If you’ve ever wondered how people are interacting with your site after they click an ad, you’ve probably looked at Bounce Rate in Google Analytics. Google defines Bounce Rate as “the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).” The problem with this definition is that it does not … [Read more...] about Understand User Engagement with Customized Bounce Rate
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Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
A good click-through rate is one of the most fundamentally important parts of any paid search account. It's the primary metric Google uses to judge us, determine our quality scores and set our cost-per-click (CPC) in the auction. However, loads of us still make the mistake of treating every click equally. We're taking a lazy approach with our ads and accepting aggregate data … [Read more...] about Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
No CRO? No Problem: WordStream’s Landing Page Grader
There's a universal truth in PPC– if you have a terrible landing page, you're gonna have a bad time. Your ads could be stellar, your keywords laser-focused, and your bids perfectly calibrated against your competition... and none of it will matter if you can't turn your visitors in to customers. So what's the solution? Conversion Rate Optimization. We've written loads of … [Read more...] about No CRO? No Problem: WordStream’s Landing Page Grader
Final Four!! Search Marketing Madness Announces Regional Champions
Buzzzzzzzzz.....Its Final Four time! Regional Champs have been set, thanks to you, and the competition is just a mere two rounds from having a final winner (remember, the final winner gets a free registration to this year's Hero Conf). Before we launch head-on into the rivalries, we'd like to congratulate each of the contenders in Search Marketing Madness' Final Four! PPC … [Read more...] about Final Four!! Search Marketing Madness Announces Regional Champions
How To Find eCommerce Success With Dynamic Search Ads
I’ve written about Dynamic Search Ads in the past. I told you about how you can set them up and gave some basic best practices for how to optimize them. When I wrote this article, I was only using them in one of my accounts that was basically a lead generation account. I was just using the “all pages” target while constantly adding negative keywords. This worked great, and I am … [Read more...] about How To Find eCommerce Success With Dynamic Search Ads
Our Quarter 1 Compass – Shot Down: Understanding PPC Disapprovals
As many in the PPC industry know, the Compass is Hanapin Marketing's best practices journal we've released it quarterly and semi-privately for years. But this year, we're changing it up. We've started hosting quarterly industry surveys via the Hanapin Forum where we ask you, our dedicated audience, what you think about a particular issue in the PPC industry. We collect the … [Read more...] about Our Quarter 1 Compass – Shot Down: Understanding PPC Disapprovals
How to Catch an Affiliate Red-Handed in PPC
It's important to understand that in PPC, you're often part of a bigger picture than you realize. Whether in-house or agency, there are many moving parts– external non-Google display buys, social networking, old media advertising, SEO, webinars... the list is virtually endless. It can be easy to slip into an egocentric viewpoint and say to yourself: "Surely, I'm the only person … [Read more...] about How to Catch an Affiliate Red-Handed in PPC
Fine Tune Your Remarketing Campaigns with Membership Duration Segments
Remarketing campaigns continue to be an effective tool to drive conversions at low CPAs. The more you dive into the rabbit hole of remarketing, the opportunities of segmentation seem endless. One area that is a good starting point for experimenting with remarketing segments is creating remarketing lists by membership duration – a.k.a how long to follow visitors. What is … [Read more...] about Fine Tune Your Remarketing Campaigns with Membership Duration Segments
Better Attribution Modeling – AdWords or Analytics?
A few days back I read this post about AdWords’ Attribution Modeling being released within the UI. It is a great feature to have in AdWords, but as mentioned in the post, this information does not show us the whole story. In this article I will compare Attribution Modeling in AdWords and Analytics. What are the main differences in how Attribution Modeling works in AdWords and … [Read more...] about Better Attribution Modeling – AdWords or Analytics?
See the Future of Your Bids With AdWords’ New Bid Simulator Columns
Earlier last week AdWords announced on Google+ that they had launched a shiny set of new columns for our keyword report tabs. These columns are designed to give us quick access to the bid simulator data that was previously only available on a keyword by keyword basis. Google is providing data to show what would happen at plus or minus 50%, plus or minus 300% and at top of page … [Read more...] about See the Future of Your Bids With AdWords’ New Bid Simulator Columns
What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
As part of this month's PPC Hero series, we're diving in to the little known, oft-neglected, and unknown reports that you can use to turbocharge your PPC performance. I don't know about you, but "little known", "oft-neglected", and "unknown" definitely sounds like the Bing Report Center to me. But I'll caution you: ignore this resource at your peril. You can make up for 99% of … [Read more...] about What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
3 Facebook Reports You Should Be Running
As PPC Heroes, we like to think we’ve got all sorts of magic stuffed up our sleeves. Truth be told, there are plenty of approaches we use that may be less common to the outside world. That’s why this week’s *Series Topic* is just that: Underutilized Reports. This week we’ll go over reports we use in AdWords, Bing, Facebook, and Google Analytics that we find to be particularly … [Read more...] about 3 Facebook Reports You Should Be Running
