How to create and optimize Google Ads custom segment audiences

Boost your PPC performance by learning how to create and refine custom segments for your Google Ads campaigns.

Google Ads offers several ways to create audiences, with custom segments being the most flexible and powerful option.

However, most custom segments we see are poorly created. Poorly created audience segments are impossible to refine or optimize since you do not know why the ad is being displayed.

Well-crafted audience segments can be optimized similarly to how you optimize search terms.

In this video, you’ll learn:

  • Why you should create small audience segments.
  • How to create audience segments that can be optimized.
  • Why you should create both interest and search segments.
  • The results from an advertiser who went through this optimization process.

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About the Author

Brad Geddes

Brad Geddes is a co-founder of Adalysis, a PPC management platform that audits, monitors, optimizes, and automates campaigns. Adalysis helps marketers to scale their performance, not their workload. A recognized authority in paid search since 1998, Brad has worked with companies that manage tens of thousands of small PPC accounts and others that spend millions on marketing each month, including Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Thomson Reuters, and Salesforce. He has built and led agencies and overseen official Google and Microsoft reseller programs. A member of the SMX programming team, Brad is the author of the widely acclaimed Advanced Google AdWords. One of his trademarks is demystifying SEM. Through conferences and workshops, Brad has helped thousands of marketers drive more successful campaigns.