In our continuing series on KPI Monitoring & Diagnosis, today, we’re going to dig into investigating changes to your conversions. When you see large conversion changes, it can be a great day (when they are trending upwards) or a tough day full of analysis and changes (when they are going down). As a reminder, this […]
We’ve made several updates to the Performance Analyzer to help you easily understand your changes in metrics and data over time. You can now examine any campaign type: Search Display Shopping Video Any other campaign types You can choose to include paused campaigns if you want to compare data to timeframes where some campaigns were […]
In our continuing series on KPI Monitoring & Diagnosis, today we’re going to dig into investigating changes to your cost per click, which is either very easy to examine or complicated as the factors that can affect CPC can be a bit varied depending on the changes you have made, and your competitors have changed. […]
In our continuing series on KPI Monitoring & Diagnosis, today we’re going to dig into examining changes to click through rate (CTR), which is one of the more complicated changes as there are so many factors that might be involved. As a reminder, this data doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s easiest to see this […]
We’ve updated the Google Data Studio template that we use for the Performance Analyzer KPI monitoring series with several new features. If you’re not familiar with this template, it’s the easiest way to tell data driven PPC stories by just glancing at a metric comparison. The New Features Top & Absolute Top Impression Share As […]
In our continuing series on KPI Monitoring & Diagnosis, today we’re going to dig into examining changes to Click Volume. There are several reasons that your clicks change when comparing two time frames. The most common is that your overall impressions changed. If your impressions go up or down, then in most cases, you will […]
In our continuing series on KPI Monitoring & Diagnosis, today we’re going to dig into examining changes to Impression Share Lost due to Rank and Top Impression Share Metrics. These two metrics are highly related as having a high absolute top impression share percentage or a high top impression share percentage is directly related to […]
We’re continuing our series on KPI monitoring & diagnosis by taking an in-depth look into why you lose impression share due to budget. This is often referred to as Lost IS (budget) in the Google Ads interface. From a pure definition standpoint, impression share loss due to budget is essentially when you do not have […]
In our continuing series on KPI Monitoring & Diagnosis, today we’re going to dig into examining changes to impressions and search volume and what leads to these changes. To arrive at these metrics, we’re using some basic math. Impressions are the number of times your ads were displayed by the level you are looking at […]
In our ongoing series about how to analyze data change for the Performance Analyzer (available as a Data Studio template or an Automated Tool for Adalysis subscribers), today we’re going to look at trending. If you want to know what metrics made your account performance go up or down, you need to understand how metrics […]
February 25, 2020 
Brad 
