We all know that PPC campaigns that drive traffic to a website are useless if the landing page is ineffective. That’s why conversion rate optimization (CRO) and a wide selection of CRO platforms exist. Google Optimize is similar to other CRO platforms such as VWO or Optimizely and serves the same purpose; to facilitate landing page testing in order to increase conversion … [Read more...] about How To Navigate Google Optimize – A Free Website Optimization Tool
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When Should You Use Google’s Conversion Action Sets?
When a customer completes an action on your website that you’ve identified as valuable, you call it a conversion. Conversions could be phone calls, content downloads, form fills, transactions, etc. Within Google Ads, you have the ability to create as many “conversions” as you deem necessary for your business. But how do you align each conversion type with its respective … [Read more...] about When Should You Use Google’s Conversion Action Sets?
Preventing and Navigating Google Merchant Center Suspensions
Receiving an email from Google alerting you that your Merchant Center has been suspended is a worst-case scenario for any advertiser utilizing shopping campaigns to promote and sell their products. All campaigns immediately cease delivering and will remain in this state until the Merchant Center is reinstated. Navigating Merchant Center suspensions can be confusing and … [Read more...] about Preventing and Navigating Google Merchant Center Suspensions
Tracking Your Free Google Shopping Ads
(inspired by Curtis K) The idea, “Track Surfaces across Google: Clicks.” Utilizing Google Merchant Center for this information leaves us in the blind. Two things: I personally do not like being in the blind with digital advertising. I like being able to track what I am doing. Yes, it’s micromanagement, and Sam I do not like … [Read more...] about Tracking Your Free Google Shopping Ads
Adjust Your Small Business Strategy With Google Analytics
Do you work with/for a small business that’s struggling with low-funnel ads? Look no further! Use Google Analytics to redefine your goals to make data-driven, informed decisions. One of my former clients sold exclusive, high-end items. Their business model was incredibly unique as their online shop was only open a few times a year. During times they weren’t open, they built … [Read more...] about Adjust Your Small Business Strategy With Google Analytics
Google Unpaid Shopping Traffic – Early Results
What are free product listings on Google? Google Ads announced last month that unpaid shopping product listings would begin rolling out, featuring non-ad based product listings on Google’s Search and Shopping SERPs. With this update, paid product listings will continue to be served at the top and bottom of Search and Shopping results pages, but unpaid listings … [Read more...] about Google Unpaid Shopping Traffic – Early Results
When To Test Google Ads Portfolio Bidding
Automation is a feature that isn’t going away anytime soon and Google continues to offer additional features. Portfolio bidding has been around for a while, but it’s something I’ve just recently started experimenting with after having a lot of success with automation at the campaign level. In this post, I’ll break down portfolio bidding and 5 scenarios when I tested it. What … [Read more...] about When To Test Google Ads Portfolio Bidding
How To Set Up A Macro In Google Sheets
To Google Sheets! The cloud-based cause of, and solution to, all my work-related problems. It’s time again to bask in the glory of the macro. In my last post, How Excel Macros Save Digital Marketers Time, we discussed the various purposes and implementation methods of macros in Excel. In this post, we’ll be talking about the macro’s cooler, more modern brother, the Google … [Read more...] about How To Set Up A Macro In Google Sheets
Audit Google Display Placements Like a Boss
Auditing your display campaign is something that when I started out in the PPC world, I had no idea why or what to do. “It’s getting tons of impressions! Why stop the campaign from doing it’s thing? Don't we want to get our brand out there?” Now I’m a seasoned newbie and understand the importance of being diligent on display campaigns and that auditing is my very best friend in … [Read more...] about Audit Google Display Placements Like a Boss
Create Google Display Countdown Ads Using Rules: Getting Creative With Ad Customizers
Have an upcoming product launch? Want to create urgency to purchase with your ads? Look no further! If you’re anything like me, naturally, you have no sense of time (in my personal life). I am pretty prompt professionally thanks to the help of planners, to-do lists, calendars and enough post-it notes that a small tree was probably harmed in the making. I am definitely that … [Read more...] about Create Google Display Countdown Ads Using Rules: Getting Creative With Ad Customizers
Google Ads Audience-Based Campaign Restructure Case Study
Google Ads keyword-based campaign structure is one of, if not, the most important aspects of driving paid performance in digital marketing at the highest levels of intent. With bad structure keywords compete against themselves, quality scores plummet, bidding and budgeting become erratic and less predictable, among many other cascading issues. Behind campaign structure (because … [Read more...] about Google Ads Audience-Based Campaign Restructure Case Study
How To Double Relevant Google Shopping Volume in 5 Steps
Have you had trouble capturing enough targeted volume via Google Shopping to make it a meaningful revenue source? You have a limited number of characters to play with in your product feed titles, so when you do pick a keyword or two to feature, it will be at the expense of many others. Keyword stuffing your shopping feed certainly isn’t a viable option, but wouldn’t it be nice … [Read more...] about How To Double Relevant Google Shopping Volume in 5 Steps
