Account expansion can be a messy business. No matter your methods, whether it’s adding keywords via Google’s Keyword Tool, utilizing templates, or good old-fashioned Keyword Research, you’ll occasionally run in to scenarios where your new additions to the keyword family act like divas and decide to steal the limelight from your more-established terms. This can be especially … [Read more...] about Are You Smothering Your All Time Top Converting Keywords?
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Top PPC Tips For Local Businesses
Here’s the deal – you want PPC to power your business, but you offer a product or service that can only cater to the local community. What options does that leave you? There are really two things I want to focus on – the first is making sure your PPC is as awesome as it can be, and this comes from taking advantage of all the tools and tricks available to you as a local … [Read more...] about Top PPC Tips For Local Businesses
Ultimate Guide to AdWords Remarketing
Remarketing is a powerful tool on the Google Display Network. We've just posted our ultimate guide to remarketing. It not only helps with the basics, it also talks about messaging and experimentation that allows you to get the most out of your remarketing campaigns. Head on over to our guides page to read our newest guide! … [Read more...] about Ultimate Guide to AdWords Remarketing
10 Ways to Decrease Your Display Network CPA
The Display network is a beast. This is just a fact. An even truer fact is that Display will run away with your budget and CPA if you let it. We had a recent request at PPC Hero for some ideas on how to decrease CPA in the Display network, and I figured…let’s just cover some basics that may be getting missed in a panic, as well as a few in-depth options. And I mean, why not … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Decrease Your Display Network CPA
The 5 W’s of AdWords Ad Extensions – Part II
The five W’s return… I’m sure some of you may remember these from grade school as who, what, when, where and why. Together, they create the basic formula for getting the complete story on a particular subject. If you were following along earlier this month, we’ve already covered 4 of the different types of extensions that AdWords has to offer in Part I. For the purpose of Part … [Read more...] about The 5 W’s of AdWords Ad Extensions – Part II
Increase Your PPC ROAS In 2 Minutes With Dynamic Value Tracking
Better measurement of PPC results leads to better Return on Ad Spend. This post walks you through how to increase your ROAS by customizing your Google AdWords conversion tracking code to dynamically pull in order values or assigning values to leads based on the likelihood of a specific lead generating revenue for your business. (Side note, this is probably my most verbose post … [Read more...] about Increase Your PPC ROAS In 2 Minutes With Dynamic Value Tracking
Misleading PPC Competition Metrics: A Case Study
This week, the PPC Hero series team has been uncovering various ways PPC numbers may be slightly skewed or just downright inaccurate (AdWords vs. Analytics data, Google Display placements, etc.). But how can misreported data hurt you from a competitive research standpoint? Competitor research is a portion of account management that must be taken seriously and revisited often, … [Read more...] about Misleading PPC Competition Metrics: A Case Study
Heroview – New and Unusual PPC Auditing Techniques
Stuck in your old PPC auditing routine? Mix things up with our feedback from "British Sam" (Sam Owen of Hanapin Marketing) as he discusses new and unusual PPC auditing techniques in this week's Heroview. __________________________________________ Welcome to today's Heroview everyone, real-time interviews featuring #PPC experts from around the industry! As a reminder, we'll … [Read more...] about Heroview – New and Unusual PPC Auditing Techniques
Top 10 Reasons It’s Good To Be In PPC
PPC is the bee’s knees. It’s trackable, scalable and profitable. PPC can also be incredibly frustrating at times because the work is never done, the credit isn’t always forthcoming and consistent stellar results have led to excellence blindness. After a few long weeks of a lot of lever pulling and client meetings I stepped back and thought about why I do it. Here’s my top … [Read more...] about Top 10 Reasons It’s Good To Be In PPC
Predictive Keyword Research for PPC
I just watched a fascinating video by Rand Fishkin on predicting keyword volume. It’s geared to his neck of the woods (SEO) but was important and insightful enough that I wanted to shed some additional thoughts on predictive keyword research for PPC. What is predictive keyword research? To me, it means getting ahead of a term or topic before it becomes popular. Think about … [Read more...] about Predictive Keyword Research for PPC
Why AdWords and Analytics Don’t Match
In PPC, we live and die by our data. We make recommendations, optimizations, additions, and subtractions all based on the analysis and interpretation of actionable statistics. Millions upon millions of dollars can hang in the balance based on every change we make. With stakes that high, then, it can be incredibly frustrating and/or terrifying when confronted with the idea … [Read more...] about Why AdWords and Analytics Don’t Match
Using Campaign Trends to Write Better PPC Ads
Campaign type is one of the most important things to keep in mind in your ad testing. Calls to action, benefits, punctuation and so much more should all get tested in your account in one way or another (Kayla has a great list here), but the results of each of these tests will vary wildly even within the same account based off of what type of targeting you’re using. I’ve been … [Read more...] about Using Campaign Trends to Write Better PPC Ads
