Automating Maintenance Tasks with AdWords Scripting Part 2

Let's continue with automating the maintenance tasks found in AdWords for Dummies with AdWords scripting. Let's continue with the maintenance that is run on the 15th of the month.

Reward keywords that are bringing in cheap traffic.

Similar to the previous post, you will need to have set up conversion tracking for all of this to work.  We can actually use a variation of the previous script to accomplish this.  Really we are doing the same thing just increasing bids instead of decreasing them.

//-----------------------------------
// Increase Bids Cheap Conversion Keywords
// Created By: Russ Savage
// FreeAdWordsScripts.com
//-----------------------------------
function main() {
  //For keywords with less than $5 CPC, let's pump those bids up by 35%
  var AMAZING_COST_PER_CONV = 5;
  var AMAZING_BID_INCREASE_AMOUNT = .35;
  
  //For keywords with between $5 and $8 CPCs, we will only increase the bids by 20%
  var GREAT_COST_PER_CONV = 8;
  var GREAT_BID_INCREASE_AMOUNT = .20;
  
  var kw_iter = AdWordsApp.keywords()
    .withCondition("Status = ENABLED")
    .get();
  
  while(kw_iter.hasNext()) {
    var kw = kw_iter.next();
    var kw_stats = kw.getStatsFor("LAST_30_DAYS");
    var cost = kw_stats.getCost();
    var conversions = kw_stats.getConversions();
    if(conversions > 0) {
      var cost_per_conversion = (cost/(conversions*1.0));
      
      if(cost_per_conversion <= AMAZING_COST_PER_CONV) {
        kw.setMaxCpc(kw.getMaxCpc() * (1+AMAZING_BID_INCREASE_AMOUNT)); 
      }
      else if(cost_per_conversion <= GREAT_COST_PER_CONV) {
        kw.setMaxCpc(kw.getMaxCpc() * (1+GREAT_BID_INCREASE_AMOUNT));
      }
    }else{
      //no conversions on this keyword
      //we will deal with that later
      continue;
    }
  }
}

Stay tuned for the next and final installment where we de-clutter our accounts by deleting the keywords with no conversions.

Thanks,
Russ