and 10 being the highest).Â
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Ad Relevance
A metric that determines how relevant your keywords are to your ad copy.Â
Above average signifies great relevance, below average signifies room for improvement, below average signifies poor keyword and ad copy relevance.Â
Ad relevance is 100% in your control and below average ad relevance is usually the result of poor ad group structure resulting from too many keywords and/or few variations of ad copy.Â

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Landing Page Experience
A metric that determines how relevant your keywords, ads, and post click experience matches the search intent of the user.Â
Itâs not just about having your keywords on the page, it also takes into consideration page load speeds, page structure (ex: H1, H2s, H3s), and mobile optimization.Â
Above average signifies a great landing page experience, average signifies room for improvement, and below average signifies poor post click experience.Â

Expected CTR
A metric that determines the likelihood of someone clicking on your ads once seen in the Google search results.Â
In my experience auditing Google Ads accounts this is the #1 most common variable that drags down quality score for most accounts since itâs the least in your control.Â
This is Googleâs perception based on historical and predicted performance on how well you believe your ad will be engaged with.Â
Above average signifies a highly engaging ad, average signifies room for improvement, and below average signifies poor ad engagement.Â
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How to audit your Quality Score?
Once you understand the basics of quality score that it is a factor of relevance and three components that determine whether youâre a 1-10 the next logical question becomes:
Whatâs impacting my quality score performance?
Hereâs how to run a Google Ads quality score to find whatâs impacting your performance.Â
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Step 1 - Download a keyword reportÂ
Within your Google Ads manager navigate to the keywords section within your account:
Campaigns > Keywords (press G + K for a keyboard shortcut)
Modify your keyword columns to include:
- Quality Score
- Ad Relevance
- Landing Page Experience
- Expected CTR
Once completed download your keywords into a CSV.

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Step 2 - Summarize your keywords into a pivot table
Pivot tables are great for summarizing large amounts of data.Â
Within Excel navigate to Insert > PivotTable to summarize your keyword report.Â
Once complete format your table as follows:
- Rows = Quality Score
- Values = Count of Keywords
- Filter = Quality score 1-10 (exclude â)Â

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Step 3 - Drill down to understand Quality Score performance
With your table setup now you can easily see overall quality score performance and drill down into specific elements such as ad relevance, landing page experience, and expected CTR.Â
Switch your rows to drill down into each element of quality score to diagnose performance:Â
- Ad Relevance; rows = Ad Relevance, values = count of keywords
- Landing Page Experience; rows = Landing Page Experience, values = count of keywords
- Expected CTR; rows = Expected CTR, values = count of keywords

How to improve your Quality Score?
After completing your Google Ads Quality Score audit it should be pretty clear which factor of QS is hurting your performance? (ex: ad relevance, landing page experience, expected CTR).
Hereâs some recommendations on how to improve each QS factor:Â
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Improving Ad Relevance
Below average ad relevance is a symptom of poor ad group structure.Â
If you have below average ad relevance, fear not! Because this is 100% in your control.
Hereâs some tips to improve your ad relevance:Â
- Add more headline variations to your responsive search ads to include the keywords within your ad groups.Â
- Keep your ad groups tightly grouped with thematic keywords, for the keywords that canât fit the theme consider putting it into its own group with relevant copy. Â
- Consolidate your active keywords and remove below average ad relevance variations that are not receiving any worthwhile impressions or clicks.Â
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Improving Landing Page ExperienceÂ
Below average landing page experience is a symptom of poor post click experience.Â
If youâve been neglecting your landing pages this is where itâs going to bite you.Â
Hereâs some tips to improve landing page experience:Â
- Include your primary keyword in your headline 1 to match search intent and your ad copy.Â
- Run your landing page through PageSpeed Insights to find how you can improve the mobile and desktop experience.Â
- Follow on page SEO best practices and have proper headline, and content formatting. Remember Google will crawl your landing pages so make sure itâs technically sound.Â
- Install a session recording tool to see how users behave on your landing page, the insights here are invaluable at understanding gaps.Â
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Improving Expected CTRÂ
This is Googleâs perception on how likely your ads will be clicked.Â
Unfortunately this aspect of Quality Score is the least in your control but that doesnât mean there isnât anything you can do to improve it.Â
Hereâs some tips to improve your expected clickthrough rate:Â
- Use as many ad extensions as possible (ex: sitelink, image, structured snippet, etc). Ad extensions provide more info to the searcher and make your ads larger.Â
- Test new RSA ad copy on a monthly basis to consistently try and improve your ad clickthrough rate performance on an ongoing basis.Â
- Monitor your account clickthrough rate trends month over month to combat negative trends. You can set up an automated rule within Google Ads to be notified automatically via email.Â
- Audit your search terms report and build your negative keyword lists. Block irrelevant impressions of your ads so that you can actually drive clicks.Â
- Experiment with dynamic keyword insertion to see if it positively affects your ad CTR.
Quality Score FAQ
How long does it take to improve your quality score?Â
Technically every time your keyword enters an auction quality score is recalculated to determine placement of your ad in relation to your competitors.Â
However in my experience it usually takes a month to see significant changes in your overall score.Â
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Should you worry about low quality scores?Â
Yes, low quality scores should cause concerns but it shouldnât be your initial priority. The first goal should be to drive relevant traffic and convert users.Â
If youâre not currently accomplishing this then stressing about quality score is pointless as itâs really only a factor of reducing your costs and improving visibility.Â
If youâre not already converting the visibility you do have, getting more of it wonât help.Â
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What is a good quality score?Â
A good quality score will fluctuate depending on your keyword strategy but overall Iâd recommend having 70% of enabled keywords in your account with a score > 7.Â
Just know this is highly circumstantial and if youâre running a competitive keyword strategy you will have lower quality scores by default given the difficulty of including your competitors in your ads.Â
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- The Googleverse: The Game You're Playing & How To Win
- Measurement: How to Make Sure You're Profitable
- Targeting: How to Show Up For the Right Searcher
- Planning: Putting It All Together
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- Visibility: How To Find the Hole Sucking Profits
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How To Use The Google Ads Editor In 2025: Bulk Upload Campaigns, Ads & Keywords
Thereâs nothing worse than making bulk changes natively in Google Ads.Â
If youâre ready to save hours bulk uploading campaigns, ads, and keywords.Â
Mastering the Google Ads Editor is essential.Â
Letâs cover everything you need to know đ
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- What is the Google Ads Editor?
- How to get started with the Google Ads Editor?
- How to bulk upload campaigns, keywords, and ads with the Google Ads Editor
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60-second crash course on the Google Ads Editor
What is the Google Ads Editor?
Itâs a free tool that you can install to update your campaigns offline including altering campaign settings, adjusting keyword bids, and creating new campaigns, ads, and ad groups.Â
Any serious Google advertiser uses the editor to save hours performing tedious tasks.Â
Make sure you download the latest version of the editor to follow along in this article.Â
How to get started with the Google Ads Editor?
After installation add your Google Ads account within the Account Manager and download all campaigns so you have the most recent version of your account.Â

The Google Ads Editor follows the same account structure:
Account > Campaign > Ad Group > Keyword > Ads

Highly recommend using the Hide Empty Types filter to reduce irrelevant options visible.Â
How to bulk upload campaigns, keywords, and ads with the Google Ads Editor
The easiest way to bulk upload campaigns into the editor is using a google sheet template.Â
This template should have the following fields fields available (at minimum):Â
- CampaignÂ
- Ad Group
- Keyword
Get a copy the example template below here <<

Once you have your template copy youâre ready to get started.Â
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Step 1: configure your campaign import template
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Fill in your import template with all the relevant campaign names, ad group, keywords, and ads.Â
Do not modify the column headers as these are meant to match the editors default fields.Â
Feel free to fill in whichever fields you find most relevant.Â
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Step 2: Upload your campaign import template
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Once youâve completed setting up your campaign import template with all your relevant details itâs time to import your campaigns into the editor.Â
Navigate to Account > Import > Paste Text to begin the import process:

Once complete copy all of the column headers and rows you filled in in your import template and paste them into the import from text window:

Donât worry about the blank âNot importingâ columns this is due to the formatting of the import template I provided, instead review the fields that are filled in the column headers.Â
Make sure everything is looking accurate according to what you want to import.Â
Once complete click Process to import the campaigns, keywords, and ads.Â
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Step 3: Configure your campaign settings and publish
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After reviewing your changes make sure to select Keep in order to retain them.Â
Now you should have all of your campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads that you filled into your import template visible within the Google Ads Editor.Â
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Highlight each of your new campaigns at the sametime to apply the same campaign settings across of all them at once đ

Review all available campaign settings and uncheck the Display Network for search.
If you donât want your campaigns to spend when published, change the status to Paused.
Once your campaigns are ready to be published into your live Google Ads account.
Select Post > Post Changes > Selected CampaignsÂ
Thatâs it! đyouâve just saved hours and created campaigns in bulk.
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From Clicks to Conversions: Master Google Ads for B2B đĽ
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Here's what you'll learn in each course:
âď¸ B2B Google Ads 101 - How to Launch Dangerously Effective Campaigns for Beginners
- The Googleverse: The Game You're Playing & How To Win
- Measurement: How to Make Sure You're Profitable
- Targeting: How to Show Up For the Right Searcher
- Planning: Putting It All Together
đŻ Google Ads 102 - How to Clicks Into Profit
- Visibility: How To Find the Hole Sucking Profits
- Workflows: How to Optimize On a Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly Basis
- Experimentation: How to Test & Automate Profitability
- Troubleshooting: How To Solve Inevitable Problems
đ Google Ads 103 - How to Scale Google Ads For Advanced Advertisers
- Methodology: How to Vertically Scale Google Ads From A-Z
- Campaigns: Scaling Horizontally Through Campaign Themes
- Channels: Scaling Outside of Paid Search
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How can I ensure data accuracy when performing bulk uploads in Google Ads Editor?
Before uploading, validate your data by checking for formatting errors, duplicate entries, and alignment with Google Ads policies. Utilize the âCheck Changesâ feature in Google Ads Editor to identify and resolve any issues prior to posting.
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What are the best practices for structuring CSV files for bulk uploads in Google Ads Editor?
Ensure your CSV files have clear headers corresponding to the fields in Google Ads. Maintain consistent formatting, use UTF-8 encoding, and include all required columns to prevent upload errors.
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How can I manage and track changes made through Google Ads Editor?
Regularly download the latest account data to keep your offline version updated. After making changes, use the âPost Changesâ feature to upload them. Keep detailed records of modifications for future reference and accountability.
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What are common pitfalls to avoid when using Google Ads Editor for bulk changes?
Avoid making extensive changes without intermediate uploads, as this can complicate troubleshooting. Ensure all changes comply with Google Ads policies to prevent disapprovals. Regularly synchronize your offline and online accounts to maintain consistency.
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How can I leverage Google Ads Editor to optimize campaign performance?
Utilize bulk editing features to efficiently adjust bids, update ad copy, and refine targeting across multiple campaigns. Regularly analyze performance data to inform strategic adjustments, enhancing overall campaign effectiveness.
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