It's important to understand that in PPC, you're often part of a bigger picture than you realize. Whether in-house or agency, there are many moving parts– external non-Google display buys, social networking, old media advertising, SEO, webinars... the list is virtually endless. It can be easy to slip into an egocentric viewpoint and say to yourself: "Surely, I'm the only person … [Read more...] about How to Catch an Affiliate Red-Handed in PPC
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Fine Tune Your Remarketing Campaigns with Membership Duration Segments
Remarketing campaigns continue to be an effective tool to drive conversions at low CPAs. The more you dive into the rabbit hole of remarketing, the opportunities of segmentation seem endless. One area that is a good starting point for experimenting with remarketing segments is creating remarketing lists by membership duration – a.k.a how long to follow visitors. What is … [Read more...] about Fine Tune Your Remarketing Campaigns with Membership Duration Segments
Better Attribution Modeling – AdWords or Analytics?
A few days back I read this post about AdWords’ Attribution Modeling being released within the UI. It is a great feature to have in AdWords, but as mentioned in the post, this information does not show us the whole story. In this article I will compare Attribution Modeling in AdWords and Analytics. What are the main differences in how Attribution Modeling works in AdWords and … [Read more...] about Better Attribution Modeling – AdWords or Analytics?
See the Future of Your Bids With AdWords’ New Bid Simulator Columns
Earlier last week AdWords announced on Google+ that they had launched a shiny set of new columns for our keyword report tabs. These columns are designed to give us quick access to the bid simulator data that was previously only available on a keyword by keyword basis. Google is providing data to show what would happen at plus or minus 50%, plus or minus 300% and at top of page … [Read more...] about See the Future of Your Bids With AdWords’ New Bid Simulator Columns
What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
As part of this month's PPC Hero series, we're diving in to the little known, oft-neglected, and unknown reports that you can use to turbocharge your PPC performance. I don't know about you, but "little known", "oft-neglected", and "unknown" definitely sounds like the Bing Report Center to me. But I'll caution you: ignore this resource at your peril. You can make up for 99% of … [Read more...] about What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
3 Facebook Reports You Should Be Running
As PPC Heroes, we like to think we’ve got all sorts of magic stuffed up our sleeves. Truth be told, there are plenty of approaches we use that may be less common to the outside world. That’s why this week’s *Series Topic* is just that: Underutilized Reports. This week we’ll go over reports we use in AdWords, Bing, Facebook, and Google Analytics that we find to be particularly … [Read more...] about 3 Facebook Reports You Should Be Running
Mobile App Exclusions – How Flappy Birds Tanked My Display Campaign.
As I’m sure most of you are aware, with the roll-out of Enhanced Campaigns we are all now opted into tablets and mobile for AdWords campaigns. While you can set bid modifiers to -100% to opt out of mobile with full browsers, you are not able to do so for tablets. This can be a real bummer for some accounts but this is nothing new. The reason I bring up this topic, is because in … [Read more...] about Mobile App Exclusions – How Flappy Birds Tanked My Display Campaign.
Overspend and You: Why Your AdWords Spend Goes Over Budget
We’ve all seen our daily campaign budgets seemingly ignored by the AdWords system. It is usually not too big of a deal, just a few dollars here or there. Once upon a time I believed this probably happened because the system didn’t react in time to a series of clicks and ended up pausing the campaign after the budget was passed. “Oh well, at least it was close” is what I told … [Read more...] about Overspend and You: Why Your AdWords Spend Goes Over Budget
Your Take on AdWords Compliance: Take the Survey!
Take Our Quarter 1 Industry Report! Last year's State of the PPC Industry report was so popular, we decided to do it a little more often than once a year. From now on, we'll be providing quarterly surveys and updates on the PPC Industry. This quarter, the survey asks about Google's enforcement of compliance issues. Take three minutes and let us know - How do you feel about … [Read more...] about Your Take on AdWords Compliance: Take the Survey!
How to Test Foreign Markets with AdWords
Editor's Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf guest post contest. Based on a combination of pageviews and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the finalists we post throughout the week. Today's post comes to us from Justin Seibert (@domjbs), President of Direct Online Marketing. Selling products into a new country can seem … [Read more...] about How to Test Foreign Markets with AdWords
Use AdWords Scripts to Quiet the PPC Noise
The job of a PPC manager is busy, complicated, and every once in a while just a little tedious. But with Google AdWords scripts, processes can be automated, redundant tasks can be eliminated, and you can focus on the more important, strategic aspects of the job. Scripts are something we've been talking about a lot here on PPC Hero, for no other reason (really) than that we … [Read more...] about Use AdWords Scripts to Quiet the PPC Noise
When Less Has to Be More – Working with Limited Budgets
Editor's Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf guest post contest. Based on a combination of pageviews and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the finalists we post throughout the week. Today's post comes to us from Julie Friedman Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon), Founder and President of Neptune Moon. In a perfect world, we would all … [Read more...] about When Less Has to Be More – Working with Limited Budgets
