There are many reasons why you might want to perform a PPC account audit. You could be taking over an account from another agency, previous manager, or colleague or perhaps you just want to make sure your account set-up is optimal for your company goals. In this guide, we’ll focus on features and settings that can be found in the Google AdWords interface and used to audit your … [Read more...] about [New Whitepaper!] The PPC Account Audit Survival Guide
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6 Simple Physical Store Tactics To Boost Your Black Friday PPC Sales This Season
Black Friday sales have existed long before ecommerce was recognized. For over 50 years, stores have tried and tested ways to ensure they make the most out of the valuable footfalls, even without the luxury of measurability that PPC provides. Though many online advertisers are sharpening their toolkits to prepare for the weekend, too often, I find that ecommerce marketers … [Read more...] about 6 Simple Physical Store Tactics To Boost Your Black Friday PPC Sales This Season
5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
Analyzing the PPC competitive landscape can help provide key insight into performance trends and determine how your ads stack up to competition. By not taking the time to analyze PPC competitors, you could be missing out on huge gaps in your program that could leave your account vulnerable to deep-pocketed competitors driving up costs and stealing impression share. Below, we … [Read more...] about 5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
AdWords Releases New Shopping Metric For The Holidays
AdWords announced yesterday that a new metric called Click Share has been released for Shopping campaigns, just in time for Black Friday. Similar to impression share, the purpose behind this metric is to show where bid adjustments and ad relevancy can be improved to increase traffic. This metric can be found on the product groups tab that we discussed last week. How Does … [Read more...] about AdWords Releases New Shopping Metric For The Holidays
Flash Series: Using Auction Insights for Competitive Advantage
More about this 20-Minute Webinar When it comes to competitor analysis, there is no such thing as too much information. Auction Insights in Google AdWords is a particularly useful tool and can help you not only understand who your competition is, but how you can tailor your strategy to get a more competitive advantage. In this flash webinar, Jeff Allen, President of Hanapin … [Read more...] about Flash Series: Using Auction Insights for Competitive Advantage
Smart Keyword Mining And Growth Is Still Important
Strong campaigns start with a solid foundation of keywords. In order to build the right set of keywords you need to work with your client. If you can gain a fundamental understanding of consumer search behavior you will set the stage for growing the keywords in the account. Most searchers perform multiple if not 10 or more searches prior to conversion. How the consumer … [Read more...] about Smart Keyword Mining And Growth Is Still Important
Making The Case for Attribution: Prove The Entire Value Of PPC To Your Stakeholders
My Google rep recently shared a study with me that stated people spend an average of 5 hours per day online and visit over 10 different sources before converting. For instance, potential customers in my PPC accounts are spending ever-increasing amounts of time on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and review sites like Yelp. They’re researching and discussing … [Read more...] about Making The Case for Attribution: Prove The Entire Value Of PPC To Your Stakeholders
Holiday Promotions Delivered Via Text Message
The end of November is quickly approaching, which means holiday discount hunters are becoming ever increasingly active. Despite many shoppers just beginning the process of making their list, a large portion of the population is already checking it twice. Last year nearly half of all holiday shoppers completed the majority of their shopping on or before Cyber Monday. While PPC … [Read more...] about Holiday Promotions Delivered Via Text Message
AdWords Redefines “Conversions” – Are You Still Tracking What You Thought You Were?
One of the main ways to ensure your PPC campaigns are meeting goals is to use conversion data. As obvious as this may sound, Google hasn’t always made it easy because they report on many different flavors of “conversion” and they have changed the naming conventions and definitions a few times in the last 3 years. With their most recent change to the definition of “conversions” … [Read more...] about AdWords Redefines “Conversions” – Are You Still Tracking What You Thought You Were?
Facebook Audience Insights: Advanced Guide To Creating Personas
How well do you know your Facebook audience? Are you capitalizing on Facebook’s insights to better understand your audience? Facebook Audience Insights is a powerful tool that combines Facebook native data and third party providers (Datalogix, Acxiom, Epsilon, BlueKai) to help marketers uncover deep insights about their audience. In this article, we'll share how to find, … [Read more...] about Facebook Audience Insights: Advanced Guide To Creating Personas
Your Chance At Making A Good Impression
By doing a quick Google search, we can see there are numerous results on best ways to make a first impression, ranging from “how to” to “how long you have.” These articles also feature on the “why." For example, “Why is it important to make a good first impression”? This article from Forbes highlights that you have seven seconds to make a good first impression. It focuses on … [Read more...] about Your Chance At Making A Good Impression
Your Guide To Setting Up Gmail Ads
For a newer article on this topic visit: Gmail Ads Made Easy: The Perfect Guide To Getting Started According to Google, based on the current growth since 2014, 96% of adults use email and 56% of these users use Gmail as their provider. Within the Google Display Network (GDN), you can use Gmail Ads (formally known as Gmail Sponsored Promotions) to reach targeted … [Read more...] about Your Guide To Setting Up Gmail Ads
