AdWords Placement Bid Strategies

by Shelley Ellis on September 11, 2009

People often ask me about bidding strategies for placement targeting. I’m working on an interesting placement targeting experiment right now related to bidding and my results are so unusual that I thought I would share them.

  • I copied the same AdGroup containing about a dozen individual placements into seven separate AdGroups.
  • Each AdGroup has a different CPM bid starting at .50 then going up in $1 increments (.50, 1.50, 2.50, etc.)

I just checked my results for today and I have impressions showing in the 3.50, 5.50 and 6.50 AdGroups. Sometimes its on the same placement. Sometimes its on different placements.

What’s missing? I still don’t have URL data. It should be interesting to see if the bids are playing a role in what pages my ads are being shown on.

Take-away from this CPM variable bid test: Bumping up your bid may not give you more impressions because my impressions today were equally distributed between the three different AdGroups with three different bids.

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Drew B September 11, 2009 at 10:38 pm

Thanks for sharing. Keep us posted. This is very interesting.

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