What is a CPA and Why is it Important? Pay-per-click advertising; a field riddled with pesky acronyms. So riddled, in fact, that the name itself is an acronym - PPC! Navigating such a nightmarish landscape of capitalized letters can take a while to get used to, particularly to people starting out in paid media or a layperson getting to grips with their agency’s reporting. … [Read more...] about How To Reduce Your Average CPA
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PPC Rising Stars of 2021
In efforts to continue amplifying folks in the PPC community, we are here with our 2021 Rising Star list. When crafting this list we asked some of our Top 25 Influential PPC Experts for their advice and dived into what each star has contributed to the industry in terms of content creation, social media engagement, participation in virtual/in-person events, and webinars. … [Read more...] about PPC Rising Stars of 2021
The Most Expensive Keywords For 2022
A new visual analysis breaks down the most expensive keyword categories to start the year Google generated $147 billion from search, display, and video advertising revenue in 2021. This is a massive increase of over $68 billion from just five years ago and shows no sign of slowing down. As more companies boost their digital marketing budgets, the cost-per-clicks (CPCs) of … [Read more...] about The Most Expensive Keywords For 2022
6 Tips to Get TikTok Advertising to the Next Level
TikTok a few years ago was what the virtual reality metaverse is now; something that businesses were aware of but unsure how, or even if, they should incorporate it into their marketing strategy. According to TikTok, in 2021, the app enjoyed one billion active users every month. As part of that same year, a Forbes report claimed that TikTok had more downloads than any other app … [Read more...] about 6 Tips to Get TikTok Advertising to the Next Level
How to Track Sales Coming from TikTok
TikTok became a primary platform for users to learn about new products, services, and businesses; therefore, being one of the top platforms for advertisers. A new marketing channel is always a challenge when figuring out the best way to track its effectiveness (aka actual sales and marketing ROI). In this article, we will look at tracking methods for TikTok and … [Read more...] about How to Track Sales Coming from TikTok
Social Media Marketing in 2022: Five Trends to Double-Tap on
Social media is always evolving. Long gone are the days when the platforms were just for socializing and posting status updates. In our digital-first world, social media has become a non-negotiable part of every savvy brand’s digital marketing strategy. The ever-changing users’ behavior and never-ending innovative feature updates from social media platforms keep marketers on … [Read more...] about Social Media Marketing in 2022: Five Trends to Double-Tap on
Tips for an Effective Competitor Landing Page Analysis
Competition is a necessary evil in the business world. If you're not constantly watching what your competitors are doing, you can quickly find yourself out of luck. This is why competitor analysis is such a critical part of an effective PPC campaign. By understanding your competition's strategy, you can better optimize your own campaign and avoid costly mistakes. This blog post … [Read more...] about Tips for an Effective Competitor Landing Page Analysis
6 Ways To Conduct an In-Depth Competitive Audit in 2022
Market analysis plays an integral role in a brand's marketing strategy. It requires businesses to comprehensively study their customers' evident and hidden needs and identify gaps in the market. Analyzing your direct and indirect competition is also an essential part of this equation as it can help you figure out how to place your product for maximum profitability. … [Read more...] about 6 Ways To Conduct an In-Depth Competitive Audit in 2022
Content Marketing and PPC Advertising: Better Together
While some businesses invest solely in one type of advertising and marketing, like social media, others thrive by seamlessly combining multiple strategies, like content marketing and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. Both of these methods can give a boost to your business through improved SEO, more customers, and a more robust online presence. How can your business harness the … [Read more...] about Content Marketing and PPC Advertising: Better Together
Changes to BMM keywords – What we have seen so far and tips for 2022
An introduction to BMM keyword changes For those that aren’t aware, in February 2021, Google Ads began the phase-out of broad match modifier (BMM) keywords – pushing the removal of these from accounts and expanding the targeting capabilities of phrase match to facilitate the losses. Moving forward to July 2021, the change had completely been rolled out, and BMM keywords … [Read more...] about Changes to BMM keywords – What we have seen so far and tips for 2022
How Automation Hurts Rank, And How to Fix It
Imagine you are offered an opportunity to have control of all the creative, copy, and budget in your Google Ads account (or your paid media platform of choice) put in the hands of an anonymous six-year-old user. Each day, you are allowed to tell them whether they should or should not spend money, how valuable a conversion is, and nothing else. This is billed as a massive gain … [Read more...] about How Automation Hurts Rank, And How to Fix It
Ad Fraud is Still a Massive Concern Amongst Advertisers in 2022
Check out PPC Hero’s Ultimate Guide to How to Detect Click Fraud Advertisers spend $455 billion in online advertising per year and $42 billion of it lost due to ad fraud in 2019, according to Juniper Research. In addition, the Wall Street Journal reported that 28% of all web traffic likely comes from “non-human” bots. Why hasn’t ad fraud been stopped yet? In … [Read more...] about Ad Fraud is Still a Massive Concern Amongst Advertisers in 2022
