This year has been a dynamic one in the world of paid search as many platforms have released a number of updates and new features. For most retailers, a new and exciting change was the ability to have a Black Friday and a Cyber Monday structured data as an ad extension. On the other hand, Bing has also made an array of changes to their advertising platform in 2015, with the … [Read more...] about 10 Simple Predictions For The Ever-Evolving World Of Pay Per Click In 2016
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When Should You Create New Campaigns?
There are many reasons why it makes sense to create new campaigns and other times when it is not a good idea. If your account is budget constrained, you may want to consider additional ad groups instead of campaigns. The one exception is you always want different campaigns for different networks. Search, Display and Remarketing have different performance statistics and spending … [Read more...] about When Should You Create New Campaigns?
Understanding The Shift Toward People Based Marketing
Before we all became digitally savvy using multi-devices in an online world, one of the key methods of effective marketing was direct mail. Sending letters, brochures, and pamphlets with your marketing messages directly to consumers’ doors was the norm. The benefit of this form of marketing was that you could ensure the right person was receiving the right message at the right … [Read more...] about Understanding The Shift Toward People Based Marketing
What Is A Good Conversion Rate?
We are in the midst of many different sports seasons right now, but the one that seems to grab a lot of attention is football. And I’m talking “pigskin” football, not “GGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLL” football. Today we’re going to compare a good conversion rate to the inner-workings of a football team. In keeping with the football theme, let’s start with our first of four … [Read more...] about What Is A Good Conversion Rate?
Naming Your Campaigns: The Unsung Hero of PPC
Nothing kills the excitement of a PPC conversation like talking about how you name your campaigns. No really, try discussing your finely tuned naming strategy at your next party, even a PPC one. You’ll notice you have the snack table all to yourself. How you name your campaigns can make your PPC life easier or a lot harder. As an analyst I deal with a lot of PPC accounts on … [Read more...] about Naming Your Campaigns: The Unsung Hero of PPC
The 4 Stages Of Learning PPC
After four years and three months of working at Hanapin Marketing, I’m taking the next step in my career. I thought, as my last blog post on PPC Hero as a Hanapin Marketing employee, it would be a great time to share some knowledge on the stages of learning PPC. In The Very Beginning For me, I was lucky enough to get hired by Hanapin Marketing and go through their … [Read more...] about The 4 Stages Of Learning PPC
Set Your YouTube Stage With TrueView Ads And Remarketing
In my last post, I discussed the benefits of advertising on YouTube and how to pitch this advertising platform to upper management. When you’re in that meeting with management, the next logical questions you will receive including: How do we advertise on YouTube? What are the different ad types? What kind of advertising makes sense for us? How do we proceed … [Read more...] about Set Your YouTube Stage With TrueView Ads And Remarketing
When Are Flexible Bidding Strategies Right For You?
Flexible bidding strategies are ways to automate rules around specific areas of your campaigns, ad groups, and keywords. These bidding strategies can help you improve conversion rates, boost keyword performance, and/or improve your return on ad spend. In the past, you had to choose between manual or automation, but now you have the flexibility to blend automation with manual … [Read more...] about When Are Flexible Bidding Strategies Right For You?
Dynamic Search Ads: An Underused Way to Grow Your PPC Account
According to Google, approximately 15% of user searches on a daily basis are truly unique. Dynamic Search Ads, which uses Google’s crawling technology, helps target searchers where traditional keyword targeting fails to reach them. Due to the limiting nature of keyword targeting, advertisers are missing out on additional targeted traffic, which can bring up tapped sources of … [Read more...] about Dynamic Search Ads: An Underused Way to Grow Your PPC Account
PPC Account Structure and Organization Part III
Back in October I ranted about organized structuring and how much it can help you with the following: Reporting (You can report on different levels more easily) Optimizing (Account updates become easier with a clean account structure) Quality Scores (Ad copy to keyword relevance) Build Outs (Growing accounts becomes easier) In January, I continued on this rant, going … [Read more...] about PPC Account Structure and Organization Part III
How To Go About Adding To Your PPC Mix
The first questions that should be answered for any new PPC account need to cover goal identification. What will make this a successful marketing channel for us? How many conversions and at what cost per acquisition will put us in the black? After that can come many different questions, including ones related to the specific business or industry you’re working in. … [Read more...] about How To Go About Adding To Your PPC Mix
The Do’s And Don’ts of Leveraging Search Engine Reps
Let’s go ahead and get the obvious out of the way up front – we’ve all experienced the good, bad and ugly search engine representative stories. Some of them directly, and others we’ve heard from our peers. In the interest of picking a side, I may even venture to say that most of us would say those experiences tend to be poor and less than helpful. What I can say from my … [Read more...] about The Do’s And Don’ts of Leveraging Search Engine Reps