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:
This article was written for Business 2 Community by Connor Brooke.
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