Traffic is the currency of our digital world—the more traffic your website gets, the greater chances you have of making money, building brand connections, and persuading past customers to shop again. However, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut, driving traffic from just a few sources, any of which could dry up and leave you with nothing. For example, while organic traffic … [Read more...] about How to Diversify Your Marketing Traffic Sources and Why You Should
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What The gclid?
Most of us are aware of Google Ads auto-tagging but don't know how it works. What does auto-tagging do and why is it important in your Google Ads account? Auto-tagging is a way for Google Ads to communicate all the details about a user session to Analytics. In turn, we are able to use the information reported in Analytics to measure post-click behavior. Auto-tagging is a … [Read more...] about What The gclid?
The 3 Search Campaign Analyses You Need To Run
Ongoing PPC search campaign analyses are crucial to improve performance and cut wasted spend. Extensive analysis should always be performed upon acquisition of new accounts, but they should also be conducted as part of account maintenance. There is always room to improve as the paid search landscape is always evolving. In this post, we’ll discuss 3 of the top analyses to run … [Read more...] about The 3 Search Campaign Analyses You Need To Run
Beginner’s Guide to Pinterest for Business
Pinterest is a growing advertising platform that can boost any company’s reach and sales, especially for e-commerce brands. This guide will walk you through setting up your Pinterest for Business account, creating Pins, and launching ads. It will also help you start to create a budding Pinterest strategy that will drive conversions and loyalty from your targeted audience. Why … [Read more...] about Beginner’s Guide to Pinterest for Business
Paid and Organic are Indistinguishable
When that reality was, though, was a matter of extreme debate ~ Iliad & Odyssey The idea of Paid Search and SEO being one, has been debated for years. Paid search is pay per click (PPC) traffic that is not free. You have to pay a cost dictated by Amazon, Microsoft Ads, Google, Oath. SEO is free search engine optimized organic traffic, think Yahoo, Google … [Read more...] about Paid and Organic are Indistinguishable
Solve Attribution Woes: Adjust Your Settings & Expectations for a More Comprehensive Marketing Strategy
Very rarely in my PPC life do I bring up the subject of attribution with clients, colleagues, or industry friends without seeing a look of pain cross a face that may have been perfectly congenial a moment ago. Much teeth-sucking and drink sipping ensues when the difficult topic of attribution enters the discussion. We all fear we aren't properly attributing our conversions … [Read more...] about Solve Attribution Woes: Adjust Your Settings & Expectations for a More Comprehensive Marketing Strategy
Facebook Ads Event Tracking Tool
In digital marketing, we all love aspects of our roles which is why we wake up and do this every day, but there are also the less desirable actions we have to perform. For me, as an account manager across a few different platforms, setting up tracking is the bane of my existence and not why I come into work every day. We set up tracking to count leads, track e-commerce revenue, … [Read more...] about Facebook Ads Event Tracking Tool
Lean Six Sigma for Digital Marketing Managers
If you read much about startup culture or business management, you’ve no doubt come across the terms “Lean,” “Six Sigma,” and maybe even “Design Thinking.” These are concepts integral to operations management and concerned with reducing both the amount of variability and the amount of error or waste that takes place within a given process or set of procedures. I recently had … [Read more...] about Lean Six Sigma for Digital Marketing Managers
Facebook Ads for Beginners: 5 Resources
Are you just getting started with Facebook Ads? If so, we've got some handy resources to help you launch your first campaign. All of these resources are free, ungated, and actionable! I've listed them in the order that I'd recommend reading them. The Beginner Guide will help you get started with your first campaign. The next two blogs will guide you through metrics and … [Read more...] about Facebook Ads for Beginners: 5 Resources
Competitor Analysis & CRO with SEMrush
Competitor analyses are an important piece of the conversion rate optimization puzzle. Understanding your competitor’s entire user journey can add a deeper understanding of your own site’s strengths and weaknesses, and just like your own site you should take into account the complete pre-click to post-click user journey. So how do you find your competitor’s ads? Doing a simple … [Read more...] about Competitor Analysis & CRO with SEMrush
Data Studio Showdown: Dashboards vs Reports
You work hard all month to get your clients great paid search results. What’s the best way to help them understand - and appreciate - the performance you’re driving? Whether you need a “hands-off” automated dashboard solution, or a curated, high-impact report, you can build it with Data Studio, Google’s data visualization platform. While Data Studio does not distinguish … [Read more...] about Data Studio Showdown: Dashboards vs Reports
Robust Reporting with Google Sheets Query Function
As you work with spreadsheets you pick up formulas, tricks, and formatting lessons to make reporting easier. I often see users get stuck when it comes to combining these pieces into a complete report. We recently onboarded a client and needed to replicate one of their old reports. Most of the report created manually, updating a row at a time, every day. This is not a … [Read more...] about Robust Reporting with Google Sheets Query Function