AdWords scripts provide many ways to take PPC accounts to the next level with a (reasonably) straightforward method of streamlining repetitive tasks. This frees up time and allows the creation of advanced automations that just wouldn’t be possible to implement manually. To unlock the full potential of automation, you need to build an application based on the AdWords API, but that is much more complex and likely requires the know-how of a specialist developer
If you’re anything like me, one of your least favorite parts of working on AdWords is taking care of all the tedious and repetitive tasks that are part of good account management. While necessary for great results, they’re also are boring tasks we often wish we could hand off to someone else, maybe even leave it for the computer to handle
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After a beta period that started in March, earlier this week, Google rolled out scripts for AdWords MCC accounts to all users. AdWords scripts can be used to automate account maintenance, changes and reporting. The ability to use scripts in MCC (My Client Center) accounts means users can now get..
If you’ve kept count of how many of my posts during the past year have touched on AdWords Scripts (6 out of 16), you’ll know how useful I believe they can be to streamline repetitive tasks in AdWords.
I’m a big fan of all the things you can automate using AdWords Scripts — from calculating account-level Quality Score, to creating ads from a spreadsheet, to optimizing keywords using data from the Search Terms report. When using scripts to manage a single account, it’s well worth… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
The holidays are officially upon us, and if you’re reading this, I must give thanks to you for your time. When I still worked at Google, this was the time of year when new product launches came to a crawl since most advertisers were too busy to deal with change, and only the most persistent…
September 5th marks the first anniversary of AdWords Scripts. I’ve been using them extensively to automate tasks ranging from reporting Quality Score to creating entire AdWords accounts from spreadsheets of products and services. Scripts have come a long way since they were launched, so to…
Automating AdWords as much as possible is every advertiser’s dream, especially when dealing with the massive accounts we see in enterprise-level SEM. This article provides a few examples of how we at Top Tier Marketing have automated some of the more laborious tasks of running AdWords. Hopefully,…
Last week, I presented at HeroConf in Austin and shared some advanced tips for automating AdWords account management with an audience of PPC account managers. They seemed to like what I had to say; so, I’ll share a few of the more advanced scripting tips with you here.