This month I’d like to share a script I originally built 3 years ago to help with ad text optimization in AdWords. It’s intended to make sure all ad groups have enough experiments running, and can also be used to create new ads across many ad groups in bulk. It could also be used to clean up the worst performing ad in each ad group. AdWords Script For Bulk Ad Creation The … [Read more...] about The AdWords Script To Create Ads In Bulk
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Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
One of the most effective ways to relay information to your client is via Excel. The plus side is that it’s easy to pull data from most PPC platforms into Excel. The negative side is that it’s not so easy to make this data easy to digest. By taking the time to create a template that you can plug data into, you can save precious time that you can spend on analysis and … [Read more...] about Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
When And How To End Your Ad Tests
It is easy to get started testing ads. Just add two ads to an ad group (hopefully by device type) and suddenly you’re testing ads. However, you won’t see long term improvements in your account until you pause your losing ads. Often determining which ads are losers and when to end ad tests is where the tricky part of testing comes into play. In this article, we’ll examine how to … [Read more...] about When And How To End Your Ad Tests
Let’s Get That Ad Test Started Now!
Ad testing is a topic that comes up quite frequently in the PPC world and, quite frankly, years ago it used to make me cringe! Don’t get me wrong. Ad testing is not only a great practice for your accounts – it’s also a necessary task. Imagine a brand that ran the same TV commercial year after year without ever changing or a company that placed the same ad in the newspaper every … [Read more...] about Let’s Get That Ad Test Started Now!
The 3i’s Of Real, Sustainable Improvement
Managing PPC can be a tough gig. Goals grow, strategies change, engines constantly “improve” their platforms, etc. It’s a special kind of madness that only mad people can love. It also requires a type of patient urgency that few have. You have to have the patience to let tests play out, wait for new clients to come in, and to understand what internal and external influences … [Read more...] about The 3i’s Of Real, Sustainable Improvement
Split Test Different Concepts In Your PPC Ads
You just know as you write the ad that this split test will never complete. But you write it anyway because for the past couple of weeks you have attempted to initiate a split testing practice for the text ads in your AdWords campaign. You can only say attempted a split testing practice rather than achieved a split testing practice because the results are grim. You write the … [Read more...] about Split Test Different Concepts In Your PPC Ads
Stop Using The Same Headline
Writing text ads in AdWords is difficult - except crafting the headline. Every blog and best practice article you read from so-called “experts” tells you to simply include the user's search query in your headline. In fact, Google seems to even encourage this practice by offering dynamic keyword insertion and bolding the matching words in the headline of your ads. So why … [Read more...] about Stop Using The Same Headline
How PPC Impacts Your Business
The general tone around the digital marketing industry lately has been somewhat bleak. Over the last handful of years, specific channels have gotten more and more popular, driving competition to high levels. These factors have together increased prices for many digital channels across all verticals. To continue the difficulty of the market, consumers are becoming more educated … [Read more...] about How PPC Impacts Your Business
Why You Can’t Just Trust Your Split Test Stats
The split test experiment you ran on your ads is complete. You ran two different ads on AdWords, and made sure to test an important variable like the value proposition. You then marked the experiment as complete when whichever program you used told you it was. You took the program at its word - because computers are good at math and began your next split test in the cycle. … [Read more...] about Why You Can’t Just Trust Your Split Test Stats
Top 5 PPC Fails
In 2014, companies plan to spend $55.7 billion on search ads or 46% of total internet advertising dollars according to a recent tech crunch article. Given the massive amounts of money spent on search, I repeatedly encounter the same costly mistakes when I audit paid search campaigns. I’ve put together a list of the top 5 mistakes (FAILS) that I frequently encounter in paid … [Read more...] about Top 5 PPC Fails
Day Trading And Pay-Per-Click
Recently, I was at the BIAKelsey conference in the ever-colorful and precarious city of New Orleans. I bring this fact up because I learned of an analogy that will forever change my views regarding Search Engine Marketing. There we were, in a meeting with a prospective client on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency with a beautiful view of the SuperDome. In our discussions, … [Read more...] about Day Trading And Pay-Per-Click
What I Learned During My First Year in PPC
My 1-year anniversary at Hanapin is this month, and what a year it’s been! From the ten-week training program, to getting my first client, to my first on-site client presentation, it has been a rollercoaster. I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on everything I’ve learned (which has been a lot). Not only the ins and outs of PPC, but soft skills like internal and client … [Read more...] about What I Learned During My First Year in PPC
