Wind down seasonal keywords on Google and Bing as demand drops
Uses Keyword Planner history to find keywords whose demand usually falls sharply next month, matches them to Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising performance, and previews pauses, bid cuts and budget reductions for your approval.
When to use it
When your season is ending and you want to stop paying peak prices for keywords as demand falls on Google and Bing.
What you get
You get a per-keyword action plan (pause, lower bid by 20-30% or keep) plus budget cuts, shown as a preview by platform and applied only after you approve.
Does it change anything in my account?
Only with your approval. The assistant first shows a preview of every change and waits for your go-ahead.
Works with
Google Ads, Microsoft Ads
Fill in before sending
[product/service][month][country][language]
My season for [product/service] ends in [month]. My market is [country], language [language]. Plan the wind-down on Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, so I stop paying peak prices into falling demand.
1. Confirm the accounts with list_accounts and list_microsoft_accounts. Take a snapshot of both to get current campaign budgets and bid strategies.
2. Pull the last 30 days of keyword performance:
- Google: the keyword report
- Bing: keyword-level entity performance, plus the campaign, ad group and keyword lists so you have the ids needed for changes
3. Find the geo id for [country] and run Keyword Planner historical metrics on the keywords from both platforms, covering at least the last 24 months. Using the same two months in previous years, flag keywords whose monthly searches usually drop more than 40% from this month to next month.
Keyword Planner has no Bing data, so use the Google volume as a proxy for Bing keywords. Match on the keyword text after lowercasing and trimming match-type symbols. Mark every Bing row as "Google volume proxy" and list Bing keywords with no matching text separately.
4. For each seasonal keyword, give: platform, volume this month versus next (historical average), cost, conversions and cost per conversion.
5. Assign one action to each keyword:
- Pause: zero conversions and a volume drop of more than 40%
- Lower bid by 20-30%: converting, but demand is falling
- Keep: evergreen demand
Keyword bids only apply under manual or enhanced CPC. If a campaign uses an automated strategy, do not propose keyword bid cuts there. Fold that demand drop into the budget recommendation instead.
6. List the campaign budgets that should come down, and by how much, based on the expected volume drop of the keywords that carry their spend. Keep each cut within the budget guardrails, and suggest pausing instead of any cut deeper than 80%.
Show every change as a preview, grouped by platform: keyword pauses and bid changes first, then budgets. Do not apply anything until I confirm, and apply only what I approve.
A one-page brief mapping who advertises in the client's market, where, with what message, and where the client stands today.
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