Stop Wasting Money On Outdated PPC Tactics

Stop Wasting Money On Outdated
PPC Tactics
Navah Hopkins - Optmyzr

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I Have A Confession…
This Is Version Three Of This Deck

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The Amount Of Changes Lately Have
Necessitated Pivots

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We Are Going To Look At
Three Core Questions

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Questions
● Are Google’s Recommendations Viable?
● How To Balance Suggestions With What’s
Working For You Now?
● What Does A Healthy Account Structure Look
Like?

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About Me
● 15 years in digital marketing
with experience in SAAS, in-
house, and agency.
● Board member of PSA, Foxwell
Founders, judge for digital
marketing awards, and regular
contributor to SEL, SEJ and
others.
● Pet mom, gamer girl, and metal
fan

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Are Google’s Recommendations
Viable?

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Performance Max Is
Here To Stay.
Google
Recommends
Pairing With
Traditional
Campaigns

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Between Search Themes & PMax Exclusions, It’s No
Longer A Black Box

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Earlier This Year We Tested Removing All But PMax

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It Did Not Go Well
32%
Spend Increase
41%
Fewer
Conversions

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Both PMax and Traditional Need Placement
Exclusions & Audience Feedback
https://support.google.com/google-
ads/contact/pmax_implementation#

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Heed Google’s Recommendation: PMax &
Siloed Campaigns Have A Healthy Relationship

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Traditional Campaigns Are Subject
To:
Match Types
Audiences
Negatives/Exclusions

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I Have Always Given Broad the Benefit Of The
Doubt

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We Wanted To See If Broad Match Has Really Improved
Enough To Justify The Mass Migration

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90 Days
Accounts Needed To Be
Active for at least 90
days to be considered
Both
Entities
Accounts needed to have
both entities (either both
match types or both
bidding strategies)
$10K~
Global ad spends
converted to USD -
Optmyzr customers
usually spend at least
$10k per month

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2637 accounts with spend and conversion
data in Q1 2023
Data shows percentage of analyzed
advertisers who did better on broad or
exact

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What About Volume?

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Broad Match Can Work, But Use Caution!

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If You Use Broad,
You Must Couple It With
Smart Bidding
&
Aggressive Negative Keywords

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Different Markets Search Can
Spike Close Variants 56.21%
average
visible spend

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Value Rules Can Help Mitigate These ROAS
Losses

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Your CPA Is Tied To Primary vs Secondary
Conversion Actions

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Different Markets Will Have Different Margins
Be Sure You’re Only Opting Into The Markets You
Intend

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Value Based Bidding & ROAS Is At The Heart
Of The Algorithm

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Some Are
Hesitant To
Adopt Value
Based Rules
Due To Not
Having An
Exact
Customer
Value

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1334 accounts with spend and
conversion data in Q1 2023

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You Are Hurting Yourself By Not Leveraging
Value Based Bidding

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This Will Be Easier To Do If You
Factor In
Locations & Audiences
Into Your Conversion Settings

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Say Yes To This Google Recommendation:
Max Conversion Value Wins

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Upload Conversion Data To Benefit From
Conversion Based Audiences
& Trust Reporting

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It’s Hard To Let Go Of Control…Which Is Why
Many Resist Google’s Recommendation To
Avoid Pinning Ad Copy
93,055
Responsive
Search Ads

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The Answer Lies In Compromise
93,055
Responsive
Search Ads

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DKI & Customizers Aren’t As Viable Anymore
432,343
ads

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Heed This Recommendation:
Creative Control Can Get In The Way Of Profit

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Balancing Suggestions With What’s Working

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There Are Many Thought Leaders Telling Us
Which Strategies To Follow

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It Can Be Frustrating To Hear Conflicting
Information From Trusted Sources
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/digital-marketing-tells/334737/#close

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If You Want To Test A Strategy Pick A “B”
Level Campaign/Part Of Your Business

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Considerations Campaign A Campaign B Campaign C
Cost Seen as
investment
because of
profitability
Needs to prove
itself
Often seen as
waste or struggles
to spend at all
Priority Highest priority
campaign due to
profit/customer
type
Mid priority Low priority
Risk Tolerance Risk Averse: All
Tests run in other
campaigns first
Risk Tolerant:
Home of Tests
Risk addict:
Anything and
everything is fair
game

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Set Clear Expectations Of What You’re Hoping
To See Out Of The Test

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Any Restructure You Do Will Have A 30-60 Day
Down Time On Performance

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If You Disagree With A Strategy, You’ll Likely
Find Fault Early.
Give Yourself Time To Truly Test

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You May Want To Exclude Some Conversion
Data During The Testing Periods

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What Does A Healthy Account Structure
Look Like?

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Spoiler Alert: There Is No One Size Fits All Ad
Account Structure

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Tenet #1: PMax Should Play Some
Role In The Account

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Build Multiple PMax Campaigns Rather Than
Making One All Encompassing One
Budget Allocation Behaves
The Same As Ad Groups

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Tenet #2: Campaigns Should Only Be
Asked To Support One Strategic
Objective

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Be Careful Around Location and Bidding
Settings For New Campaigns

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Tenet #3: Exclusions Are Just As
Important As Targets

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Tenet #4: Match-Types Matter More
Than We Thought,
But Shouldn’t Be The Strategic Focus
Of The Campaign

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Build Campaigns Around Objectives Or You’ll Get
Hit With Privacy First Data Holes
56.21%
average
visible spend

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Tenet #5: There Is No Perfect
Campaign

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Be Empowered To Use Experiments And
Test Wild & Crazy Ideas

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Navah Hopkins
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