Case Studies

Want to see how changes to a PPC account actually effect performance? PPC Hero’s case studies take a look at real-life examples of PPC account changes from beginning to end.


Chasing Tail

Chasing the Long Tail: How Long Should Your Keywords Be?

A great long tail keyword is one of the prized possessions in PPC. If you’ve found an awesome keyword that no one else is using, you can make a lot profit in running unopposed. But there’s a question I’ve always wondered: just how long should you let your keywords get?

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Migrating to Enhanced Campaigns: A Two-Week Trip Report

Since I made the jump to Enhanced Campaigns, Mobile devices are now my highest-spending, highest-traffic device.  I didn’t do it out of desire, mind you, but because of necessity.  It made sense for several of our accounts to opt in …

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I Dare You to Try Out the DCO

For this Month’s Series, we’re going to be talking about new and exciting things that you can test within the wonderful world of PPC.  Take your accounts to the next level with some of these new techniques or tools.   …

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Case Study: Geo Segmentation & How It Can Help Your PPC Campaigns In 2013

Granularity is an important concept for many PPC accounts today. In fact, the way you segment your campaigns and ad groups can have a huge effect on key metrics like conversion volume and CPA. This granular segmentation is particularly useful …

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Is CPM Bidding a Waste of Your Money?

Yes.  Full stop. Answering that question and then calling it a day doesn’t make for a rewarding blog post, though.  I have found reasons that allow you to say CPM bidding wastes your money, and there are also some cool …

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Misleading PPC Competition Metrics: A Case Study

This week, the PPC Hero series team has been uncovering various ways PPC numbers may be slightly skewed or just downright inaccurate, but how can misreported data hurt you from a competitive research standpoint? This post takes a look at a specific account case study and asks…what data can you believe?

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Why I Love My PPC-Only Landing Page (In addition to the 2,000% increase in conversion rate)

In part two of our series highlighting the importance of CROLP (Conversion Rate Optimization/Landing Pages), we’ll be diving into a case study of just how drastically a new landing page can improve performance and conversion rate.  If Kayla’s post yesterday …

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Maximize Efficiency With Dayparting in Small Accounts

Working in PPC is all about making the most of what you have.  Whether it’s maximizing clicks on a budget, meeting (and surpassing) your Cost per Conversion goals, or just massaging your keyword bids to find the optimal position for your …

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Deeper Understanding of CPA Bidding: Best Practices, a Case Study and Breaking It Off

As part of our ongoing series on automation and time-saving, we felt that talking about AdWords’ Cost-Per-Acquisition bidding was a must.  Aside from the Display Campaign Optimizer, which is a whole post in and of itself that will happen at …

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Building A Mobile Landing Page With HowToGoMo: A Case Study & A How-To!

Now that you’ve got Client Buy-In for Mobile and learned about Mobile Landing Page Best Practices, It’s time to build a mobile site if you don’t have one! If you have a Google Rep, I don’t think there’s any way …