Running your first ever Google Ads campaign? Well, it is a great idea to invest in Google Ads. In fact, I consider it an excellent choice because Google Ads can help your business grow. However, the process of formulating a Google Ads campaign has to be carried out immaculately so that it can produce profitable results. But you do not have to worry about anything. I am going … [Read more...] about Your First Google Ads Campaign: Everything You Should Know
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Guide To Google Ads Performance Planner
On May 13, Google Ads announced a new tool in the UI called Performance Planner. The Performance Planner helps advertisers optimize campaigns by suggesting an "ideal plan" by "spreading spend in the most effective way among campaigns in the plan." Performance Planner is easy to use and certainly helpful, but it should be used with caution. What Does Performance Planner … [Read more...] about Guide To Google Ads Performance Planner
State of Paid Social Survey Closes Friday, May 17th
Friday is your last chance to lend your voice and help establish benchmarks and trends for the paid social advertising industry. Early reporting shows that Quora and Instagram are the favorites as the Rising Stars in social platforms, with Quora inching ahead by barely 1% of the submissions. Other questions you'll find in the Survey include what what social platforms you or … [Read more...] about State of Paid Social Survey Closes Friday, May 17th
Amazon Introduces Negative Keywords to Sponsored Brand Ads
Amazon has quietly added negative keywords to Sponsored Brand ads for both Seller Central advertisers and Amazon Advertising advertisers. For those who may need a reminder, Sponsored Brand ads show most regularly at the top of search results in the headline position. Here is some additional info on sponsored product ads, if you are interested. The negative keywords are a … [Read more...] about Amazon Introduces Negative Keywords to Sponsored Brand Ads
Case Study: The Effect Of RSA Inclusion On Campaign Click Volume
Over the past few years, a major theme of Google’s updates to its ad platform has been to encourage more automated management. The release of Responsive Search Ads (RSAs) fits well within this trend, as the ad type dynamically combines ad assets to more closely match a user’s search term. But what effect do they have in practice? Do they actually improve click-through-rates (as … [Read more...] about Case Study: The Effect Of RSA Inclusion On Campaign Click Volume
Facebook Audience Network Inventory Filter: Are You Ready For The Coming Changes?
If you haven't been notified by Facebook in ads manager lately or read the latest Facebook news, some big changes are coming to the audience network placement. Historically advertisers have been able to use what are known as exclusion categories for controlling where their ads show. Those are gradually going away and the new option, inventory filter, will be taking its place. … [Read more...] about Facebook Audience Network Inventory Filter: Are You Ready For The Coming Changes?
Google Ads Phasing Out Game Content Category
Exclusions, they are a changin. Last week, Google Ads announced an important change for exclusion categories: "Games" content exclusion will be deprecated. This change is in line with Google Ads claim of streamlining content exclusion options they rolled out in 2018. "Streamlining" covers all manner of sins. According to the Google Ads announcement, a consequence of the … [Read more...] about Google Ads Phasing Out Game Content Category
Measuring YouTube Success with Brand Lift Study 2.0
Are you able to measure the success of your search and display campaigns, but have a hard time quantifying the impact in-stream YouTube ads have on your overall marketing strategy? If you are running YouTube ads to generate awareness, do you know if your ads are actually improving brand awareness, consideration and/or purchase intent? Do you know if your target audience thinks … [Read more...] about Measuring YouTube Success with Brand Lift Study 2.0
Expand Your Advertising Efforts with Native
Are you looking to expand your advertising efforts, and aren’t sure where to turn? Native, in combination with your PPC efforts, may be the way to boost your funnel and supercharge your ROI. Native advertising is an excellent indicator of brand awareness because it cuts through the noise and plays a strong role of planting the seed with your audience. A wonderful segway into … [Read more...] about Expand Your Advertising Efforts with Native
Visual Search – Could It Be The Next Big Thing?
Images are the way of the future - will it be the future of search? We think so. Paid search is always on the move. Advertising platforms are constantly looking for the next big thing, the best way to target consumers, the newest way to make a profit - usually with Google leading the charge. With these constant changes, updates, and shifts in the industry, how are marketers … [Read more...] about Visual Search – Could It Be The Next Big Thing?
CRO: Great UX Isn’t Random or Coincidental
Think about your favorite websites. (Or if you don’t have favorites, just think about some of the better ones you’ve seen.) Pause. Now, think about why you chose them or what made some pop into your head over others. Was it the content? Layouts? Imagery? Colors? It could be a plethora of things of course, but I want to emphasize (1) that they were all probably created with … [Read more...] about CRO: Great UX Isn’t Random or Coincidental
4 Ways to Harness Detailed Demographic Data
Introduced in February 2018, we’ve had access to the detailed demographic lists for about a year (as of this writing). That should mean more than enough data has been collected if you’ve layered them across your search accounts and we can really start digging into some detailed strategy moves to leverage that data. If you’re unfamiliar with the detailed demographic lists, I … [Read more...] about 4 Ways to Harness Detailed Demographic Data
