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Best Practice Google Ads Campaign Structure

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Get Your Structure Right!

I can’t tell you the amount of times I have heard and said that!
To have a successful Google Ads Campaign you must have them structured properly. First make sure you have a Standard Edition NOT a Starter Edition. The Standard Edition gives you much more control and better functionality. And don’t worry, it’s not any harder to navigate and edit.

Each campaign should have its individual:

1. Daily Budget
2. Language Targeting
3. Location Targeting
4. Ad distribution preference
5. Start and end dates

Each Ad Group for each Campaign should have its individual:

1. Set of keywords that are relevant to each other.
2. Relevant Ad’s/Ad creative/Ad Copy for the keywords selected

If you have key words that have high CTR% ideally you should break those high performers into their own adgroup so the entire adgroup has the highest CTR%. Instead of being brought down by the other low performers. And even full campaign if you so choose. DON’T FORGET to use the “Copy or Move Keywords and Ad Text” tool to rearrange things if there is any positive history for the keywords and Ad’s. Or the Ads Editor works well also!

Quality Score (QS) is HUGE factor for every PPC marketer. The better your QS, the higher placement you get, and Cheaper your clicks cost! When I first got my start in PPC I was able to reduce CPC for my employer by 50% after going to an educational session for Campaign Structure optimization. More and more recently I have been seeing changes in the ease of getting Good and Great QS for new campaigns by starting off broad. I have some old (real old) Clients that have 100’s of key words in one adroup with 90% great score and 10% good QS and minimum bid as low as $0.01. These days I have noticed proper structure from the start is even more important to get and keep QS that is good and great from the start. Following this out line [https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/46075?hl=en] is great to get and keep a QS of good and great from the start. However, with some of my Geo targeted clients even with absurdly structured campaigns they still can get some poor and okay QS. Which takes a bit more work with the other variables in the Ads management  Process. I found with these, getting the Click Through Rate up as quickly as posable will get the QS up the quickest. I suggest using the link above as a reference in all new campaign and adgroup creation to keep your Quality Score as high as possible.

 

Should I use Google AdWords Starter Edition or Standard Edition

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This is a very Common question I get asked very often! “Which Should I use, AdWords Starter Edition or Standard Edition?”

My answer is very simply: Google AdWords Standard Edition. 

The Starter Edition may seem to be easier, how ever the loss of settings far out weighs the value of Control. Plus when you really do get more familiar with AdWords and it really starts to make you good money, You will have to switch to Standard Edition and re-learn the set up all over again. Usually with the Starter edition, since it’s not as easy to turn off the stuff that wastes your money i.e. content network, mobile devices, etc. and not as easy to turn on the things that save you money like Time Targeting etc. your campaigns will not be nearly as profitable. Starter edition is a big reason people out there say they have “Lost money on AdWords”