Thanks to the fun of Enhanced Campaigns, 2013 was an extremely interesting year for PPC. Google made a ton of changes that we all had to learn to adapt to. Looking ahead to 2014 don't expect anything as radical again, but there will be some major areas of change for us to focus on: Ads Will Be More Obvious Have you seen the orange Google "Ad" images yet? If not, you'll … [Read more...] about 6 Exciting Changes Coming To Google & PPC In 2014
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Expand Your PPC Reach This Holiday Season With Yahoo Stream Ads
Are you looking for a way to expand your PPC reach this holiday season outside of AdWords, Bing or Facebook? What about Yahoo Stream Ads?? Yahoo released the newest native ad format back in April and has been evolving ever since. Yahoo Stream Ads helps connect advertisers with their consumers through the highly personalized content stream on Yahoo.com. Yahoo Is not dead my … [Read more...] about Expand Your PPC Reach This Holiday Season With Yahoo Stream Ads
Google AdWords Experiences Temporary Tracking Problems
A heads up to all e-Commerce accounts out there that your November AdWords data might not be accurate. Google sent an email out earlier this afternoon to say that conversion values were not tracking correctly during the period of Nov 20th at 6:30 PM PST to Nov 21st at 8:00 PM PST. Who is affected? Anyone using "conversion value" as a key metric for reports, or automated … [Read more...] about Google AdWords Experiences Temporary Tracking Problems
What You Didn’t Know About Your Users: Google Analytics Secondary and Custom Dimensions
Google announced on 11/21 that they are enhancing their standard analytics reporting to provide deeper insights. Many new secondary dimensions have been added, along with custom dimensions that allow you to bring in business data that brings additional clarity and context to your data analysis. Custom dimensions is a new Universal Analytics feature, so make sure you have it … [Read more...] about What You Didn’t Know About Your Users: Google Analytics Secondary and Custom Dimensions
Google’s New Campaign Type: Search with Display Select
Google has announced it’s replacing the default ‘Search & Display Networks’ campaign setting with a new and improved setting called “Search with Display Select.” This new default setting provides “improved signals and methods of predicting when and where your ads are likely to perform best, and sets a higher bar for when to show them”. According to initial tests, Google … [Read more...] about Google’s New Campaign Type: Search with Display Select
Happy Birthday, Google Analytics!
8 years ago, Google released Analytics. We think that's reason to celebrate! Check out a few of our favorite articles about every PPC pro's favorite analytics tool below: 1) https://www.www.ppchero.com/tag/google-analytics/ 2) https://www.www.ppchero.com/get-the-data-you-need-custom-reports-in-google-analytics/ 3) … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday, Google Analytics!
How Google’s New Campaign Type Expands Your Market Reach
Earlier this morning, Google announced a new campaign type. The bad news is it is nothing radically different nor does it take advantage of any special NSA algorithms for super specific targeting. The new campaign is more of a revision on the “search and display” campaign type. Search Network and Display Select The new campaign type is titled Search Network with Display … [Read more...] about How Google’s New Campaign Type Expands Your Market Reach
Tracking Made Simple – How to Create AdWords & Analytics Tags in Google Tag Manager.
Tracking seems to be a major pain point for most online marketers. Google Tag Manager is an easy to use free tool that helps ease some of those frustrations by allowing you to place one snippet of code on all your pages in your site and then giving you the freedom to add as many additional tags as your heart desires - without having to go through a Webmaster or developer. How … [Read more...] about Tracking Made Simple – How to Create AdWords & Analytics Tags in Google Tag Manager.
Case Study: How Spinning Out Mobile Ads Got 19% Higher CTRs
Last week I was fortunate to get to chat with Brad Geddes about all things ad testing during our #thinkPPC webinar. For those of you familiar with Brad's work or who have seen him speak, you'll know he has a tendency to say something incredibly obvious that you somehow had never thought of before. In this case he mentioned a simple approach to dealing with the messy business of … [Read more...] about Case Study: How Spinning Out Mobile Ads Got 19% Higher CTRs
Easily Increase Your Leads with Bing Phone Extensions
This week Bing unveiled the next set of enhancements for their ads. This time it’s call extensions, something I am very excited about. What is the Big Deal? Phone extensions are a tremendous source of traffic for some of our clients at Hanapin. The extensions not only draw attention to your ad, the offer an alternative way to contact your business. This is especially … [Read more...] about Easily Increase Your Leads with Bing Phone Extensions
How Dynamic Search Ads Can Fill The Gaps In Your Account
For this month’s series, PPC Hero is concerned with all things dynamic. We’ll be discussing topics ranging from Dynamic Search Ads to Dynamic Remarketing, as well as asking the age-old question of “Does Dynamic Keyword Insertion actually work?” If it can be automated, scripted, or dynamically generated, we’ve got it – so stay tuned! What Are Dynamic Search Ads? This article … [Read more...] about How Dynamic Search Ads Can Fill The Gaps In Your Account
Creating Dynamic Ads with Scripts
Consistent ad testing is one of the best practices in paid search. As account managers we are always trying to get that extra edge. What if that is not enough though and you want to update your ads even more frequently to include relevant and timely information? This is where dynamic ads come into play. Today we are going to cover how a little knowledge of scripts can help you … [Read more...] about Creating Dynamic Ads with Scripts
