Certain PPC problems are easy to spot (Falling click-through-rate, low impressions, etc). Others are more like fault lines–subtle, yet indicative of potential future problems. Join Hanapin Marketing experts Cassie Oumedian and Kayla Kurtz as they discuss how to seek, find...
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Create a Content Experiment in 4 Easy Steps
Conversion Rate Optimization is a huge key to success in any PPC campaign, and there are a lot of great tools at our disposal to make it happen. However, these platforms can be intimidating for the uninitiated, and the costs...
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Now Available: The 2013 State of Paid Search!
You wanted it, you participated in it, and now you get to see the results! Our report on the 2013 State of Paid Search is now available for download, and as always, it’s based on your answers to our Hanapin...
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2013 Benchmarks for Your PPC Performance Webinar Recording
Join Hanapin Marketing experts Eric Couch and Jacob Fairclough as they provide tips and metrics for measuring your PPC performance at the half-year mark.
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5 Google Analytics Reports You Need to Succeed in PPC
To kick off this month’s series on Google Analytics, I thought it might be a solid start to review a handful of the standard reports available in GA that you can (read: had better be) using to optimize your paid...
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What If Your Pet’s Life Depended On The Success of Your Ad?
The title of this post is based on two things: the classic National Lampoon cover, and a mental “exercise” from direct response legend Gary Halbert. The cover is self-explanatory, but the mental exercise runs along these lines: “What would I...
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New Mind Blowing % Change Advanced Filters in AdWords
If you are anything like this guy and myself, your mind has been totally blown with AdWords latest update to the reporting suite that now allows you to apply advanced filters on KPI metrics to compare performance % change trends...
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2013 Benchmarks for Your PPC Performance: New Webinar!
It’s not always easy to tell when you’re doing well. Counterintuitive as that seems, we get questions about it and discuss new measurement tactics each and every day. And now that we’re halfway through the year, it’s time to share...
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3 Crucial Ways To Look At Day-Parting Data
PPC Hero is a great resource for PPC newbs and PPC vets alike. We throw around a lot of lingo and acronyms, as well as methods and strategies that may be uncharted to some you. Day-parting is a perfect example...
What to Make of View-through Conversions
View-through conversions have been around for nearly four years in AdWords. In paid search land, that’s close to an eternity. But it still seems to me that people don’t really know what to do about them. We’ve talked about them...
A Great Facebook Ad Deserves an Equally Great Landing Page
I’m definitely a hotdog enthusiast, frequently having a couple for lunch. I mean, what’s not to like: they’re easy to make, taste good, and are nicely filling with a good balance of protein to carbs. Of course, the not to...
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Bing Updates Incremental Bidding to Align with Enhanced Campaigns
Bing recently updated they way incremental bids are calculated to mimic AdWords enhanced campaigns to allow for easy importing into Bing. The update (which started in July) will use multiplicative percentages, instead of adding multiple bid adjustments together as the...
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