Are you ready and prepared for the holidays? Is your agency well aware of the key days for shopping and already preparing your season specific ads to boost your sales? Here are some tips to get ready and succeed this holiday season. Key Online Shopping Days Know the key dates for 2014 holiday shopping: Review Last Year's Holiday Performance You’ll want to start your … [Read more...] about Get Your PPC Campaigns Ready For The Holiday Season
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A Process for Setting PPC Goals
While the topic and importance of PPC goal setting is not new among fellow PPC Hero bloggers, the purpose of this post is to cover my style and approach to goal setting with clients. The first time I meet with a client I have a list of questions. While most of the questions vary, I always ask about goals. I have learned to phrase this question in a deliberate way, because it … [Read more...] about A Process for Setting PPC Goals
Keyword Bidding Strategies That Will Give You the Most Bang for Your Buck [New Webinar!]
Paid search bids are among the core building blocks to a successful account. Because they are one of the many fluid parts of day-to-day performance, it is integral that we understand what bidding strategies are most suited for, for our individual needs. This live webinar, will teach you distinct strategies that are most applicable to account types, as well as the details of … [Read more...] about Keyword Bidding Strategies That Will Give You the Most Bang for Your Buck [New Webinar!]
PPC Ad Rep Survival Guide
When I was first getting into the search marketing industry, I was weary of the ad representatives from Google and Bing who would reach out to me regarding my clients’ accounts. Having little to no experience with them, I didn’t always believe that their recommendations had my clients’ best interests at heart, and often disregarded their presence. However, managing PPC for a … [Read more...] about PPC Ad Rep Survival Guide
Leverage Paid & Organic Results to Boost Traffic to Your Site
We all know that paid ads appear above, to the right, and at the bottom of organic listings, and that the two most likely have an effect on each other. We also know that paid ads have the advantage of appearing at the top of the SERP, and we can easily measure performance by average position. In the PPC world we like to measure and analyze everything, but comparing organic … [Read more...] about Leverage Paid & Organic Results to Boost Traffic to Your Site
10 Ways To Grow Your PPC Account – New Whitepaper!
Pay-per-click advertising can be one of the most effective and efficient marketing channels for driving conversions, traffic, leads and revenue. Once advertisers have had a taste, they are always looking for more ways to grow their market reach in the digital paid-per-click space. In this whitepaper, we cover 10 ways to grow your PPC program including keyword expansion … [Read more...] about 10 Ways To Grow Your PPC Account – New Whitepaper!
PPC Account Structuring and Campaign Building in Excel
For me, the most important thing when looking into a Google AdWords account is structure. It is incredible what a simple, clean structure can do for an account. A clean structure can help you with: Reporting (You can report on different levels more easily) Optimizing (Optimizations become easier with a clean account structure) Quality Scores (Ad copy to keyword … [Read more...] about PPC Account Structuring and Campaign Building in Excel
Make the Most of Your Audience
When developing a remarketing strategy, it is important to consider different ways of reaching a variety of audiences. With this in mind, I recommend linking your remarketing and social media presence through Facebook audience targeting. There are 3 areas that should be considered: standard audience targeting, similar audience lists and remarketing to mail lists. 1) … [Read more...] about Make the Most of Your Audience
The Importance of PPC Industry Certification
An important area on which to evaluate a potential PPC company is their commitment to Industry Certification. Below is a description of the two most common industry certification programs, as certification via these programs indicates an understanding of current industry best practices and up-to-date knowledge of industry strategies. Google Google conducts the most … [Read more...] about The Importance of PPC Industry Certification
Plunging Into New Markets: Social, Mobile, and International PPC [New Webinar!]
Google AdWords is the leading PPC network on the web, however there are some great alternatives out there to plunge your ad dollars into. Have you considered international PPC or trying out advertising on social media like Twitter and Facebook? Discover how you could get into other markets, why you should consider them, and the difference in advertising in other countries … [Read more...] about Plunging Into New Markets: Social, Mobile, and International PPC [New Webinar!]
5 Tips For PPC Success in the Health & Supplement Vertical
Series week continues as we assess PPC management across different industries. Yesterday, Kristina covered the Tourism and Travel industry. Today, Cassie will be discussing the Health and Supplement Industry. The Health and Supplements vertical for PPC is complex as it is heavily regulated with strict editorial constraints. The ad copy must be informative. However, you are … [Read more...] about 5 Tips For PPC Success in the Health & Supplement Vertical
PPC Insights for the Tourism & Travel Industry
Series week continues as we assess PPC management across different industries. Yesterday, Kevin covered the Healthcare industry. Today, Kristina is discussing the Tourism and Travel industry. When I think of the many industries that see success in paid search, vacation and traveling is one my favorites. First, everyone loves vacation. The audience already exists and is aware … [Read more...] about PPC Insights for the Tourism & Travel Industry