So if you haven’t already implemented broad match modifier terms into your existing PPC strategy I hope this article will provide some insight and inspiration for taking the plunge. I was recently tasked with reviewing the PPC campaigns in my new role at Ties.com and was both sad and happy with what I found. I was sad to find that there was 1 campaign with 2 ad groups and a … [Read more...] about Harvest Keywords & Scale Up with Broad Modified Campaigns and Exact Match Negatives
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AdWords Labels: Cut Back On Navigation and Reporting Time!
If you aren’t using labels in your AdWords account, you are seriously missing out. Way back in April, Google launched labels but I didn’t use them often due to existing accounts already having custom filters setup and at my fingertips. Over the past month, I launched a new campaign, advertising 5 services that can be applied to literally thousands of products, which got me … [Read more...] about AdWords Labels: Cut Back On Navigation and Reporting Time!
Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
We held another successful Heroview yesterday with remarketing expert, John Ellis. John is the CEO at Crescent Interactive, an online marketing firm based in Nashville, TN. We had a great conversation about best practice; see the recap below! PPC Hero: Today, John Ellis will talk with us about utilizing remarketing without being too intrusive, annoying, or creepy! We are … [Read more...] about Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
Templated Success: How To Make Your Life Easier With Excel
Anyone who has ever been put under pressure to build out a large account in a short space of time will know the trademark feeling of despair that can come with such a task. Luckily for us, there are a number of tools at our disposal that can speed up this process. When trying to build out thousands of ad groups, ads and keywords, templates can really improve your overall … [Read more...] about Templated Success: How To Make Your Life Easier With Excel
A Three Step Guide To Account Growth
This week, I created the below guide to break account growth down into an easy to digest format. I often see accounts grow to a point of stability and growing beyond that point always seems to be challenging. As an agency, it seems like every time we get together to address growth on a client, we come up with a plan that seems, on the surface, to be unique to that particular … [Read more...] about A Three Step Guide To Account Growth
7 Analytics Reports To Get You Thinking About Your Mobile PPC Campaigns
Hopefully you've been following our blog series this week on all things mobile PPC. If so, you should have a pretty good idea of the basics to getting started with your mobile efforts. If you read Amanda's article on building a mobile landing page with howtogomo, you’ll already be aware of the free service Google offers to test how mobile friendly your website is. It’s a good … [Read more...] about 7 Analytics Reports To Get You Thinking About Your Mobile PPC Campaigns
Building A Mobile Landing Page With HowToGoMo: A Case Study & A How-To!
Now that you've got Client Buy-In for Mobile and learned about Mobile Landing Page Best Practices, It's time to build a mobile site if you don't have one! If you have a Google Rep, I don't think there's any way you've gotten around hearing all about HowToGoMo. If you or your client don't have the resources for a mobile site, this is A GREAT way to start testing mobile traffic. … [Read more...] about Building A Mobile Landing Page With HowToGoMo: A Case Study & A How-To!
The 25 Most Influential PPC Experts
The paid search industry is full of people blogging, tweeting, and sharing PPC wisdom. But which experts are considered the best of the best- when they speak, we listen? We researched over 100 PPC experts to find out who are the most influential and took into consideration social media networks and connections, blog contributions and publications, speaking engagements, etc.- … [Read more...] about The 25 Most Influential PPC Experts
You’re Closer to Being Mobile-Traffic-Ready than You Think: PPC Case Studies
Now that you’ve used Kayla Kurtz’ amazing tips to get buy in from your clients on targeting mobile, it’s time for you to actually go out there and do it. Often, people put off targeting mobile devices with their paid search campaigns until mobile-optimized landing pages are ready to go. But, and I mean this in the kindest way possible, sometimes web development takes … [Read more...] about You’re Closer to Being Mobile-Traffic-Ready than You Think: PPC Case Studies
The Benefits & Drawbacks of Modified Broad Match
When it comes to traffic control for your paid search ads, AdWords offers a variety of tools to help us increase, maintain or even restrict the flow of traffic to your website. Perhaps the most obvious way to manipulate this flow would be to utilize the three basic keyword match types (broad, phrase, exact). For example, an advertiser with a limited budget might consider … [Read more...] about The Benefits & Drawbacks of Modified Broad Match
PPC Hero’s Greatest Hits of First Quarter 2012!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from January, February, and March. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy! Our very own Jeff Allen doled out the advice with his 145 PPC Must-Do's for 2012 article. He points out high … [Read more...] about PPC Hero’s Greatest Hits of First Quarter 2012!
165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
In early January we wrote 145 tips for 2012. It’s been a whirlwind year in the land of PPC so this is an update to that post with an additional 20 tips. These new PPC tips come from conferences, tests, failures and new Google services and features that have been rolled out of the past 5-6 months. The new tips are at the tope and numbered 146-165 and below them you will find … [Read more...] about 165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
