8/12/2020 What is URL Tracking? URL tracking is the process of adding unique identifiers to your final URLs. If you aren’t tagging your URLs for tracking in either Google Analytics or your analytics platform of choice, you are losing out on helpful information. When you manage pay-per-click campaigns in conjunction with other online marketing efforts, it is extremely … [Read more...] about Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
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How To Find The Right PPC Audiences
When I am working on an account and trying to optimize the campaigns to the fullest potential, I get stuck in a rut of looking at keywords, bids, and budgets. While these are great and essential ways to create efficient spend in your account, you are treating all users the same. Once you open up the Audience Insights report and think about how to segment your audiences, you … [Read more...] about How To Find The Right PPC Audiences
Universal App Campaigns Vs. Mobile App Install Campaigns
How many apps do you have on your smartphone or tablet? How many of those apps do you use on a regular basis? While I don’t know how many apps I have, I can honestly say I use 30% or less on a regular basis. No matter how many apps you have on your device, the fact of the matter is that before you ever downloaded them, they had to have been placed in front of you in some … [Read more...] about Universal App Campaigns Vs. Mobile App Install Campaigns
The Complete Google AdWords Shopping Campaign Settings Breakdown
When it comes to paid advertising, Shopping can be one of the most intimidating and complex initiatives to tackle. It has multiple moving pieces with the setup, management, and continued optimizations. Plus, you not only have to manage your campaign on AdWords, but you also have to manage your feed, which can be especially tedious if you have a large, diverse inventory of … [Read more...] about The Complete Google AdWords Shopping Campaign Settings Breakdown
The [FUN]damental Guide to PPC for Education Marketers
Crafting a smart and effective PPC campaign can be a vital ingredient to a successful student enrollment strategy. It can help you reach areas you’ve been wanting to break into, geo-target personalized messages to specific campuses if you have multiple locations, and strategically remarket to those students that may have landed on your site but haven’t converted yet. In … [Read more...] about The [FUN]damental Guide to PPC for Education Marketers
How To Get Big Wins In Your AdWords Account
As AdWords advertisers, we tend to obsess over the big wins. Everyone is looking for that special hack that will cut costs and deliver incredible results. So, when someone has a big win, we celebrate it. We write case studies about it. Everyone tries to find a way to make someone else's breakthrough work for them. The thing is, though, while many AdWords accounts have … [Read more...] about How To Get Big Wins In Your AdWords Account
A Guide To Bing Ads Shopping Campaigns
With product ads continuing to see growth year-over-year, it’s vital that advertisers utilize Shopping campaigns now more than ever. Not only do they drive additional revenue but they boost a brand’s presence on the search results page. Last week, I had the privilege to speak on a webinar about Bing Shopping with Rachel Rogowin from Microsoft that can be found here. Today, I … [Read more...] about A Guide To Bing Ads Shopping Campaigns
March Madness Continues: What Excel Tool/Function Rules Them All?
In light of the March Madness season it was thought that we could have some fun and review some of the previous PPC Hero articles on the best ways to utilize Excel in order to more efficiently and effectively manage PPC accounts. First, let's choose the seeds for the respective functions. There are four regions just like in the real tournament for the Excel Tools/Functions … [Read more...] about March Madness Continues: What Excel Tool/Function Rules Them All?
New PPC Account Analysis For Beginners
Looking at an account that is unfamiliar to you can be daunting. There are many things to look at and so many reports to pull. How do you know what’s most important? This post will go through some of the common reports/analysis to pull when inheriting an account. Account Health Checkup / Learn The Lay Of The Land KPIs Key performance indicators (KPIs) are what your client … [Read more...] about New PPC Account Analysis For Beginners
AdWords Text Ads Automatically Changing To Responsive Ads On GDN
If you are running standard text ads or Expanded Text Ads in AdWords Display campaigns, there is a possibility that these ads have been or will be automatically updated to responsive ads. While Google did not release an official announcement, the below alert is displayed on support page on text ads on the Display Network. Advertisers are not able to opt out of this … [Read more...] about AdWords Text Ads Automatically Changing To Responsive Ads On GDN
PPC Video Campaign Targeting Methods You Shouldn’t Forget
YouTube campaigns have always made deeper targeting available to the advertisers. I loved video campaigns from the beginning because I could target by age, gender, parental status, household income, and more. But while those layered targets are great, it’s not enough for me. I’m greedy like the Little Mermaid. “I want to be where the people are.” Don’t laugh. She’s got the … [Read more...] about PPC Video Campaign Targeting Methods You Shouldn’t Forget
Bing Reporting Features And The Pep Talk You Need This Week
In agency life, you most likely manage multiple accounts. So how do you identify which of those accounts need optimizations in a quick and convenient way? Well, lucky for us Bing Ads has added fuller reporting features to the Accounts Summary page. In addition to providing more performance insight across each of the Bing accounts you manage, you’ll also be able to more swiftly … [Read more...] about Bing Reporting Features And The Pep Talk You Need This Week
