Is there any way to estimate your Avg. Pos. in AdWords? AFAICT I cannot see what bid will get me which position and that is really very time consuming. I mean: the Avg. Pos. for a specific keyword might be 23.2 but in order to increase that, there is no real way of knowing which Max CPC to use. Even when you change the Max CPC there is no change: it will still say Avg. Pos. 23.2! So I'm guessing you have to increase the CPC, wait a day or so, then come back and have a look at your Avg. Pos., right? It would be great if Google could provide some kind of info on that...
Yeah that's right, there's no real-time way of viewing improvements. Increasing your quality score by optimising your ad text and landing page can also help improve your average position as well as a higher bid.