Excel Formulas & Tips to
Supercharge Your
ReportingAnu Adegbola
Founder/CEO | @mindswanppc | @ansicles
About Me
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Agenda
PPC + Excel
Campaign Creation
Reporting
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This was me – the little
girl playing with Dad’s
laptop to create tables &
graphs
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What can a PPC pro
use Excel for?
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Campaign
Creation
Budget
Modelling
Reporting
Competitor
Tracking
Ad
Scheduling
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Campaign
Creation
Reporting
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Campaign Creation
Questions to Ask?
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 What are your high intent
keywords? How many are there?
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 How can you make ad copy as
relevant as possible?
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 What is the overall structure
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Keywords
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 =Concatenate(A1&A2&B2&C2&D2&A1)
– for keywords + match typing
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 =SUBSTITUTE – for BMM’s
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Campaign Creation
Ad Copy
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 =Concatenate()
 =TRIM() – cut out extra spaces
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 =LEN – make sure that you are working
within character limit
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 =Proper – start every word with a
capital
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Reporting
Questions to ask
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 Who is it for?
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 How often is it done?
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 How large is the account?
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Reporting
Pivot Tables
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 Analysing a campaign component
by performance metrics
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 Analysing a metric over time
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 Comparing metrics against each
other for a product type over time
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 For all the above graphs can
be created for them
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Sessions vs. Quantity
Sum of Sessions Sum of Quantity
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 You can change the values from
standalone figure or as values
relative to the column or row
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 And if the field list doesn’t
contain any of the values you
want to pull….create a
formula.
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 Last but not least…format correctly!
 Use the Pivot tables option – that way
you don’t lose your data when you
change a filter
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Reporting
The Formulas
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 SEOTools extension – gives you extra formulas to
use (http://seotoolsforexcel.com/)
Easter Egg 1
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 TEXT
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 SUMIFS
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 SEARCH
 ISNUMBER
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 RegexpFind
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 Index Match
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VS.
Pivot
Tables
FORMULAS
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VS.
• Multiple data source
• Can be easy on memory (if
you lean up your file right)
• Can be clunky to create
new data set
• 1 Data Source
• Takes up a lot of memory
• Easy drag an drop
functionality
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1. Lean up your file
 Save on file size – save all formulas used on a tab; call on it when needed, then copy 
paste + values
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2. Easter Egg 2
 ASAP Utilities (http://www.asap-utilities.com/download-asap-utilities.php
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2. ASAP Utilities
 Change text/date/numbers/any characters etc.
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Excel can be used for several stages
of PPC account management
Pivot table brings several dimensions to
reporting – but can be limiting
Formulas can give you so many
options but extensions can
also save you time
Key
Takeaways.
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THANK YOU!
Anu Adegbola
Founder/CEO | @mindswanppc | @ansicles

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