PPC is more than campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and bids. Behind most accounts, there is a person running the operation. A person who can be forgetful, who may have had a bad day, who may have slept less than they should have but nevertheless they love what they do and give it 100%. PPC isn’t about being a super human but being on top of your accounts and tasks, even on those … [Read more...] about 6 Organizational Tips For Today’s PPC Specialist
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3 Ways To Improve Your Bing Ads Reporting Skills
If you are involved with PPC, I guarantee you have created a report at some point. If you haven’t, you have probably been given a report to read or analyze. After all, we let the numbers speak and dictate the direction of account optimizations. You may even be able to create a report in your sleep. That being said, what’s worse than knowing what you want to report on and having … [Read more...] about 3 Ways To Improve Your Bing Ads Reporting Skills
Going It Alone – Should You Become An Independent PPC Operator?
I'm not sure if I've ever run across an article on this topic, but I have run across many people interested in it. Being independent has a draw on everyone. Who doesn't want to live life their way, make their own hours, be limited only by their destiny? (Well, in reality there are far more limitations than destiny, but this is the grass-is-greener mentality we all carry, … [Read more...] about Going It Alone – Should You Become An Independent PPC Operator?
Position Bidding vs. CPC Bidding: A Comparison Of Two Bid Optimization Methods
There are two competing approaches to bid optimization that I’ve found are most commonly used by top PPC analysts. There is the approach that I primarily use, which determines optimal bid levels to reach an ROI/volume goal. I’m going to call this ‘Direct ROI Bidding’. The other approach determines optimal position to reach an ROI/volume goal. Then bids are adjusted to get to … [Read more...] about Position Bidding vs. CPC Bidding: A Comparison Of Two Bid Optimization Methods
Making Good Use Of Those Location Extensions
When the time comes to really push your accounts, it’s helpful to know where to push and what will help connect users to your product or service. This can be especially vital when you have both online retail business as well as brick & mortar locations. Sure you have location extensions enabled (you do, right??) but do you simply bid up all of those locations with bid … [Read more...] about Making Good Use Of Those Location Extensions
4 Reasons Your Mobile E-Comm Is Still Sucking (& How To Fix It)
When it comes to mobile e-commerce, we tend to go for the big flashy topics and metrics. But we don't always spend time actually looking into performance and identifying when it's working and when it's simply not. Today we investigate e-commerce from a mobile perspective and identify just you're doing (or not doing) that's causing your mobile e-comm to, for lack of a better … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons Your Mobile E-Comm Is Still Sucking (& How To Fix It)
New Account Checklist: 5 Things You Should Never Assume
If you inherit an existing account to manage, there can be a tremendous amount of data to sift through, and a lot to learn. It’s easy to get caught up in all the details and miss out on the small, yet important, aspects of the account. When I first began working as an account manager, I was definitely overwhelmed when given a new account. Where was I supposed to begin? Over … [Read more...] about New Account Checklist: 5 Things You Should Never Assume
One More Moving Part To Ad Rank – Don’t Get Left Behind!
This past month we saw the big release of Google’s new approach to your ad position: the Ad Rank Algorithm. This algorithm now looks at an additional factor, expected positive impact of an ad, when determining which ad will show and where. When an auction used to be determined by Quality Score and max. CPC, now if both of those factors are equal, Google will turn to the … [Read more...] about One More Moving Part To Ad Rank – Don’t Get Left Behind!
Case Study: How Spinning Out Mobile Ads Got 19% Higher CTRs
Last week I was fortunate to get to chat with Brad Geddes about all things ad testing during our #thinkPPC webinar. For those of you familiar with Brad's work or who have seen him speak, you'll know he has a tendency to say something incredibly obvious that you somehow had never thought of before. In this case he mentioned a simple approach to dealing with the messy business of … [Read more...] about Case Study: How Spinning Out Mobile Ads Got 19% Higher CTRs
How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
Whenever we make changes in an account here at Hanapin we like to do what we call “Bookending”. Essentially this is creating a rough estimate of the projected impact of our changes on spend, conversions, CPA et al. It’s a fairly simple way of mitigating the potential problems at the end of the month that are common with managing PPC accounts: “How did we get so far over … [Read more...] about How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
New Mind Blowing % Change Advanced Filters in AdWords
If you are anything like this guy and myself, your mind has been totally blown with AdWords latest update to the reporting suite that now allows you to apply advanced filters on KPI metrics to compare performance % change trends over a period of time directly in the AdWords UI. Whether you are an SEM account manager, digital marketing executive or an owner of a company that is … [Read more...] about New Mind Blowing % Change Advanced Filters in AdWords
The One Hour Placement Report
There is an enormous amount of information in a placement report - some may even say an overwhelming amount of information. I’ve known some overzealous individuals who have spent full days on a single placement report, emerging on the other side bleary eyed with an enormous list of sites to exclude and a deep understanding of the weird sites that have opted into the GDN. … [Read more...] about The One Hour Placement Report
