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Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

By : Kristina Cutura
Book Image

Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

By: Kristina Cutura

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adjusting bids based on the day of the week and time of day


If you find that certain days or times of the day bring more valuable web traffic, you can have AdWords automatically adjust your bids to maximize on these patterns. For example, a coffee shop may want to bid more aggressively during its peak morning hours.

Getting ready

Figure out when you get the most valuable traffic. You can use the Dimensions tab in AdWords to analyze performance by day of the week or by hour.

You can also see performance data in your Ad schedule campaign settings page. Click on Schedule details and choose Day of the week or Hour and day of the week.

How to do it...

To adjust bids based on the day of the week or time of the day, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the Campaigns tab and click on the specific campaign you'd like to edit.

  2. Go to the Settings tab.

  3. Select Ad schedule.

  4. Click on Edit ad schedule.

  5. Click on + Create custom schedule.

  6. Choose the days when you'd like your ads to run. To make different bid adjustments...