I Love Us I love the PPC community. We are funny, smart, and, for the most part, do our work without much hubris. And one of the greatest things about PPC Hero is this: we are dedicated to making the funny, smart, humble PPC community better. PPCers are very much interested in knowledge-sharing and the old adage “a rising tide lifts all boats”. So in this post, I am going to … [Read more...] about 5 Things to Make You Better at PPC Marketing
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Advancing Your PPC Strategy with Competitive Intelligence
An essential part of a killer marketing strategy is knowing what your competitors are doing and protecting your brand. While you can spend your precious budget on paid tools to help you out, there are a ton of ways you can leverage free tools to still keep an eye on your competition. In this webinar, BrandVudu’s Jamie Smith and Hanapin’s Emma Franks will show you how you can … [Read more...] about Advancing Your PPC Strategy with Competitive Intelligence
How to Analyze Your Competition & Pivot Your PPC Strategy
ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT UNTIL THE PPC HERO SUMMIT!! If you're just hearing about it, The PPC Hero Summit is a free online event offering top-notch PPC training and valuable discussions on trends and updates. So far, we've talked about what the first few sessions will offer, so today we'll talk about the last 2 sessions that will wrap-up the Summit. A Step Ahead: … [Read more...] about How to Analyze Your Competition & Pivot Your PPC Strategy
How To Audit a Low Performing AdWords Account
AdWords accounts are sometimes like children, your job is to take of the account and watch it grow. But also like children, having all of your children healthy at the same time is not always a given. There are going to be times when one of your accounts is underperforming and will need some extra TLC. In this article, I am going to discuss how you keep plugging away when your … [Read more...] about How To Audit a Low Performing AdWords Account
The 2018 PPC Trends That Affect Your Day-to-Day
Prioritizing 2018 PPC Trends PPC becomes more complex every year. As humans, our ability to consume information doesn't grow at the same pace, if at all. This creates an ever-growing gap between the number of potential PPC strategies and our ability to act on them. This gap creates that overwhelming feeling you have every time you see a headline from Google/Bing/Facebook etc. … [Read more...] about The 2018 PPC Trends That Affect Your Day-to-Day
6 Bottom Line Boosting Tips for Paid Search
"It depends". In my 2+ years at Hanapin Marketing, I've come to learn that this is a universal truth across the industry. There is no shared magic number for ROI or CPA. There is no perfect CTR or CVR. And there most certainly isn't a singular strategic approach that can navigate across all industries and account types. That said, I do think there is a handful of search … [Read more...] about 6 Bottom Line Boosting Tips for Paid Search
Stop Using Google’s First Page Estimates to Set Your Bids
Within the Google Interface there’s a super helpful piece of information called the First Page Bid Estimate. This metric tells you, based on both quality score and competition for the exact match of your keyword (even for broad and phrase keywords), an approximation of where you should set your bid to ensure that you win as many auctions as possible to appear on the first page … [Read more...] about Stop Using Google’s First Page Estimates to Set Your Bids
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How to work with Sensitive Data Accounts
What do you do when you are told by the ever-present Google that you can’t use remarketing lists or other audiences in your paid search strategies? You work with out a strategy and suggest that remarketing could help engage users who have been on your site but did not convert the first time around. You get the tag placed, the list is built, and then Google disables your list … [Read more...] about How to work with Sensitive Data Accounts
Competitor RLSA: Stay Top of Mind for Site Visitors
As PPC managers, we are always looking for ideas and ways to beat the competition. One way we do this is through competitor campaigns, where we bid on a competitor brand name to show ads in front of users who were not directly looking for our brand. This can drive visitors to our site over the competitor. These campaigns, most of the time, are used and known for brand awareness … [Read more...] about Competitor RLSA: Stay Top of Mind for Site Visitors
A Guide to Remarketing in the SteelHouse Advertising Suite
As digital marketers, we have a strong understanding of remarketing’s value. Our most successful competitors are taking advantage of remarketing opportunities in AdWords, DoubleClick, AdRoll or Criteo. But what happens when your site’s unique monthly visitor total is too low for Criteo campaigns to be successful? How about when Google or AdRoll policies become a roadblock? … [Read more...] about A Guide to Remarketing in the SteelHouse Advertising Suite
5 Lessons I’ve Learned (the hard way) in CRO
Approaching an anniversary commemorating the time I've spent in the glorious arena of conversion rate optimization under the umbrella of a stellar PPC agency (#8 on AdAge's Best Places to Work list), I wanted to take this small corner of the Interwebs to share a few key lessons with you all. Why? Because I am a doer. I learn by doing. Thus, I tend to make mistakes. It … [Read more...] about 5 Lessons I’ve Learned (the hard way) in CRO
