Welcome to part 3 of our series ‘Starting an AdWords Account From Scratch.’ In this article, we’ll be covering ad writing. Your ad groups won’t start triggering impressions until you have at least one active ad running. Read on for best practices and writing ideas.
In this third post in our weekly Ads in the Wild series, Jeff Sexton of BoostCTR looks at utilizing nostalgia to make searchers connect with your ads.
This is the second in a weekly series of posts from one of our PPC Hero Allies, Jeff Sexton of BoostCTR, where he’ll dissect and analyze ads he sees various places online. Jeff’s “Ads In The Wild” series will give an in-depth look at the philosophy and strategy behind these ads and will provide a lot of actionable advice for anyone looking to improve their ad copy.
This is the first in a weekly series of posts from one of our PPC Hero Allies, Jeff Sexton, where he’ll dissect and analyze ads he sees various places online. Jeff’s Ads In The Wild Series will give an in-depth look at the philosophy and strategy behind thees ads will provide a lot of actionable advice for anyone looking to improve their ad copy.
In my experience with PPC, I’ve always had great performance outcomes from running sales ads. They typically outperformed generic product or DKI ads, but I had never tested different elements within sales ads themselves. When one of my clients was running a Spring sale, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to dig deeper and find out what makes a great sales ad.
In this episode of Ticker Tuesday, we give you a laundry list of new ideas to help improve your PPC advertising ad content, especially in Google AdWords. If you’re looking for new ways to increase your ad’s performance and raise …
To be clear, I selected this title not for brevity, but to highlight that now some of your ads may actually be that long, in the first line. No, not exactly that long, but after this blog you’ll come to understand. So, to start, Google recently has announced that for select top position ads, the domain URL of the display URL will appear next to the headline of your ad, separated by a line like so:
As Co-founder/Director of MeasuredSEM and the former Director of Marketing with Wordstream, Tom Demers (@TomDemers) is one of those PPC experts that many PPC marketers want to talk to. That’s why we chose him to participate in our first-ever live #Heroview – real-time discussions with industry experts via Twitter. There are many SEM experts we at Hanapin Marketing want to meet and learn more about, so we thought you, our readers, would want to hear their advice too! Our Heroviews will be available on Twitter (@PPCHero) and here on our blogs every month. Our interview with Tom Demers, below, is about PPC ad strategy, ad copy, and ad metrics. It’s amazing how much insight Tom was able to cram into 140 characters!
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 will change the way we are able to test ads, however, there are a few things to think about before immediately switching your ad targeting settings to ‘Optimize by Conversions’.
Last week Bryan wrote a great post about the changes Google is making in the way they display ads, so I thought it would be a good idea to call out the unique way Bing lets you insert dynamic text, and …
