On May 13, Google Ads announced a new tool in the UI called Performance Planner. The Performance Planner helps advertisers optimize campaigns by suggesting an "ideal plan" by "spreading spend in the most effective way among campaigns in the plan." Performance Planner is easy to use and certainly helpful, but it should be used with caution. What Does Performance Planner … [Read more...] about Guide To Google Ads Performance Planner
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Google Ads Phasing Out Game Content Category
Exclusions, they are a changin. Last week, Google Ads announced an important change for exclusion categories: "Games" content exclusion will be deprecated. This change is in line with Google Ads claim of streamlining content exclusion options they rolled out in 2018. "Streamlining" covers all manner of sins. According to the Google Ads announcement, a consequence of the … [Read more...] about Google Ads Phasing Out Game Content Category
Multi-Brand Strategy for Education: Google Ads
Several of my clients are in the Education vertical with their main goal of driving more leads to their admissions until finally, a user enrolls as a student. While the goal might sound simple, some of my clients make the task a bit harder by have multiple brands targeting the same keywords or target audiences. Below I am going to walk through one situation with my client where … [Read more...] about Multi-Brand Strategy for Education: Google Ads
Time-Savers for Marketers in Google Ads
When you’re spending exorbitant amounts of time in Google ads as a digital marketer, we know you’re always looking for ways to save time and be more efficient with your data. And of course, we’re here to make you the heroes of your organization, so we have tips that can help you save time left and right. In this webinar, Hanapin’s Dan Rocklin and Google’s Stephanie … [Read more...] about Time-Savers for Marketers in Google Ads
60-Minute Masterclass: Audience Targeting Strategies for Google Ads
Ahh, Valentine’s Day. The day of love and relationships. So, how fitting for us to spend that day talking about marketing relationships: the do’s and don’ts of building relationships through audience targeting. Here’s a sneak peek: don’t just talk about yourself, and don’t be a creepy stalker. But in all seriousness, we’re about to hit you with some major tips on using … [Read more...] about 60-Minute Masterclass: Audience Targeting Strategies for Google Ads
We’re Giving the Gift of Scripts – Unwrap Their Potential for Google Ads and More
Scripts are, well…confusing. You might have an idea that they’re awesome and useful and will make your life easier but, where do you start? Let’s turn those overwhelming feelings into excitement, because scripts are cheap, profitable, AND easy! That’s why we have experts here to walk you through the idea behind them and how to implement. In this webinar, Hanapin’s … [Read more...] about We’re Giving the Gift of Scripts – Unwrap Their Potential for Google Ads and More
4 Reasons I Prefer Facebook Ads over Google Ads
For the longest time, I and the PPC industry as a whole, have defaulted and still in a lot of circumstances still default to a Google Paid Search first strategy. Google Ads is still the number 1 platform, and is still required in any digital marketing strategy. It can produce great results, but in some industries that have more obscure keywords and when higher results are … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons I Prefer Facebook Ads over Google Ads
New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
As every digital advertiser should know by now, AdWords has officially rebranded to Google Ads. Whether you are pro-change or anti-change with Google’s advertising services, there is one certainty - You have to change regardless. That in mind, there have been a ton of updates recently with name changes, new offerings, shuffled offerings, the completely new UI, and the list goes … [Read more...] about New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
Is AI the Secret to Google Ads Success?
We all know that Google Ads is like one big boxing match. Everyone is battling it out for conversions across all platforms, trying to keep their heads on straight as they juggle restrictions and challenges across the board. If only there was a better way... AI might be the solution to all of your problems - the bridge between platforms that will make your PPC life … [Read more...] about Is AI the Secret to Google Ads Success?
AdWords is Dead, Long Live Google Ads: Google Simplifies its Marketing Brands
Google announced yesterday (June 27, 2018) that it is rebranding its advertising suite of products, consolidating some services and revising others. The reasoning behind the change, as Google's official announcement of the consolidated networks points out, is multi-fold: ...marketers have more opportunities to reach consumers across channels, screens and formats. Advertising … [Read more...] about AdWords is Dead, Long Live Google Ads: Google Simplifies its Marketing Brands
Google Ads Remarketing for Complex Multi-Brand Businesses
Manager Level Remarketing Intro Before understanding manager level remarketing you must know what a manager account is. This is simple, it is a Google Ads account that holds multiple individual AdWords accounts. A manager account is used by large complex companies with multiple brands. This allows each brand to run separately in an individual account, but then combine data in … [Read more...] about Google Ads Remarketing for Complex Multi-Brand Businesses
The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Quality Score
A comprehensive explainer guide to Google's Quality Score Everyone is familiar with the Quality Score available for individual keywords in your Google Ads account – this is the visible keyword-level Quality Score. What a lot of people fail to recognize, is that there is more at play here than meets the eye. Most of the time, you can’t solve a Quality Score issue with just the … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Quality Score