With the rise of AI, voice search, and automation, PPCers everywhere are wondering: how is the paid search landscape changing, and how will it affect me? With the changing times comes the challenge of testing new AI features, discernment about how to utilize new features to optimize your post-click experience, and all while staying compliant with Google’s restrictions. To help … [Read more...] about How the Changing Paid Search Landscape Will Impact Marketers
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UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
If you are like most marketers, automation can make you nervous. Universal App Campaigns are one of the simplest campaigns to set up in Google Ads. Simple is a word you like to hear, but how do you know Google will target the right users? How do you maximize performance and ensure you are getting quality conversions? 1) Form a Strategy Forming a strategy is a given for any … [Read more...] about UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
Tracking UAC Performance Through Third-Party App Analytics
Since Universal App Campaigns are highly automated, their success relies on using download and in-app behavior data. Below is a general guide to link and import app downloads and in-app events in Google Ads through third-party app analytics providers. This process may vary depending on which app provider is being used and its capability to send information to the Google Ads … [Read more...] about Tracking UAC Performance Through Third-Party App Analytics
Bing’s New(ish) Automated Bidding Strategies
It seems to have flown a bit under the radar but Bing is slowly rolling out many of the fancy new automated bidding strategies that Google has been pushing as of recent. Bing seems to be an afterthought but lately, I’ve been seeing some good success in the channel once things are tweaked. While Bing & Google are Search at the end of the day, they have their differences and … [Read more...] about Bing’s New(ish) Automated Bidding Strategies
More Breaking News: Amazon Rebrand + Exact Match Update
If you were stoked about us chatting about the Amazon Advertising rebrand, you won’t even need your coffee on this Friday morning. BECAUSE, as the PPC industry always keeps us on our toes, Google announced yet another high-impact update to exact match keyword targeting just last night. Exact match is now more dependent on the meaning and intent of the query matching the keyword … [Read more...] about More Breaking News: Amazon Rebrand + Exact Match Update
How to Lower Your Cost Per View for LinkedIn Video Ads
We've put more focus on LinkedIn in recent months, and for good reason! LinkedIn has made great strides in targeting options and functionality in the last 1-2 years since their acquisition by Microsoft. Those improvements make the platform more appealing to marketers which leads to more testing. More testing equates to more key learnings, which are exactly what I want to share … [Read more...] about How to Lower Your Cost Per View for LinkedIn Video Ads
Max Clicks For Budget-Limited Campaigns: A Case Study
What bidding strategy will perform best for a given campaign? This can be a tricky question. While aggregate data as well as common sense can provide some answers, absent a crystal ball no one can say how any given campaign will perform with a particular automation strategy until it is actually tried. As such, I designed an experiment to run for 8 lead generation campaigns for … [Read more...] about Max Clicks For Budget-Limited Campaigns: A Case Study
Leveraging Optmyzr Part 1: Creating PPC Reports
Hanapin has access to several different reporting platforms. I was curious which reporting platform Hanapin’s team prefers. After sending out a poll, the results revealed our team really only uses 3 platforms, and one of them might surprise you. The top three platforms were: Optmyzr (37%), NinjaCat (26%), and Google Sheets (26%). Over the coming months, I will be highlighting … [Read more...] about Leveraging Optmyzr Part 1: Creating PPC Reports
AdWords Global Site Tag Implementation Guide
AdWords introduced their new site-wide tagging back in October 2017. Like Bing’s Universal Event Tracking, the new AdWords site-wide tagging uses one tag on the entire site with additional event snippets to track conversion actions. The global site tag (gtag.js) will also be used for Google Analytics in the future. There will no longer be a need to use separate AdWords and … [Read more...] about AdWords Global Site Tag Implementation Guide
How to Utilize Different Match Types in Paid Search
With Pay Per Click, keywords are the foundation of our industry. By knowing how the different type of keywords work and how to utilize these match types, you will be able to reduce some unwanted clicks and some wasted spend. We are going to list out the available match types and real-life Search Query Report (SQR) example and why you might want to incorporate this type of … [Read more...] about How to Utilize Different Match Types in Paid Search
What it Means to Provide Value as a Digital Marketer
Value. It’s a concept that we all understand in theory, and we have all certainly faced this question in our professional lives: “What value do you bring?”. It can be a tricky question to answer, and to even begin to answer it we first must have an understand of this word “value”. This is the cliché part where I include a Merriam-Webster definition of “value” Source It’s a … [Read more...] about What it Means to Provide Value as a Digital Marketer
Tools to Help You Survive the GDN Mobile App Changes
This post is a follow up to our first episode of The PPC Newsflash, the new webinar series where we will bring you expert commentary on the newest updates in the PPC industry. See the video below, or if you're multitasking and just want to listen, check out the podcast! Once upon a time, mobile app exclusions were as easy as blocking adsenseformobileapps.com. That feature is … [Read more...] about Tools to Help You Survive the GDN Mobile App Changes
