Sitelinks are pretty great. They help our ad rank, improve click-thru-rate and give us a little bit more space to talk about ourselves. Anyone, who writes ads, understand that sometimes hitting that 35-character limit before you can squeeze in a call-to-action or feature can be frustrating. This is where sitelinks can come swoop in to help us! They obviously cannot change the … [Read more...] about 5 Different Ways To Approach Sitelinks
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Save Time & Increase Performance Through Bid & Budget Automation
Last month while at Hero Conf, I had the opportunity to speak on a panel about bidding and budgeting. I learned some really unique Facebook bidding and budgeting strategies, along with gaining a deeper understanding of how automated bidding can improve account performance. What I Talked About I presented a case study about how Acquisio’s automated bid and budget management … [Read more...] about Save Time & Increase Performance Through Bid & Budget Automation
How Hero Conf Grew My Account by 500% Before I Even Attended
Just imagine if your boss told you that you had the opportunity for an all-expense paid trip to Austin, Texas to attend Hero Conf. All you had to do was pick a single client and have the best month-over-month percentage growth in five different key metrics: average cost-per-click, total clicks, click-through-rate, cost-per-lead, and conversion rate. Which client would you use? … [Read more...] about How Hero Conf Grew My Account by 500% Before I Even Attended
3 Alternative Platforms For Recruitment PPC
The recruitment pay-per-click vertical is a slightly different animal, especially when it comes to job aggregators like Indeed and Simply Hired. While I’ve seen success with traditional AdWords and Bing campaigns for recruitment pay-per-click programs, expanding into job aggregators and social career networking platforms can help increase your qualified candidates and … [Read more...] about 3 Alternative Platforms For Recruitment PPC
How To Find and Easily Exploit PPC Advertising Opportunities In Foreign Languages and Global Markets
If there is one thing Google is good at, it’s making money. This is good news for you and me because Googles primary business is advertising, or helping businesses find and reach customers, so they invest very heavily in figuring out ways to get more people to advertise and existing advertisers to spend more money. They recently announced a whole bunch of new products within … [Read more...] about How To Find and Easily Exploit PPC Advertising Opportunities In Foreign Languages and Global Markets
Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
From time to time, PPC Hero will publish a stellar post from an equally stellar author, and this is one of those times. This post was written by Oli Gardner, landing page expert and co-founder of Unbounce, one of our favorite optimization and testing tools for landing pages and CRO. Follow him at @OliGardner. -- If you care about your conversion rates, you know that every … [Read more...] about Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
Paid Search With Other Marketing Channels: When To Take Credit?
My job is paid search and because of that, it is often easy to believe that paid search works separate from other marketing initiatives. In my perfect paid search centric world, paid search is not affected by other channels good or bad. If something goes amazing, that’s me. If something goes bad in an account, that blame is unfortunately on me too. This keeps things simple: I … [Read more...] about Paid Search With Other Marketing Channels: When To Take Credit?
7 New Bing Ads Features – Including Product Ads!
Now that all the hype around the big Google announcement is starting to die down, I thought we should also take a moment to reflect on a few new features that Bing released this month. Some of the features are just minor tweaks like sorting campaigns by budget, but others like “Product Ads” and “No More Charging for Forwarding Numbers” could really impact your Bing PPC program. … [Read more...] about 7 New Bing Ads Features – Including Product Ads!
Step Inside AdWords’ Latest Updates with UI Tools, App Ads, and More
For the last week, speculation has run wild through the PPC industry about the contents of the April 22nd "Step Inside AdWords" presentation. Today, Jerry Dischler, Paul Feng and the Google AdWords team put our fears to rest by announcing several new updates to the advertising platform. Updates that, on the whole, didn't live up to the hype. First and foremost: we still have … [Read more...] about Step Inside AdWords’ Latest Updates with UI Tools, App Ads, and More
Transcript: Our AdWords Announcement Liveblog – App Ads, Estimated Conversions, and Buzzword Bingo
Join us today at 11:45 AM EST for coverage of Google's AdWords event. In the event announcement, the AdWords team promised to unveil over 10 new products, features, and research studies that have been in the works over the last year. In particular, they stressed the user (and advertiser) multi-screen experience, in-app advertising, and targeting improvements that "let … [Read more...] about Transcript: Our AdWords Announcement Liveblog – App Ads, Estimated Conversions, and Buzzword Bingo
Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
We love to talk about Conversion Rate at PPC Hero. Our job doesn't stop with acquiring traffic; we have to make sure that traffic ends up doing something of value - otherwise we've wasted our money. That part, however, isn't always easy. Our best intentions can sink for a number of reasons: No time or money for web designers / developers A boss or client who doesn't want to … [Read more...] about Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
How Your Average CPC is Lying to You
"Averages lie." I had a few statistics courses back in college with a professor who was fond of saying that. Seems like he might've gotten that turn of phrase from someone else, now that I think about it. This is problematic for us– as PPC professionals, we work with averages on a daily basis. No average has a larger impact on your bottom line than the average cost you're … [Read more...] about How Your Average CPC is Lying to You
