Paid Search Agency Guide to Avoiding Brand Keyword Overbids
Brand keywords look safe. They’re tied to your own products, your own name, your own reputation. For a lot of businesses, the instinct is to “own” that search real estate no matter what. I’ve seen teams push bids up aggressively on branded terms, then act surprised when budgets burn faster and margins quietly slide. Overbidding on brand keywords usually happens for one of three reasons: the account structure makes it easy to treat “brand” as a separate universe, reportin