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A SEA dashboard is an interface tool that consolidates data from multiple sources (e.g., Google Ads, Bing Ads, Amazon Advertising) to track and display key performance indicators (KPIs) (e.g., CTR, CPC, conversions), enabling teams and agencies to monitor search engine advertising performance and create presentations for clients and executives.
SEA dashboards are typically built using flexible tools like Google Looker Studio, Power BI, Google Sheets, or platform-specific solutions to enable high customization and integration of multiple data sources.
An actionable SEA dashboard balances context and specificity based on the audience (executives, managers, and analysts) and their use cases.
Executive dashboards for CMOs, CEOs, and clients show SEA's bottom-line impact. Reviewed weekly, monthly, or quarterly, they include:
Manager dashboards have cross-channel views with drill-downs to see performance by client, brand, region, team member, funnel stage, and campaign. They help align teams, define tactics, and include:
Operational dashboards for analysts and channel managers have granular, customizable KPIs to solve technical issues. Monitored hourly, daily, or weekly, they cover:
Operational SEA dashboards are highly customized, built in flexible tools like Google Sheets or Looker Studio to enable data cleaning, blending, annotations, and integrating multiple sources.
To build a SEA dashboard, connect your data sources, choose a template on Looker Studio or Sheets, build your queries by selecting metrics and dimensions, choose charts to visualize your data, customize the dashboard, design and share via link, PDF or email.
Here’s the breakdown:
Define and connect the data sources to bring to your dashboard. Common sources are Google Ads and Bing Ads for PPC performance, GA4 for web analytics, CRM or E-commerce for sales and conversion data.
To connect your data sources, go to portermetrics.com, choose the data sources to bring to your dashboard.
You can follow these tutorials on connecting your data:
Choose from dozens of SEA dashboard templates in Google Sheets or Looker Studio, designed for use cases like PPC monitoring, budget pacing, funnels, and creative performance.
Learn to copy Looker Studio templates.
While templates are the starting point. Make them specific for your business or agency. Map your specific metrics, especially custom conversions, CRM contact data, GA4 events and all the fields and metrics that you define as "conversions" and "revenue".
Depending on your reporting tool—Google Sheets or Google Looker Studio, pick any of the dozens of templates created by our team and customers to solve your SEA reporting use cases, such as PPC monitoring, budget pacing, funnels, and creative performance.
Once your dashboard template is downloaded, you may 1)modify it or 2) create a blank page to build it from scratch. Whatever the case, setting up a query always follows these steps:
You can follow these tutorials on adding data to your dashboards
To make your SEA dashboards truly white-label you can add logos, colors, fonts, and styling to mirror your brand.
Follow these tutorials to design your SEA dashboards:
Share your SEA dashboards via links, PDF, schedule emails, and control permissions.
SEA dashboards should include a mix of funnel—visibility, engagement, conversion—,efficiency, effectiveness, revenue, and cost metrics and KPIs to fully understand the performance of SEA campaigns towards business goals. They include:
SEA funnel KPIs measure the buying process (from the advertiser perspective), regardless of the channel:
Efficiency KPIs compare your SEA outputs to the cost, including:
Effectiveness KPIs compare the input with the output from one funnel stage to another
Sales and cost KPIs show the bottom-line impact of your SEA performance:
To analyze these SEA KPIs, segment them by: