Running effective PPC campaigns can be competitive and expensive (really expensive if you’re not careful!). As a digital marketer, its important for you to run efficient and successful campaigns that create maximum value for your clicks. Are you measuring your campaigns? Better yet, are you effectively measuring your campaigns? Join Searchforce’s, Miles Olson, and Hanapin’s, … [Read more...] about 9 Things You Need To Know About PPC Analytics [New Webinar!]
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Day Trading And Pay-Per-Click
Recently, I was at the BIAKelsey conference in the ever-colorful and precarious city of New Orleans. I bring this fact up because I learned of an analogy that will forever change my views regarding Search Engine Marketing. There we were, in a meeting with a prospective client on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency with a beautiful view of the SuperDome. In our discussions, … [Read more...] about Day Trading And Pay-Per-Click
Webinar: 9 Things You Need to Know About PPC Analytics
More about this Webinar Running effective PPC campaigns can be competitive and expensive (really expensive if you're not careful!). As a digital marketer, its important for you to run efficient and successful campaigns that create maximum value for your clicks. Are you measuring your campaigns? Better yet, are you effectively measuring your campaigns? In this webinar … [Read more...] about Webinar: 9 Things You Need to Know About PPC Analytics
Move Past ROAS And Think ROI
This week we’ve been discussing PPC challenges we’ve faced and how we overcame them. Having worked primarily with eCommerce accounts, I’ve come to understand that revenue and return need to be reviewed beyond face value in order to determine if a PPC program is truly profitable. In any PPC campaign, whether eCommerce or lead generation, return is the ultimate indicator of … [Read more...] about Move Past ROAS And Think ROI
Why Conversion is Everyone’s Job!
As a PPC pro, you spend your days deep in PPC accounts, writing ad campaigns, working through client needs and pushing to hit goal. You’ve spent considerable time figuring out the best way to get your target to click on an ad or visit your site, but how long have you spent worrying about their experience once there? Hero Conf Conversion Summit, October 14-15 at the NCAA … [Read more...] about Why Conversion is Everyone’s Job!
The Big Lead Gen Mistake You’re Probably Making
Today marks the beginning of series week at PPC Hero. We'll be discussing issues that our authors have faced and how they've been overcome. From lead generation to eCommerce campaigns, we've shared our shortcomings and how we've risen to the challenges. Carrie is first this week, speaking about lead generation campaigns. In PPC we’re constantly checking performance and … [Read more...] about The Big Lead Gen Mistake You’re Probably Making
The Top Women in CRO (Who Should’ve Made Our List)
As most PPC Hero readers know, every year we put together a list of the Top 25 PPC Experts, and in true PPC fashion, we rely on formulas and algorithms, not our opinion, to define what “influential” truly means. Inevitably, it means that well-known, established and traditionally influential experts are plentiful on the list, while other deserving experts—particularly the young, … [Read more...] about The Top Women in CRO (Who Should’ve Made Our List)
How Callout Extensions Helped Increase CTR by 221%
Google announced last week the rollout of callout extensions. More real estate on the SERP for everyone! Your PPC dreams have come true…well maybe not entirely because we still can’t segment tablets, but still, this feature is pretty sweet and a nice addition to the ad extension family. But, do they work? We have been running callout extensions in beta for a few eCommerce … [Read more...] about How Callout Extensions Helped Increase CTR by 221%
Understand The Economics Behind Your Client’s Business
Sometimes while working at a PPC Agency, we tend to forget the bigger picture of our clients’ businesses. The beginning of a client/agency relationship often follows this process: Introduction and familiarization with the paid search accounts Nailing down a paid search goal(s) Understanding the business as a whole and how PPC fits in This process is a great start, but … [Read more...] about Understand The Economics Behind Your Client’s Business
Multi-Channel Attribution – A Story of Ice, Fire & Last Click Attribution Death
Whether we like it or not, multi-channel attribution is part of our digital marketing world - just as Game of Thrones has become part of mine. Understanding where each piece falls in the conversion funnel and how much credit should be given at each step, is crucial in maximizing conversions. We all know this, right? But that doesn’t mean it’s any less confusing! Well today … [Read more...] about Multi-Channel Attribution – A Story of Ice, Fire & Last Click Attribution Death
PPC Roundtable – AdWords Close Variants
As we end series week we'll be looking at a once optional feature that will now be mandatory. If you haven't heard, AdWords will soon be removing the option to exclude exact and phrase match keyword variations. This impending update has caused much stir in the PPC community. We asked our authors what they think of the change. What are your thoughts on Google's decision to … [Read more...] about PPC Roundtable – AdWords Close Variants
Why We Track Conversions And How To Implement
When setting up a PPC account one of the first things you should consider is how to determine account success. Asking yourself this question is imperative to ensuring your efforts and dollars are valuable and resulting in revenue. Setting Up Conversion Tracking If you are a retail business you will likely want to track your shopping cart thank you/order confirmation page … [Read more...] about Why We Track Conversions And How To Implement
