As you wander through your AdWords account, you may come across an interesting option you haven’t noticed before in the drop-down menu that allows you to add/remove tabs from the interface’s main navigational screen. What’s that last option? It’s the topics tab! And if display advertising has a significant role in your PPC advertising strategy, you’re probably going to want to … [Read more...] about Hello, AdWords Topic Targeting!
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Developing a Pay-Per-Click Strategy
We spend a lot of time writing about the do’s, don’ts, and how to’s of PPC but I thought it would be a good opportunity to write about the bigger picture. All marketing plans have to start somewhere and it certainly isn’t without research and loads of planning. This article is aimed at helping you to understand and devise a strategy for your pay per click accounts. Without … [Read more...] about Developing a Pay-Per-Click Strategy
Our Greatest Hits for March 2011
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s and SEO Boy’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from March. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC and SEO management tips. Enjoy! PPC HERO GREATEST HITS: Jessica C. leads the pack this month with her informative article on Adwords … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for March 2011
“PPC for Your Small Business” – A Review
As a PPC expert at Portent Interactive, Elizabeth Marsten has seen her fair share of small business owners looking to start SEM for the first time. Often, these clients are enthusiastic about branching into online marketing but are constrained by unforgiving budgets. For these people, there’s only once chance to do PPC right before advertising money runs dry. This is … [Read more...] about “PPC for Your Small Business” – A Review
Adwords Remarketing Success
Have you tried out the remarketing option in Google Adwords? I’ve been pretty impressed with the results that we’ve seen with this tool so far. Last month, the Hanapin team participated in a Google Webinar for Remarketing, and realized that we’re not utilizing this tool to its full potential. Since then, we’ve been making more of an effort to set up remarketing campaigns in … [Read more...] about Adwords Remarketing Success
To Optimize or Not To Optimize, Google’s New Ad Setting
Many of you have probably already heard Google’s announcement for a new ad targeting feature, announced last Wednesday, which automatically optimizes ads by conversion rate. (Previously the only ad settings were ‘Rotate’, which showed all ads evenly no matter their performance, and ‘Optimize’, which favored ads with a higher click-through rate.) Undoubtedly, this new feature … [Read more...] about To Optimize or Not To Optimize, Google’s New Ad Setting
Google vs. Bing: Targeting Features Part 2
This is the second of a 2-part blog post comparing targeting features in AdWords and adCenter. The first post focuses on Language and Location targeting. Part two covers targeting by Device, Time of Day/Day of Week, and Demographics. Last month I wrote about the differences between the Language and Location targeting settings in Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter. This post … [Read more...] about Google vs. Bing: Targeting Features Part 2
PPC Hero Video Blog #3: The Contextual Targeting Tool
If you've chosen contextual targeting as your approach to the Google Display Network, Google's Contextual Targeting Tool is your new best friend! This tool makes recommendations on how to structure a display network campaign and what keywords to target. Most importantly, this tool gives you insight into how Google identifies themes for ad groups in display network campaigns. … [Read more...] about PPC Hero Video Blog #3: The Contextual Targeting Tool
Facebook: You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
A few months ago I was looking at an account’s stats and my jaw literally dropped. I know I probably shouldn’t have been so surprised, but I was! The account’s Facebook campaign had outperformed its Google Adwords campaign. The Facebook account had spent less than half as much as the Google account, and while the Google account acquired more impressions and clicks, the Facebook … [Read more...] about Facebook: You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
PPC News Roundup for January 21, 2011
Groupon might have rejected Google’s offer to buy them, but that didn’t stop Google from getting into the deal-of-the-day market. Waving the surrender flag isn’t really Google’s style. Mashable broke the story last night that Google has confirmed “Google Offers,” aka—the Groupon Clone, as Greg Sterling of Search Engine Land notes. Google Offers is obviously in the testing phase … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 21, 2011
The End of Behavioral Marketing?
For a while now, behavioral marketing has been under the intense scrutiny of several internet watchdog groups, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, in regards to heightened concern over privacy laws. And recently, this criticism has intensified, leading to many new proposed ideas as to stop advertising platforms from accessing computer browser history in order to more … [Read more...] about The End of Behavioral Marketing?
Case Study: Refining Mobile Campaigns
Last month, our team compiled a review of PPC in 2010 and what we expect this year. Mobile marketing is definitely something we couldn’t overlook. Over 80% of the US population currently carries mobile phones (according to Punchkick Interactive), and Google’s mobile searches increased fivefold in the last two years. If you haven’t considered launching a mobile campaign for your … [Read more...] about Case Study: Refining Mobile Campaigns
