Five Easy Ways to Lower Your CPC

Just a short list of techniques to lower your average cpc.  Please comment if you have more.

  1. Separate content and search campaigns.  Content has low CTR. Search has a high CTR. Separating them improves your Quality Score.  Content ads should be bid at nearly half of search.
  2. Separate geo-targeted campaigns.  Foreign campaigns are generally worth less then US campaigns because they have a lower ROAS. Lower foreign campaigns appropriately.
  3. Remove keywords with a low quality score from an AdGroup.  Put them in their own AdGroup.
  4. Remove keywords that do not display an ad when queried.
  5. Group your keywords to be more relevant to your landing page.  More relevancy, higher Quality score, lower cpc.

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