Hold on to your hats PPC’ers, as Google has announced a big update to AdWords Daily Budgets. As of October 4th, campaigns will be able to spend up to two times the average daily budget. This means on occasion, Google will over-deliver your ads, causing your account to overspend up to twice your set daily budget in the account. While this seems extreme, Google has set in … [Read more...] about AdWords Campaigns Can Now Spend Up To 2x Daily Budget
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Automate Your Budget Projections Using Supermetrics
I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for ways to make my job easier. Anything that makes my day-to-day tasks take a little less time so I can focus more on learning and strategizing PPC is good to me. Recently, I began to utilize Supermetrics, an add on to Google Sheets. Supermetrics can automatically pull in data from across your PPC platforms, (AdWords, Bing, … [Read more...] about Automate Your Budget Projections Using Supermetrics
Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
Last month, I came to you with 3 ways to use ROAS for lead gen optimization. Today, I want to talk about another way Hanapin Marketing has begun embracing “back-end,” atypical KPIs in our PPC strategies and tactics. This example comes from a dynamic, sometimes complicated vertical that blends both lead gen and e-commerce attributes: Healthcare. The Complexity Of Healthcare … [Read more...] about Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
Be Smart In 2017: Use Seasonal Budgeting
What's your 2017 budget? That's the question everyone was trying to figure out in the marketing world over the past 2-3 months. Many got the answer and split the budget up evenly across 12 months and went forward with the year. Others segmented the year into quarters and budgeted on a quarterly basis. Some segmented the budget down to the month. The goal of this post is to get … [Read more...] about Be Smart In 2017: Use Seasonal Budgeting
How To Optimize PPC Campaigns That Are Limited By Budget
In AdWords and Bing, getting alerted about paid search campaigns that are limited by budget are pretty commonplace. If I had a nickel for all the campaigns I have seen that were limited by budget, I would ask "where are these coins coming from and can we talk about 2016 inflation?" When you think of these budget limitations, you might feel inclined to internalize these red … [Read more...] about How To Optimize PPC Campaigns That Are Limited By Budget
How To Use Excel Solver To Power Your 2017 Budgeting
It’s that time of the year again – time to set budgets and get ready for 2017. Not to mention budgeting for some successful holidays. How do you know what to spend on advertising efforts, and how do you know where to put that spend? This is where the use of Excel Solver can come in handy. Are you using it to its full potential? The Solver tool in Excel is an extremely … [Read more...] about How To Use Excel Solver To Power Your 2017 Budgeting
Shared Budgets Now Available In Bing Ads
Recently, Bing Ads announced the global release of Shared Budgets. They have been busy the past few weeks as the platform has rolled out a number of initiatives including Expanded Text Ads and a more comprehensive campaign set up workflow that provides performance estimates along the way. Shared Budgets are just the newest edition so let’s jump in with a few details. How Do … [Read more...] about Shared Budgets Now Available In Bing Ads
Paid Search Budgeting For 2016: Estimating Your Best Budgets
The calendar year is filled with milestones for a Paid Search marketer. From gift-giving holidays to college enrollment deadlines, we all mark our respective calendars with dates and time frames to remember year after year. An undeniably vital time for each and every single one of us is the deadline for Next Year’s Budget. Because this is such an important topic and I’d … [Read more...] about Paid Search Budgeting For 2016: Estimating Your Best Budgets
Advanced AdWords Budget Script
For a newer article on this topic visit: Automate And Better Manage Your Budgets With Scripts At the recent HeroConf in London, I had the pleasure of meeting several customers of Optmyzr. One of them told me they had to spend a significant amount of time ensuring that none of the accounts they managed would exceed the monthly budget set by their clients and that got … [Read more...] about Advanced AdWords Budget Script
Are You Wasting Ad Budget Testing Everything? Use My Little Research Secret To Test Only What Matters
Years ago I learned the concept of market research incorrectly and ended up testing all sorts of variations and continually editing my site and pages in response to low conversion rates. I was testing based on guesswork about what customers might want. Learning to do market research right, as we’ll see, can make a huge difference to conversion rate. My Humble Beginnings With … [Read more...] about Are You Wasting Ad Budget Testing Everything? Use My Little Research Secret To Test Only What Matters
[Industry Report] 70% of advertisers reported increases to their PPC budgets in 2015
The cornerstone of PPC has always been search, however the overarching theme from the past few years is a sharp increase in technologies and platforms utilized by marketers to aid the performance of their overall PPC efforts. With the continued popularity of conversion rate optimization strategies, more sophisticated capabilities within search and expanded targeting in social … [Read more...] about [Industry Report] 70% of advertisers reported increases to their PPC budgets in 2015
Determining The When And How Of Cross-Channel Budget Allocation
Google’s global search market share is 67%. That volume combined with the decent quality of traffic Google provides is the reason why so many PPC advertisers spend 75% of their PPC budget with the engine. But how do you know when it’s time to branch out? Are You Budget Constrained And Running Only (Or Mostly) In Google? Break your campaigns and/or keywords into buckets. … [Read more...] about Determining The When And How Of Cross-Channel Budget Allocation
