Category: 3 – Script Examples

Script: PMax Placement Exclusion Suggestions

What it does:
This script suggests placement exclusions for bad placements where your PMax ads showed.
If new placement exclusions are suggested the placement exclusions are reported via email.
The email contains a link to a Google Doc spreadsheet documenting all the placement exclusions suggestions.

Why you care:
PMax is notorious for showing your ads on placements that are not safe for your brand and/or only deliver fraudulent clicks and leads.

Now go ahead, and install the script (it only takes 5 mins!).
Run the script weekly (I prefer Monday mornings)
And sleep comfortably knowing that all money-wasting and brand-hurting PMax-placements will pop up in your inbox when they appear.

Happy scripting!

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“Is my account spending its budget efficiently?”

It’s a question every Google Ads advertiser should be asking every month if not every week.

Yet…answering this question is hard!

How do you know?

You could look at all the individual search terms and decide if their clicks are worth the money.

With THOUSANDS of search terms in your account, this could easily take days!

But, what if you could quickly calculate the efficiency of your Google Ads account, and summarize it in a single score?

Turns out, YOU CAN!

Just Script It!

Introducing …

GOOGLE ADS SCRIPT: Lin Rodnitzky Ratio

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Are you tired of endlessly sifting through your search term reports?

With Google pushing broad match like a fitness coach demanding “just one more rep”,
and match types becoming more fuzzy than my memory of high school Greek,
we are all forced to monitor our search terms like a hawk, 24/7,
and negate all those completely irrelevant keyword matches that Google throws at us.

Not doing so inevitably brings unnecessary costs and low-quality clicks.

BUT, the amount of time needed to spend on Negative Keywords these days, just to block irrelevant searches is simply ridiculous.

It can easily take HOURS per week!

Before you know it, you’re turning into a full-time bouncer for irrelevant search traffic.

Not my ideal job (especially since I hardly reach 5’8″ / 1.76m);
I needed something that could punch above my own weight to fight all that off-target traffic.

So, how about we automate this monotony marathon of discovering search terms that waste our budget?

That’s exactly what I thought when I created this script:

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I don’t do fancy reporting.

In the end, there are only 4 numbers that really matter:
1. Google Ad Spend
2. Gross Profit (from Google Ad Spend)
3. my Google Ads Management Fee
4. your Net Result ( ‘net result’ = ‘profit’ – ‘ad spend’ – ‘management fee’)

Here’s what that looks like:

And here’s how I automate that via Google Ads Scripts:

Continue reading “Google Ads Monthly Reporting Script – My Very Basic Version”