Improve Your Ad Campaigns!

This past interview series brought in John Gagnon, of Bing Ads, to discuss advanced metrics to look for to understand performance on your next campaign.

Here comes the interview…

There were a few key takeaways from the video & post:

A. It doesn’t matter if it’s Bing Ads or AdWords, John says, the advanced metrics that people don’t pay as much attention to as they should are things like impressions share. When you look at that report it can be kind of scary, but when you break it down and look for things like bid, budget, and rank, you will know how to implement the tactics that will get you more traffic and more volume.

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B. What specific metrics should you be paying attention to within impressions share? John says the great thing about the impressions share report is that it breaks everything down and tells you why you’re missing out.

C. The biggest reason you’re missing out is probably because of a metric called ‘lost to bid’. That means you’re not meeting the minimum threshold for the bid. Try increasing your bid to get put in more auctions.

D. John suggests looking at keyword relevance, which seems crazy but actually has a direct effect on your click-through rate. So work on your ad copy there.

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E. The last metric John thinks is really important is ‘rank’. If you’re losing out to rank it means you have passed bid, you’ve passed landing page relevance, and you have enough budget in place. Everything else is good, so just work on rank and you’ll be showing in no time.

Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/improving-ad-campaigns-advanced-metrics-interview-john-gagnon/115432/