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How To Duplicate Campaign In Google Ads

How To Duplicate Campaign In Google Ads
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How Do I Duplicate A Campaign In Google Ads? It's very straightforward and simple to do. There are two ways to do this. One is through the actual interface and the other one is through the Google Ads editor which hardly anyone knows about and use it. So, that's a free tool by Google. Which turbocharges your workflow and without an editor, I don't think we'll be able to manage our client accounts and our accounts.

The way we use the workflows and the way we set up our campaign. So, the editor is absolutely critical to the success of our Google Ads account. So, let's go into the interface first of all show you the easy way. I guess both of them are pretty easy to do. So all you do is you go at the campaign level.

You check the box for whichever campaign you want to copy. Then you go to copy and paste. Now, this takes a few seconds. Depends on how fast or slow the Google servers are. And you can either pause it or start at just start and it's I'm just gonna leave it the way it is and paste it. So, if it's a very big campaign, you may find that this takes ages.

Well, when I say ages, it may be 3, 4 minutes or so. And then you can carry on working going forward but what this does is when you are copying quite a big campaign with lots of ad groups, keywords and ads. Then this may take a few minutes. So you might as well go grab a cup of tea or coffee.

And then come back. And as you can see now. this is my test account. It is taking quite a while to upload. And copy-paste. So what we'll do is instead of just hanging around waiting over here. We'll hop on to the editor and you will see how fast it is. In fact, it is lightning fast. So here we are and the Google Ads editor.

This is a free tool by Google Ads and you can download it for free either for a Mac or a PC and get started. So, all I would do over here is going to my campaign copy and I'm going to paste it. And you will see how quick this is. And it's done. So, I've got two campaigns over here.

I'll just rename this and then if it is, exactly the same campaign and with minor adjustments. I can make the adjustments over here and then post it to Google Ads. And that is going to upload to the Google server. That's how quick and easy this is. So, I would highly recommend you try and learn Google Ads editor.

Because this is going to turbocharge your workflow. Let's go back over here and you can see that that one has copied and pasted a new campaign.

So you want to duplicate a campaign in Google Ads? No problem, you’ve come to the right place. It’s a very simple and straightforward process if you follow our steps.

Firstly before you start, there are two ways of duplicating a campaign;

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The first way is through the actual Google Ads Interface, the second is through the Google Ads Editor. 

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The Google Ads Editor is a free tool by Google, in which it turbocharges your workflow. Without the Google Ads Editor, it would be difficult to manage your own accounts and client accounts successfully. 

The Google Ads Interface (Google Ads Web Version)

Google Ads Campaign Tab

Step 1: Find the campaigns tab in the Google Ads Interface.

Select Google Ads Campaign

Step 2: Check the box of which campaign you want to copy.

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Copy Google Ads Campaign

Step 3: Find the Edit tab and click Copy and then Paste. Depending on how fast the Google servers are, will depend on how quick it copies.

Paste Google Ads Campaign

Step 4: If you have a fairly large campaign, it may take 3 to 4 minutes to paste onto the Google interface.

The Google Ads Editor (Free Download on Mac or PC)

Select Google AdWords Campaign

Step 1: Head over to your campaigns and highlight which campaign you want to copy

Copy & Paste Google Ads Campaign

Step 2: Press Ctrl C and then Ctrl V to duplicate the campaign

Rename Google Ads Campaign

Step 3: In the Edit Selected Campaign tab on the right, you can adjust the name of the duplicated campaign to avoid confusion.

Google Ads Post Changes

Step 4: Click Post (top right corner) and your duplicated campaign will be uploaded to the Google Server.

We highly recommend using Google Ads Editor for your ad campaigns, as it will boost your workflow, increase efficiency and be much quicker when working on your campaigns.

Uzair Kharawala

Written by Uzair Kharawala

Partner at SF Digital Studios, a Google Premier Partner agency. Uzair has been helping businesses grow with Google Ads since 2002 and teaches it every week on YouTube.

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