Google Ads Audit Placements Analysis (Part 18 Tutorial 2022)

Google Ads Audit Overview:

We round out this Google Ads Audit tutorial with part 18 and Placements.

The work will begin in the Data Studio report, then be processed and analyzed in Google Sheets/Excel and Google Slides.

This section of the audit can help with executing bid adjustments, exclusions or strategic campaign changes.

1.      Go to Google UI All Campaigns. Then look for Placements and hit Edit and confirm the date range is correct.

Google Ads Audit Placements

2.      Export the data report to Google Sheets.

Google Ads Audit Placements

3.      In Google Sheets, sort the spreadsheet by Cost, high to low.

Google Ads Audit Placements

Remove these headings.

Google Ads Audit Placements

Our display campaigns are showing up on two main sites: Accountancy Knowledge and MarketingTutor.net. Now I want to examine those sites in particular, so I go into both websites and scroll through each one:

Google Ads Audit Placements

4.      I want to do a bid adjustment on these. We can do it from the Google UI.

Google Ads Audit Placements

Go into All Campaigns. Then find Search Campaigns, then Placements. Now click the button that says See Where Your Ads Appeared.

Google Ads Audit Placements

Then head back to All Campaigns.

5.      Now we’ll return to the Google spreadsheet report and add in bid adjustment.

Google Ads Audit Placements

Fill in a few columns. I especially like two videos, one from Big 4 Accounting and Marketing for CPAs and Marketing for Accounting – I’m going to bid up on this.

Google Ads Audit Placements
Google Ads Audit Placements

6.      I copy screenshots of two of the placement examples for the client to review. I also list the YouTube links under the Analysis header.

7.     Then I paste them into the Placement Analysis page.

Google Ads Audit Placements

8.     Now we're going to bulk upload some of these bid adjustments. Highlight and copy the selected data.

Google Ads Audit Placements
Google Ads Audit Placements

9.      Go to the Google UI All Campaigns chart under Placements and highlight the names that have positive data.

Then hit Edit and Change Bid Adjustment. I did 15 percent. Then tap Apply.

Google Ads Audit Placements

For the data set that doesn’t look good, we can do a decrease of 15 percent.

Google Ads Audit Placements

And that’s a rough method of giving the client a Placements report.

This entire Google Ads Audit tutorial series covered the basics of how to keep track of a client's campaign.

It's important to undertake these audits because it's a prime method of understanding a client's account performance. Then changes or improvements can be made in order to optimize and scale the campaign.

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