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Google Tweaks Enhanced Campaigns for the Better: Ad Group Level Bid Modifiers
The PPC obsessed folks of the world received a bit of a win yesterday when Google announced that they will be releasing ad group level mobile bid adjustments soon. This comes on the heels of the release of enhanced campaigns...
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Need Better Display Traffic? Use Site Category Exclusions!
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...
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What You Need to Know About Enhanced Display Campaigns
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...
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Finalist: How to Take Advantage of Enhanced Campaigns
Editorial note: This guest post is a finalist in our Hero Conf scholarship event. Alex Dao is a Senior Manager of Client Services at DataPop in Los Angeles, California. Ever since Google’s Enhanced campaigns announcement, there has been an excess...
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It Might Be Time To Revisit Your Account’s Structure
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?
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Infographic: How Google Makes Money From Mobile
Our friends at Wordstream have created a new infographic displaying some really awesome (and easy to read) information about the different inroads Google has created into the mobile device world, either directly or indirectly related to PPC. We thought it...
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Three Automated Reports That Will Make You a Better Account Manager
PPC is fun. While there are surely people that disagree with that assertion (namely, anyone to whom I’ve explained what I do for a living), we within the industry know better. There are cool things to talk about all the...
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Migrating to Enhanced Campaigns: A Two-Week Trip Report
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...
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Google’s lead product manager, Paul Feng, to speak at Hero Conf!
We’re very excited to officially announce that Paul Feng will be speaking at Hero Conf 2013! Feng is responsible for all AdWords advertiser tools and interfaces at Google, including AdWords.google.com, AdWords Editor and the AdWords API. As a keynote speaker,...
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Fine-Tuning Bid Modifiers with Enhanced Campaigns
Given the recent changes with Enhanced Campaigns that have rolled out in an optional fashion throughout Google AdWords accounts, I thought a quick tutorial on the basic bid modifier changes and how to apply them might be beneficial. There are...
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Enhanced Campaign Answers: Webinar Recording
We approached this webinar with the idea that Google’s Enhanced Campaigns update to AdWords had a lot of people asking questions, and it didn’t take long for that little hypothesis to prove correct! Watch the recording below to see Jeff...
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