This week, the Hanapin team got together and sat down for our monthly Redbop training session. One of the topics we covered was the psychology aspect of search marketing, including search intent. Our presentation brought up the point of session...
Continue Reading Search Intent: Session Based Broad & Advanced Location Targeting
This is part 4 of our week-long series on starting an AdWords account from scratch. This post will help you activate your shiny new account and track your leads. You are almost to the Emerald City, Dorothy... don't stop now!
Continue Reading The End of The Yellow Brick Road – Getting Your AdWords Account Up & Running
This is the second part in PPC Hero’s week-long series on starting an AdWords account from scratch. This post focuses on creating your account structure and best practices. Give us 5 days and we’ll teach you how to start you...
Continue Reading PPC Campaign Structure Basics & Best Practices
As pay per click managers, we are all way too busy to be monitoring every minute moment in our PPC accounts. So why aren’t you using more automated tools? From Google’s automated rules to reports downloaded through Analytics Intelligence, Google has...
Continue Reading Ticker Tuesday: Stop Wasting Time – Use Automated Tools!
Did you know that sometimes you should exclude automatic placements that have converted? Or that excluding at the URL level can be a waste of time, if not done right? Do you know how to sort the information based on...
Continue Reading The Strategy Behind Display Network Exclusions
Conversion tracking is essential for PPC account management, but setting up Google conversion code in AdWords can be confusing. In this how-to video, we show you how to set up conversion tracking in Google Adwords, and then how to make...
Continue Reading How To Set Up Conversion Tracking In Google AdWords
Many of you have probably already heard Google’s announcement for a new ad targeting feature, announced last Wednesday, which automatically optimizes ads by conversion rate. (Previously the only ad settings were ‘Rotate’, which showed all ads evenly no matter their...
Continue Reading To Optimize or Not To Optimize, Google’s New Ad Setting
This is the second of a 2-part blog post comparing targeting features in AdWords and adCenter. The first post focuses on Language and Location targeting. Part two covers targeting by Device, Time of Day/Day of Week, and Demographics. Last month...
I love how Google Adwords continues to change to provide additional tools and settings to help optimize my accounts. While there are times I get frustrated with the content change (still not happy about the disappearance of all of the...
Continue Reading How-To for Google Display Conversion Optimizer Setting
Before getting into the how-tos, what exactly do I mean by a PPC audit? A PPC audit is nothing more than an in-depth review of account structure, performance, and goals. In the review, a number of questions need to be...
We all know it’s coming. Some of us are excited while some of us wish it weren’t so. It’s certainly the biggest news in PPC marketing since…I dunno…AdWords? It’s tough to finally say it, but Yahoo and Bing are combining...
Note: This post was authored by Amber, a prolific blogger at PPC Hero and one of our long-time PPC managers, who welcomed her gorgeous son Jacob on April 29th! Over the course of the past several years, many old PPC...
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