Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is a must these days, so if you don’t have a CRO program for your PPC account – time to jump on the bandwagon! We’ve gathered CRO experts, Brian Massey and Joanna Wiebe, as well as Hanapin Marketing's CRO Manager, Roopa Carpenter, for a fun new webinar where you get to ask them ANYTHING YOU WANT about conversion rate optimization. And when we … [Read more...] about Ask ANYTHING you want about CRO with Brian Massey and Joanna Wiebe!
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Shopping Campaigns: How Does Bing Really Stack Up To Google?
Product Listing Ads have absolutely revolutionized how shoppers research and ultimately purchase products online. What started as an exclusive set of ads in the search engine results page has become a must have for any e-commerce advertiser. Google and Bing have both launched Shopping campaigns, which offer specialized segmentation and biding strategies for your PLAs. If you … [Read more...] about Shopping Campaigns: How Does Bing Really Stack Up To Google?
How To Use Historical QS To Diagnose Your Account
It can get really frustrating when you seem to do everything right but Google doesn’t want to raise your Quality Score and you end up paying high bids for no apparent reason. On the other hand, when you do manage to increase your QS to 10 for example, AdWords rewards you big time! Your traffic increases and your costs drop dramatically, but how do you know what change or … [Read more...] about How To Use Historical QS To Diagnose Your Account
The Search Marketing Madness Round of 32 Begins
The first round of our Search Marketing Madness tournament is complete and 32 of the best PPC managers, blogs, conferences, and softwares are moving on. Remember that the winner of the tournament gets a FREE registration to the PPC event of the year, Hero Conf. We've had many great matchups so far. In the manager bracket, Susan Wenograd barely beat out Larry Kim while Kirk … [Read more...] about The Search Marketing Madness Round of 32 Begins
5 Tricks To Make Your Pay Per Click Profitable This Year
With keywords and ad placements growing ever more competitive, it’s important that you’re making full use of every paid search option that’s available and relevant to your business, as well as ensuring that your basic account structure and targeting is fail-proof. So now that the first quarter of the year is almost complete it’s time to make sure your PPC campaigns are … [Read more...] about 5 Tricks To Make Your Pay Per Click Profitable This Year
10 Reasons Hero Conf is the Can’t Miss Conference of the Year!
PPC Heroes know that spring means Hero Conf 2015 is just around the corner. It also means time is running out for your to join an extraordinary lineup of speakers, sponsors and industry pros for two-and-a-half days of exciting content, incredible networking and non-stop fun. It’s all happening April 27-29 in downtown Portland, OR. Still need a little extra help in getting … [Read more...] about 10 Reasons Hero Conf is the Can’t Miss Conference of the Year!
Streamline How You Write Promotional Ad Copy
Ad copy should generally be refreshed every 4 – 6 weeks, however, some clients run promotions on a regular basis. In order to improve click-thru-rate (CTR) and conversions, we naturally want to emphasize these promotions in our ads. The challenge is that creating these ads can be time consuming, especially if promotions are updated weekly. Once the promotion is complete, these … [Read more...] about Streamline How You Write Promotional Ad Copy
The Flanking Strategy – Increase Market Shares Without Defeat
More often than you are willing to admit, you are looking at your paid search campaigns without knowing exactly what you could do to improve your market share, and how to spend that extra budget your biggest client gave you. Have you ever considered the Flanking Strategy? What Is Flanking Strategy? The Flanking Strategy is a military maneuver that consists of attacking an … [Read more...] about The Flanking Strategy – Increase Market Shares Without Defeat
On Demand Webinar – Conversion Matters: Getting Started With CRO
On Demand Webinar Conversion Matters: Getting Started With CRO Presented by Your On Demand Webinar is located below. Please be sure to bookmark this page for future access to this webinar. … [Read more...] about On Demand Webinar – Conversion Matters: Getting Started With CRO
Step-By-Step Excel Reporting – A Video Tutorial
The video below explains the step-by-step on how to go about reporting in Excel. This process works if your account is structured in an organized manner at campaign level. For example: Location_Program campaign level structuring. Before watching the video download, check out campaign level statistics with a filter on impressions as seen below: Once you have this data … [Read more...] about Step-By-Step Excel Reporting – A Video Tutorial
Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
Sometimes, I think there is one single mantra that runs through the mind of every PPCer, “Let’s test that.” Ad testing and conversion rate optimization get a lot of the testing hype, but what about bidding strategies? At intervals, experimenting with bidding strategies gets sprinkled into the testing mix, but not enough. How do we spend money in paid search? The answer is … [Read more...] about Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
Announcing Search Marketing Madness 2015
With the NCAA tournament play-in games starting tomorrow, we're proud to announce the brackets for our annual Search Marketing Madness tournament. Our brackets include 16 of the best entities in each of these categories: PPC Manager PPC Blog PPC Conference PPC Software The winner of the tournament gets a FREE registration to the PPC event of the year, Hero Conf. Votes … [Read more...] about Announcing Search Marketing Madness 2015