Just in time for holiday season Google announces the roll-out of Target ROAS (Return On Ad Spend) bidding in AdWords. This recent release is part of the flexible bidding strategies suite and ongoing initiatives to improve real-time bidding in AdWords. Target ROAS bidding will be rolling out across all accounts over the coming weeks. As all the good little digital marketing … [Read more...] about New Target ROAS Bidding In AdWords
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Increase the Power of AdWords Scripts With a Few Simple Edits
AdWords scripts are a powerful tool for making changes in your account. They can both alter entities in your account as well as make reporting a breeze. The main issue for most users is, what’s next? Sure the scripts you find from Google or others are useful, but they don’t always do exactly what you would like them too. This issue continually surfaces in questions and requests … [Read more...] about Increase the Power of AdWords Scripts With a Few Simple Edits
How to Create a PPC Budget
New companies enter the PPC marketplace daily. We see it first-hand as we bring on new clients who require their accounts to be built from scratch, or with our current clients as they see increased competition in their vertical. Whether it’s your first time diving in to paid search marketing or you’re opening up a test budget for a new segment – the following tips will help you … [Read more...] about How to Create a PPC Budget
Easily Increase Your Leads with Bing Phone Extensions
This week Bing unveiled the next set of enhancements for their ads. This time it’s call extensions, something I am very excited about. What is the Big Deal? Phone extensions are a tremendous source of traffic for some of our clients at Hanapin. The extensions not only draw attention to your ad, the offer an alternative way to contact your business. This is especially … [Read more...] about Easily Increase Your Leads with Bing Phone Extensions
AdWords Cross-Device Estimates. Good or Bad?
Google announced yesterday the release of the new Estimated Total Conversions for search ads in AdWords. This first part of the release, cross-device conversion tracking, will help provide advertisers with estimates on how AdWords search performance influences conversions for businesses across multiple devices and eventually phone and in-store conversions. Google said this day … [Read more...] about AdWords Cross-Device Estimates. Good or Bad?
9 Tips for Improving Cost-Per-Lead
When it comes to PPC account management, I feel like most techniques are geared towards growth and forward progress…and for good reason! I mean, who would prefer to only get the yellow part of the cotton candy and miss out on the blue and pink?! If you can have all three – what would that take? If you can find more conversions for your account – what would THAT take? However, … [Read more...] about 9 Tips for Improving Cost-Per-Lead
Case Study: 78% Lower CPAs With Dynamic Remarketing
In the final part of our September 'dynamic' series we're going to look at dynamic remarketing and how it has fared for us so far. We've already looked at Dynamic Search Ads, Dynamic Keyword Insertion, Using AdWords Scripts, and Bing's Dynamic Parameters. ----- Back in August we took a dive into some of the most recent feature changes in Google AdWords. The one that most … [Read more...] about Case Study: 78% Lower CPAs With Dynamic Remarketing
Why You Can’t Manage AdWords Without A Multi-Device Strategy in 2013
I was presented with a pretty big account a couple of months ago from one of our Clients who asked me for help to build out their future strategy. They came to me with the following talking points. We think we’re doing pretty well in Search and we don’t need much external help (yes, this was their first talking point) We need someone to help us set up a system for our … [Read more...] about Why You Can’t Manage AdWords Without A Multi-Device Strategy in 2013
Hero Conf 2014 Registration is Now Open!
The headline is easy: Registration for the world's largest all-PPC conference is now open. For those in the know, that means your chance to reserve a spot at the PPC event of the year begins today (at a steep discount!). Here are the vitals: What: A Three-Day, All-PPC Digital Marketing Conference (As Always) When: April 28-30, 2014 Where: The Hilton Austin in Austin, Texas … [Read more...] about Hero Conf 2014 Registration is Now Open!
How Dynamic Search Ads Can Fill The Gaps In Your Account
For this month’s series, PPC Hero is concerned with all things dynamic. We’ll be discussing topics ranging from Dynamic Search Ads to Dynamic Remarketing, as well as asking the age-old question of “Does Dynamic Keyword Insertion actually work?” If it can be automated, scripted, or dynamically generated, we’ve got it – so stay tuned! What Are Dynamic Search Ads? This article … [Read more...] about How Dynamic Search Ads Can Fill The Gaps In Your Account
#ThinkPPC Webinar: Tracking and The Ever-Expanding PPC Highway
The world of PPC is constantly changing. With social ads, various lead types (online, phone, live chat, etc) and big league players like Google and Bing we need multi-channel tracking to accommodate these changes. As the months in 2013 count down we're seeing more and more avenues to track. So it's really no surprise that PPC Pros have tracking on their minds. Join renowned … [Read more...] about #ThinkPPC Webinar: Tracking and The Ever-Expanding PPC Highway
Big AdWords Certification Changes Are Coming
As many of you may have seen in your inboxes over the weekend, Google is changing the way that they run things when it comes to their certification program. In the words of the email that was sent out, “Google Partners is coming to an agency near you.” Starting September 30, 2013, the old certification program is being replaced by Google Partners. One of our all-time most … [Read more...] about Big AdWords Certification Changes Are Coming
