Bid History on Graphs: Data-Driven Decisions in SearchAdsHQ

SearchAdsHQ rolls out a new feature to make it possible for users to track keyword bid history over time.

Changing bids is one of the main ways to scale Apple Search Ads campaigns: it leads to changes in metrics. As a rule, the higher the bid, the more impressions you get but sometimes a bid increase results in a huge amount of impressions & downloads, and sometimes you just watch an increase in spend.

Some publishers work with a certain share, let’s say, 20% of keywords that generate 80% of profits, and change keyword bids rather often. To figure out the causes of changes in Apple Search Ads campaigns performance, they used to dedicate hours of routine manual work with third-party tools (like Google Sheets) to record each change to bids.

To help our clients save time, focus on what matters most and enhance their user experience, we have introduced a feature enabling SearchAdsHQ users to track historical data on bids with the help of graphs.

How you benefit from the Keyword Bid History feature

• Automation: you don’t have to manually record each bid change every time
• Focus on what’s really important: you save hours of time and avoid routine tasks
• All in one place: you don’t need third-party tools anymore
• Clear picture: you get data on all bid changes over a specific period of time
• Data-driven decisions: choose a bid strategy based on the performance of keywords after previous bid changes.

How it works

Just click on the chart icon near a keyword, and you’ll get the view of the CPT bid history for the selected time interval on the separate graph.

Apart from the data on CPT, you can add other metrics to this graph, like CPA, TTR, Download rate, Spend and more.

In simple terms, you may track what impact bid changes had on important metrics, like CPA or ROAS.

Tracking keyword bid history allows you to adjust your bid strategy, increase the number of impressions and get more downloads.

This update is also a part of our efforts aimed at enhancing your Apple Search Ads experience through optimization of graphs in SearchAdsHQ.

We have recently introduced a number of features, so that now you can:

• See up to 8 various metrics on the same graph, which allows you to analyze trends across the whole user acquisition funnel.
• Easily compare various metrics in absolute and relative terms: CR, TTR (%) with revenue, spend (value) and impressions, taps (number).
• Add labels to see not only trends, but also the exact values.