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Overview: Control Panel

Dashboard

The Dashboard will be the first page you see when you log in to your account. This page allows you to:

  • Get an overview of your general account activity and performance, via key metrics and a new illustrative graph.
  • Receive important notifications related to opportunities, editorial, your campaigns and your billing and payments.
  • View summaries of your top campaigns, ad groups and keywords within a timeframe you specify.

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Campaigns

The Campaigns section gives you access to your campaigns, ad groups, keywords and ads, enabling you to:

  • Manage bids, add new keywords, create new ads and view performance.
  • Modify settings for your campaigns and ad groups.
  • Create, budget and schedule new campaigns.
  • Check the editorial status of your ads.

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Reports

The Reports section is designed to help you examine and improve the performance of your campaigns. In this section, you can:

  • Customize reports by timeframe, level, performance types, metrics and more.
  • Generate summary or detailed performance reports for your campaigns, ad groups and keywords.
  • Generate financial reports such as a Monthly Statement or Billing Transaction Detail.

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Administration

The Administration section contains all of your general account information, and enables you to:

  • Update your basic account information, opt out of international traffic, set your account daily spending limit, and view your billing payment information.
  • Set up tag settings to measure your account’s performance.
  • Enable your tracking URLs to help retrieve more details on your web site traffic.

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