A great long tail keyword is one of the prized possessions in PPC. If you've found an awesome keyword that no one else is using, you can make a lot profit in running unopposed. But there's a question I've always...
Continue Reading Chasing the Long Tail: How Long Should Your Keywords Be?
Negative keywords are an essential part to any PPC campaign. Combing through Search Query Reports to exclude the irrelevant, poor-performing, and occasionally bizarre query is probably one of the highlights of my week.
I don’t know about you, but I’m still in recovery mode from Hero Conf 2013. It’s taken me roughly a week to collect my thoughts, but I’m finally ready to share some of the highlights I experienced on the front lines down...
There’s a hidden side to the Display Network that we don’t often talk about. Contextual Keywords, Topics, Placements, and Interest Categories are all common Display Network tricks these days. However, you probably aren’t aware of your other option when it comes...
Continue Reading Need Better Display Traffic? Use Site Category Exclusions!
If you still need to make the jump to Enhanced Campaigns, then you’ve got a few surprises in store. Specifically, there are some new wrinkles in the way that we now bid on Display campaigns. You’re already keenly aware of...
Continue Reading What You Need to Know About Enhanced Display Campaigns
For today's lesson, we're going to start at the very beginning: structure. Before you write ads, generate keywords, segment ad groups, or build campaigns, you need to know how you're going to structure your account. What works and what doesn't?
Continue Reading It Might Be Time To Revisit Your Account’s Structure
Since I made the jump to Enhanced Campaigns, Mobile devices are now my highest-spending, highest-traffic device. I didn’t do it out of desire, mind you, but because of necessity. It made sense for several of our accounts to opt in...
Continue Reading Migrating to Enhanced Campaigns: A Two-Week Trip Report
Wrestling with Google Analytics can be a difficult proposition for any seasoned account manager, let alone you poor souls out there that are new to the platform. The data on display is so incredibly robust and the reporting options so...
Continue Reading Customize Your Analytics Dashboard for Instant Insights
There is so much going on in the world of PPC lately that we’re spending an entire week introducing the changes and letting you know how to make the most of them. It goes beyond Google’s new “Enhanced Campaigns” feature...
Continue Reading Google Says “Do Mobile or the Kitten Gets It”
A common request we hear from readers here in the PPC Hero office is “How can I easily match up which queries triggered which keyword?” Luckily for you, Google has been listening. They’ve made some recent improvements to the AdWords Interface...
Continue Reading How to Match Your Queries and Your Keywords
AdWords Scripts are an oft-neglected feature for most of us in PPC. They’re squirreled away in the Bulk Operations interface, they require copious amounts of Javascript know-how to make, and can be incredibly intimidating for the coding novices among us. ...
Continue Reading 3 Easy AdWords Scripts to Analyze Your Account: Part 1
The holidays are often the busiest times of the year for those of us in PPC. Especially those poor, opportunistic, overworked souls with ecommerce accounts. So while you were out maximizing your ROAS, crushing your profit goals, pivoting tables, and...
Continue Reading AdWords Gets Another Face Lift: SQR Keyword Columns and Bulk Editing
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