Hello fellow PPC Hero followers! Today we have some great news about some new updates in Microsoft adCenter that promise to make our daily account management just a little bit easier. As Bing adCenter moves towards more Google-like qualities in...
News Updates
Google Analytics’ Sumptuous New Look
You may have noticed while getting your analytics on yesterday or today that Google Analytics has gotten a new look. Google’s announcement of the change states that they’ve made changes to pretty much everything, which has been confirmed by outside...
Facebook Slashing Length of Ad Copy
We here at PPC Hero are all about stretching the reach of our industry, and with that in mind, this week’s news update is going to stretch the definition of the word “news.” This week it came to our attention...
New Language Targeting In adCenter
Hello PPC Hero followers! So, working in the PPC industry, we always have to keep in mind the different rules for AdWords vs. adCenter. My colleague Bethany Bey wrote a great article on Google vs. Bing: Targeting Features that highlights...
Google Releases Enhanced Sitelinks
This week Google announced the roll out of enhanced sitelinks. The Gospel of Google has long preached that sitelinks increase click through rate, and this latest announcement comes with the prediction that enhanced sitelinks will provide an even larger improvement...
Microsoft adCenter is Now Compatible with Chrome and Safari for Both PC and Mac
Whether your symbol be a gnawed piece of fruit or four wavy blocks, whether your browser be a compass or a circle that sort of looks like a Bop It Extreme, you can rest easy. You can now log into...
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Google Privacy Policy & PPC
Once in a while, Google makes an appearance in the news and dominates the blogs with half angry and half praiseworthy articles. Last week, Google publicly announced it’s new privacy policy, which will roll out in March, and though some...
Lost Impression Share Metrics Come to adCenter
Yesterday, after months of frothing anticipation on the part of PPC Hero and the Internet at large, Microsoft announced that impression share reporting has been released in adCenter. In the colorful blog post penned by an author that favors the...
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SOPA: Rogue Websites vs. Censorship
The Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA was introduced to the U.S. House on October 26. You’ve probably been following the bill through the news and recent hearings on November 16 and December 15 regarding details to the bill, but...
Google Online Marketing Challenge Registration Opens
I know most of you may not fall into this category, but if you happen to teach at the college level–you should definitely check out Google’s Online Marketing Challenge, the registration for which just opened. It’s open to professors of...
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Google May be Changing Your Ad Rotation For You
Google announced they’re going into all accounts that are using Conversion Optimizer or Enhanced CPC with the “optimize for clicks” ad rotation setting and changing that over to “optimize for conversions”. They’ve stated that they’ve seen an average 5% increase...
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Google AdWords Help Gets a Makeover
Much like Anne Hathaway here–the Google AdWords Help Center just got a fancy new makeover. If you’ve ever had trouble finding the right answers, finding a way to contact Google, or really wanted to be shown how to do something–it’s...
