When it comes to evaluating which PPC bid management tool is right for your business, it can be difficult. Most of the tools offer similar features, making it challenging to compare platforms. Even after learning about all the cool features, you still find yourself asking, “Would this task just be easier to manage directly through the interface or editor?” In some cases, yes, … [Read more...] about Decoding The PPC Bid Management Technology Matrix
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Use These Competitor Tools To Improve Results Through Competitor Insights
Competitor insights are a key part of how we can improve performance and spike conversion rates. This happens through using a multitude of tools and data insights to form a summary about a specific set of competitors that are directly influencing change in SERPs or ad performance. In today’s post, we will visit just a few of the top tools we can use to show value to our … [Read more...] about Use These Competitor Tools To Improve Results Through Competitor Insights
AdWords Announces Upcoming Changes To Enhanced CPC Bidding
Beginning in early June, AdWords will be rolling out changes to Enhanced CPC bidding (ECPC). You’ve probably been seeing the below notification when logged into the AdWords interface. Keep reading to find out what changes are being implemented and how they could affect account performance. What’s Changing? Currently, ECPC is an automated bidding strategy that increases … [Read more...] about AdWords Announces Upcoming Changes To Enhanced CPC Bidding
A Guide To AdWords Location Targeting In The United States
AdWords geo targeting or location targeting helps you reach out to your customers in your desired areas. It helps you develop a strategy to target right customers at the right location. Source: Google/Ipsos MediaCT/Purchased, Research: Understanding Consumers' Local Search Behavior, May 2014. Respondents were screened on smartphone usage and purchase behavior. For … [Read more...] about A Guide To AdWords Location Targeting In The United States
Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
Last month, I came to you with 3 ways to use ROAS for lead gen optimization. Today, I want to talk about another way Hanapin Marketing has begun embracing “back-end,” atypical KPIs in our PPC strategies and tactics. This example comes from a dynamic, sometimes complicated vertical that blends both lead gen and e-commerce attributes: Healthcare. The Complexity Of Healthcare … [Read more...] about Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
Capture User Attention On The SERP And Hold It On The Landing Page
It’s all about attention folks. On a Google SERP, we’re trying to pull in a user by using the words they’ve used and are scanning for along with various other tactics. On Facebook, we’re trying to hook our users into an action while they sit in a mindless browsing mentality. The underlying and crucial principle here is attention. If you can’t catch a user’s attention, … [Read more...] about Capture User Attention On The SERP And Hold It On The Landing Page
Stop Wasting Time on PPC Reporting – Use Custom Dashboards Today
As we move into a new month, the joy of end-of-month reporting is still fresh in my mind. Each report is its own animal with varying platforms, date ranges, charts, metrics, you name it. However, the common denominator that I think we can all agree on is that each report takes time. Whether it is daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc., reporting takes time out of other … [Read more...] about Stop Wasting Time on PPC Reporting – Use Custom Dashboards Today
The New World Of PPC Targeting
This post is part of the Hero Conf Los Angeles Speaker Blog Series. Brad Geddes will join 50+ PPC experts sharing their paid search and social expertise at the World’s Largest All-PPC Event, April 18-20 in Los Angeles, CA. Like what you read? Find out more about Hero Conf. For years, the most commonly referred to stat for PPC was that average conversion rates were 2-4%. Of … [Read more...] about The New World Of PPC Targeting
Top Bing Updates of 2016 and How To Get Your Campaigns in Shape for 2017
I think we can all agree that 2016 has left its mark as another year of overwhelming growth in search. It continues to impart our lives with more answers, more intelligence and more value. Let’s go through some of the highlights from Bing Ads as we move forward and build on our knowledge in 2017. New and Significant in 2016 Each year, Bing Ads, like many other platforms, … [Read more...] about Top Bing Updates of 2016 and How To Get Your Campaigns in Shape for 2017
Your PPC Checklist For A New Website Launch
Launching a new site can be both exciting and stressful all at once. There are countless small details that need to be covered such as redirects to simple link checks. Most resources you research may offer great advice for what to do to help your transition for SEO and keep organic rankings, but you may be asking yourself “What about PPC?” While we can’t cover everything that … [Read more...] about Your PPC Checklist For A New Website Launch
My 2017 PPC Platform Wish List
We’ve all been PPC-ing And we’ve all got bids to make We don’t know what this year will bring So we blog and hope it takes! (If you try really hard, those lyrics can be sung to the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. If it doesn’t work the first time, try harder. I’m not Beethoven.) This is my selfish intent for this blog post: I hope the geniuses behind each of the … [Read more...] about My 2017 PPC Platform Wish List
Reflections Of A PPCer At The End Of The World…Errr, 2016
2016 was a great year for PPC. I know that's an odd way of beginning an article about 2016 since let's be honest, 2016 was pretty much a terrible year in many aspects. Perhaps there is some yin-yang action happening behind the scenes connecting PPC to the real world? Whatever it might be, digital marketing in 2016 grew overall in terms of spend, social media advertising … [Read more...] about Reflections Of A PPCer At The End Of The World…Errr, 2016
