So you inherited a PPC account. You took charge of things, won the client over, and planned and executed your account-wide optimization. Things should be going swimmingly, but suddenly you realize that the account isn't performing as you had planned, and worse yet, you aren't reaching your goals. What do you do? First of all-DON'T PANIC! Take a deep breath and allow … [Read more...] about Learn What to Do When Your Account Optimization Doesn’t Work as Planned
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Inheriting the Account
Best Practices for Transferring PPC Accounts between Managers You want the transfer of the PPC accounts to go as smoothly as possible. Therefore, you need to acquire the necessary account information from the previous manager in a courteous and professional manner. The client may already have all of the information you need, but you still may need to contact the previous … [Read more...] about Inheriting the Account
How to Set Up Proper PPC and Analytics Tracking
Whether you're starting a PPC account from scratch or inheriting a large account from another agency or manager, the story should start pretty much the same. "Once upon a time in PPC land, I opened a Google Analytics account and double-checked that all of my traffic and conversion tracking was implemented correctly." Maybe this process isn't a fairy tale, but ensuring you … [Read more...] about How to Set Up Proper PPC and Analytics Tracking
How to Make Large Changes without Negatively Affecting Your AdWords Quality Score
One of the first instincts when inheriting a PPC account is to start making changes immediately in order to start making progress. The spirit of this instinct is great, but you need to be aware of how changes within your account can potentially harm its performance if done incorrectly and without caution. The effects of making rash changes to a PPC account are the most … [Read more...] about How to Make Large Changes without Negatively Affecting Your AdWords Quality Score
How to Gain Access to a Pre-existing PPC Campaign
There may be times when one inherits a client from a search engine marketing firm but, despite many best efforts, the firm will not provide access to the client's existing PPC account. According to Google's terms and conditions, however, if you can answer a series of security questions about the AdWords account, Google will grant you administrative access. If your … [Read more...] about How to Gain Access to a Pre-existing PPC Campaign
How to Streamline and Optimize Your Account Structure
To create a winning account structure, once you have all of your keywords, break them out into "silos." Silos are specific categories that are highly targeted to a specific page on your site or category of your site. Once you have broken up your keywords into silos, break the keywords up even further according to the buying cycle. That is, group your keywords into ad … [Read more...] about How to Streamline and Optimize Your Account Structure
How to Manage and Optimize Second-tier PPC Search Engines
Within this document, and on our blog, we focus mainly on Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter. This is because these search engines own the lion's share of the search industry. However, second-tier search engines can generate supplemental traffic, leads, and revenue if they are managed and monitored properly. Each second-tier PPC search engine has a unique user … [Read more...] about How to Manage and Optimize Second-tier PPC Search Engines
Grasp the History of an Account by Reviewing a Few Key Metrics
Understanding performance history is critical to making the future of the account successful. If you inherit a PPC account from another management firm or another company, it's important to begin running reports and gathering important data on key metrics you will be measuring. Here are the key metrics that are important in every PPC campaign. This is a good checklist that … [Read more...] about Grasp the History of an Account by Reviewing a Few Key Metrics
Get to Know Your Client’s Website and Landing Pages Quickly
There is a series of steps you need to complete to quickly review your new client's landing pages and website. The purpose of this review is to make sure that all of the lead/sales tracking measurements are in place and that data is being tracked correctly. Review analytics tracking code: You would be surprised at how many companies are not running analytics on their … [Read more...] about Get to Know Your Client’s Website and Landing Pages Quickly
Four Quick Ways to Expand Your Negative Keyword List
Another extremely important tactic to successfully inheriting and optimizing a PPC account is to build a negative keyword list. Having a comprehensive negative keyword list can significantly improve not only your CTR but also your conversion rate. Below you will find a list of resources that we use to build a robust negative keyword list: Search Query Report Run a Search … [Read more...] about Four Quick Ways to Expand Your Negative Keyword List
Expand Your Keyword List Smartly and Efficiently
Keyword research is an ongoing tactic that continuously helps increase the performance of your PPC account. When inheriting a new Google AdWords, Yahoo!, or MSN account, it's important to do a thorough scan of all the keywords in the account and begin researching what new keywords you could potentially add. There are various methods of doing additional keyword research … [Read more...] about Expand Your Keyword List Smartly and Efficiently
Inheriting PPC Accounts: How to Efficiently Transition Ownership and Successfully Optimize a Large PPC Account
Until now, there was no roadmap to help individuals and search engine marketing (SEM) firms successfully inherit and optimize a large-scale pay-per-click (PPC) account. Numerous publications have surfaced about creating PPC campaigns from scratch, but inheriting and enhancing a pre-existing account requires an entirely different skill set. Optimizing a pre-existing PPC … [Read more...] about Inheriting PPC Accounts: How to Efficiently Transition Ownership and Successfully Optimize a Large PPC Account