This is another one that I’ve been guilty of myself: thinking that ads should be in the top 3 ad positions at all times. Thinking the top three positions is the only place you can see good returns is a total myth. One that I plan on bustin'! When you log in and see ad positions in 4s and 5s or lower, you think “ack! I’m buried on the side or on page 2! No one can even see me!” … [Read more...] about PPC Myth Busting! Myth 8: Ads Should Always Be In The Top 3
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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
PPC Myth Busting! Myth 6: Quality Score is All About CTR
Our next myth is about quality score. I think there are a lot of myths about quality score out there because it’s sort of a mysterious algorithm that Google doesn’t readily share with us. The one I hear most often is that click-through rate is what Quality Score is all about, and that’s the only thing you really need to focus on when trying to fix it. This just isn’t true, so … [Read more...] about PPC Myth Busting! Myth 6: Quality Score is All About CTR
Have Close Variants Increased Your Leads by 55 Percent?
In May of this year Google announced new matching behavior for phrase and exact match keywords. It seemed like a boon for search volume at the time, and now that a few months have passed we can further evaluate the effect of this change on your accounts. This is all assuming that they’re turned on for your campaigns to begin with. Accounts were automatically opted into them, … [Read more...] about Have Close Variants Increased Your Leads by 55 Percent?
Maximize Efficiency With Dayparting in Small Accounts
Working in PPC is all about making the most of what you have. Whether it’s maximizing clicks on a budget, meeting (and surpassing) your Cost per Conversion goals, or just massaging your keyword bids to find the optimal position for your ads, efficiency is what it’s all about. This is doubly so for a small account, where every last cent matters. Sure, the stakes may be lower … [Read more...] about Maximize Efficiency With Dayparting in Small Accounts
How To Use Google Automated Rules For Targeting Optimal Ad Positions
In part one of our automating paid search series this week, Kayla explained three ways to self-automate your work, and in part two Sam talks about using bid management software. Today, in our third series post, I'll tell you all about Google's automated rules. Why you'd want to use them, how to set them up, a case study on when I used them for an account, and how to stop using … [Read more...] about How To Use Google Automated Rules For Targeting Optimal Ad Positions
PPC (Over)optimization: How Not to Destroy a PPC Account
As PPC managers our job is to continually be optimizing. But what happens when we over-optimize? Over-optimization is the result of many changes within a small window of time. They are typically all individual great ideas but as a whole they can actually hurt performance. Worse than just an uptick in CPL or CPA, when over-optimizing an account it becomes increasingly harder to … [Read more...] about PPC (Over)optimization: How Not to Destroy a PPC Account
Interview with Brad Geddes
This week's Hero Conf speaker interview is with Brad Geddes, Founder of Certified Knowledge, an online paid search training and toolset provider. Brad has a lot of experience in the PPC industry, and we are looking forward to hearing him speak about retargeting and quality score at Hero Conf. Hero Conf is a paid search conference being held on April 16-17, 2012, in … [Read more...] about Interview with Brad Geddes
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.”
The Single Biggest Mistake You Can Make In PPC
Managing a paid search campaign takes a lot of thought and energy. There are many moving parts and a mountain of data to continually sort through. There are many inputs and an equal amount of outputs. Everything you do has an impact and no change is insignificant. With so many factors to consider, it’s a wonder SEM’s retain their sanity. While I’m not ready to self lobotomize … [Read more...] about The Single Biggest Mistake You Can Make In PPC
5 Tips for Transitioning an Established PPC Account
Ideally, you’ll be working with a client for several years, but since we live in an un-ideal world, sometimes clients shop around with different agencies, freelancers or in-house PPC managers before they find one that sticks. It’s also not unheard of to have to change around support on an account internally. The issue that this causes is a brand new team trying to tackle an … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for Transitioning an Established PPC Account
6 Quick Tips for Optimizing PPC Campaigns
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” -Michelangelo You don’t have to be the Michelangelo of PPC to optimize a campaign, but optimizing is much like chipping away at a block of stone to discover the beautiful statue within. 1. Define Your Goal What is it you want your PPC campaign to do for you? Before you can optimize … [Read more...] about 6 Quick Tips for Optimizing PPC Campaigns
