Morning Clicks is your mid-week roundup of digital advertising news and notes. We're your one-stop shop for the most relevant and important news in the PPC world. Grab your cup of joe and come see us every Wednesday morning. Google's new AdWords policy will finally be in effect this month. What differences will we see? [Search Engine Land] Speaking of difference-makers … [Read more...] about Morning Clicks: Facebook becoming a Threat to YouTube? Twitter Becoming a Store?
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How To Turn Competitive Analysis Into Actionable PPC Gains
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu – The Art of War PPC Let’s face it – managing a PPC account doesn't happen in a vacuum. We tend to … [Read more...] about How To Turn Competitive Analysis Into Actionable PPC Gains
Morning Clicks: Advertisers are Butt of Jokes from Adobe/HBO, and More.
Morning Clicks is your mid-week roundup of digital advertising news and notes. We're your one-stop shop for the most relevant and important news in the PPC world. Grab your cup of joe and come see us every Wednesday morning. Wherein Adobe unveils an humorous ad, and oblivious marketers are the butt of the joke. [Digital Buzz Blog] Look's like Time Inc's digital advertising … [Read more...] about Morning Clicks: Advertisers are Butt of Jokes from Adobe/HBO, and More.
Everything You Need To Know About PPC Ad Extensions
Search ads are no longer just about headlines, description lines and display URLs. Ad Extensions now also play a huge part in the appearance and success of our ads. Take a look at this ad from Walmart I saw the other day. Notice how more than 50% of the space taken up by this ad comes from extensions of various types. Why Are Ad Extensions Important? There’s Lots … [Read more...] about Everything You Need To Know About PPC Ad Extensions
5 Tips For Better PPC Lead Quality
Lead generation can be a tricky game when it comes to PPC. In eCommerce, someone purchases a product and revenue is immediately generated from that conversion or sale. When focusing on lead gen, the initial conversions can be deceiving because while you may generate 20 leads, maybe only 2 convert into revenue, sale or whatever your final action may be. Below are 5 tips that … [Read more...] about 5 Tips For Better PPC Lead Quality
Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
A good click-through rate is one of the most fundamentally important parts of any paid search account. It's the primary metric Google uses to judge us, determine our quality scores and set our cost-per-click (CPC) in the auction. However, loads of us still make the mistake of treating every click equally. We're taking a lazy approach with our ads and accepting aggregate data … [Read more...] about Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
As part of this month's PPC Hero series, we're diving in to the little known, oft-neglected, and unknown reports that you can use to turbocharge your PPC performance. I don't know about you, but "little known", "oft-neglected", and "unknown" definitely sounds like the Bing Report Center to me. But I'll caution you: ignore this resource at your peril. You can make up for 99% of … [Read more...] about What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
How to Test Foreign Markets with AdWords
Editor's Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf guest post contest. Based on a combination of pageviews and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the finalists we post throughout the week. Today's post comes to us from Justin Seibert (@domjbs), President of Direct Online Marketing. Selling products into a new country can seem … [Read more...] about How to Test Foreign Markets with AdWords
Posts 15-18/30: 18 Lessons From My First 18 Days
You’ll notice I am grouping several posts in a bunch. I had to somewhat-true up my blog series to the actual number of days I have been President while not just writing a bunch of fluff. I made the decision to write one better post incorporating my experience and what I am learning then trying to break it up into smaller chunks. Feel free to tell me in the comments if you … [Read more...] about Posts 15-18/30: 18 Lessons From My First 18 Days
5 Key Ingredients For Holiday Website Greatness
For November’s series we’re diving into the exciting world of the holiday season. With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas and Boxing Day (for our non-American friends) all approaching quickly we’re sharing our favourite tips & tricks for strong holiday-PPC results. Carrie dived into the exciting world of holiday ad copy earlier and now I’m going to take a look at all the … [Read more...] about 5 Key Ingredients For Holiday Website Greatness
Case Study: How Spinning Out Mobile Ads Got 19% Higher CTRs
Last week I was fortunate to get to chat with Brad Geddes about all things ad testing during our #thinkPPC webinar. For those of you familiar with Brad's work or who have seen him speak, you'll know he has a tendency to say something incredibly obvious that you somehow had never thought of before. In this case he mentioned a simple approach to dealing with the messy business of … [Read more...] about Case Study: How Spinning Out Mobile Ads Got 19% Higher CTRs
6 Cool New Advertising Options In Google AdWords
It seems like it's been a crazy few weeks at the Googleplex with the amount of new features that have been added into AdWords. We're going to take a quick look into 6 of the different features available that you might not have heard of and want to get set up in your account. RLSA - Remarketing Lists for Search Ads What is it? RLSA stands for Remarketing Lists for Search … [Read more...] about 6 Cool New Advertising Options In Google AdWords
