Bid adjustment - Definition
Bid adjustment - Definition
Bid adjustments, also knows as incremental bids, increase or decrease your bid for specifically targeted customers.Note
If you're advertising in connection with any financial, insurance, education, career and employment, and/or housing services, you cannot use individuals' demographics—such as age, gender, location, etc.—for the purpose of personalizing advertising, segmenting, or profiling customers.
What it is
You can use bid adjustments, also known as incremental bids, to increase or decrease your bid for certain target customers. Bid adjustments can be made for certain demographics. You can also target customers who are searching on certain days and/or time of day.
Why it's important
Bid adjustments help you increase your chances of showing your ads to the customers who are most important to you. Targeting these customers can lead to a higher conversion rate and a better overall ROI for your ad campaign.
An example
Let's say you want to improve the odds of showing your ads to customers who are 25-34 years old. Your bid on the keyword "shoes" is $1.00. You add a 20% bid adjustment for the age group 25-34. Now, when a search user of the targeted age searches for "shoes", your bid is $1.20 and you're more likely to have a winning bid that gets your ads displayed.
What else you should know
If you add bid adjustments for multiple criteria, such as both gender and age, you pay for each of the bid adjustments that match a searcher who clicks on your ad. Using multiple criteria can be useful for displaying ads to your most desired customers. However, it's important to understand that multiple criteria can also increase your CPC for those ads.
Please note that if you're using automated bid strategies, we'll utilize bid adjustments as signals to optimize performance.