Bid/Budget Management

One of the tactics of paid search management that can be extremely tricky is bid and budget management. How much should you bid per keyword? How much is too much? How much is too little? How does my bidding strategy and budget management affect my performance? The answers to these questions are unique for every advertiser. The PPC Hero team provides some great insight into these difficult topics in order to help you create a winning strategy!


Discover The 20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google AdWords

Wordstream conducted a survey to determine the most expensive keywords in Google AdWords. The result was 20 keyword categories that boast the highest CPC and highest competition. Find out if you are bidding on any of these keywords and learn 4 tips on how to effectively compete in these expensive categories.

Using Top vs. Side Ad Segmentation To Make Bidding Decisions

As we reported yesterday, Google announced on Wednesday that you can now choose “Top vs. Side” as a reporting segmentation option within AdWords. Sure, that seems like interesting info, but why should I care? Not like I can tell Google …

AdWords CPA Bidding Basics and Best Practices

The topic for this blog post came directly from one of our readers! Thanks to Dan McMillan who wrote in wanting to know more about CPA Bidding and best practices for implementing it in his account. Well we at PPC Hero write for you, our readers, so read on to learn more about CPA bidding basics as well as best practices to follow when trying it out in your account.

Ticker Tuesday: Bidding Strategies, Part 2

Welcome back to Ticker Tuesday’s two-part series on PPC bidding strategies. In Part 1, we discussed when to raise bids, and when to lower them. In this installment, we’ll be discussing the specific tools Google AdWords has to offer for …

Ticker Tuesday: Bidding Strategies, Part 1

Are you stuck on bidding?  You’re not alone.  Keyword bidding can be a daunting part of PPC management…but it doesn’t have to be! In this episode of Ticker Tuesday, we walk through when it’s a good idea to increase bids, …

Case Study: Bid Changes

As a PPC account manager, I have the pleasure of new and exciting challenges with each new client I take on. Recently, I took on a client that was the pace setter for their PPC industry. What I mean by …

Google AdWords Reporting: An Update Since Summer Changes

As you may have noticed, Google has slowly rearranged several of the reports in AdWords this summer. For those who are new to PPC, or are trying to catch up on all of the changes, I am going to rundown …

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 …

Top 10 Tactics To Help When You Are Projected To Be Over Budget

Working with an unlimited budget would be wonderful, but since that isn’t the case for anyone I know, I thought I’d share 10 things that we look at when an account is projected to be over budget at the end …

Combining Yahoo Interface Reports with the Desktop Tool for Bid Adjustments

The Issue: The keyword report from the interface gives you the average CPC, not your max CPC, and the desktop tool doesn’t show you the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that you will want to see to base your decisions on, …