The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from October. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy! October was a month of great “how to” and resource posts from Hanapin Marketing! Abby comes in first place with a post from the … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for October 2011
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The Results of our Bidding Options Survey are In!
Last week, we posted a survey asking you for your feedback on AdWords bidding options. We asked our readers what bidding options they currently use in AdWords and which one they find the most beneficial. Over 100 people responded to our survey! Check out the results below. The majority of people are using manual bidding for clicks in their accounts. Less people overall are … [Read more...] about The Results of our Bidding Options Survey are In!
Funny Halloween Post
Every year I love to dress up for Halloween. this year I have been everything from a Computer nerd to a Superhero. That got me into the though of what makes a good superhero? A superhero is someone that we all look up to, someone that makes us believe in something more then we think possible. For me a superhero has always been my Mom and my Dad. They despite all the crap I … [Read more...] about Funny Halloween Post
Bidding on Branded Terms
The other day I got the question if someone should bid on their branded term even if they are already in the number one spot. This is a question that I get asked a lot. Should I be bidding on my branded terms when I own the space and no one is bidding on them? A big misconception in the PPC worlds is that you don't need to spend money bidding on your brand name. Most … [Read more...] about Bidding on Branded Terms
Using Social Media to Identify Negative Keywords
Negative keywords: likely the best and worst tool you have at your fingertips as a PPC account manager! Sometimes it’s difficult to identify the negative terms that will have the desired effect on your account (more qualified traffic, higher click-through rate and lower CPL), and the problem with relying on search query reports to find negatives for your account is that … [Read more...] about Using Social Media to Identify Negative Keywords
Sometimes It’s an Ad…
“The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes it’s an ad.” ~ Howard Gossage So here’s the deal, anytime you’re creating a facebook ad, you can opt for either: a straightforward, predictable ad -- in other words, an ad that just might work for an already-interested late-stage buyers , or an unpredictable, interesting … [Read more...] about Sometimes It’s an Ad…
AdWords Express Now Available in UK and Germany
Google announced that AdWords Express will now be available to all UK and Germany advertisers. Google released AdWords Express earlier this year as a way to help local merchants to get more local customers coming to their websites. In case this looks familiar to you, it used to be called Google Boost. Basically how AdWords Express works is you give Google your local business … [Read more...] about AdWords Express Now Available in UK and Germany
Understanding Auto tagging & 3rd Party Tracking
Download the PDF presentation here: Auto tagging and 3rd Party Tracking Presentation On Wednesday, Hanapin Marketing had its monthly company-wide training seminar (RedBop). We had some wonderful presentations and were able to get together as a company and share ideas. I worked with Abby and Jeff this month to present on the very broad topic of tagging urls and checking … [Read more...] about Understanding Auto tagging & 3rd Party Tracking
Search Ads Now In Mobile Apps
Yesterday Google announced on their blog a new mobile search ad product, custom search ads in mobile apps. Well today they've provided more information about this new ad format and how developers can use it to grow business on mobile. Apps that provide a search experience will now also be able to show ads related to those searches. This is a win win for users and developers, … [Read more...] about Search Ads Now In Mobile Apps
PPC Toolkit: Resources for Improving Your PPC Accounts
We here at PPC Hero love giving you, our readers, lots of resources to help you manage your accounts even better than you already do! And of course, we always appreciate your comments that help us become better managers as well! We already have links to some of our most valuable blog spots – blog series, ppc guides, and some of our most popular posts – but we wanted to provide … [Read more...] about PPC Toolkit: Resources for Improving Your PPC Accounts
How To Manage a _______ PPC Account Series Wrap Up
We hope that you got some really good ideas on How to Manage a PPC Account With/Without _________________ this week! We covered Low Search Volume, optimizing on a Small Budget, Running without AdWords, and Ecommerce without Tracking. Whew! Here at Hanapin Marketing, we like to think outside the box, so we hope that we have taught you how to as well. If you missed any … [Read more...] about How To Manage a _______ PPC Account Series Wrap Up
The Future Keeps Getting Brighter for Display Advertising
In recent months, I’ve scarcely been able to read an online article or visit an industry news site without a Google banner ad reminding me to “Watch This Space.” Of course, the ad is part of Google’s ongoing and sizeable media blitz launched in the fall of last year to drive awareness – and of course investment – in a channel that has already become a multi-billion dollar … [Read more...] about The Future Keeps Getting Brighter for Display Advertising