It is already almost the end of 2016. Sales are set, B2B and lead generation clients are ramping down due to vacations and seasonality, and it's time to reflect on and prepare for the year to come. Like most years, we get to the end of December and don’t properly consider or review the mid-level and automated "set it and forget it" tactical items in our accounts that don’t need … [Read more...] about Your End Of Year PPC Checklist: What To Audit Before 2017
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Prioritizing Your PPC To-Do List
There are about a million things you could be doing in your PPC accounts right now. How do you sift through it all and decide what needs to be done, what should be done, and what can wait? Here we’ll go through some tips on how to prioritize your PPC to-do list and spend your time wisely. Gauging Account Impact vs. Time Commitment Sometimes the tasks that you spend the most … [Read more...] about Prioritizing Your PPC To-Do List
When You Need The Right Negatives Use Phrase Match
Last month, I gave my point of view on phrase match and when to use in segmented campaigns when the value of the word order matters. This method is especially true for brand and even many non-brand terms. As another example, the term "affordable marketing" as a modified broad match keyword (+affordable +marketing) is going to have a search terms report that looks a lot … [Read more...] about When You Need The Right Negatives Use Phrase Match
Determining The Weight AdWords Puts On Quality Score Factors – A Case Study
The most mysterious part of AdWords is said to become less of a mystery in the coming weeks. Google will reveal to us a bit more about how they calculate quality score, but how much more, we have to wait and see. The work of improving quality score has been challenging over the years. Even for our brand terms, we get as little as 5. In order to see the most improvement in … [Read more...] about Determining The Weight AdWords Puts On Quality Score Factors – A Case Study
When You Need To Have The Right Words Use Phrase Match
In early 2014, I wrote a post at a previous agency that outlined the proper way of breaking out match types that I had started to implement with some fellow colleagues once enhanced campaigns came out the prior year. After the initial creation of these campaign types, I continued to optimize and create a larger strategy around match type segmentation including how to … [Read more...] about When You Need To Have The Right Words Use Phrase Match
3 Steps For A Stress-Free Vacation From PPC
You work hard and don’t often miss work. Sometimes you need a vacation or time off for whatever reason. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that when you are away the person watching your account is taking care of it just like you would? They would have everything they need to make decisions for the best of the account. Taking away the stress that happens when you leave your account … [Read more...] about 3 Steps For A Stress-Free Vacation From PPC
Be In The Know About The 4 Latest Bing Ads Updates
If you haven't been paying attention, Bing Ads has recently released a slew of updates. Many of these updates follow the AdWords train and should be welcome by PPC professionals. In this post, I'll go over these 4 crucial updates. Expanded Device Targeting Bing Ads is now giving us more control in setting bid adjustments by device so we can more effectively manage campaigns … [Read more...] about Be In The Know About The 4 Latest Bing Ads Updates
The Top Ten Tips For Effective Dayparting
Over the past year, I've started to truly embrace a new life motto: if it takes less than ten minutes to do, do it now. When it comes to optimizing a PPC account, ten minutes is a drop in the bucket. As digital marketers, we are left forever seeking those 0.01% incremental gains in hopes that soon enough they will amount to radical improvements. With that said, determining … [Read more...] about The Top Ten Tips For Effective Dayparting
Discover 3 Levels Of Geo Targeting For Beginners, Intermediates, & Experts
In paid search, setting geographic targets is day one. Whether it’s to exclude places you cannot sell or serve or to specifically target your primary customer base, the implementation of geo-targets is on the must-do list for a proper PPC campaign. Having cleared that up, we’re now onto the next layer of questions: Intro: How to I create this kind of targeting? … [Read more...] about Discover 3 Levels Of Geo Targeting For Beginners, Intermediates, & Experts
Be In The Know About Upcoming Improvements To AdWords Automated Bidding
Last week, Google announced Smart Bidding for AdWords and DoubleClick Search as the new name for automated bidding. Smart Bidding is considered auction-time bidding since bids are decided on an auction by auction basis. If you are using any of the bidding strategies listed below, you are already taking advantage of Smart Bidding. Target CPA Target ROAS Enhanced … [Read more...] about Be In The Know About Upcoming Improvements To AdWords Automated Bidding
Leveraging Analytics For Remarketing: Picking The Ripest Fruit
Remarketing represents the low hanging fruit of the digital marketing world. This cliche or some analogous iteration is parroted throughout the paid search community to no end. It's a safe assumption that this mentality has either been repeated or embraced by nearly every account manager, myself included. And while the frequency becomes repetitive, its prevalence is well … [Read more...] about Leveraging Analytics For Remarketing: Picking The Ripest Fruit
4 Common Questions Prospects Ask Me During The Sales Process
We’re now more than half way through the year and already there have been many changes within digital marketing. Google’s Performance Summit yielded many updates, including: Expanded text ads Bid adjustments by device Demographics for Search Ads Pinterest has turned the advertising corner, growing into a strong player within the market and Programmatic continues to … [Read more...] about 4 Common Questions Prospects Ask Me During The Sales Process
