Okay, so we all know that Google continues to have the highest volume of searchers compared to Bing and Yahoo. In the last comScore Search Engine Share release, Google has 63.8% of the search engines share. Bing has 21.3% and Yahoo has 12.4% of the remaining search market share. In 2017, when the next market share report is released we can expect a few shifts, but we do not … [Read more...] about Why You Should Rethink Your Bing PPC Strategy
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PPC Chores: A Mid-Winter Cleaning
Spring cleaning. Every time Spring rolls around, all you hear is “it’s time for a little ‘spring cleaning’”. I don’t know about you, but when the weather finally does turn pleasant, I do not want to spend my time indoors cleaning. Which is why I am a huge fan of “Dead of Winter Cleaning”. A little elbow grease and organization now means you will be reaping the benefits by MLB’s … [Read more...] about PPC Chores: A Mid-Winter Cleaning
Testing New Bidding Strategies Through AdWords Experiments
If you are feeling the surge toward automated bidding but are unsure of where to begin, you are in good company. Whether it’s a client’s uncertainty or your own, handing over the reins of power is unsettling. However, don’t let feelings of doubt hold you back. AdWords experiments provide an opportunity to test new (and old) features. While there are many ways to utilize AdWords … [Read more...] about Testing New Bidding Strategies Through AdWords Experiments
The Case For PPC Creative In Multiple Languages
For many advertisers, business boundaries extend far beyond the borders of their home country. Once leaving the safety of the primary market, it's likely that advertisers will need to explore multilingual account coverage. Many advertisers will attack this expansion opportunity by going one of two routes: Door #1: The "close enough" by running duplicated English campaigns … [Read more...] about The Case For PPC Creative In Multiple Languages
Why My PPC Clients Use Call Tracking
In PPC it is important to know how many leads you have and where they come from. This is simple enough to do in AdWords if you are only using Google as your paid channel or Google Analytics if you have more than one marketing channel. Another question my clients ask about their leads is “How good is that lead?” Because of this, my clients use call tracking and as a marketer, I … [Read more...] about Why My PPC Clients Use Call Tracking
Breaking CRO Best Practices: You Can Do It!
In the world of expertise, where you focus on honing your skills in one facet of digital marketing, sometimes you’re required to perform outside of that facet. Digital marketing is an environment affected by a myriad of variables both controllable and erratic. We can be insanely brilliant PPC gurus but when it comes to optimizing the post-click experience CRO can become a … [Read more...] about Breaking CRO Best Practices: You Can Do It!
Announcing The PPC Hero Summit!
Prepare the coffee and snacks, secure a conference room for your whole team, have your phone close for a selfie photo, and get ready for 3 hours of training and fun with real, live PPC Heroes! Wait, what's this Summit thing again? The 2018 PPC Hero Summit is a 3 hour online digital summit featuring 6 PPC sessions with the writers behind PPC Hero. Are you: Looking for a … [Read more...] about Announcing The PPC Hero Summit!
New Features In Bing Ads To Get Excited About
Last week, I presented a Bing updates webinar in partnership with Purna Virji, Senior Manager of Global Engagement at Microsoft. There were so many new features to be excited about that I had to share with our entire PPC Hero community as well. Here’s what we talked about: New Automated Bidding Strategies In addition to eCPC bidding, Bing has added a few more options to their … [Read more...] about New Features In Bing Ads To Get Excited About
New Yahoo Gemini Power Editor Features And More
Back in October, the new Yahoo Gemini Power editor beta was released and I could not have been more excited. Yahoo finally released an editor that allows for bulk uploads and easier control over all Yahoo Gemini campaigns. This post is going to walk you through the features of the new power editor and how it can save you valuable time that could be better spent sending gifs and … [Read more...] about New Yahoo Gemini Power Editor Features And More
Facebook Ad Placement Best Practices
We’ve all seen the Facebook Detailed Placements update made last year, but do you really understand how each placement works and how it can help improve the performance of your campaigns? Depending on your campaign objective, you have the option to select between many placements. It’s recommended to opt into as many placements as possible to help Facebook’s algorithm … [Read more...] about Facebook Ad Placement Best Practices
How to Visualize Last Year’s PPC Data – and Learn From It
As a PPC professional, you hold yourself accountable for developing smart strategies and delivering optimized results. It’s critical to know how your Google AdWords campaigns performed last year and what you can do differently this year to improve. With all the reports available, it should be easy, right? Sadly, there’s a catch. But Orbiter PPC Data Visualizations can … [Read more...] about How to Visualize Last Year’s PPC Data – and Learn From It
4 Ways to Connect Your Paid Search & Shopping Campaign Efforts
Paid Search and Shopping campaigns in Google AdWords are sometimes looked at as separate entities and in other circumstances users don't even realize the difference in targeting tactics between the two. They do run quite a bit differently on the same network, which can cause confusion. Sometimes, as online advertisers, we get questions such as, “which keywords are we targeting … [Read more...] about 4 Ways to Connect Your Paid Search & Shopping Campaign Efforts