Last month while at Hero Conf, I had the opportunity to speak on a panel about bidding and budgeting. I learned some really unique Facebook bidding and budgeting strategies, along with gaining a deeper understanding of how automated bidding can improve account performance. What I Talked About I presented a case study about how Acquisio’s automated bid and budget management … [Read more...] about Save Time & Increase Performance Through Bid & Budget Automation
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How Hero Conf Grew My Account by 500% Before I Even Attended
Just imagine if your boss told you that you had the opportunity for an all-expense paid trip to Austin, Texas to attend Hero Conf. All you had to do was pick a single client and have the best month-over-month percentage growth in five different key metrics: average cost-per-click, total clicks, click-through-rate, cost-per-lead, and conversion rate. Which client would you use? … [Read more...] about How Hero Conf Grew My Account by 500% Before I Even Attended
3 Alternative Platforms For Recruitment PPC
The recruitment pay-per-click vertical is a slightly different animal, especially when it comes to job aggregators like Indeed and Simply Hired. While I’ve seen success with traditional AdWords and Bing campaigns for recruitment pay-per-click programs, expanding into job aggregators and social career networking platforms can help increase your qualified candidates and … [Read more...] about 3 Alternative Platforms For Recruitment PPC
How To Find and Easily Exploit PPC Advertising Opportunities In Foreign Languages and Global Markets
If there is one thing Google is good at, it’s making money. This is good news for you and me because Googles primary business is advertising, or helping businesses find and reach customers, so they invest very heavily in figuring out ways to get more people to advertise and existing advertisers to spend more money. They recently announced a whole bunch of new products within … [Read more...] about How To Find and Easily Exploit PPC Advertising Opportunities In Foreign Languages and Global Markets
Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
From time to time, PPC Hero will publish a stellar post from an equally stellar author, and this is one of those times. This post was written by Oli Gardner, landing page expert and co-founder of Unbounce, one of our favorite optimization and testing tools for landing pages and CRO. Follow him at @OliGardner. -- If you care about your conversion rates, you know that every … [Read more...] about Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
Paid Search With Other Marketing Channels: When To Take Credit?
My job is paid search and because of that, it is often easy to believe that paid search works separate from other marketing initiatives. In my perfect paid search centric world, paid search is not affected by other channels good or bad. If something goes amazing, that’s me. If something goes bad in an account, that blame is unfortunately on me too. This keeps things simple: I … [Read more...] about Paid Search With Other Marketing Channels: When To Take Credit?
Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
We love to talk about Conversion Rate at PPC Hero. Our job doesn't stop with acquiring traffic; we have to make sure that traffic ends up doing something of value - otherwise we've wasted our money. That part, however, isn't always easy. Our best intentions can sink for a number of reasons: No time or money for web designers / developers A boss or client who doesn't want to … [Read more...] about Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
How Your Average CPC is Lying to You
"Averages lie." I had a few statistics courses back in college with a professor who was fond of saying that. Seems like he might've gotten that turn of phrase from someone else, now that I think about it. This is problematic for us– as PPC professionals, we work with averages on a daily basis. No average has a larger impact on your bottom line than the average cost you're … [Read more...] about How Your Average CPC is Lying to You
Understand User Engagement with Customized Bounce Rate
If you’ve ever wondered how people are interacting with your site after they click an ad, you’ve probably looked at Bounce Rate in Google Analytics. Google defines Bounce Rate as “the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).” The problem with this definition is that it does not … [Read more...] about Understand User Engagement with Customized Bounce Rate
Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
A good click-through rate is one of the most fundamentally important parts of any paid search account. It's the primary metric Google uses to judge us, determine our quality scores and set our cost-per-click (CPC) in the auction. However, loads of us still make the mistake of treating every click equally. We're taking a lazy approach with our ads and accepting aggregate data … [Read more...] about Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
No CRO? No Problem: WordStream’s Landing Page Grader
There's a universal truth in PPC– if you have a terrible landing page, you're gonna have a bad time. Your ads could be stellar, your keywords laser-focused, and your bids perfectly calibrated against your competition... and none of it will matter if you can't turn your visitors in to customers. So what's the solution? Conversion Rate Optimization. We've written loads of … [Read more...] about No CRO? No Problem: WordStream’s Landing Page Grader
Final Four!! Search Marketing Madness Announces Regional Champions
Buzzzzzzzzz.....Its Final Four time! Regional Champs have been set, thanks to you, and the competition is just a mere two rounds from having a final winner (remember, the final winner gets a free registration to this year's Hero Conf). Before we launch head-on into the rivalries, we'd like to congratulate each of the contenders in Search Marketing Madness' Final Four! PPC … [Read more...] about Final Four!! Search Marketing Madness Announces Regional Champions