For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. As you spend more and more time doing the same thing, it’s expected that you’ll … [Read more...] about Refresh Your Ad Testing With 4 New Analyses
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Benchmark Your Display Campaigns with Google’s New Tool
Determining the overall success of a Display campaign can be difficult. While we can tell whether or not it's been a success for us in the limited context of our own accounts, we're often left stumbling in the dark when it comes to our performance versus the competition. Luckily, Google has provided us with a new tool to examine just how we stack up to the competition in the … [Read more...] about Benchmark Your Display Campaigns with Google’s New Tool
How to split your budget between SEO and PPC [Case Study]
Today's post comes from PPC Hero Ally Aleh Barysevich. Aleh is Marketing Director at Link-Assistant.com, the maker of SEO and social media software. The company’s flagship products include SEO PowerSuite and BuzzBundle. You can catch him on his Google+ here. -- How do you decide on splitting the budget between SEO and PPC? It’s not rare that some site owners have fixed … [Read more...] about How to split your budget between SEO and PPC [Case Study]
3 Ways To Grow Your Display Efforts
There’s money to be had on the Internet and we want all of it. In this month’s series, PPC Hero will be talking about ways to grow your account to increase its reach while maximizing profits. We can’t have it all, but we can try and try to get ever more of it. 1.) Display Planner for Contextual Targeting Contextual targeting has come a long way, baby. We now have keyword by … [Read more...] about 3 Ways To Grow Your Display Efforts
The Seven Best PPC Lessons from February 2013
So what it was a short month? Having two fewer calendar days doesn't mean that the staff of PPC Hero didn't come away with life changing lessons and insights. We now present to you the best things that we began implementing in our accounts this month in hopes that it'll make February that much more meaningful for you. Amanda West-Bookwalter This month was all about betas … [Read more...] about The Seven Best PPC Lessons from February 2013
Measuring & Improving Lost Impression Share
With impression share reporting changing a bit this week, there’s no better time than now to revisit the ins and outs of the metric and how it works! Odds are pretty good that your PPC accounts are not reaching their entire potential audience, but how do you know how much you’re missing? More important than that, how do you increase the pool you’re reaching? The key here is … [Read more...] about Measuring & Improving Lost Impression Share
Stop What You’re Doing & Check These 10 Metrics Now!
All right, you don’t have to stop right this minute, but sometime in the next 24 hours. I promise this is going to be to you and your account’s benefit! Whether you’ve been in PPC account management for a few years or a few months, anyone can overlook specific analysis of metrics other than ROI/ROAS/revenue/conversions given the vast array of data that is available. Think of … [Read more...] about Stop What You’re Doing & Check These 10 Metrics Now!
The Importance of Site Speed for PPC
There’s been a lot of talk about site speed in the past year or so and I thought it would be a good time to look into the impact it’s had on some of my accounts. Over the past few weeks I’ve been helping my clients look into their average page load time and see if we can discover any ways to speed things up as part of a general site audit and quality score review. The … [Read more...] about The Importance of Site Speed for PPC
Audit Your Account With Wordstream’s AdWords Grader
You know you should audit your account, right? Whether it's a new account you've just taken over or one you've been managing for years, a comprehensive, holistic analysis can always turn up new insights to help you push your PPC performance to new heights. We've already written about the myriad benefits of a PPC audit (and what not to do). We've held webinars and had Q & … [Read more...] about Audit Your Account With Wordstream’s AdWords Grader
Heroview: How To Handle Keyword Research Late In The Sales Cycle With Eric Couch
Welcome to Heroview everyone, real-time interviews featuring PPC experts from around the industry! This month we had Eric Couch (@ecouch11) on who talked about how to handle keyword research late in the sales cycle. _______________________ PPC Hero: Thanks for joining us today Eric. We appreciate you being with us today! Eric: Thanks for having me! I'm thrilled to be … [Read more...] about Heroview: How To Handle Keyword Research Late In The Sales Cycle With Eric Couch
Christmas in July: Considerations for Holiday Planning
The holidays loom for retail marketers, making July the time to start thinking about paid search campaign planning if you want to ensure your efforts are a success. Yes, it might be painful thinking about Black Friday keywords and holiday themed landing pages when the air conditioner is blasting, but it’s important to catch the holiday wave early. Analyzing your … [Read more...] about Christmas in July: Considerations for Holiday Planning
Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
This is the final installment of our April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers series for this month. For the purpose of today’s post, we will discuss a few ways to nurture a new or inherited PPC account. Now that we’ve covered the structuring of new and existing accounts, it’s time to start thinking about nurturing the account itself. We typically refer to this concept as … [Read more...] about Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
