Mobile Commerce, also referred to as mCommerce, is the most portable and accessible marketing channel today. Perhaps this is because mCommerce literally places brands in the palms of customers’ hands. Never before have consumer goods been so readily available. Therefore, it becomes particularly important to provide a stellar user experience from start to finish. For the third … [Read more...] about 6 PPC Optimization Tips For mCommerce Campaigns in 2012
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You’re Closer to Being Mobile-Traffic-Ready than You Think: PPC Case Studies
Now that you’ve used Kayla Kurtz’ amazing tips to get buy in from your clients on targeting mobile, it’s time for you to actually go out there and do it. Often, people put off targeting mobile devices with their paid search campaigns until mobile-optimized landing pages are ready to go. But, and I mean this in the kindest way possible, sometimes web development takes … [Read more...] about You’re Closer to Being Mobile-Traffic-Ready than You Think: PPC Case Studies
How To Gain Client Buy-In for Mobile PPC
PPC Hero’s mobile-focused June series kicks off today with step one of the process: getting your client on board with opening up to the mobile traffic funnel. If I had to guess, I’d say most practicing account managers know the importance of mobile traffic, but how do you convince your client to make the investment? Most people would have a hard time arguing with direct … [Read more...] about How To Gain Client Buy-In for Mobile PPC
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)
Achieving Efficiency With AdWords Editor
You have kept up with AdWords Best Practices, and your account now has about 30+ ad groups per campaign. Even though you have tried to be creative in your advert creation, the data insists that CTR is higher with bland ad text. Fine. With all these creative versions of ad text running around, you may not have the same ad in each ad group and don’t want to spend your time in … [Read more...] about Achieving Efficiency With AdWords Editor
Google Analytics Test Lab: Ten Analytics Hot Spots
Welcome to the Google Analytics Test Lab! If you are just setting foot in the Analytics Lab for the first time, this is the place to start. To kick off our series this month, I will take you through your lab’s set up with the top ten areas to gather the best info for your experiment. Google Analytics can be a very powerful tool for Internet marketers – use it wisely! Lab … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Test Lab: Ten Analytics Hot Spots
Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
This is the final installment of our April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers series for this month. For the purpose of today’s post, we will discuss a few ways to nurture a new or inherited PPC account. Now that we’ve covered the structuring of new and existing accounts, it’s time to start thinking about nurturing the account itself. We typically refer to this concept as … [Read more...] about Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
Mobile PPC: 30% More Leads at 40% Less Cost. Plus, two Pitfalls
Mobile PPC works. That’s why every time you talk to Google, read your favorite blog, or head to a conference you hear about how if you’re not doing mobile, you’re not really a pay per click marketer. That last part I sort of made up. But if you are engaging in PPC, you know that mobile is the #1 thing being pushed by every agency and every search engine. Why? For one of my … [Read more...] about Mobile PPC: 30% More Leads at 40% Less Cost. Plus, two Pitfalls
Quality Score Optimization Makes Everyone a Loser
Quality Score is meant to be an indicator of the relevancy of your ad to a user’s search query. It is merely an instrument or a gauge that indicates the clickability of your PPC marketing efforts. PPC marketers often look to Quality Score as something to optimize. You insert your keywords in ads and landing pages, use negatives to weed out irrelevant queries, and on and on. … [Read more...] about Quality Score Optimization Makes Everyone a Loser
Mobile Growth and Utilization
Jeff Allen, an Account Manager at Hanapin Marketing, conducted this interview with Josh Aston. Josh is Director of Online Marketing at Progrexion (which is not a client of Hanapin Marketing.) He is leading Progrexion’s efforts in the mobile marketplace. Jeff: At Hanapin, we take a much different approach to Mobile devices than we do for desktop. Specifically, we try to truly … [Read more...] about Mobile Growth and Utilization
10 Changes to make to Your AdWords Search Campaign that will Boost Your CTR
Have the text ads in your AdWords campaigns got to a point where they need a click-through rate (CTR) boost without you making any immediate changes to your CPC bids? You know that increasing your text ads Click Through Rate (CTR) would not only lead to increased traffic, but would ultimately result in improved Quality Scores and a higher Ad Rank. You might also not want to … [Read more...] about 10 Changes to make to Your AdWords Search Campaign that will Boost Your CTR
Interview with Joseph Kerschbaum
Today we would like to share an interview with Joseph Kerschbaum, Vice President of Clix Marketing. Joseph has been working in the SEM industry since 2006, and is one of the industry's foremost PPC experts. Enjoy the video below and learn more about Joseph and his thoughts on PPC, the Display Network, and Landing … [Read more...] about Interview with Joseph Kerschbaum