Geotargeting has been around for well over a decade, but its recent developments have made it a game-changer in helping marketers reach the right audience and boost online traffic. Companies all over the world use geotargeting for their pay-per-click (PPC) marketing campaigns to strengthen their strategy and drive new leads. Large corporations like Target and Walmart … [Read more...] about How To Implement Geotargeting in Your PPC Campaigns
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Why You Should Test Target ROAS Bidding for Shopping Campaigns
For many Ecommerce businesses, AdWords shopping campaigns can make up a large share of PPC traffic, and often a significant proportion of overall revenue. The importance of these campaigns can sometimes provoke paralysis on the part of digital marketing managers; it’s easy to adopt the attitude of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” when the prospect of even a small dip in … [Read more...] about Why You Should Test Target ROAS Bidding for Shopping Campaigns
AdWords Announces Upcoming Changes To Enhanced CPC Bidding
Beginning in early June, AdWords will be rolling out changes to Enhanced CPC bidding (ECPC). You’ve probably been seeing the below notification when logged into the AdWords interface. Keep reading to find out what changes are being implemented and how they could affect account performance. What’s Changing? Currently, ECPC is an automated bidding strategy that increases … [Read more...] about AdWords Announces Upcoming Changes To Enhanced CPC Bidding
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
When Should You Create New Campaigns?
There are many reasons why it makes sense to create new campaigns and other times when it is not a good idea. If your account is budget constrained, you may want to consider additional ad groups instead of campaigns. The one exception is you always want different campaigns for different networks. Search, Display and Remarketing have different performance statistics and spending … [Read more...] about When Should You Create New Campaigns?
AdWords Call-Only Campaigns – Who Should Use Them?
On February 20th, 2015, Google announced Call-only campaigns, though the option to only receive phone calls on mobile has been around since soon after the introduction of call extensions in January of 2010. The phone call only option for call extensions changed the manner in which ads from those campaigns appeared on mobile phones. Instead of clicking an ad to go to the … [Read more...] about AdWords Call-Only Campaigns – Who Should Use Them?
Getting Your Shopping Campaigns Holiday Ready
Product Listing Ads are now found within Google Shopping campaigns. Unlike text ads, these ads show photos of products, along with prices and product names right on the search results page when people search for items on Google. Product Listings are a crucial piece of online sales for Ecommerce accounts during this time, so make sure your accounts are ready. Google has … [Read more...] about Getting Your Shopping Campaigns Holiday Ready
13 Reasons You Should Geo-Target PPC Campaigns
Multiple accounts that I manage daily use city or state specific geo-targeting at the campaign level. While we have the option to use geo-bid modifiers across the campaign, this type of segmentation takes optimization to the next stage. Inside every paid search account manager, there is a control freak. Targeting campaigns at the city level gives us that much control over our … [Read more...] about 13 Reasons You Should Geo-Target PPC Campaigns
Dominate Your Enhanced Campaign Bid Adjustments with New Google Analytics Report
As we wrap up the first week of the official Enhanced Campaign migration and start to gather all the data we can to optimize our accounts in the brave new world of enhanced campaigns, Google Analytics comes in to save the day with the announcement of enhanced campaign Bid Adjustment Reporting. Google Analytics now allows you to view how your bid multipliers are preforming by … [Read more...] about Dominate Your Enhanced Campaign Bid Adjustments with New Google Analytics Report
Three Ways to Account for Mobile Traffic in a Post-Enhanced World
For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. Just over one year ago I wrote a post entitled You’re Closer to Being … [Read more...] about Three Ways to Account for Mobile Traffic in a Post-Enhanced World
2 Useful Ways To Improve Your Campaigns With New Analytics Change History
When big changes, like Google's Enhanced Campaigns, hit the news stream, people can’t stop talking about it. But what about all of those changes that occurred amidst the confusion and excitement that no one ever noticed? In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the first time ever and only hours later the world's attention was pulled away by new Taylor Swift gossip. As Enhanced … [Read more...] about 2 Useful Ways To Improve Your Campaigns With New Analytics Change History
Enhanced Campaign Answers: Webinar Recording
We approached this webinar with the idea that Google’s Enhanced Campaigns update to AdWords had a lot of people asking questions, and it didn’t take long for that little hypothesis to prove correct! Watch the recording below to see Jeff Allen & Sam Owen of Hanapin Marketing, Larry Kim of Wordstream and Elizabeth Marsten of Portent answer common questions, including the … [Read more...] about Enhanced Campaign Answers: Webinar Recording
