Have you ever made a change to your AdWords account, only to later regret it? Despite rigorous analysis and employing your best judgment, sometimes things don’t go quite the way you planned. Maybe you enabled a paused keyword or ad...
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6 Reasons January is the Perfect Time to Register for Hero Conf
It’s a new year, which means new challenges, new goals and, most importantly, new budgets. It’s time again to make your annual conference plans! Business or career development is an important aspect of any company’s annual planning, and we at...
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Recover From the Holidays Faster Than Your Competition [New Webinar!]
There’s no reason to be ashamed. Whether your holiday season is a crazy rush of massive sales increases and logistical ecommerce nightmares… or the other kind, in which business slows to a crawl and none of your prospects are in...
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Better Communicate The Value of PPC To Those You Answer To
So you’ve done everything right. AdWords & Bing certified? Check. Read tons of articles and keep up on the latest industry developments? Check. You’re a dedicated PPC Hero reader? Check (Apologies for the shameless plug). In addition, you can write...
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Automatic Insight: New AdWords Scripts for Average Position and Converting Keywords
AdWords scripts are great (and increasingly popular) for automating tedious or time-consuming tasks and allowing you to spend more time creating, optimizing, and gaining insights from your campaigns. But at their best, scripts can also help deliver those insights and...
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Avoid Making Things Worse With These 3 Easy Tips
This is a continuation of my series on my transition to the role of President at Hanapin. Originally I thought it would be 30 posts in 30 days but they got a bit redundant, boring, weren’t very widely read and...
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A Perfect Account Structure: Fact or Unicorn?
Here at Hanapin, we’re always trying to find the best way to do things. If there’s a method that generates the best results, we’ll call it a best practice and teach it to all the Account Managers as the best...
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Making The Most Of Product Listing Ads (PLAs)
Since their launch in 2010, product listing ads (PLAs) have opened a new window of opportunity for eCommerce advertisers everywhere. PLAs have given advertisers the opportunity to bring the traditional shop shelf to the search results page, displaying a specific...
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Happy New Year from PPC Hero!
Here we are, once again, at a content marketer’s favorite time of year: The end of it! It’s a wonderful time that allows us to reflect, look ahead, and create surprisingly compelling listicles about things like “Our Best Posts of...
The Top 10 PPC Hero Posts of 2013
2013 was kind of crazy. With the introduction of Google’s Enhanced Campaigns, the continued ascendance of Google Shopping/PLAs as an all-important factor in today’s digital strategy, and a steady stream of new features implemented across Google/Bing/who knows where else, we...
Engagement Ads: New Way For Getting Customers To Interact With Your Brand
Google has developed a new ad format called ‘Engagement Ads’. The purpose of these ads is to provide an interactive way for users to engage with your brand. Google recognizes that branding is a different marketing objective than direct response,...
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Bring The Hammer Down on Inefficient Spend With Dimension Analysis
As search advertising marketers, a big part of our job is finding and controlling inefficient ad spend. John Wanamaker put it quite simply when he said “half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t...
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