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!
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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
How To Use Google Analytics For Better Bid Adjustments
Since the move to enhanced campaigns last year, Google has provided us with a new way of targeting through bid adjustments. We are now able to move further on from inputting the maximum cost per click at keyword level and are able to specify our bid for specific users who are worth more to us. For example, if we see users in a particular town spending more on our site, we are … [Read more...] about How To Use Google Analytics For Better Bid Adjustments
Google Analytics Loses Paid Search Queries: Time to Panic?
So, What Just Happened? On April 9, Google officially rolled out their improved and continued efforts in maintaining the highest level of security for their Chrome users. Announcing they have rolled out SSL encryption for omnibox searches in Chrome browser when users are not signed in to Google. Previously, this security layer was only applied to ‘signed in’ users. Chrome is … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Loses Paid Search Queries: Time to Panic?
Getting the Most out of Google Shopping’s New Features
Throughout its brief life, Google Shopping always ran alongside its PLA sibling. While it was initially unclear what the future held for the two, Google recently announced that the life of PLAs is officially coming to a close. Soon enough all product listings will transition into Google Shopping, which will become the new standard. As a result, advertisers will be required to … [Read more...] about Getting the Most out of Google Shopping’s New Features
4 Ways You Haven’t Thought to Use Google Analytics for CRO
So you’ve got great ads and a great click through rate, but you’re just not seeing the conversions you want. At this point, you might want to take a look at your site and come up with some conversion rate optimization (CRO) ideas. Sure, there are great tools out there like Crazy Egg, but there are also some free options to get you started. Google Analytics is a free tool and … [Read more...] about 4 Ways You Haven’t Thought to Use Google Analytics for CRO
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
Understanding Your Keyword Performance Better with Google’s Search Funnel Reports
I’ve always taken a bottom line approach to evaluating keyword performance. I want to know how much was spent on clicks, how many conversions those clicks generated, and if my keywords are profitable and performing to client or in-house goals. I base optimizations on these bottom line metrics and decide whether to pause certain keywords. What I have recently come to … [Read more...] about Understanding Your Keyword Performance Better with Google’s Search Funnel Reports
4 Google Analytics Reports Every PPC Manager Should Use
It’s important to utilize Google Analytics when running an AdWords campaign. Google Analytics allows you to understand how the traffic your paid search campaign generates behaves when it reaches your website. This is crucial in improving and understanding conversion rates. Google Analytics provides lots of different reports and tools to help you do this. Below I have listed 4 … [Read more...] about 4 Google Analytics Reports Every PPC Manager Should Use
Google Trends: Why You Can’t Ignore The Wave Of Change Anymore
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 Analytics that we find to be particularly useful … [Read more...] about Google Trends: Why You Can’t Ignore The Wave Of Change Anymore
Google Is Getting Strict With Unique Product Identifiers
Google has made several releases and updates to Google Shopping over the last few weeks. In February, Shopping campaigns were made available to all Product Listing Ads and this last week, AdWords API was opened up for Shopping campaigns as well. With all this new availability for Shopping campaigns, we should also begin to see an increase in quality enforcement from Google, … [Read more...] about Google Is Getting Strict With Unique Product Identifiers
