By now everyone has heard the general consensus on common ad group setup practices. An ad group should have a limited number of keywords, be related to one another, and be relevant to the ads and landing pages. Each one of these items is important but leaves ambiguity in the actual implementation. If you spend any time thinking about these you’ll arrive at more questions than … [Read more...] about How Do You Structure Your Ad Groups?
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Identifying Your Ideal Customer Through Persona Analysis
Many of us view pay-per-click advertising in strictly quantitative terms. Those who hold this viewpoint look at PPC management as a continuous loop of analysis and optimization narrowly based on “what the numbers tell them to do.” Although this is a logical and often necessary philosophy, there’s a more sustainable approach, which I call ‘Persona Analysis.’ Persona analysis … [Read more...] about Identifying Your Ideal Customer Through Persona Analysis
How Yahoo Stream Ads Opened Up Doors For One Client
There’s been a lot of talk about Yahoo Stream Ads (also known as Yahoo Gemini) and its ability to provide results to advertisers. Many are concerned that the platform is mostly for branding and won’t provide a direct path to revenue. While it might not be a perfect fit for every client, there is an opportunity to provide growth to clients who are well prepared to handle “top of … [Read more...] about How Yahoo Stream Ads Opened Up Doors For One Client
How I Would Evaluate A PPC Agency’s Performance If I Were A Client
As the CEO of a 45-person company, I obviously can’t make all of the decisions for the company, nor do I want to. I need to be able to rely on our department heads and managers to drive results. So, I would approach managing the agency like I approach managing Hanapin, focusing on results and behaviors. If Hanapin were to hire a PPC agency, I would not be the person managing … [Read more...] about How I Would Evaluate A PPC Agency’s Performance If I Were A Client
How To Use Historical QS To Diagnose Your Account
It can get really frustrating when you seem to do everything right but Google doesn’t want to raise your Quality Score and you end up paying high bids for no apparent reason. On the other hand, when you do manage to increase your QS to 10 for example, AdWords rewards you big time! Your traffic increases and your costs drop dramatically, but how do you know what change or … [Read more...] about How To Use Historical QS To Diagnose Your Account
[New Webinar with AdRoll!] Optimize Your PPC Retargeting Program To Boost ROI
Retargeting. We’re still trying to figure out if this feature in PPC is really cool or just really creepy. However, no one can deny how powerful retargeting can be for a business. It’s highly effective in bringing back bounced traffic, users that abandoned their lead form and shopping cart and allowing you to amplify all of your marketing channels. On March 26th at Noon EST, … [Read more...] about [New Webinar with AdRoll!] Optimize Your PPC Retargeting Program To Boost ROI
5 Tricks To Make Your Pay Per Click Profitable This Year
With keywords and ad placements growing ever more competitive, it’s important that you’re making full use of every paid search option that’s available and relevant to your business, as well as ensuring that your basic account structure and targeting is fail-proof. So now that the first quarter of the year is almost complete it’s time to make sure your PPC campaigns are … [Read more...] about 5 Tricks To Make Your Pay Per Click Profitable This Year
10 Reasons Hero Conf is the Can’t Miss Conference of the Year!
PPC Heroes know that spring means Hero Conf 2015 is just around the corner. It also means time is running out for your to join an extraordinary lineup of speakers, sponsors and industry pros for two-and-a-half days of exciting content, incredible networking and non-stop fun. It’s all happening April 27-29 in downtown Portland, OR. Still need a little extra help in getting … [Read more...] about 10 Reasons Hero Conf is the Can’t Miss Conference of the Year!
Identify The Best Structure For Your PPC Account
Prior to setting up your PPC account, you must strategize what type of structure works best for management and the direction you and the company will take the account moving forward. So much work goes into keyword research, ad copy messaging, bidding strategies and more, but one of the most crucial decisions is identifying the best structure for your account. You should … [Read more...] about Identify The Best Structure For Your PPC Account
[New Whitepaper!] The Value of Remarketing: Bringing In Your Most Valuable Users
At this point in time, everyone within the marketing field is somewhat familiar with the term “remarketing,” whether you have experience working with it or just know of the name in passing. Remarketing, in a nutshell, is a tool for reaching people who have previously visited your website by dropping a “cookie” on a user’s browser when they visit your website and advertising to … [Read more...] about [New Whitepaper!] The Value of Remarketing: Bringing In Your Most Valuable Users
Streamline How You Write Promotional Ad Copy
Ad copy should generally be refreshed every 4 – 6 weeks, however, some clients run promotions on a regular basis. In order to improve click-thru-rate (CTR) and conversions, we naturally want to emphasize these promotions in our ads. The challenge is that creating these ads can be time consuming, especially if promotions are updated weekly. Once the promotion is complete, these … [Read more...] about Streamline How You Write Promotional Ad Copy
Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
Sometimes, I think there is one single mantra that runs through the mind of every PPCer, “Let’s test that.” Ad testing and conversion rate optimization get a lot of the testing hype, but what about bidding strategies? At intervals, experimenting with bidding strategies gets sprinkled into the testing mix, but not enough. How do we spend money in paid search? The answer is … [Read more...] about Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
