That's right: 2014 is right around the corner, and that must mean it's time to start making plans for next year. If I may humbly suggest penciling one event into your calendar (and then using a Sharpie), it should be Hero Conf 2014! The new site is now live, and here's a fun preview of all its glory: Oooh. Aaah. Even though Registration is not yet open, a lot of the details … [Read more...] about NOW LIVE: Hero Conf 2014 Site, Dates and Location!
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Optimize For Offline Conversions With New AdWords Conversion Import Feature
Why hello offline conversions in AdWords, where have you been all my life? Optimizing lead gen accounts in AdWords just got a little sweeter with the release of the new AdWords Conversion Import feature. The Conversion Import feature allows advertisers to track the entire sales cycle from ad click, to offline conversions AND THEN… import these offline conversions back into … [Read more...] about Optimize For Offline Conversions With New AdWords Conversion Import Feature
Why Aren’t Your Quality Scores Higher?
“Why are some of our keywords sitting at 3 or 4 Quality Scores? How can we make those better? Shouldn’t you just work on increasing CTR?” Similar to my previous post on what a ‘good’ CTR is for your PPC campaigns, quite often we hear questions surrounding account Quality Scores and what is being done to proactively improve them. Let’s get the obvious out of the way… YES – … [Read more...] about Why Aren’t Your Quality Scores Higher?
Making Your Facebook Ads Native
A few months back, The Ad Contrarian -- a hardcore skeptic around Facebook ads, if ever there was one -- wrote the following about Native Advertising [emphasis mine]: Nobody seems quite sure what they mean by native advertising. But I think I know what they mean. They don't know it yet, but they mean using traditional advertising strategy on the web. They mean that if you … [Read more...] about Making Your Facebook Ads Native
Stop Wasting Time On MCC Data With Cross-Account Conversions
Since the release of Google Tag Manager, we have continued to confirm Google’s suspicions that yes we do like simplification of processes. The newest feature available is the Cross-Account Conversion Tracking option. Cross-conversion tracking is the placement of one snippet of conversion code across multiple accounts in your MCC. You create a conversion that spans all of these … [Read more...] about Stop Wasting Time On MCC Data With Cross-Account Conversions
4 Easy Ways to Watch Your Account Without Going Crazy
Whenever I talk to people about PPC and what I do, I'm always quick to mention the paradoxical nature of the job. It requires you to be "patiently urgent" - always balancing your immediate deadlines for implementing new ads/keywords or making changes to meet your performance goals... then waiting to watch the results of your work come in, and determining your next steps once … [Read more...] about 4 Easy Ways to Watch Your Account Without Going Crazy
6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
It comes up often, and I’ll admit in my younger PPC days it made me shudder: “So if you’re charging us a fee based on spend, doesn’t that mean you’ll just push the spend to increase your fee?” Well, let me start by saying – yes…if we were real scumbags who didn’t want to keep you around as a client for the long-term. Of course I realize that’s not the ANSWER, but it’s always … [Read more...] about 6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
Webinar Recording – Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate
Join renowned PPC experts Matt van Wagner and Neil Sorensen as they tackle the PPC automation debate in our latest #ThinkPPC webinar discussion, moderated by our own Sean Quadlin. Due to some technical difficulties we do not have a video for you from this webinar, however, we do still have the audio and power point slides! Bonus Questions and Answers with Sean … [Read more...] about Webinar Recording – Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate
3 Heist Movie Rules That Can Really Help Your Conversion Rates
Today's post is brought to you by PPC Hero Ally Dave Bird, the CEO of Clickthroo, a landing page marketing solution. -- As far back as you can remember, you’ve always wanted to be a gangster; the admiration, the respect, the scores of scantily clad babes walking in and out of your luxury beach house – it sure does beat the regular 9 to 5. Instead you chose a life of … [Read more...] about 3 Heist Movie Rules That Can Really Help Your Conversion Rates
ACE Your Account – AdWords Experiments and You
Taking Advantage of AdWords Experiments AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) is a great but overlooked feature in AdWords. ACE allows you to test structural changes, bid changes, new keywords, or modify all sorts of things inside your campaigns. All you have to do it define the ratio of the split test, what you want to test, the length of the experiment, and AdWords takes care of … [Read more...] about ACE Your Account – AdWords Experiments and You
How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
The Visitors Flow report in Google Analytics gives a great visualization of what users are doing on your site. Since we PPC’ers are paying for our traffic, it is imperative that we have maximum clarity into their behavior. You can investigate your sweet, sweet traffic using all sorts of lenses, and you can use the information that you find in all sorts of ways in this awesome … [Read more...] about How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate [Webinar]
In the world of pay-per-click advertising, the hunt for efficiency never ends. So it's really no surprise that PPC automation (running campaigns with software, scripts and apps) has gained steam in recent years. But when is it truly useful--and when isn't it? Join renowned PPC experts Matt van Wagner and Neil Sorensen as they tackle the PPC automation debate in our latest … [Read more...] about Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate [Webinar]
