With just 15 days left until Black Friday, are your Product Listing Ad Campaigns optimized and ready to go? If not, it’s time to get them ready, ASAP! According to Google 40% of annual retail sales will happen during the holiday season. With Hanukkah a week earlier and 6 less shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the time to start preparing is now! In 2012, Black … [Read more...] about 7 Tips For Getting Your PLA Campaign Holiday Ready
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One More Moving Part To Ad Rank – Don’t Get Left Behind!
This past month we saw the big release of Google’s new approach to your ad position: the Ad Rank Algorithm. This algorithm now looks at an additional factor, expected positive impact of an ad, when determining which ad will show and where. When an auction used to be determined by Quality Score and max. CPC, now if both of those factors are equal, Google will turn to the … [Read more...] about One More Moving Part To Ad Rank – Don’t Get Left Behind!
Making the Call: Call Tracking for PPC [Webinar]
Making the Call: Call Tracking for PPC Call Tracking is a handy tool that can help you take your business to the next level. Right now, you may find yourself asking, "How do I know when to use call tracking and when not to?" Lucky for you, the Heroes at Hanapin and Ifbyphone have an answer for you! This Thursday, one of each company's best and brightest will discuss all of … [Read more...] about Making the Call: Call Tracking for PPC [Webinar]
Pull Any AdWords Data In A Snap With AWQL
We've talked about making changes to your account with scripts, but what about just pulling data? AdWords Query Language (AWQL) adds this ability to quickly pull data and export it. In fact that is what is was made for! AWQL is much faster than using a standard script in both writing and processing. The best news is, it is extremely easy to get started learning AWQL. With only … [Read more...] about Pull Any AdWords Data In A Snap With AWQL
Increase Conversions With Facebook Lookalike Audiences
Facebook rolled out Lookalike Audiences in early 2013. With all the recent changes Facebook has made to the ad manager and conversion tracking since then, I thought it would be worth revisiting the topic as a possible opportunity to drive incremental conversions as we approach the holiday season. Also, in honor of Jeff Allen’s post the other day, I decided to use a picture of … [Read more...] about Increase Conversions With Facebook Lookalike Audiences
7 Life Decisions PPC Managers Have Made
1. To be weird Straight to the point, PPC people are a little weird. Maybe it is the long hours. Perhaps it is the fact that our results are thrown in our face near-real time. It could even be that the weirdo’s are naturally attracted to the hybrid of marketer/IT person that PPC management requires. Either way, we’re a weird bunch and I wouldn’t change it for the world. 2. … [Read more...] about 7 Life Decisions PPC Managers Have Made
How New Shopping Campaigns Are Giving PLAs A Jolt!
Google has heard our requests for more insights into our Product Listing performance, and has replied with the introduction of Shopping campaigns. This newest beta promises to knock the socks off your traditional PLA campaign. The new Shopping campaigns include insights about your product performance, competition, and increased reach for optimizing your bids and settings. To … [Read more...] about How New Shopping Campaigns Are Giving PLAs A Jolt!
Best Practices: Optimizing Your Bids By Time of Day
Ever since enhanced campaigns have come into play, bid adjustments have become the heart of any optimization strategies, and discovering the particular day and time that your target audience converts the most will enable you to increase your accounts’ performance exponentially. There are two options for generating conversion reports that will show you each day’s performance … [Read more...] about Best Practices: Optimizing Your Bids By Time of Day
56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
We've seen the leaves changing, sweatshirts adorned with pumpkins, and so much candy everywhere we turn! While we enjoy the fall, that sneaky holiday season is right behind it! If you've not yet begun planning for how to manage your PPC accounts for the holidays, the time is now. Holiday Strategy There are myriad best practices on how to effectively prepare for your … [Read more...] about 56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
Maximize The Value Of Remarketing This Christmas
October is a funny time of year for retailers; summer is over and the build up to Christmas is just beginning. At this time of year traffic starts to increase but conversion rate might not follow suit. Consumers have started to look for present ideas but are only at the start of the buying cycle. As search marketers we need to be careful not to discount this traffic due to … [Read more...] about Maximize The Value Of Remarketing This Christmas
Boost Your Remarketing Performance With AdWords & YouTube
October's almost over, and with it another Redbop has come and gone. This month, my task (along with Carrie Albright) was to educate the team on how to leverage your video content to improve account performance. And in this case, that meant a whole lot of talking 'bout YouTube. (I could also mention Google TV if I were feeling nostalgic. I'm not. Honestly.) If you've got a … [Read more...] about Boost Your Remarketing Performance With AdWords & YouTube
Social Media PPC: Advertising vs. Content Marketing
I’ll admit it: I used to be the guy that always wanted to get one thing straight -- there was Social Media, and there was advertising on social media platforms. It’s an important distinction because a banner ad on a blog, or a right-hand column ad on Facebook, are, well, ads. Which means the factors that determine success are the same for them as for any other visual “space … [Read more...] about Social Media PPC: Advertising vs. Content Marketing
