If you’re managing pay-per-click campaigns, Google’s AdWords Editor is a really handy (but fundamentally limited) free tool provided by Google to help you with certain PPC tasks. It’s a free, desktop-based application, currently in the 9th version of the tool (check out the changelog here and get the application itself here).
In this post we’ll walk through a series of valuable resources pertaining to AdWords Editor to help you get the most out of the tool, but before we do it’s important to understand what the tool is and what it isn’t.
AdWords Editor is a free resource provided by Google that can help you with several bulk editing tasks within your AdWords campaigns, such as:
- Raising or lowering bids on a number of different keywords
- Copying large sections of your campaigns and then tweaking certain areas (moving a list of keywords, a set of ad text, etc.)
- Changing keyword match types in mass
- Bulk changes of things like URLs where you need to find and replace across multiple areas of your campaign
- Copying entire campaigns to push to adCenter
What it lacks is mainly “intelligence” – the application isn’t doing a lot of automation or making proactive best practice suggestions (for AdWords this happens within AdWords Automated Rules and the AdWords Opportunities Tab). So while AdWords Editor is helping you to manage certain aspects of your campaigns and push data into Google AdWords, it’s not a campaign management platform in the sense that it’s doesn't make active suggestions around things like bids, keywords, campaign structure, ad copy, etc.
Google AdWords Editor Help – How to Use AdWords Editor
Now that you know what AWE is and isn't helpful for, you can learn to use the tool and likely get a lot of value out of it. Google has their usual combination of helpful (but relatively dry) documentation on the tool here, offering tutorials on subjects such as:
- Downloading accounts and statistics
- Navigation
- Search
- Adding, editing, and deleting
- Import and export
- Checking for errors
- Sharing and reviewing changes
- Posting changes
- Installation
- Managing multiple accounts
- AdWords Editor settings
- Upgrading to a new version
- Release notes
Additionally, AdWords offers a handy video on how to use AdWords Editor:
Google AdWords Editor Tips & Tricks
In addition to the standard uses of AdWords Editor for more “vanilla” campaign management tasks, here are a few good resources for specific applications of the AdWords Editor functionality:
- Align Your Bids with Your CPA within 5 Minutes
- 5 Handy New AdWords Editor Features
- 6 Reasons to Love AdWords Editor
- Making Use of Google Keyword Status
About the Author
Tom Demers is co-founder and managing partner at Measured SEM search engine marketing consulting, a boutique search marketing agency offering search engine marketing services ranging from pay-per-click account management to search engine optimization and content marketing and link building services such as guest posting services and blog consulting.
You can learn more about how Measured SEM can help or get in touch with Tom directly via email at tom at measuredsem.com or by following him on Twitter.
This post originated on the WordStream Blog. WordStream provides keyword tools for pay-per click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO) aiding in everything from keyword discovery to keyword grouping and organization.
Source: http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2011/07/11/google-adwords-editor
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