The end of the year is coming up fast and I'm guessing you're probably in the middle of figuring out next year's budget. It's definitely one of your favorite things to do this time of year...right? right??? Yeah, we get it! To help ease the stress of next year's planning and give you some guidance on where you could be spending your digital dollars, I'll lay down some of the … [Read more...] about Where Marketers Are Spending Their Digital Dollars in 2019
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How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals
“How much money should we spend on PPC this year?” “How many sales can we get with X amount of budget?” “We are looking at expanding into ____ platform, how much budget should we allocate?” In the five years I’ve worked at Hanapin, these types of questions from clients are becoming more and more common. Budget recommendations and planning are not so straightforward as they … [Read more...] about How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals
How the Changing Paid Search Landscape Will Impact Marketers
With the rise of AI, voice search, and automation, PPCers everywhere are wondering: how is the paid search landscape changing, and how will it affect me? With the changing times comes the challenge of testing new AI features, discernment about how to utilize new features to optimize your post-click experience, and all while staying compliant with Google’s restrictions. To help … [Read more...] about How the Changing Paid Search Landscape Will Impact Marketers
More Breaking News: Amazon Rebrand + Exact Match Update
If you were stoked about us chatting about the Amazon Advertising rebrand, you won’t even need your coffee on this Friday morning. BECAUSE, as the PPC industry always keeps us on our toes, Google announced yet another high-impact update to exact match keyword targeting just last night. Exact match is now more dependent on the meaning and intent of the query matching the keyword … [Read more...] about More Breaking News: Amazon Rebrand + Exact Match Update
AdWords Global Site Tag Implementation Guide
AdWords introduced their new site-wide tagging back in October 2017. Like Bing’s Universal Event Tracking, the new AdWords site-wide tagging uses one tag on the entire site with additional event snippets to track conversion actions. The global site tag (gtag.js) will also be used for Google Analytics in the future. There will no longer be a need to use separate AdWords and … [Read more...] about AdWords Global Site Tag Implementation Guide
How to Utilize Different Match Types in Paid Search
With Pay Per Click, keywords are the foundation of our industry. By knowing how the different type of keywords work and how to utilize these match types, you will be able to reduce some unwanted clicks and some wasted spend. We are going to list out the available match types and real-life Search Query Report (SQR) example and why you might want to incorporate this type of … [Read more...] about How to Utilize Different Match Types in Paid Search
The Missing Ingredient to Your PPC Strategy: Non-Branded Campaigns
You may have a client, or you may be a client, asking the question, should we spend more on branded or non-branded terms? Like anything in PPC, it depends on the industry, the type of product/service, what your competitors are doing, how your PPC account is currently set up, etc. Having worked with a variety of clients, I have seen a wide range of strategies. Two opposing … [Read more...] about The Missing Ingredient to Your PPC Strategy: Non-Branded Campaigns
Expectations & Marketing Ideas for PPC Clients with Drift
A few weeks ago, I got a disturbing message from Google notifying me that thousands of my client’s ads were down due to “Malicious Content.” As any good Account Manager would, I called Google using my stern, don’t-be-passive-aggressive-but-get-results-voice to uncover the issue and figure out what hoops I had to jump through to get the ads live again. The “Malicious Content” in … [Read more...] about Expectations & Marketing Ideas for PPC Clients with Drift
How We Used Ad Customizers to Decrease Our Client’s Cost-Per-Lead By 34%
It’s no secret that I love ad customizers. They allow you to write dynamic ad copy that changes depending on who is searching. Even more importantly, they stand out from your competition. For example, if we know that a product takes longer to ship to Florida vs. California, we can customize the ads in each location to include the shipping time. Or, if our inventory always … [Read more...] about How We Used Ad Customizers to Decrease Our Client’s Cost-Per-Lead By 34%
AOL: Does it add value to your Bing PPC account?
AOL's partnership with Bing affects your ad performance in Bing, whether you know it or not. I recently checked AOL's performance in a Bing account and found some surprising data that I'd like to share. To say I was surprised at the results is an understatement. My AOL findings make me more confident that Microsoft's more recent advertising move, acquiring LinkedIn, will also … [Read more...] about AOL: Does it add value to your Bing PPC account?
Conventional Ad Testing Is Dead, Long-Live AI Testing
Ad Testing Reviewed Over the past decade, ad testing has, for the most part, been a simple A/B test. Change messaging or URLs and see which ad performs best through a 50/50 split serve. Then after enough statistical significance, see which ad performed best based on the CTR and other KPI metrics like conversions, conversion rate, and so forth. Now, with the continued … [Read more...] about Conventional Ad Testing Is Dead, Long-Live AI Testing
Update Bids and Monitor Changes with AdWords Scripts
AdWords scripts are a great tool for managing bid adjustments. In previous articles, such as Automating Bidding with Google Sheets and AdWords Scripts, we’ve covered different ways to change bids and handle uploads. This article will take those ideas and combine them into your own bidding system! We’ll still keep a high-level approach in this article to keep is accessible or … [Read more...] about Update Bids and Monitor Changes with AdWords Scripts