If you’re managing accounts in multiple search engines, implementing universal changes can be a challenge. Clunky user interfaces, variances in data column names, inconsistent report type availability, all contribute to less than efficient management of otherwise similar information. So, I thought it would be helpful to provide some best practices in managing your PPC campaigns across multiple search engines. Since Google AdWords and MSN AdCenter are the most commonly utilized platforms, I will be focusing on the best ways to …
Archive for the ‘AdWords Editor’ Category
Google AdWords Editor is a free, downloadable application that makes managing your AdWords advertising campaigns a breeze. AdWords Editor enables you to make changes to your account quickly and conveniently, whether you’re editing one keyword or adding hundreds of text ads. The PPC Hero team loves AdWords Editor and we use it on a daily basis. And you should too!
3 Easy Ways To Prep Excel Worksheets For The AdWords Editor
Excel by itself can be a beast to tame, but add that to needing to use it to prepare uploads for the AdWords Editor, and you’ve got Cerberus on your hands if you don’t know what you’re doing. This week, Dave Rosborough shows us by example three easy tips in preparing an Excel worksheet for uploading to the AdWords editor.
Domain URL Now Makes Some Ads Have the Longest Headlines Ever
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:
Google Voice and Adwords Combine
November 10th, 2010 | Bryan Watson | Ad Texts, Advanced PPC Strategies, AdWords Editor, Analytics, Google AdWords, Reporting / Conversion Tracking, Tools
Many advertisers have run into this common problem—you can’t track the impact that your Adwords campaigns have on sales more than through the amount of clicks that your ads are getting. It’s hard to explain to a frustrated client that yes, your agency is responsible for clicks, but there are other unseen factors that may be affecting sales that aren’t shown in your statistics. Most times, this leads to a frustrating conversation, and hours of pondering as to how to …
Google Is Not Creepy
Every day Google is becoming smarter, and in turn making it easier for advertisers to more effectively reach their target audiences. Now, this could be viewed as another supposed step towards world dominance as referenced in jest in some of our roundups, or merely another great and easy way to more accurately and continually reach a solid base of potential customers. What I’m talking about is remarketing and interest-based advertising—which has been around for quite some time, but not …
Align your bids with your CPA within 5 minutes using AdWords Editor and Excel
That’s right, changing your bids isn’t something you want to spend a lot of time on, and if your goal is to reach a certain CPA (or CPL, CPS, CPO, etc.) it doesn’t have to take you much more than a couple of minutes, even for large accounts.
But before giving you the theory and step by step instructions, there are a few things we should agree on about the kind of bid management we’re going to do:
- ‘Great bids can’t fix
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PPC Made Easy: Learn How Google’s AdWords Editor and Microsoft’s adCenter Desktop Can Simplify PPC Management
Our week-long series of PPC time saving tips is now in full swing! Today I’ll be discussing how Google’s AdWords Editor and Microsoft’s adCenter Desktop can simplify your PPC management. Being the PPC geek that I am, when Google released Editor, I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. While I’m comfortable using spreadsheets
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5 Good Reasons to Use Google’s Adwords Editor
October 4th, 2007 | Amber | AdWords Editor
Google’s AdWords Editoris a free desktop application that will make your AdWords management a breeze. With Adwords Editor, you can make major and minor changes to your account quick and easy. In this post I will highlight just a few ways this helpful application can you save time and headaches!
I think one of the best things about Adwords Editor is that you can
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