Beginning in early June, AdWords will be rolling out changes to Enhanced CPC bidding (ECPC). You’ve probably been seeing the below notification when logged into the AdWords interface. Keep reading to find out what changes are being implemented and how they could affect account performance. What’s Changing? Currently, ECPC is an automated bidding strategy that increases … [Read more...] about AdWords Announces Upcoming Changes To Enhanced CPC Bidding
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Universal App Campaigns Vs. Mobile App Install Campaigns
How many apps do you have on your smartphone or tablet? How many of those apps do you use on a regular basis? While I don’t know how many apps I have, I can honestly say I use 30% or less on a regular basis. No matter how many apps you have on your device, the fact of the matter is that before you ever downloaded them, they had to have been placed in front of you in some … [Read more...] about Universal App Campaigns Vs. Mobile App Install Campaigns
5 Lessons Learned From Running International PPC Accounts
I currently manage ads in 6 continents across 32 countries with ad copy spanning 5 different languages. I speak one language. Well, to be fair, I speak more than just one language. Years of Spanish class has led to the proficiency of a "soon-to-graduate higher schooler with senioritis." Furthermore, my PPC international experience has given me a pretty strong pulse of the … [Read more...] about 5 Lessons Learned From Running International PPC Accounts
Perform Better Analysis With Facebook Integrated Tools
Let’s face it. Analyzing marketing data regardless of platform or channel dominates digital marketing. We spend increasingly larger amounts of time trying to understand what our ad efforts are accomplishing, troubleshooting problem spots, and making optimizations based on that data. At any given time, there are tons of marketing platforms that are designed to solve every … [Read more...] about Perform Better Analysis With Facebook Integrated Tools
A Guide To AdWords Location Targeting In The United States
AdWords geo targeting or location targeting helps you reach out to your customers in your desired areas. It helps you develop a strategy to target right customers at the right location. Source: Google/Ipsos MediaCT/Purchased, Research: Understanding Consumers' Local Search Behavior, May 2014. Respondents were screened on smartphone usage and purchase behavior. For … [Read more...] about A Guide To AdWords Location Targeting In The United States
Our Favorite PPC Updates for 2017 [so far]
Every month, the PPC pros at Hanapin do a day of training that includes the newest updates and features our team needs to know. We know how hard it is to keep up with the consistent changes in the PPC world - even the most seasoned pros can miss things! In this new webinar, Hanapin experts, Alka Du Mont and Zach Bruner, will pull together all the newest and most important … [Read more...] about Our Favorite PPC Updates for 2017 [so far]
Attribution is Awesome! Here’s Why It’s Terrible
As I recently wrote in A Tale of Attribution Woe (read that beginner-post first if the idea of attribution is fairly new to you), understanding attribution well (note, I didn't say "figuring it out") is an essential part of any digital marketing strategy. Unfortunately, it is also an evolving industry… which means there is still a lot of guesswork and change … [Read more...] about Attribution is Awesome! Here’s Why It’s Terrible
How AI & Machine Learning Will Impact Paid Advertising
You may have heard that robots are taking over your PPC. Well, maybe not to that extreme, but machine learning and AI is a hot topic in the PPC world right now. With all of these new automation tools coming out, it’s easy to wonder where the industry is heading. But don’t worry about machine learning controlling us – we’ll teach you how to use it to control your audiences and … [Read more...] about How AI & Machine Learning Will Impact Paid Advertising
Gain Deeper PPC Insights With The User Explorer Report
Do you ever wish you could get more granular data in Google Analytics? Do you find yourself laying in bed at night wondering what users are doing on your site? Want to see exactly what your converting customers are doing on your site? You’re in luck! Enter the User Explorer Report. What Is The User Explorer Report? The User Explorer Report is used to examine individual user … [Read more...] about Gain Deeper PPC Insights With The User Explorer Report
How To Get Big Wins In Your AdWords Account
As AdWords advertisers, we tend to obsess over the big wins. Everyone is looking for that special hack that will cut costs and deliver incredible results. So, when someone has a big win, we celebrate it. We write case studies about it. Everyone tries to find a way to make someone else's breakthrough work for them. The thing is, though, while many AdWords accounts have … [Read more...] about How To Get Big Wins In Your AdWords Account
Using Supermetrics To Report PPC Projected Lag Revenue
Do you ever wonder why your Analytics revenue for the month is higher than your AdWords revenue during the same time period? Wouldn't AdWords be more likely to give itself credit? What is more than likely occurring in this situation is that Analytics is attributing revenue to the current month from clicks that occurred last month, while AdWords attributes that revenue back to … [Read more...] about Using Supermetrics To Report PPC Projected Lag Revenue
Thoughts About PPC Conversion Tracking
Conversion tracking plays such an important role in measuring the success of paid search performance. However, how many times do you revisit the goals and check the tracking? Most of the time, you should only have to setup conversion tracking once and you can forget about it. Or can you? It may be a good idea to go back on occasion and double check the tracking. Audit Your … [Read more...] about Thoughts About PPC Conversion Tracking
