I came across an account a few months ago so large and unwieldy that the thought of optimizing it made my eyes water. What was so wrong with the account structure you ask? Nothing! By my own admission it was perfectly set up. Campaigns were set up along tight thematic lines, each campaign had a separate mobile and desktop version, and these were both doubled up into both a … [Read more...] about 7 Ways To Keep Your PPC Account Structure Manageable
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Four Ways to Make the Most of Demographic Targeting
In a roll out that’s been going on for months, demographic targeting should now be available to pretty much all users on the Google Display Network. Our bigger accounts have had it for some time while it’s still news to our smaller clients. Google’s tried releasing demographic targeting in the past (check out this news post from 2008 when it was a beta back then), but now … [Read more...] about Four Ways to Make the Most of Demographic Targeting
PPC Myth Busting! Myth 4: adCenter Isn’t Worth My Time
So, this is a HUGE myth, because I hear it all the time and it’s just so unfounded. The biggest thing that busts this myth in adCenter is lower CPCs, which leads to lower costs per acquisitions if the conversion rate is at least the same as Google. I’ve often found, however, that conversion rates can be higher for Bing and Yahoo search properties only than in Google. So, let … [Read more...] about PPC Myth Busting! Myth 4: adCenter Isn’t Worth My Time
Media Buying For PPC: Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGN8RxZ01hg&list=HL1345730129&feature=mh_lolz Part of our monthly training day in August comprised a presentation on Media Buying for PPC. Amanda West-Bookwalter goes over her portion of this presentation for today's Whaddya'know Wednesday. She goes over how she came up with a media buy plan for Google Display Network at a client's … [Read more...] about Media Buying For PPC: Part 1
Calculating Adjusted ROAS to Measure Account Performance
As sad as it may be to whomever Google’s version of Thomas Jefferson is, all leads are not created equal. Account-wide CPL goals are a great way to measure overall performance, but true profitability for lead generation relies on back-end data. Only through detailed analysis over an entire sales cycle can you really get a good grip on PPC’s effects. Lead generation doesn’t … [Read more...] about Calculating Adjusted ROAS to Measure Account Performance
Deeper Understanding of CPA Bidding: Best Practices, a Case Study and Breaking It Off
As part of our ongoing series on automation and time-saving, we felt that talking about AdWords’ Cost-Per-Acquisition bidding was a must. Aside from the Display Campaign Optimizer, which is a whole post in and of itself that will happen at some point in the future (though sadly not in this series), CPA bidding is the most automated you can get within all of the different … [Read more...] about Deeper Understanding of CPA Bidding: Best Practices, a Case Study and Breaking It Off
Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
We held another successful Heroview yesterday with remarketing expert, John Ellis. John is the CEO at Crescent Interactive, an online marketing firm based in Nashville, TN. We had a great conversation about best practice; see the recap below! PPC Hero: Today, John Ellis will talk with us about utilizing remarketing without being too intrusive, annoying, or creepy! We are … [Read more...] about Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
In early January we wrote 145 tips for 2012. It’s been a whirlwind year in the land of PPC so this is an update to that post with an additional 20 tips. These new PPC tips come from conferences, tests, failures and new Google services and features that have been rolled out of the past 5-6 months. The new tips are at the tope and numbered 146-165 and below them you will find … [Read more...] about 165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
Google Analytics Test Lab: Drive Your E-Commerce PPC Account
Welcome to the third post in our Google Analytics Test Lab blog series. Today I’ll be walking you through using Google Analytics to get the most of you’re your e-commerce PPC account. If you’re running a PPC account for e-commerce, you likely already understand the importance of dynamic reporting capabilities, so I’ll try not to make this article sound like a sponsored plug … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Test Lab: Drive Your E-Commerce PPC Account
3 View-through Conversion Attribution Problems
View-through conversions are conversions where a customer saw—but didn’t click— a display ad on the display network before completing a conversion. - source Agencies and account managers want to report this, or a portion of these to their clients and bosses, but unfortunately the problem of how to give credit to these conversions always arises. Basically it revolves around, … [Read more...] about 3 View-through Conversion Attribution Problems
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?
Are You Ruining Your Results By Ignoring This Vital Aspect of PPC?
One of the most important pieces of pay-per-click, unfortunately, tends to receive the least amount of attention. This often-overlooked aspect of PPC is account structure, as Melissa Mackey, Search Supervisor at gyro, explains in the following interview. A poor account structure can result in a worse click-through-rate, lower quality score, and decreased revenue. So how can … [Read more...] about Are You Ruining Your Results By Ignoring This Vital Aspect of PPC?
