This is part 2 of our week-long series on starting an AdWords account from scratch. The series will walk you though each step of the process, from creating your initial keyword list to activating your campaigns. Give us 5 days and we’ll teach you how to start you very own AdWords account! Ready to start filling your designer handbags with the millions of dollars made from the … [Read more...] about PPC Campaign Structure Basics & Best Practices
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Starting An AdWords Account From Scratch
Are you interested in starting an AdWords PPC account but been a little hesitant to set it up on your own? Then PPC Hero's Starting An AdWords Account From Scratch series is just what you're looking for. In this month's series, we will walk you through the basics of setting up an account, from keyword research all the way to activating your first campaigns. Before you get … [Read more...] about Starting An AdWords Account From Scratch
PPC Management For Large Accounts
Let's say you've just picked up a new PPC client. Let's say they have an eCommerce site with dozens of targeted demographics. Now let's add in their 600 products. And oh yeah, the thousands upon thousands of keywords already crowding up their account. Starting to feel a little bit panicked? I haven't even mentioned their $40,000 monthly budget yet! Okay. Take a deep breath. … [Read more...] about PPC Management For Large Accounts
Case Study: Improving Low Quality Score Accounts
Do you remember playing the game Telephone as a child? One person whispers a sentence into the ear of the person next to them, who whispers it to the person next to them and so on down the line, while trying to retain as much information of the message as possible. Inevitably, by the time the last person spoke the sentence aloud it barely resembled the original. I felt like … [Read more...] about Case Study: Improving Low Quality Score Accounts
Inheriting PPC Accounts: How to Efficiently Transition Ownership and Successfully Optimize a Large PPC Account
Until now, there was no roadmap to help individuals and search engine marketing (SEM) firms successfully inherit and optimize a large-scale pay-per-click (PPC) account. Numerous publications have surfaced about creating PPC campaigns from scratch, but inheriting and enhancing a pre-existing account requires an entirely different skill set. Optimizing a pre-existing PPC … [Read more...] about Inheriting PPC Accounts: How to Efficiently Transition Ownership and Successfully Optimize a Large PPC Account
What to Expect When You Make a Global Change to Your PPC Account: Launching a New Website
You should think of this article as a "what to expect when you're expecting" in regards to launching a new website. More to the point, I will focus on the effects that launching a new website will have on your pay-per-click campaign. Okay, I'll just say it: you may break your PPC account. However, I want to discuss why making a global change to your PPC account is a big deal; … [Read more...] about What to Expect When You Make a Global Change to Your PPC Account: Launching a New Website
Five Essential Tricks, Tools and Tips for the Multimarket Account Manager
This is a special guest blog post from Kerstin Baker-Ash. Kerstin has worked in search engine marketing for six years across agency and in-house roles. A native of Toronto, Canada, she has experienced the inevitable pants versus trousers embarrassment since moving to the United Kingdom. Kerstin uses her multilingual background to manage cross-market campaigns for clients in … [Read more...] about Five Essential Tricks, Tools and Tips for the Multimarket Account Manager
Avoid the AdWords Quality Score Slap: How to Make Common Changes to Your Account Without Damaging Your Quality Score
This week we've been dissecting the Google AdWords Quality Score. Each day we have been pulling back the layers of the ever-expanding Quality Score. Hopefully, all of the information we've been providing has been helpful and will allow you enhance your campaign's performance. However, be cautious because as you optimize your account in order to improve your AdWords Quality … [Read more...] about Avoid the AdWords Quality Score Slap: How to Make Common Changes to Your Account Without Damaging Your Quality Score
Un-Clutter & Optimize Your Account with Better Organization
One of the first steps you should take to Revitalize your PPC Campaign is to review your account structure and organization. Better organization within your PPC account not only means you can manage your campaigns and ad groups easier, but delivering more relevant ads to your customers; If you’re serving highly targeted, relevant ads to your audience, your click-through … [Read more...] about Un-Clutter & Optimize Your Account with Better Organization
Top 5 Settings to Check When Starting a Yahoo! Search Marketing Account
Two weeks ago I wrote about the most important settings to check when starting up an AdWords account. This week I'll be detailing some of the ins and outs of the Yahoo! Search Marketing interface (YSM or Panama). I should reiterate that this list isn't intended to be the end-all-be-all for navigating your YSM account, but an informational resource when setting up an account … [Read more...] about Top 5 Settings to Check When Starting a Yahoo! Search Marketing Account
A Guide For Letting Go of Outdated Google Search Best Practices
Late last year, I lost the confidence of a client when I advocated for a restructuring of an account that focused on campaign consolidation. This person used a PPC Hero Blog post from 2014 as fuel for their counter-argument that advocated for the opposite of my recommendation. I did the math and 2014 is the equivalent to 20 PPC years ago. The pace at which Google products … [Read more...] about A Guide For Letting Go of Outdated Google Search Best Practices
Paving Our Way Towards Automated Bidding
Google has made it clear that automation is in our future and that it is better to learn how to utilize these tools now and learn how to use them in our accounts. I am going to describe how one of our accounts had tried automation several times before, but we never saw long-lasting results. Our team decided to brainstorm that we were moving towards a world where manual bidding … [Read more...] about Paving Our Way Towards Automated Bidding
