Cut out what doesn’t work and expand what does. Optimizing your account is simple in theory, but it can be a lot more complex when it comes time to execute. One potential complication: What, exactly, needs to change? What bids...
Continue Reading Live PPC Grader: Are You Acing or Failing? [Webinar]
PPC pros don’t know everything when they’re just starting out. But the one thing they do know is how to follow and closely manage the fundamentals of account management that many seasoned experts end up taking for granted.
Continue Reading Webinar Recording: Eight Things PPC Beginners Do (That You Should Too)
Bing has continually rolled out new features over the past few months in order to improve their service. They added enhanced change history graph, new extensions, and some great graphs to help analyze your account performance. During the enhanced campaign...
Competitive research should be part of all marketing programs and is especially important in the ever-changing and highly competitive world of PPC, but how do you get started? Below we will discuss how to create a plan, what tools are...
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Whenever we make changes in an account here at Hanapin we like to do what we call “Bookending”. Essentially this is creating a rough estimate of the projected impact of our changes on spend, conversions, CPA et al. It’s a...
Continue Reading How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
PPC pros don’t know everything when they’re just starting out. But the one thing they do know is how to follow and closely manage the fundamentals of account management that many seasoned experts end up taking for granted. But paying...
Continue Reading Eight Things PPC Beginners Do (That You Should Too)
That’s right: 2014 is right around the corner, and that must mean it’s time to start making plans for next year. If I may humbly suggest penciling one event into your calendar (and then using a Sharpie), it should be...
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Why hello offline conversions in AdWords, where have you been all my life? Optimizing lead gen accounts in AdWords just got a little sweeter with the release of the new AdWords Conversion Import feature. The Conversion Import feature allows advertisers...
Continue Reading Optimize For Offline Conversions With New AdWords Conversion Import Feature
“Why are some of our keywords sitting at 3 or 4 Quality Scores? How can we make those better? Shouldn’t you just work on increasing CTR?” Similar to my previous post on what a ‘good’ CTR is for your PPC...
Join digital advertising experts Sean Quadlin of Hanapin Marketing and John Lee of Clix as they delve into the world of social advertising, and the ever-expanding reach and influence of Facebook in particular.
Continue Reading Webinar Recording: How to Win at Social PPC – Facebook Edition
Disclosure: The idea for this post from Chiefmartec.com who gave a great argument against big fancy dashboards that pump data into your brain and for strategic data that helps you make good choices. I see this type of PPC Theater...
A few months back, The Ad Contrarian — a hardcore skeptic around Facebook ads, if ever there was one — wrote the following about Native Advertising [emphasis mine]: Nobody seems quite sure what they mean by native advertising. But I...
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