I was presented with a pretty big account a couple of months ago from one of our Clients who asked me for help to build out their future strategy. They came to me with the following talking points. We think we’re doing pretty well in Search and we don’t need much external help (yes, this was their first talking point) We need someone to help us set up a system for our … [Read more...] about Why You Can’t Manage AdWords Without A Multi-Device Strategy in 2013
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Get Up to Speed With Bing’s Latest Updates
Bing has continually rolled out new features over the past few months in order to improve their service. They added enhanced change history graph, new extensions, and some great graphs to help analyze your account performance. During the enhanced campaign transition, Bing added support to help accommodate the forced switch to enhanced campaigns. There were still enough … [Read more...] about Get Up to Speed With Bing’s Latest Updates
Why Aren’t Your Quality Scores Higher?
“Why are some of our keywords sitting at 3 or 4 Quality Scores? How can we make those better? Shouldn’t you just work on increasing CTR?” Similar to my previous post on what a ‘good’ CTR is for your PPC campaigns, quite often we hear questions surrounding account Quality Scores and what is being done to proactively improve them. Let’s get the obvious out of the way… YES – … [Read more...] about Why Aren’t Your Quality Scores Higher?
8 Simple Ways to Leverage SEO Data & Improve PPC Results
As most of you have heard by now, AdWords released a new report within their interface that allows PPC managers to look at paid and organic keyword/query data in one place. With that release, we’re also hearing a lot of you ask about how you can utilize that, and other, SEO metrics and data to increase performance in your paid search campaigns. Well ask and ye shall receive, … [Read more...] about 8 Simple Ways to Leverage SEO Data & Improve PPC Results
6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
It comes up often, and I’ll admit in my younger PPC days it made me shudder: “So if you’re charging us a fee based on spend, doesn’t that mean you’ll just push the spend to increase your fee?” Well, let me start by saying – yes…if we were real scumbags who didn’t want to keep you around as a client for the long-term. Of course I realize that’s not the ANSWER, but it’s always … [Read more...] about 6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
3 Events You Must Start Tracking In Analytics
Paid search and Google Analytics work hand in hand in so many ways (including right there in the AdWords interface). This month’s series week is all about how you can make the most of Analytics in your account, whether that’s with content experiments, event tracking or custom reporting. We’re going to find all of the ways that you can get even more insight into the clicks … [Read more...] about 3 Events You Must Start Tracking In Analytics
PLAs and Repeat Clickers – What Should Be Done?
When Google transitioned Google Shopping over to Product Listing ads back in October 17, 2012 (or on June 11th of this year for a lot of countries outside of the US) many advertisers saw a serious lift in performance. We’ve talked about how to setup and optimize PLAs around here a lot since the transition. For eCommerce advertisers, PLAs have been great. We totally love … [Read more...] about PLAs and Repeat Clickers – What Should Be Done?
Boost Your AdWords CTR with Sitelink Descriptions
Sitelinks have been a staple of best practices since they were introduced. Sitelinks help searchers find topical information beyond the specified landing page of your ad. Last February, enhanced campaigns brought a little spice to sitelinks by including descriptions. Additional lines of text were added from your other ad copy to flesh out the sitelinks. These provided extra … [Read more...] about Boost Your AdWords CTR with Sitelink Descriptions
How To Run Remarketing Like A Boss
Today's post comes from PPC Hero Ally, Tyler Jordan of PPC Associates. -- Think about remarketing like a recipe: it’s a best practice, but you don’t have to follow it to the letter; you can shape it to your tastes. You like your chicken spicy? Put some cayenne in it. If your funnel doesn’t match the one I’m about to show you, change it up to fit your style. That said, … [Read more...] about How To Run Remarketing Like A Boss
What PPC Certifications Should Really Be Testing For
PPC Certifications have been a hot topic as of late. One of the most popular posts on PPC hero is about Google’s Fundamentals Exam. I also receive a lot of questions about the best certification programs during webinars and at conferences. (MarketMotive is the non-Google PPC Certification, ipassexam is a great one for preparing for Google Certifications and I liked the most … [Read more...] about What PPC Certifications Should Really Be Testing For
What One Million Dollars In Spend Has Taught Us About Enhanced Campaigns
Enhanced campaigns are as bad as we feared. Hanapin has migrated many of the accounts under their management and have found that performance is typically slipping; and sometimes it is even cliff diving. This post analyzes ~$1 million dollars of that ad spend pre and post enhanced campaigns (ECs) and uncovers where performance has dipped, how spend allocation has changed (due … [Read more...] about What One Million Dollars In Spend Has Taught Us About Enhanced Campaigns
Learning From Amazon to Increase Ecommerce Impluse Purchases
We've all been there at one point. You are out shopping and just wandering the many aisles of your favorite store or at the outlets with no buying intent in your mind. However, you end up with a whole new wardrobe and accessories a few hours later. You can’t really explain what happened but somehow the stores just made you believe that you needed to have all of these … [Read more...] about Learning From Amazon to Increase Ecommerce Impluse Purchases
