I’ve always taken a bottom line approach to evaluating keyword performance. I want to know how much was spent on clicks, how many conversions those clicks generated, and if my keywords are profitable and performing to client or in-house goals. I base optimizations on these bottom line metrics and decide whether to pause certain keywords. What I have recently come to … [Read more...] about Understanding Your Keyword Performance Better with Google’s Search Funnel Reports
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4 Google Analytics Reports Every PPC Manager Should Use
It’s important to utilize Google Analytics when running an AdWords campaign. Google Analytics allows you to understand how the traffic your paid search campaign generates behaves when it reaches your website. This is crucial in improving and understanding conversion rates. Google Analytics provides lots of different reports and tools to help you do this. Below I have listed 4 … [Read more...] about 4 Google Analytics Reports Every PPC Manager Should Use
Google Trends: Why You Can’t Ignore The Wave Of Change Anymore
As PPC Heroes, we like to think we’ve got all sorts of magic stuffed up our sleeves. Truth be told, there are plenty of approaches we use that may be less common to the outside world. That’s why this week’s *Series Topic* is just that: Underutilized Reports. This week we’ll go over reports we use in AdWords, Bing, Facebook, and Analytics that we find to be particularly useful … [Read more...] about Google Trends: Why You Can’t Ignore The Wave Of Change Anymore
Google Is Getting Strict With Unique Product Identifiers
Google has made several releases and updates to Google Shopping over the last few weeks. In February, Shopping campaigns were made available to all Product Listing Ads and this last week, AdWords API was opened up for Shopping campaigns as well. With all this new availability for Shopping campaigns, we should also begin to see an increase in quality enforcement from Google, … [Read more...] about Google Is Getting Strict With Unique Product Identifiers
Learn More About The Competition With New Features in Google’s Auction Insights
When it comes to competitor analysis, there is no such thing as too much information. During our monthly training day this month, we had a discussion about competitor analysis and how (most) clients show an interest in what their competitors are doing. One tool that is used to measure performance against competitors is Auction insights reports in AdWords. While this report is … [Read more...] about Learn More About The Competition With New Features in Google’s Auction Insights
How To Pitch YouTube Video Ads As A New PPC Initiative
PPC Hero’s February series will be focused on arming you, the PPC account manager, with all the necessary ammunition to make a strong argument for adding new focus areas in your paid search campaigns to your client. That client can be your direct supervisor or executives if you’re managing in-house, or a client in the traditional sense if you’re working in an agency on several … [Read more...] about How To Pitch YouTube Video Ads As A New PPC Initiative
Google Announces Attribution Modeling in AdWords
Google has just released the Search Funnels Attribution Modeling Tool in AdWords. This tool allows you to identify campaigns, ad groups, or keywords that are assisting conversions or are a part of the conversion process. While this tool has been available in Analytics for quite some time, it's a new feature in AdWords. Where To Find It You can find this by navigating to Tools … [Read more...] about Google Announces Attribution Modeling in AdWords
Are You Wasting Spend on Google Shopping?
Google Shopping is the next generation of PLAs. Offering a more retail centric advertising model, advertisers can easily segment their product feeds by categories and labels. This is all well and good but what do you do when performance is lacking? Do these new campaign types require new tactics or can you treat them like your other AdWords campaigns? The Account The account … [Read more...] about Are You Wasting Spend on Google Shopping?
Grow Leads 17% By Segmenting Search Partners During Bid Changes
Bid changes are a very routine optimization in any account. So routine, in fact, you might have most if not all of it automated. I know in a lot of my accounts I could write out my process for how I perform bid changes to the point that I could replicate that process with automated rules in AdWords or through a bid management system like Acquisio. However, there is something … [Read more...] about Grow Leads 17% By Segmenting Search Partners During Bid Changes
Google Changes Naming Conventions for Conversion Tracking
Changes are coming to conversion tracking in AdWords. Throughout this month, AdWords will begin rolling out updates to the conversion naming convention, as well as the way they are counted. If you are managing a Google account, you may have gotten an email alerting you of the upcoming enhancements. These changes are to help you better track different types of conversions and … [Read more...] about Google Changes Naming Conventions for Conversion Tracking
Google AdWords Is Getting A (Tiny) Makeover
For some, the news that AdWords is getting a redesign might not come as a surprise. Several accounts have been switched over to the new design for weeks or even months. For others, whose accounts have not yet made the switch, you're now in on the secret: Google has officially announced that their gradual redesign is finally going to reach all of Google AdWords. Though the … [Read more...] about Google AdWords Is Getting A (Tiny) Makeover
Getting Started With LinkedIn Ads – What You Need To Know
For January’s series post we are taking a look at our PPC wishlists. What tools do we all wish we had available to make our lives that much easier? Where do our chief frustrations stem from and what band-aid solutions are we using to fix them? LinkedIn Ads can be a tricky beast wrangle due to the ‘self service’ set up of the platform but once you are up and running, it’s … [Read more...] about Getting Started With LinkedIn Ads – What You Need To Know