Months of planning, weeks of implementation, days of scrambling, and one extended "break" hoping it all pays off. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday officially in the books, digital marketers are quickly diving back into the data to see where opportunity lies for December. While the first weekend of the holiday season is a good indicator of PPC account health, there is plenty … [Read more...] about 5 Fast Fixes For Your Holiday PPC Strategy
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When You Need The Right Negatives Use Phrase Match
Last month, I gave my point of view on phrase match and when to use in segmented campaigns when the value of the word order matters. This method is especially true for brand and even many non-brand terms. As another example, the term "affordable marketing" as a modified broad match keyword (+affordable +marketing) is going to have a search terms report that looks a lot … [Read more...] about When You Need The Right Negatives Use Phrase Match
9 Essential PPC Tips For The Health And Wellness Marketer
Calling all Health and Wellness Marketers! We totally understand how crazy competitive your life is in the PPC world, especially since right-hand side ads were removed earlier this year. According to Google Healthcare Trends, 1 out of every 20 searches are related to health and fitness. Needless to say, the state of your PPC can make or break your success in this … [Read more...] about 9 Essential PPC Tips For The Health And Wellness Marketer
Determining The Weight AdWords Puts On Quality Score Factors – A Case Study
The most mysterious part of AdWords is said to become less of a mystery in the coming weeks. Google will reveal to us a bit more about how they calculate quality score, but how much more, we have to wait and see. The work of improving quality score has been challenging over the years. Even for our brand terms, we get as little as 5. In order to see the most improvement in … [Read more...] about Determining The Weight AdWords Puts On Quality Score Factors – A Case Study
When You Need To Have The Right Words Use Phrase Match
In early 2014, I wrote a post at a previous agency that outlined the proper way of breaking out match types that I had started to implement with some fellow colleagues once enhanced campaigns came out the prior year. After the initial creation of these campaign types, I continued to optimize and create a larger strategy around match type segmentation including how to … [Read more...] about When You Need To Have The Right Words Use Phrase Match
3 Steps For A Stress-Free Vacation From PPC
You work hard and don’t often miss work. Sometimes you need a vacation or time off for whatever reason. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that when you are away the person watching your account is taking care of it just like you would? They would have everything they need to make decisions for the best of the account. Taking away the stress that happens when you leave your account … [Read more...] about 3 Steps For A Stress-Free Vacation From PPC
Be In The Know About The 4 Latest Bing Ads Updates
If you haven't been paying attention, Bing Ads has recently released a slew of updates. Many of these updates follow the AdWords train and should be welcome by PPC professionals. In this post, I'll go over these 4 crucial updates. Expanded Device Targeting Bing Ads is now giving us more control in setting bid adjustments by device so we can more effectively manage campaigns … [Read more...] about Be In The Know About The 4 Latest Bing Ads Updates
The Top Ten Tips For Effective Dayparting
Over the past year, I've started to truly embrace a new life motto: if it takes less than ten minutes to do, do it now. When it comes to optimizing a PPC account, ten minutes is a drop in the bucket. As digital marketers, we are left forever seeking those 0.01% incremental gains in hopes that soon enough they will amount to radical improvements. With that said, determining … [Read more...] about The Top Ten Tips For Effective Dayparting
Should You Be Creating Device Specific Campaigns?
Back in August, it was announced that Google would allow device bid adjustments on computers and tablets, and not just on mobile devices. With this announcement came the capability to segment campaigns once again by device. But creating new device specific campaigns is a lot of work and can potentially overcrowd your account. You need to determine if this tactic is right for … [Read more...] about Should You Be Creating Device Specific Campaigns?
Road Trip – 5 Tips For Creating International Campaigns
I just spent a week in my birthplace of Scarborough, Ontario, and I was surrounded by stories about the hometown hero Andre De Grasse and the emotional last show from the Tragically Hip and so much Justin Trudeau contemplation. I was also immersed in very specific paid search advertising based on my IP address. I was amused that while looking at the same search … [Read more...] about Road Trip – 5 Tips For Creating International Campaigns
Discover 3 Levels Of Geo Targeting For Beginners, Intermediates, & Experts
In paid search, setting geographic targets is day one. Whether it’s to exclude places you cannot sell or serve or to specifically target your primary customer base, the implementation of geo-targets is on the must-do list for a proper PPC campaign. Having cleared that up, we’re now onto the next layer of questions: Intro: How to I create this kind of targeting? … [Read more...] about Discover 3 Levels Of Geo Targeting For Beginners, Intermediates, & Experts
Be In The Know About Upcoming Improvements To AdWords Automated Bidding
Last week, Google announced Smart Bidding for AdWords and DoubleClick Search as the new name for automated bidding. Smart Bidding is considered auction-time bidding since bids are decided on an auction by auction basis. If you are using any of the bidding strategies listed below, you are already taking advantage of Smart Bidding. Target CPA Target ROAS Enhanced … [Read more...] about Be In The Know About Upcoming Improvements To AdWords Automated Bidding
