Google Shopping is the next generation of PLAs. Offering a more retail centric advertising model, advertisers can easily segment their product feeds by categories and labels. This is all well and good but what do you do when performance is...
Landing Page Tips That Should Be Set In Stone [Infographic]
For this month’s infographic, we wanted to emphasize landing page tips that are key to conversion rate optimization (CRO) to go along with this month’s CRO Toolkit, which can still be found over at our CRO Toolkit page on the...
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A Double-Take: Why You Need Call Tracking Now.
We talk about tracking a lot in the land of PPC Hero. Tagging URLS. Google Analytics. Keyword-level tracking. We know that the more data we can pull in means a better view of opportunities. Call tracking absolutely, positively falls into...
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Branded vs. Non-Branded Keywords – Worth It To Budget for Both?
A company’s brand is defined by many things – the people that make up the company, the clients or customers that company serves, the mission the company sets for itself, the messaging that brand uses to market itself…along with a...
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Ad Copy: The Forgotten Ingredient of PPC Success
I find it amazing as pay per click professionals we spend so much time talking about account structure, keywords, and bidding, yet ad copy is treated as an afterthought. After all doesn’t Google Adwords and Bing Ads contain the word...
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Leads, Be Mine: How to Romance Your Target Audience
Valentine’s Day is approaching, love is in the air, and everyone is looking for new and old ways to make a lasting connection with the people they care about. For marketers, that means producing compelling, highly relevant messages that resonate...
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How to Further Refine Your Remarketing Lists
Remarketing can be an effective tool to use when wanting to target a more qualified audience. By focusing on users who have already visited your site, you should be reaching those that have more of an interest in what you...
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How Auditing Placement Data Cut CPA’s by 67%
To most folks, finding (non-Remarketing) success on the Display Network can be an elusive goal. This vast conglomeration of partner sites can, without proper management and restraint, place your paid advertisements in front of just about anyone, anywhere. They’ll usually...
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Grow Leads 17% By Segmenting Search Partners During Bid Changes
Bid changes are a very routine optimization in any account. So routine, in fact, you might have most if not all of it automated. I know in a lot of my accounts I could write out my process for how...
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Google Changes Naming Conventions for Conversion Tracking
Changes are coming to conversion tracking in AdWords. Throughout this month, AdWords will begin rolling out updates to the conversion naming convention, as well as the way they are counted. If you are managing a Google account, you may have...
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Making the Most of the Dimensions Tab in AdWords
A new year means a new start, if you haven’t been utilizing the dimensions tab to date you have been missing out! The dimensions tab provides you with the opportunity to do a lot of top level analysis, moving away...
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Segmentation: A Unique Way To View Account Performance
In my last post 5 metrics I use to measure account success I touched on using Google’s segmentation metrics. Today we’re going to take a deeper look into segments and discuss what they are, and how to best use them....
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