For a newer article on this topic visit: Deciding Between CPM & CPC Bidding on Facebook Yes. Full stop. Answering that question and then calling it a day doesn’t make for a rewarding blog post, though. I have found reasons that allow you to say CPM bidding wastes your money, and there are also some cool insights I’ve found about two of the biggest categories … [Read more...] about Is CPM Bidding a Waste of Your Money?
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7 Ways To Keep Your PPC Account Structure Manageable
I came across an account a few months ago so large and unwieldy that the thought of optimizing it made my eyes water. What was so wrong with the account structure you ask? Nothing! By my own admission it was perfectly set up. Campaigns were set up along tight thematic lines, each campaign had a separate mobile and desktop version, and these were both doubled up into both a … [Read more...] about 7 Ways To Keep Your PPC Account Structure Manageable
Analyze Your Account in Minutes With Excel
This week, we've been focused on giving you all kinds of tips and tricks with Excel to help you build out your accounts. Kayla showed you how to use Excel to estimate new account performance. Sean showed you how you can use Excel to find the best budgets for your campaigns. Dave showed you some quick tips with Excel filters to quickly structure your keyword … [Read more...] about Analyze Your Account in Minutes With Excel
Deeper Understanding of CPA Bidding: Best Practices, a Case Study and Breaking It Off
As part of our ongoing series on automation and time-saving, we felt that talking about AdWords’ Cost-Per-Acquisition bidding was a must. Aside from the Display Campaign Optimizer, which is a whole post in and of itself that will happen at some point in the future (though sadly not in this series), CPA bidding is the most automated you can get within all of the different … [Read more...] about Deeper Understanding of CPA Bidding: Best Practices, a Case Study and Breaking It Off
9 Step Guide to Increasing PPC Sales by 39.4%
Recently I had the good fortune to be on ta team that produced quite a turn around for an Ecommerce account. In 1 month sales grew by 39.4%. This was during a time when month-over-month sales trend downwards due to seasonality. Below is a brief summary of our to-do list from that month. 1. Check your funnel to see what percent of cart abandons you have. If above 80% … [Read more...] about 9 Step Guide to Increasing PPC Sales by 39.4%
A Three Step Guide To Account Growth
This week, I created the below guide to break account growth down into an easy to digest format. I often see accounts grow to a point of stability and growing beyond that point always seems to be challenging. As an agency, it seems like every time we get together to address growth on a client, we come up with a plan that seems, on the surface, to be unique to that particular … [Read more...] about A Three Step Guide To Account Growth
165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
In early January we wrote 145 tips for 2012. It’s been a whirlwind year in the land of PPC so this is an update to that post with an additional 20 tips. These new PPC tips come from conferences, tests, failures and new Google services and features that have been rolled out of the past 5-6 months. The new tips are at the tope and numbered 146-165 and below them you will find … [Read more...] about 165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
Profit Per Keyword…Beats Cost Per Acquisition Every Time
Over time I’ve seen many different strategies with generating leads at an ideal cost per acquisition (CPA). The direction I see many accounts take is that there will be a “core” group of keywords that perform amazingly, a bunch of keywords that perform at the desired CPA, and a group of keywords that probably drive volume but at higher than desired CPAs. In the end they all … [Read more...] about Profit Per Keyword…Beats Cost Per Acquisition Every Time
PPC Account Goal Setting: Set Yourself Up for Incremental Success
Today brings the second post in our April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers series. In today’s post, I’ll be diving into setting account goals to help your account mitigate torrential downpours. PPC account goal setting can be quite the conundrum for new, or newly acquired, accounts. If you’re starting a new account, you don’t have any historical data to work with, and if you’ve … [Read more...] about PPC Account Goal Setting: Set Yourself Up for Incremental Success
13 Popular PPC Campaign Tactics That Will Ruin You
PPC Campaign tactics are those things account managers do at the campaign level to increase performance. This list is 13 very common tactics PPC managers use to optimize at the campaign level. Sometimes they work, but sometimes they can tank an account and leave you with some explaining to do. 1. Rest on the Laurels of Your Top Pay Per Click (PPC) Campaigns It’s easy to … [Read more...] about 13 Popular PPC Campaign Tactics That Will Ruin You
Hopelessly Devoted to Revenue: A PPC Love Story
February's PPC Hero series has been dedicated to helping you relieve particular pain points in your PPC accounts with a little TLC. To wrap-up the series, I'll tell you a very tragic story of love gone wrong. The story is this: PPC metrics in my ecommerce account are skyrocketing and performance has increased on every data point (CTR, conversion rate, average CPC, etc.), but my … [Read more...] about Hopelessly Devoted to Revenue: A PPC Love Story
Letter from the CEO – “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we're going to see a lot of boxes of chocolate and love quotes. At Hanapin, we decided to get into the spirit of things by showing our paid search accounts even more love throughout this month! As Forrest Gump's momma figured out, you might get a delicious crunchy pecan or a chocolate-covered salted caramel. Here at PPC Hero, … [Read more...] about Letter from the CEO – “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”