Google has heard our requests for more insights into our Product Listing performance, and has replied with the introduction of Shopping campaigns. This newest beta promises to knock the socks off your traditional PLA campaign. The new Shopping campaigns include insights about your product performance, competition, and increased reach for optimizing your bids and settings. To … [Read more...] about How New Shopping Campaigns Are Giving PLAs A Jolt!
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56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
We've seen the leaves changing, sweatshirts adorned with pumpkins, and so much candy everywhere we turn! While we enjoy the fall, that sneaky holiday season is right behind it! If you've not yet begun planning for how to manage your PPC accounts for the holidays, the time is now. Holiday Strategy There are myriad best practices on how to effectively prepare for your … [Read more...] about 56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
6 Excel Tricks to Save Your PPC Life
It comes as no surprise to most of you, but we get a lot of mileage out of Excel in PPC. Seeing as how the AdWords and Bing Editors are capable of accepting spreadsheet uploads, and how each interface can turn out roughly a billion Excel-based reports, it doesn't hurt to brush up on your Excel skills from time to time. While every function listed here isn't always useful 100% … [Read more...] about 6 Excel Tricks to Save Your PPC Life
The PPC Meeting Survival Guide
Some of my favorite topics on this blog deal with case studies analyzing account performance in painstaking detail. It makes sense - this is an intensely data-driven line of work, often requiring hours of analysis. But it's important that we don't lose sight of the other facets of this job, like long-term account strategy, expansion, and (in this case) how to have a great PPC … [Read more...] about The PPC Meeting Survival Guide
PLAs and Repeat Clickers – What Should Be Done?
When Google transitioned Google Shopping over to Product Listing ads back in October 17, 2012 (or on June 11th of this year for a lot of countries outside of the US) many advertisers saw a serious lift in performance. We’ve talked about how to setup and optimize PLAs around here a lot since the transition. For eCommerce advertisers, PLAs have been great. We totally love … [Read more...] about PLAs and Repeat Clickers – What Should Be Done?
Comparison-Shopping Engines: 5 Easy Mistakes to Avoid, Part V
It is series time! One topic that we haven’t really talked much about in our blog are comparison-shopping engine sites. I have worked with multiple online retailers that have seen great success with this type of online advertising. So I want to take this series as an opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery of comparison-shopping. In the previous part of the … [Read more...] about Comparison-Shopping Engines: 5 Easy Mistakes to Avoid, Part V
Comparison-Shopping Engines: How to Optimize CSEs, Part IV
It is series time! One topic that we haven’t really talked much about in our blog are comparison-shopping engine sites. I have worked with multiple online retailers that have seen great success with this type of online advertising. So I want to take this series as an opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery of comparison-shopping. So you have decided to advertise on a … [Read more...] about Comparison-Shopping Engines: How to Optimize CSEs, Part IV
Comparison-Shopping Engines: The Do’s & Don’t’s of Three Popular CSEs, Part III
It is series time! One topic that we haven’t really talked much about in our blog are comparison-shopping engine sites. I have worked with multiple online retailers that have seen great success with this type of online advertising. So I want to take this series as an opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery of comparison-shopping. Following my last article about the top 10 … [Read more...] about Comparison-Shopping Engines: The Do’s & Don’t’s of Three Popular CSEs, Part III
25 Ways PPC Has Changed In The Past Year
For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. -- This month we're looking at the exciting world of changes. More specifically … [Read more...] about 25 Ways PPC Has Changed In The Past Year
Comparison-Shopping Engines: The top 10 CSEs, Part 2
It is series time! One topic that we haven’t really talked much about in our blog are comparison-shopping engine sites. I have worked with multiple online retailers that have seen great success with this type of online advertising. So I want to take this series as an opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery of comparison-shopping. In my first blog post of this series I … [Read more...] about Comparison-Shopping Engines: The top 10 CSEs, Part 2
What Newcomers to PPC Need to Know
The staff of PPC Hero has gotten together this month to answer a simple question: What advice would you give to someone brand new to PPC? Amanda West-Bookwalter When starting out in PPC, your best quality will be sticking to best practices . Don't try to stray away from this for a while. You may see more experienced PPC managers blogging about really cool concepts that … [Read more...] about What Newcomers to PPC Need to Know
Comparison-Shopping Engines: A deep dive into comparison-shopping engines & strategies, Part 1
Comparison-Shopping Engines: An Overview It is series time! One topic that we haven’t really talked much about in our blog are comparison-shopping engine sites. I have worked with multiple online retailers that have seen great success with this type of online advertising. So I want to take this series as an opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery of … [Read more...] about Comparison-Shopping Engines: A deep dive into comparison-shopping engines & strategies, Part 1
