Conversion rate optimization is an important part of PPC management. No doi. It’s a huge factor in the ways that we chose to organize our accounts and allocate our spend. But it’s possible to see more than just conversion rate when looking at the performance of your landing page. Whether you’re trying to promote brand awareness or create a lasting repeat customer list, your … [Read more...] about Big and Angry Landing Page Reports: Go Beyond Conversions
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Organize Like A Pro With AdWords Custom Labels
Clutter is the bane of my existence and I’m convinced it always has been. Perhaps this is why I find myself in a career where structure and organization are so crucial to successful performance. As Account Managers, we are constantly analyzing and manipulating an incredible amount of data on a daily basis, which can make it difficult to keep track of all your keywords and … [Read more...] about Organize Like A Pro With AdWords Custom Labels
3 No-duh PPC Tips That You Forget to Use
PPC is riddled with tips and best practices. Sometimes this means that some of the more simple tips get lost and forgotton. Here are 3 forecasting, reporting and optimization PPC tips that are no-brainers but we often forget to use. PPC Change Forecasting Using Expected Value Amanda wrote a brain tingling post on bookending PPC changes back in April. This gave a … [Read more...] about 3 No-duh PPC Tips That You Forget to Use
How to Optimize Your AdWords Account Using The Advertising Tab in Analytics
This past Wednesday was our company-wide training day, and I thought the presentation I was a part of is something a lot of you might be interested in. We focused on using the Advertising tab in Google Analytics to optimize your AdWords campaign. Now, a lot of this presentation involved me plugging in and running through an actual client account, which I can't publish here, but … [Read more...] about How to Optimize Your AdWords Account Using The Advertising Tab in Analytics
MichelleMSEM’s Q&A with an AdWords Rep About the New Ad Rotation Settings
This post originally appeared on MichelleMSEM and is cross-posted with permission from @michellemsem. For those of you who keep reasonably up to date with the goings on in Google AdWords, you’ll know that they’ve recently made some changes to the ad rotation options. The original 3 settings were: - Optimize for Clicks - Optimize for Conversions - Rotate evenly The most … [Read more...] about MichelleMSEM’s Q&A with an AdWords Rep About the New Ad Rotation Settings
Give Your In-House Team a Little Breather!
Not every company needs to employ an agency full-time to manage paid search. Yup, I said it and I work for an agency. Shhhh…no one tell! The truth is that sometimes keeping either a single individual or a small in-house team for PPC management fits certain corporate level business models much better than hiring an entire agency. But what happens when Google releases a new … [Read more...] about Give Your In-House Team a Little Breather!
How to Improve Low Quality Score Keywords: A Case Study
Google is judging your keywords for quality, judging them hard. There are a lot of ways to improve low quality score keywords, and with Google's new improvements to quality score, they're making it a little more transparent as to what you need to do to improve your low quality score keywords. I've found in my accounts that it's most often ad relevancy and/or expected … [Read more...] about How to Improve Low Quality Score Keywords: A Case Study
Sign The Petition To Keep Control Of Your Ad Rotation Settings
Earlier this week, Sean Quadlin told you all about how Google's New Ad Rotation Setting Are The Devil. Well, it seems you all agree. Neil Sorenson (@iNeils) started a petition to Google to get them to change this setting back to the way it was, when we had control over our ad rotation. As of this posting, there is already 117 signatures! If you agreed with Sean and think this … [Read more...] about Sign The Petition To Keep Control Of Your Ad Rotation Settings
Big Improvements to Quality Score Diagnostics
This week Google announced some very important changes to the status hover button in their interface. It’s a pretty awesome update, y’all. Less than two weeks after a panel at HeroConf where Brad Geddes pined for something like relative quality score as a tool to measure your stock against the competition, this update comes along and gets us a lot closer to just that. The … [Read more...] about Big Improvements to Quality Score Diagnostics
3 View-through Conversion Attribution Problems
View-through conversions are conversions where a customer saw—but didn’t click— a display ad on the display network before completing a conversion. - source Agencies and account managers want to report this, or a portion of these to their clients and bosses, but unfortunately the problem of how to give credit to these conversions always arises. Basically it revolves around, … [Read more...] about 3 View-through Conversion Attribution Problems
New Matching Behavior For Keywords
Today, Google announced some very exciting news. Keyword match types generally make our lives easier, and we are better able to target the traffic with it. But what happens when your keyword is often misspelled? Or when you're an e-commerce company who has to bid on singular and plural terms? This could get very time consuming. This past weekend at Hero Conf, there was a … [Read more...] about New Matching Behavior For Keywords
Bookending: Predict The Success Of Your Optimizations
It's hard to see the forest for the trees when making account changes, sometimes. Meaning, when we get granular in our account changes, which we should, it's often difficult to understand exactly how granular changes will affect the entirety of your account. The best way to remedy this is to utilize bookending. Bookending is a term we use at Hanapin to mean that you've did all … [Read more...] about Bookending: Predict The Success Of Your Optimizations