Custom Alerts in AdWords are helpful. At the campaign or ad group level, you can create a custom alert. For instance, you can be notified when your average CPC for all or certain ad groups within a campaign shoots too high over goal. You can tell Google to check it weekly or daily and you can be notified via email. But, in my opinion, creating custom alerts in Google Analytics … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Intelligence: An Invaluable Tool
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News Update: Google Analytics Adds Multi-Channel Funnels
Currently only in limited beta release, Google Analytics has added a new feature, Multi-Channel Funnels, to aid advertisers in their marketing efforts. As reported by Google, the main function of Multi-Channel Funnels is to be able to see all the “players” who “assisted” in a tracked and completed conversion. Typically speaking, the last ad clicked gets all the credit for … [Read more...] about News Update: Google Analytics Adds Multi-Channel Funnels
News Update: Google Partners with Digitas For Enhanced Mobile Marketing Insights
Yesterday, Google announced their partnership with Digitas, in an effort to provide advanced mobile marketing usage research data to Google advertisers. This partnership will allow Google to combine their original marketing data with Digitas’ search and marketing research to better identify mobile trends and user behavior. The availability of this extra information will … [Read more...] about News Update: Google Partners with Digitas For Enhanced Mobile Marketing Insights
News Update: New Resource Library for Google AdWords Certification Program
Earlier this week, Google announced the launch of a new resource library in their AdWords Certification Program portal. For those of you PPC Heroes out there interested in getting your Google AdWords Certification, this is wonderful news and will make preparing for the AdWords exam much easier. Beyond providing easy access to training resources, the new resource library’s … [Read more...] about News Update: New Resource Library for Google AdWords Certification Program
News Update: The Google Crystal Ball – Adwords Traffic Estimator
The Google team just announced a change in the algorithm behind traffic estimates for your keywords. For PPC managers, this update to Adwords is on par with a granted wish from Jambi on Pee Wee’s Playhouse. We all know how important it is to choose the right keywords for our accounts. With Google’s update, you will be privy to more accurate information on click estimates, … [Read more...] about News Update: The Google Crystal Ball – Adwords Traffic Estimator
News Update: Google for Agencies—Resources Streamlined!
In an attempt to make the lives of marketing agency representatives just a little bit easier, Google launched Google for Agencies. This new site’s intentions are to “inspire creative ideas and provide access to the programs, tools and resources to bring these ideas to life—all in a single location,” according the Google blog post . From this site, agency reps can see examples … [Read more...] about News Update: Google for Agencies—Resources Streamlined!
News Update: Google AdWords Call Metrics Charging For Calls
If you’re using call metrics in your Google AdWords campaigns, you should be aware that Google will begin charging you $1 when someone manually dials the number displayed with your ad. There is no charge, however, on clicks from users on mobile devices, so basically this means you’ll only incur the extra cost when someone sees your ad in a traditional Web browser and decides to … [Read more...] about News Update: Google AdWords Call Metrics Charging For Calls
Our Guide To Google Analytics IQ Testing: Regular Expression (Regex) Character Guide
Alas, the fourth and final installment of the Analytics test series: the regular expression portion. While the Google Analytics test might seem daunting, with a little studying, it really isn’t bad at all. Yesterday, Jessica covered event tracking. Previously Erin covered e-commerce tracking and Steve the different types of Google Analytics cookies and how they are each used … [Read more...] about Our Guide To Google Analytics IQ Testing: Regular Expression (Regex) Character Guide
Our Guide To Google Analytics IQ Testing: Event Tracking & Virtual Pageviews
This is the third in our series of collaborative PPC Hero/SEO Boy series which aims to coves the most important aspects of the IQ Test and prepare you to earn a high score. Steve started us off with Cookies in Google Analytics and Erin continued with Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking. Why should we care about event tracking? Because. Event tracking can give you lots of … [Read more...] about Our Guide To Google Analytics IQ Testing: Event Tracking & Virtual Pageviews
News Update: Google’s Instant Preview Comes to the Ad World
Google’s own Inside AdWords blog announced yesterday afternoon that the ever-expanding world of their Instant Preview feature has finally made it’s way to advertising. Their news release explains that the Instant Preview feature for ads works in the same way it does for organic results. A small magnifying glass now appears next to the headline of each ad that populates for a … [Read more...] about News Update: Google’s Instant Preview Comes to the Ad World
Our Guide to Google Analytics IQ Testing: E-commerce Tracking
This is the second installment of a collaborative series between PPC Hero and SEO Boy to help readers prepare for the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Test. This series covers the most important aspects of the IQ Test and will prepare you to earn a high score. While the Google Analytics test might seem daunting, I am here to say it isn’t nearly as difficult as … [Read more...] about Our Guide to Google Analytics IQ Testing: E-commerce Tracking
Our Guide To Google Analytics IQ Testing: C is for Cookie
This is the first installment of a collaborative series between PPC Hero and SEO Boy to help readers prepare for the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Test. This series covers the most important aspects of the IQ Test and will prepare you to earn a high score. Our writers in this series have all scored at least 90% on the test and will provide their personal … [Read more...] about Our Guide To Google Analytics IQ Testing: C is for Cookie
