Whether you are brand new or a seasoned professional in pay per click marketing, there is always more to learn and changes to be aware of as platforms update their dashboards and continuously roll out new features. This paper will clarify the many uses and choices you can make as you maintain peak PPC campaign performance. In the guide, we focus mainly on Google AdWords, the … [Read more...] about The 2017 Guide to Google AdWords
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Google For Jobs: How Does This Affect Me?
Google for Jobs is a new initiative launched by Google allowing users to receive job search results directly on the Google Search page. A separate box appears after PPC results and before organic results solely containing job search results pertaining to the search query the user typed in. The results are jobs pulled in from third party job posting sites and company job … [Read more...] about Google For Jobs: How Does This Affect Me?
Google Releases New Maximize Conversions Smart Bidding Strategy
Optimizing bids can be the bane of many PPC’ers. We use bid sheets, formulas, macros, and other fun strategies to ensure we are winning the auction and garnering conversions. Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could set up our AdWords campaigns to automatically optimize for conversions or a conversion value without having to do manual adjustments? That is what Google is attempting to … [Read more...] about Google Releases New Maximize Conversions Smart Bidding Strategy
Why I’m Excited For The New Google Attribution
You may or may not have read my post last year about how to use AdWords attribution models, but Google is stepping up their already impressive reporting game and combining their reporting tools to give you one solid platform that incorporates Analytics, AdWords, and DoubleClick. If you own a PPC strategy for your client or company, chances are you use more than one channel … [Read more...] about Why I’m Excited For The New Google Attribution
How To View Bing Spend In Google Analytics
Using Google Analytics data to track performance and find optimization opportunities is crucial for successful PPC campaigns. Getting Bing data to import into GA is simple with Bing’s auto-tagging. Bing campaign spend, however, does not automatically import into GA. If you are using cost per conversion or ROAS data to analyze performance in GA, you’ll need to get the spend data … [Read more...] about How To View Bing Spend In Google Analytics
Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
8/12/2020 What is URL Tracking? URL tracking is the process of adding unique identifiers to your final URLs. If you aren’t tagging your URLs for tracking in either Google Analytics or your analytics platform of choice, you are losing out on helpful information. When you manage pay-per-click campaigns in conjunction with other online marketing efforts, it is extremely … [Read more...] about Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
Tracking Click Events In Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager makes tag placement simple. Many users utilize GTM for placing conversion tags but you can track many other page elements as well. In this article, we’ll tackle a scenario in which we track click events on a webpage. Tracking click events is helpful for sites that don’t have separate confirmation pages. Events are also useful for tracking specific … [Read more...] about Tracking Click Events In Google Tag Manager
Google, Signature Cocktails, And Audience Labs
Once a month, as a team, we take a break from our typical routine to participate in an activity we call Redbop. During Redbop we dedicate most of the day to sharing industry insights, learning new tricks, brushing up on the old ones and everything in between. From time to time we invite guest speakers to join us… Those are always my favorite and not because there are … [Read more...] about Google, Signature Cocktails, And Audience Labs
PPC Audience Targeting From Google To Social
It's easy to get comfortable with Google AdWords and never branch out into the paid social world. Agencies and in-house teams that have been around since the introduction of AdWords in 2000 are often skeptical of branching into the other ad platforms, including Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. However, that's where the growth opportunities lie. It's becoming less … [Read more...] about PPC Audience Targeting From Google To Social
Liveblogging Google Marketing Next 2017
We're excited to be liveblogging the Google Marketing Next 2017 event as updates to AdWords, Analytics, and DoubleClick are announced. Follow along to read our live reactions to these announcements. (TL;DR? Announcements Summary at the end) -- With the 5-min countdown, Google is highlighting a lot of Travel, Shopping, and Mobile stats. Foreshadowing the announcements to … [Read more...] about Liveblogging Google Marketing Next 2017
Live Blogging Google Marketing Next 2017
It's that time again! This Tuesday, 5/23 at 12 PM EST, Google will be announcing their latest marketing innovations at the Google Marketing Next 2017 live stream event. Google will be sharing news about AdWords, Analytics, and DoubleClick. We have you covered at PPC Hero. Emma Franks will be live blogging the event as the innovations are announced. We're excited to see what … [Read more...] about Live Blogging Google Marketing Next 2017
The Complete Google AdWords Shopping Campaign Settings Breakdown
When it comes to paid advertising, Shopping can be one of the most intimidating and complex initiatives to tackle. It has multiple moving pieces with the setup, management, and continued optimizations. Plus, you not only have to manage your campaign on AdWords, but you also have to manage your feed, which can be especially tedious if you have a large, diverse inventory of … [Read more...] about The Complete Google AdWords Shopping Campaign Settings Breakdown
