Squeeze every drop of PPC goodness out of 2012 with these 145 pay per click tips, tricks, and must-do’s! (You can download the entire list at the bottom of this page.) 1. Next year mobile will outpace desktop search queries. Get creating, testing, and optimizing mobile landing pages and campaigns. https://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/mobile-landing-pages/mlpb.html 2. Do … [Read more...] about 145 PPC Must-Do’s for 2012
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5 Questions You Need To Answer About Your PPC Account Using MCF
Multi-channel funnels give PPC managers the opportunity to better understand the role PPC plays in the conversion process. If you haven't started looking into multi-channel reports for your account, it's time to start. Below are 5 questions you need to answer to better understand your pay per click advertising. 1. How much does PPC interact with other marketing channels? Why … [Read more...] about 5 Questions You Need To Answer About Your PPC Account Using MCF
Do You Know the Personality of Your PPC Account?
The other day I was reading an article about how babies have different personalities and different ways to nurture each type of personality. This got me thinking that our PPC accounts can also be grouped into similar personality types, and as PPC managers we have to adjust our strategies accordingly to make them profitable. Want to know your account better? Find out if your … [Read more...] about Do You Know the Personality of Your PPC Account?
4 PPC Mistakes that Kill Your Career
You can’t fear mistakes when you manage a PPC account. They are bound to happen. But there are some mistakes where how you approach accounts can cost you a promotion, a raise, or even your job. Here are 4 mistakes that you must avoid if you make your living managing a PPC account. 1. Looking at Your Accounts in 2D 3D isn’t just for James Cameron movies. When you manage your … [Read more...] about 4 PPC Mistakes that Kill Your Career
Guide to Google’s Multi-Channel Funnels for PPC Managers
As PPC managers, we all know that to get a clear understanding of PPC performance you can’t just look at AdWords alone, but the discrepancies between AdWords and Analytics data due to click attribution can be frustrating. With the release of Multi-Channel Funnels, Google has helped to resolve this issue by showing how different marketing channels work together to create … [Read more...] about Guide to Google’s Multi-Channel Funnels for PPC Managers
5 Tips for Transitioning an Established PPC Account
Ideally, you’ll be working with a client for several years, but since we live in an un-ideal world, sometimes clients shop around with different agencies, freelancers or in-house PPC managers before they find one that sticks. It’s also not unheard of to have to change around support on an account internally. The issue that this causes is a brand new team trying to tackle an … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for Transitioning an Established PPC Account
Did You Know: Some Google Display Network Sites Don’t Track Conversions
As my client team was putting together monthly reports to send out, one of my team members noticed a pretty big disparity between the Display Network CPL showing in the Google interface and the CPL that was being calculated in Excel. It was a difference of $2.33. I reached out to a Google rep about this disparity, and received the following response: there are some sites on the … [Read more...] about Did You Know: Some Google Display Network Sites Don’t Track Conversions
Letter from the CEO – “Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.”
"I wouldn't say I've been *missing* it, Bob." You may have noticed that I didn't post a 'Letter from the CEO' in October. My days at Hanapin have been extraordinarily busy lately with planning some big projects. Among them, we've officially accounced Hero Conf, and seven new team members started too! I'm back in the saddle though, and I'm lucky to have a team that kept … [Read more...] about Letter from the CEO – “Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.”
Our Greatest Hits for October 2011
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from October. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy! October was a month of great “how to” and resource posts from Hanapin Marketing! Abby comes in first place with a post from the … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for October 2011
PPC Toolkit: Resources for Improving Your PPC Accounts
We here at PPC Hero love giving you, our readers, lots of resources to help you manage your accounts even better than you already do! And of course, we always appreciate your comments that help us become better managers as well! We already have links to some of our most valuable blog spots – blog series, ppc guides, and some of our most popular posts – but we wanted to provide … [Read more...] about PPC Toolkit: Resources for Improving Your PPC Accounts
Newest Developments for the Google Display Network
This is the third post in PPC Hero’s series on How to Succeed on the Display Network. This post focuses on some of the newest developments Google has made and how they apply to making the Display Network work better for advertisers. Yesterday, Bethany wrote on the best practices for the Google Display Network and last week, Sarah and I had the opportunity to head up to Chicago … [Read more...] about Newest Developments for the Google Display Network
PPC News Roundup for January 28, 2011
Google Adwords introduced negative keywords lists as an improvement over the previous platform. Negative keywords help control campaign spends and filter out undesirable traffic that results in low conversion rates. David Iwanow explains the benefits of these lists in his post on Search Engine Journal this week. David explains that agencies and consultants can now develop … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 28, 2011
