PPC Hero’s mobile-focused June series kicks off today with step one of the process: getting your client on board with opening up to the mobile traffic funnel. Most clients would have a hard time arguing with direct statistics, so today...
The Benefits & Drawbacks of Modified Broad Match
When it comes to traffic control for your paid search ads, AdWords offers a variety of tools to help us increase, maintain or even restrict the flow of traffic to your website. Perhaps the most obvious way to manipulate this...
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PPC Hero’s Greatest Hits of First Quarter 2012!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from January, February, and March. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management...
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Using Pivot Tables To Perform Ad Reviews
Pivot tables are the most excellent way to make huge sets of data digestible. Account Manager Sean Quadlin teaches you how to use pivot tables to perform ad reviews, making ad testing a breeze.
165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
In early January we wrote 145 tips for 2012. It’s been a whirlwind year in the land of PPC so this is an update to that post with an additional 20 tips. These new PPC tips come from conferences, tests,...
Profit Per Keyword…Beats Cost Per Acquisition Every Time
Over time I’ve seen many different strategies with generating leads at an ideal cost per acquisition (CPA). The direction I see many accounts take is that there will be a “core” group of keywords that perform amazingly, a bunch of...
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Our Donation- Thanks to You!
We at Hanapin and PPC Hero can talk paid search strategies until we’re blue in the face. But, every now and then, we need to stop to be thankful for the great people and circumstances in our lives. Last month,...
Achieving Efficiency With AdWords Editor
You have kept up with AdWords Best Practices, and your account now has about 30+ ad groups per campaign. Even though you have tried to be creative in your advert creation, the data insists that CTR is higher with bland...
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...
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National Leave the Office Early Day
You may or may not be around to read this since it is National Leave the Office Early Day! Hanapin will be celebrating by starting our office Summer Hours at 3:00! Hellooooo longer weekend!
Heroview- The World of Facebook Advertising
Today, we interviewed Facebook advertising expert, Merry Morud, of aimClear. For those of you who recall Merry’s Hero Conf presentation last month, we couldn’t wait to dig into this topic! See the recap below. PPC Hero: Welcome to today’s Heroview...
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Whaddya’know Wednesdays: The Content Tab In Google Analytics; Everything You Need To Know
On our first British Whaddya’know Wednesdays, Sam Owen tells you all about the Content Tab in Google Analytics. He walks you through all the options and gives you helpful tips on how to use the data to optimize your PPC...