Back in October I ranted about organized structuring and how much it can help you with the following: Reporting (You can report on different levels more easily) Optimizing (Account updates become easier with a clean account structure) Quality Scores (Ad copy to keyword relevance) Build Outs (Growing accounts becomes easier) In January, I continued on this rant, going … [Read more...] about PPC Account Structure and Organization Part III
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On Demand Webinar – Leveraging Micro-Moments: Using PPC When It Matters Most
On Demand Webinar Leveraging Micro-Moments: Using PPC When It Matters Most Presented by Your On Demand Webinar is located below. Please be sure to bookmark this page for future access to this webinar. A webinar transcript is available below. Click here for a pdf of the webinar transcript. Webinar Transcript Kevin: Hello everyone, welcome to a webinar presented by … [Read more...] about On Demand Webinar – Leveraging Micro-Moments: Using PPC When It Matters Most
A Newbie’s Jumbled Thoughts On Hero Conf 2015
For the PPCer on Twitter, not much sucks more than staying back at work while all of your PPC friends tweet about the awesomeness they are having at a conference. During last year’s Hero Conf, I participated in this gang of glum and only managed to find a brief glimpse of happiness by tweeting the #HeroConf tag enough to appear embodied on the big screen at the front of the … [Read more...] about A Newbie’s Jumbled Thoughts On Hero Conf 2015
Using Top vs Other Rather Than Average Position for Bidding
Every month on the third Wednesday at Hanapin Marketing we have a training day where we each participate in running sessions to help train the team and keep the balance of knowledge in the industry across the company. This past Wednesday the team debated utilizing "Top vs Other" data rather than Average Position when making bid changes. What's Wrong with Average … [Read more...] about Using Top vs Other Rather Than Average Position for Bidding
How Do You Structure Your Ad Groups?
By now everyone has heard the general consensus on common ad group setup practices. An ad group should have a limited number of keywords, be related to one another, and be relevant to the ads and landing pages. Each one of these items is important but leaves ambiguity in the actual implementation. If you spend any time thinking about these you’ll arrive at more questions than … [Read more...] about How Do You Structure Your Ad Groups?
Identify The Best Structure For Your PPC Account
Prior to setting up your PPC account, you must strategize what type of structure works best for management and the direction you and the company will take the account moving forward. So much work goes into keyword research, ad copy messaging, bidding strategies and more, but one of the most crucial decisions is identifying the best structure for your account. You should … [Read more...] about Identify The Best Structure For Your PPC Account
My Experience With An Adult PPC Client
Editor’s Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf Guest Post Giveaway. Based on a combination of pageviews, shares and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the 4 finalists we post throughout the week. Today’s post comes to us from Joe Martinez (@MilwaukeePPC), Search Marketing Specialist at Top Floor. At the agency I work for, I … [Read more...] about My Experience With An Adult PPC Client
Easy Ways To Measure The Value of Branded Campaigns
It's a common occurrence for clients to question the value of brand campaigns. From their perspective they often see a brand campaign as being spend that cannibalizes conversions from the organic listings. We have covered many times on PPC Hero why brand campaigns are important, so I won’t get into selling the importance of the branded campaign. I will cover how you can measure … [Read more...] about Easy Ways To Measure The Value of Branded Campaigns
Creating A Full Funnel Marketing Strategy With AdWords
I find that the more I learn about SEM, the more I realize I don’t know. There are many layers of sophistication that we can build into our campaigns and targeting to increase performance. The days of matching a relevant keyword with a relevant add and landing page and thinking you are done are behind us. It’s time to get more sophisticated about our targeting and audience … [Read more...] about Creating A Full Funnel Marketing Strategy With AdWords
4 AdWords Editor Features To Save You Time
AdWords Editor is something every PPC Manager worth their salt should be using on a regular basis. Even with the addition of awesome automation tools like Acquisio, Marin, Kenshoo, and the like—there’s still a lot that’s sometimes easier to do or only available through AdWords Editor. The most basic AdWords Editor users will utilize the program for things like adding a whole … [Read more...] about 4 AdWords Editor Features To Save You Time
Making The Case For An Account Restructure
Most of the time, we inherit PPC accounts from new clients or when we take on new positions as in-house managers. I’ve been in the industry for nearly four years, and I have yet to take on a client that came to us with no account. Naturally, we all like things organized a little differently. Some of that is just preference, but some differences in organization can really have … [Read more...] about Making The Case For An Account Restructure
13 Reasons You Should Geo-Target PPC Campaigns
Multiple accounts that I manage daily use city or state specific geo-targeting at the campaign level. While we have the option to use geo-bid modifiers across the campaign, this type of segmentation takes optimization to the next stage. Inside every paid search account manager, there is a control freak. Targeting campaigns at the city level gives us that much control over our … [Read more...] about 13 Reasons You Should Geo-Target PPC Campaigns