A few weeks ago, Facebook updated how cost per clicks (CPC) are measured for advertisers. In essence, Facebook is excluding engagement clicks (likes, comments, shares) from link clicks and is only charging advertisers for link clicks. Depending on your campaign objective, link clicks may include clicks to websites, call-to-action clicks, clicks to install an app, etc. You can … [Read more...] about 5 Ways To Improve Facebook ROI With Audience Targeting
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Nail Down A Mobile Strategy In 5 Simple Steps
Question: Do you have a solid mobile strategy in place for your PPC efforts? If not, you should carve out some time to think about it and nail down an action plan to capture this ever-growing market in the PPC space. We’ve talked about micro-moments and what that means for advertisers, but we didn’t really talk about the specifics of putting together an overall strategy. … [Read more...] about Nail Down A Mobile Strategy In 5 Simple Steps
Turn Yourself Into A PPC Time Management Machine With These 4 Techniques
About a year ago, I made the shift from in-house PPC to agency. With 10+ years of in-house experience, I knew that agency life was going to be a big change for me, with the biggest change having to manage a roster of different clients. Now I like variety as much as the next person, but sometimes agency life can provide quite a bit of it—especially if you happen to have … [Read more...] about Turn Yourself Into A PPC Time Management Machine With These 4 Techniques
[On Demand Webinar!] 11 Excel Tricks To Improve Your PPC Life
PPC and excel are like peanut butter and jelly or macaroni and cheese, you really can’t have one without the other (or at least its not as good a combination!). By becoming super savvy with excel, you’ll save a lot of precious time doing your PPC tasks and overall, become better at analyzing account performance. In this webinar, we’ll cover a variety of tricks that can have big … [Read more...] about [On Demand Webinar!] 11 Excel Tricks To Improve Your PPC Life
Could Low Cost-Per-Clicks Be Killing Your Conversion Rates?
Recently, I ran into an interesting change in my account. Interesting seems like a strange word to describe a change in performance, but, in this case, interesting was an accurate word. The “Interesting” Change For months, conversion rate had been steady at 8% with some natural variance that is always present in paid search. Then all of sudden conversion rate dropped by 3 … [Read more...] about Could Low Cost-Per-Clicks Be Killing Your Conversion Rates?
Pitch Now to Speak at Hero Conf London!
Hero Conf prides itself on bringing new ideas, creative concepts and exciting voices to the forefront of the PPC community. We love to see the progression of a digital marketing professional from PPC Hero reader, to Hero Conf attendee to Hero Conf speaker. Fresh perspectives often provide unexpected and genuine insight from truly devoted search marketing experts. That’s … [Read more...] about Pitch Now to Speak at Hero Conf London!
Reassess How Your Facebook Campaigns Are Structured
How old are your Facebook campaigns? I have a Facebook account that has just recently turned three years old. Over its first three years, creative has been updated, ad testing concluded, and new ad types added, but the account structure has been left alone. However, a lot has changed in the last year in Facebook. What Has Changed? Ad Sets – Also considered the ad … [Read more...] about Reassess How Your Facebook Campaigns Are Structured
Should You Specialize To Grow Your Agency? And, An Introduction To VINS.
This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts about how to grow your agency. Jeff Allen and I are hosting Agency Growth workshops in Portland and London. Learn all about how we've grown Hanapin from a $2000 investment to an Inc 5000 company and an Indiana Best Places to Work honoree. For more info, read the About page and our FAQ. Make sure to check out the previous … [Read more...] about Should You Specialize To Grow Your Agency? And, An Introduction To VINS.
Is Your Account Leaving Money On the Table From Lost Impression Share?
Two questions that we get asked frequently are: How much more should I spend for our PPC account? How many more conversions can I expect to get from the increase in spend? When asked these questions the first thing I look at is what campaigns are performing well and how much impression share is being lost. However, analyzing impression share can be a bit cumbersome and … [Read more...] about Is Your Account Leaving Money On the Table From Lost Impression Share?
Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
Sometimes, I think there is one single mantra that runs through the mind of every PPCer, “Let’s test that.” Ad testing and conversion rate optimization get a lot of the testing hype, but what about bidding strategies? At intervals, experimenting with bidding strategies gets sprinkled into the testing mix, but not enough. How do we spend money in paid search? The answer is … [Read more...] about Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
7 Areas Where Your PPC Account Is Broken
Sometimes in the weeds of your own PPC account, it’s hard to see what’s really going on. Regularly auditing your account can help prevent you from slowly bleeding money or missing out on opportunities for growth or new features. However, regular audits can be hard to do when you are the only one in your account day in and day out. As a Sr. Digital Specialist I spend about … [Read more...] about 7 Areas Where Your PPC Account Is Broken
Webinar: 11 Excel Tricks To Improve Your PPC Life
More about this Webinar PPC and excel are like peanut butter and jelly or macaroni and cheese, you really can't have one without the other (or at least its not as good a combination!). By becoming super savvy with excel, you'll save a lot of precious time doing your PPC tasks and overall, become better at analyzing account performance. We cover a variety of tricks that can … [Read more...] about Webinar: 11 Excel Tricks To Improve Your PPC Life