Selecting check boxes faster

[whatson]

Is there a fast way to select multiple check boxes in Adwords to edit the keyword settings.
Like can you some how select all the keywords from one point to another? Or do you really have to manually tick hundreds at a time?

[AdWordsAdvisor2]

whatson,

If you check the checkbox on the grey column heading bar above the keywords, that selects all keywords for that Ad Group.

AWA2

[whatson]

Yeah, I know that, but what if you have a list of 500 and you only want to select the top 250?

[AdWordsAdvisor2]

Ahh, in that case use the Edit Keywords link. You can take the contents of the entry field there, and copy it to a spreadsheet program so you can sort, do find/replaces, etc. As long as you maintain the proper format of:

keyword ** 0.05 ** [.......]

You can then paste the changes straight back into that field. Hopefully, that will be a little faster than clicking 250 boxes, which is the other option within the Ad Group view.

If you are making pretty standard changes across the keywords, you can use one of the advanced search and editing tools within the Tools menu of your account. The AdWords Editor is also an option if you want to download it.

AWA2

[trannack]

I quite agree that this is a big problem in Adwords - as well as overture and MSN I might add. I'm sure there are a lot of physiotherapists out there that are making a killing out of trying to repair damaged shoulders and backs caused by the very repetitive "clicking" that is sometimes required. For myself, I now have the adwords editor and that has saved an awful lot of time and back ache!, however to be able to select multi-boxes within adwords itself would certainly be beneficial - any chance of this as a future development AWA?

[AdWordsAdvisor2]

If you have any good ideas, I can take them to the product team. The real question is how would you do a mass keyword selection that still only selects some specific keywords without lots of clicking? Dragging and covering like you were in a spreadsheet program?

AWA2

[whatson]

you can have another similar check box thing, that allows you to select keywords from this range to this range. That would work.

Adwords just told me I have an unmanagable amount of keywords, and I am having to delete tens of thousands.

The Adwords Editor would have been perfect. Except it leaves out some very important info, clicks and impressions. I have to delete about 30k keywords, I want to delete the ones that are not getting any impressions, but I cant sort that on the software.

This would reduce the time involved in Adwords by about 3 times if this was possible.

[whatson]

One othe way would be just to select like the select all keyword button, only it would select them all on down so far, from the top to some arbitrary point.

Another option would be to include another search feature (under advanced search) to allow me to search keywords based on number of impressions and/or clicks.

There you go, that is four ways that will make everyones life much easier. How many more do you need?

[whatson]

Oh and a way to fill all max CPCs up to a certain amount. e.g. when you fill in all max CPCs, you may only want to spend 5c a click, but it will fill in all of them. If you could allow it to fill in all max CPCs up to 5c, then that would also save a lot of time.

Also when you want to sort out the inactive bids, it should by default put them in order of activation cost.

And a new column under adgroups which tells you how many keywords you have for each adgroup, and how many are inactive.

Please take care of all of this, and then I will be a much happier Adwords user.

[AdWordsAdvisor2]

whatson,

Good suggestions. I think there are ways to most of these functions, but if it's not logical and easy to do, no one will use it. I'll make AWA proud and take these to our next product meeting.

AWA2

[whatson]

Thats sounds good, just let me know when I get my $10,000 Adwords voucher for the effort.