Whenever we make changes in an account here at Hanapin we like to do what we call “Bookending”. Essentially this is creating a rough estimate of the projected impact of our changes on spend, conversions, CPA et al. It’s a fairly simple way of mitigating the potential problems at the end of the month that are common with managing PPC accounts: “How did we get so far over … [Read more...] about How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
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Optimize For Offline Conversions With New AdWords Conversion Import Feature
Why hello offline conversions in AdWords, where have you been all my life? Optimizing lead gen accounts in AdWords just got a little sweeter with the release of the new AdWords Conversion Import feature. The Conversion Import feature allows advertisers to track the entire sales cycle from ad click, to offline conversions AND THEN… import these offline conversions back into … [Read more...] about Optimize For Offline Conversions With New AdWords Conversion Import Feature
PPC Reality Vs. PPC Theater
Disclosure: The idea for this post from Chiefmartec.com who gave a great argument against big fancy dashboards that pump data into your brain and for strategic data that helps you make good choices. I see this type of PPC Theater when looking at reports from other agencies, when trying to peel back data I am sent from clients and even internally, at times, when we are talking … [Read more...] about PPC Reality Vs. PPC Theater
Stop Wasting Time On MCC Data With Cross-Account Conversions
Since the release of Google Tag Manager, we have continued to confirm Google’s suspicions that yes we do like simplification of processes. The newest feature available is the Cross-Account Conversion Tracking option. Cross-conversion tracking is the placement of one snippet of conversion code across multiple accounts in your MCC. You create a conversion that spans all of these … [Read more...] about Stop Wasting Time On MCC Data With Cross-Account Conversions
4 Easy Ways to Watch Your Account Without Going Crazy
Whenever I talk to people about PPC and what I do, I'm always quick to mention the paradoxical nature of the job. It requires you to be "patiently urgent" - always balancing your immediate deadlines for implementing new ads/keywords or making changes to meet your performance goals... then waiting to watch the results of your work come in, and determining your next steps once … [Read more...] about 4 Easy Ways to Watch Your Account Without Going Crazy
8 Simple Ways to Leverage SEO Data & Improve PPC Results
As most of you have heard by now, AdWords released a new report within their interface that allows PPC managers to look at paid and organic keyword/query data in one place. With that release, we’re also hearing a lot of you ask about how you can utilize that, and other, SEO metrics and data to increase performance in your paid search campaigns. Well ask and ye shall receive, … [Read more...] about 8 Simple Ways to Leverage SEO Data & Improve PPC Results
6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
It comes up often, and I’ll admit in my younger PPC days it made me shudder: “So if you’re charging us a fee based on spend, doesn’t that mean you’ll just push the spend to increase your fee?” Well, let me start by saying – yes…if we were real scumbags who didn’t want to keep you around as a client for the long-term. Of course I realize that’s not the ANSWER, but it’s always … [Read more...] about 6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
Webinar Recording – Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate
Join renowned PPC experts Matt van Wagner and Neil Sorensen as they tackle the PPC automation debate in our latest #ThinkPPC webinar discussion, moderated by our own Sean Quadlin. Due to some technical difficulties we do not have a video for you from this webinar, however, we do still have the audio and power point slides! Bonus Questions and Answers with Sean … [Read more...] about Webinar Recording – Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate
3 Heist Movie Rules That Can Really Help Your Conversion Rates
Today's post is brought to you by PPC Hero Ally Dave Bird, the CEO of Clickthroo, a landing page marketing solution. -- As far back as you can remember, you’ve always wanted to be a gangster; the admiration, the respect, the scores of scantily clad babes walking in and out of your luxury beach house – it sure does beat the regular 9 to 5. Instead you chose a life of … [Read more...] about 3 Heist Movie Rules That Can Really Help Your Conversion Rates
PPC & SEO Unite with the New Paid & Organic Report in AdWords
AdWords has done it again with the release of another amazing new report that will allow online marketers to analyze and optimize your paid & organic search traffic directly in AdWords. The data is pulled via Webmaster tools and populated in your AdWords account so you don’t have to be using Google Analytics to view the paid & organic traffic. The PPC and SEO gloves … [Read more...] about PPC & SEO Unite with the New Paid & Organic Report in AdWords
ACE Your Account – AdWords Experiments and You
Taking Advantage of AdWords Experiments AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) is a great but overlooked feature in AdWords. ACE allows you to test structural changes, bid changes, new keywords, or modify all sorts of things inside your campaigns. All you have to do it define the ratio of the split test, what you want to test, the length of the experiment, and AdWords takes care of … [Read more...] about ACE Your Account – AdWords Experiments and You
How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
The Visitors Flow report in Google Analytics gives a great visualization of what users are doing on your site. Since we PPC’ers are paying for our traffic, it is imperative that we have maximum clarity into their behavior. You can investigate your sweet, sweet traffic using all sorts of lenses, and you can use the information that you find in all sorts of ways in this awesome … [Read more...] about How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
