Our next Hero Conf 2012 speaker transcript is from Brad Geddes, where he sheds some light on quality score. Don’t forget we will be posting our transcripts from last year periodically through out the coming months. Feel free to reminisce or check out what you missed! If you’re more of a straight to the point kind of person and want access to our full 339 page transcript … [Read more...] about Demystifying Quality Score with Brad Geddes
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Update: Google Impression Share Reporting Changes Live
It's finally here! As mentioned in a previous news update, Google has been hard at work updating AdWords Impression Share reporting. As of November 7th, that work has finally come to the PPC general public as detailed on the AdWords Blog here. If this particular change caught you unawares, then you'll need to be updated on the new features, and more importantly - the biggest … [Read more...] about Update: Google Impression Share Reporting Changes Live
Bizarro Analytics With Andrew Goodman
Our next Hero Conf 2012 speaker transcript is from Andrew Goodman, where he talks about Bizarro Analytics. Don’t forget we will be posting our transcripts from last year periodically through out the coming months. Feel free to reminisce or check out what you missed! If you’re more of a straight to the point kind of person and want access to our full 339 page transcript guide, … [Read more...] about Bizarro Analytics With Andrew Goodman
Is CPM Bidding a Waste of Your Money?
For a newer article on this topic visit: Deciding Between CPM & CPC Bidding on Facebook Yes. Full stop. Answering that question and then calling it a day doesn’t make for a rewarding blog post, though. I have found reasons that allow you to say CPM bidding wastes your money, and there are also some cool insights I’ve found about two of the biggest categories … [Read more...] about Is CPM Bidding a Waste of Your Money?
Heroview – New and Unusual PPC Auditing Techniques
Stuck in your old PPC auditing routine? Mix things up with our feedback from "British Sam" (Sam Owen of Hanapin Marketing) as he discusses new and unusual PPC auditing techniques in this week's Heroview. __________________________________________ Welcome to today's Heroview everyone, real-time interviews featuring #PPC experts from around the industry! As a reminder, we'll … [Read more...] about Heroview – New and Unusual PPC Auditing Techniques
Google Display and Placement Fraud – Is Your Money Being Wasted?
The Google Display Network is nearly the whole internet. If you're on auto targeting, even with some contextual keywords, it's going to get crazy. There's obviously always going to be click fraud, which is just like the click fraud you deal with in your Search Network campaigns. But, something I encountered for the first time recently was placement fraud. Now, I've seen MFA's … [Read more...] about Google Display and Placement Fraud – Is Your Money Being Wasted?
Top 10 Reasons It’s Good To Be In PPC
PPC is the bee’s knees. It’s trackable, scalable and profitable. PPC can also be incredibly frustrating at times because the work is never done, the credit isn’t always forthcoming and consistent stellar results have led to excellence blindness. After a few long weeks of a lot of lever pulling and client meetings I stepped back and thought about why I do it. Here’s my top … [Read more...] about Top 10 Reasons It’s Good To Be In PPC
Predictive Keyword Research for PPC
I just watched a fascinating video by Rand Fishkin on predicting keyword volume. It’s geared to his neck of the woods (SEO) but was important and insightful enough that I wanted to shed some additional thoughts on predictive keyword research for PPC. What is predictive keyword research? To me, it means getting ahead of a term or topic before it becomes popular. Think about … [Read more...] about Predictive Keyword Research for PPC
Why AdWords and Analytics Don’t Match
In PPC, we live and die by our data. We make recommendations, optimizations, additions, and subtractions all based on the analysis and interpretation of actionable statistics. Millions upon millions of dollars can hang in the balance based on every change we make. With stakes that high, then, it can be incredibly frustrating and/or terrifying when confronted with the idea … [Read more...] about Why AdWords and Analytics Don’t Match
Using Campaign Trends to Write Better PPC Ads
Campaign type is one of the most important things to keep in mind in your ad testing. Calls to action, benefits, punctuation and so much more should all get tested in your account in one way or another (Kayla has a great list here), but the results of each of these tests will vary wildly even within the same account based off of what type of targeting you’re using. I’ve been … [Read more...] about Using Campaign Trends to Write Better PPC Ads
Google Makes a Big Impression and Bing Adds Sitelinks
You can already do some pretty interesting stuff with the existing Google Impression Share data – my favorite of which, having been taught by Jeff Allen and Sean Quadlin, is reverse engineering your potential maximum budget based on lost Impression Share. Imagine then, if you will, their reaction to last week’s release on the Google AdWords blog detailing the new Impression … [Read more...] about Google Makes a Big Impression and Bing Adds Sitelinks
Top 20 Ad Copy Tests for Improved PPC Performance
The team at PPC Hero has received quite a few requests for more posts on how to improve performance on ad copy and what kind of blog hosts would we be if we didn’t listen? Question: rhetorical. Answering anyway: we’d be the worst kind! Initially I thought this list could be rather 101-level and not very interesting or useful, but then I thought to myself, “Self, have you … [Read more...] about Top 20 Ad Copy Tests for Improved PPC Performance
