Google Ads Script to Receive High CPC Bid Alerts

“You’re spending tons of my money every month, you better be damned proficient at what you do. Failure is not an option!

Sounds familiar?

It’s a quote from a job interview conducted by a VP of Marketing. I was helping him out, recruiting an in-house PPC specialist earlier this year.
Yep. We’ve got a long way to go there. But that’s a different story (next to his style of management, failures are, of course, the only way to make the most out his ad spend).

His words did remind me though, of the importance of not completely f@#king up. Not making the mistakes that make us look like the incompetent idiot in the room.

Yet, that is just what I did. A couple of months ago. I f@#ked up.

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The Best Google Ads Scripts of 2018

Best Google Ads Scripts 2018
Best Google Ads Scripts 2018

With TONs of scripts out there where do you even begin !?! 
Let me spare you the pain of endlessly searching for, installing and testing all these new scripts that came out in 2018. Here’s a list of my favorites.
Oh, and I will share my all-time list of 200+ Google Ads Scripts as well.

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Effortlessly Monitor Close Variants with this Google Ads Script

UPDATES:

2018, Oct 6: Added Close Variant search terms to seperate sheet.

2018, Sep 23: Added Cost metrics, and added column for analyzing the difference in Cost per Conversion between the Exact Match keyword and its Close Variants.

2018, Sep 16: Added Click metrics, and “Alerting Percentage Highlighting” to output.

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Google Ads Exact Match Close Variants

Google’s exact match close variants will expand again: Google is using it’s “AI” to include same meaning variations, and searches with “same intent”.

According to Google, this change will roll out for English keywords through October, with more languages to follow over the next few months.

So, Google is removing yet another level of control for experienced account managers. Exact Match will no longer be…Exact Match. Google provides itself with a lot more runway to match your exact keywords to whatever the heck they deem relevant.

In order to make sure this change does not harm the performance of my clients’ accounts i decided to write script to monitor the impact.

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How to Set Up and Run Google Ads Scripts

You KNOW you HAVE TO get started with Google Ads scripts to take your skills and Adwords performance to the next level.

You just…haven’t…started…yet.

You’re probably feeling like your manager who is looking at your excel sheets. Where do you even begin?!?

And then there is the Google Ads Scripts interface. A bit Intimidating maybe? Confusing, for sure!

Fear no more.

Here’s a short demo on how to actually install and have a script running in Adwords, within 5 minutes!

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How to Make Time to Learn How to Write Google Ads Scripts

There are lots of excuses people make for not progressing in learning a new skill like coding; I’m not smart enough, it’s too hard, I can’t remember the concepts, I have different priorities now, etc. But the ONE EXCUSE I hear the most frequent is…

“Dude, I’m already so busy managing a ton of accounts. I don’t have any time to learn how to write my own Google Ads Scripts!”
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