Quite frequently over the last few months, I’ve had conversations with either prospective clients or account managers from other agencies who have expressed the same concern/issue – “I’m worried the account has gone stagnant.” My first response is always to refrain from assuming the worst, as it’s actually a little difficult (in my very humble opinion) these days to set it and … [Read more...] about Is Your PPC Account Running On Autopilot?
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ACE Your Account – AdWords Experiments and You
Taking Advantage of AdWords Experiments AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) is a great but overlooked feature in AdWords. ACE allows you to test structural changes, bid changes, new keywords, or modify all sorts of things inside your campaigns. All you have to do it define the ratio of the split test, what you want to test, the length of the experiment, and AdWords takes care of … [Read more...] about ACE Your Account – AdWords Experiments and You
How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
The Visitors Flow report in Google Analytics gives a great visualization of what users are doing on your site. Since we PPC’ers are paying for our traffic, it is imperative that we have maximum clarity into their behavior. You can investigate your sweet, sweet traffic using all sorts of lenses, and you can use the information that you find in all sorts of ways in this awesome … [Read more...] about How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
Build Out Your Account With 3 Time-Saving Tips
It's series week on PPC Hero, and for July that means we're all about finding you ways to save time and money on PPC. Whether that means a lightning-quick account audit or some time-saving techniques to streamline the dreaded ad review, we're here to lend a helping hand in reclaiming a little bit of your work life from the rigors of PPC account management. For today, we're … [Read more...] about Build Out Your Account With 3 Time-Saving Tips
Spr’Bing Cleaning: 7 Simple Steps For Your Bing Accounts
The unending wisdom of Martha Stewart tells us that “there are few rites of spring more satisfying than the annual clean.” In that spirit, PPC Hero’s April series will cover some aspects of your accounts that are worth a good cleaning. Structure, ads, negatives and more will all be covered. In the busy world of PPC Accounts, taking a few minutes out to dive into Bing can … [Read more...] about Spr’Bing Cleaning: 7 Simple Steps For Your Bing Accounts
How to Masterfully Inherit a Messy PPC Account
Every account inheritance situation is different and should be handled on a case-by-case basis; this is what I know. Whether you’re bringing the account on from an in-house or agency-managed situation, if the account has been on autopilot or actively optimized frequently, ecommerce or lead gen…the list can (and does) go on and on. However, that doesn’t mean myself and the rest … [Read more...] about How to Masterfully Inherit a Messy PPC Account
Strapped For Cash? Here are 13 Optimization Tips For Managing Low-Budget PPC Accounts
I’m sure most of you had thoughts about managing what you would consider being a dream account. You know, a high-spending client that generates tons of sales with CPA inline. Heck, maybe you even access to a full landing page design and backend development team who are awaiting orders. Unfortunately, this just isn’t realistic for those of us who work with smaller accounts that … [Read more...] about Strapped For Cash? Here are 13 Optimization Tips For Managing Low-Budget PPC Accounts
Heroview — Onboarding New & Existing Client Accounts
Starting a PPC account from scratch is a far cry from taking on an existing PPC Account. In this month's Heroview Kayla Kurtz covers new & existing client accounts, their differences and why you should care! -------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to today’s Heroview, everyone! Real-time interviews featuring PPC experts from around the industry! … [Read more...] about Heroview — Onboarding New & Existing Client Accounts
Analyze Your Account in Minutes With Excel
This week, we've been focused on giving you all kinds of tips and tricks with Excel to help you build out your accounts. Kayla showed you how to use Excel to estimate new account performance. Sean showed you how you can use Excel to find the best budgets for your campaigns. Dave showed you some quick tips with Excel filters to quickly structure your keyword … [Read more...] about Analyze Your Account in Minutes With Excel
How to Use Excel to Estimate New PPC Account Performance
To start off our September PPC Hero series on how to use Excel for that next level of PPC super performance, I decided to do just that: start from the beginning! Is there a way to determine possible account performance before opening up the floodgates and turning your account on? We got this question via our Twitter account last month and the short answer is yes…and you can do … [Read more...] about How to Use Excel to Estimate New PPC Account Performance
Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
This is the final installment of our April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers series for this month. For the purpose of today’s post, we will discuss a few ways to nurture a new or inherited PPC account. Now that we’ve covered the structuring of new and existing accounts, it’s time to start thinking about nurturing the account itself. We typically refer to this concept as … [Read more...] about Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
PPC Account Goal Setting: Set Yourself Up for Incremental Success
Today brings the second post in our April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers series. In today’s post, I’ll be diving into setting account goals to help your account mitigate torrential downpours. PPC account goal setting can be quite the conundrum for new, or newly acquired, accounts. If you’re starting a new account, you don’t have any historical data to work with, and if you’ve … [Read more...] about PPC Account Goal Setting: Set Yourself Up for Incremental Success
