New companies enter the PPC marketplace daily. We see it first-hand as we bring on new clients who require their accounts to be built from scratch, or with our current clients as they see increased competition in their vertical. Whether it’s your first time diving in to paid search marketing or you’re opening up a test budget for a new segment – the following tips will help you … [Read more...] about How to Create a PPC Budget
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9 Tips for Improving Cost-Per-Lead
When it comes to PPC account management, I feel like most techniques are geared towards growth and forward progress…and for good reason! I mean, who would prefer to only get the yellow part of the cotton candy and miss out on the blue and pink?! If you can have all three – what would that take? If you can find more conversions for your account – what would THAT take? However, … [Read more...] about 9 Tips for Improving Cost-Per-Lead
3 Essential Tips for Spying on PPC Competition
Competitive research should be part of all marketing programs and is especially important in the ever-changing and highly competitive world of PPC, but how do you get started? Below we will discuss how to create a plan, what tools are available and how often to perform PPC competitive research. You all know this person “Let’s just see what the competition is doing and copy … [Read more...] about 3 Essential Tips for Spying on PPC Competition
Refresh Your Ad Testing With 4 New Analyses
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
Google’s Auction Insights Just Got Even More Awesome
Auction insights, Google’s tool for comparing your performance with other advertisers, is amazing. We’ve written about it in these parts before and we’ve even spoken about it at Hero Conf (as part of the Sizing Up the Competition panel). They’re powerful, and it’s sort of crazy that Google is even willing to share that information with all of us. It makes sense, as being … [Read more...] about Google’s Auction Insights Just Got Even More Awesome
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
4 Keyword Research Tips To Grow Your Account
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. Account expansion can be a tricky business. That's why this week, we're all about teaching you some of the ways you … [Read more...] about 4 Keyword Research Tips To Grow Your Account
Seven Things We Learned in March That You Should Learn Too
Our accounts got better during March (or at least we all got better at understanding them). In addition to the glories of spring having sprung (see details below), the staff of PPC Hero reveled in some new tips and techniques this past month and we wanted to pass them along to you. Take Assisted Clicks into Consideration in Your Optimizations Sam Owen The biggest … [Read more...] about Seven Things We Learned in March That You Should Learn Too
Tap into Foreign Markets With International PPC Campaigns
Want to reach further with your marketing? An international PPC campaign can be a key part of getting the word out about your product or service. Overseas consumers are coming online at an incredible rate. According to Internet World Stats, the Middle East and Africa have the fastest growing online populations, while Asia accounts for 44.8 per cent of internet users. A … [Read more...] about Tap into Foreign Markets With International PPC Campaigns
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
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
