Quality assurance is a large part of running PPC initiatives. When new campaigns are built for an account, it is of utmost importance to to conduct a thorough quality assurance (QA) process to ensure that everything is set up for success. Below is a comprehensive guide to all the boxes you need to tick before setting your campaigns live. Campaign Settings Quality … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Campaign Quality Assurance Checklist for 2024
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A Handy Guide to Consent Management Platforms with Free Plans
While the Digital Markets Act's implementation in March 2024 brought some changes, its impact on cookie compliance for most businesses has (so far) been minimal. The adjustments primarily affect less common features, such as GA4 audience sharing, which is helpful but not critical to Google Ads. Not implementing consent mode V2 was somewhat of a nothing burger for most people, … [Read more...] about A Handy Guide to Consent Management Platforms with Free Plans
How to Optimise Your PPC Landing Pages in 5 Steps
Your PPC landing pages could make or break your campaigns. That’s because even if you have the most perfectly created PPC campaign, if you are sending people to a badly designed landing page, which has terrible UX or poor quality content, they aren’t going to convert.With the post-click experience being just as important as your campaigns if you really want to see conversions … [Read more...] about How to Optimise Your PPC Landing Pages in 5 Steps
Building Links to Your Website Using PPC
Building links - the act of getting other websites to link to yours in order to increase search engine visibility and get referral traffic - can generally fall into two methodologies: PPC - in particular Google Search Ads - can be a useful tool for organic link building. The high-level process for using Google Ads to build links runs as follows: I’ll now break down … [Read more...] about Building Links to Your Website Using PPC
Why Advertisers Need to Take the Leap On YouTube’s 3-Pronged Approach
Imagine upgrading from a dial-up to fiber optic internet. It opens up an exponential surge of capability and reach. This is exactly what YouTube's advertising growth has looked like over the last 12-18 months. The results have been fascinating to analyze.No shift was more impactful than the addition of Shorts and In-Feed ads, cementing YouTube’s 3-pronged approach. … [Read more...] about Why Advertisers Need to Take the Leap On YouTube’s 3-Pronged Approach
How to set up and optimize end-to-end lead gen funnel tracking (with no CRM required)
Spend all your time working with Google Ads lead gen campaigns, it's easy to forget there’s another half of a sales process that takes place with every form submission and phone call. However, what makes the difference between hitting targets and missing quotas, is the ability to optimize for sales, not leads. Strategically, it’s an easy win - let’s track, report and … [Read more...] about How to set up and optimize end-to-end lead gen funnel tracking (with no CRM required)
Party Hats for Cats: More exciting AI creative tools coming
If 2023 was the year many of us developed a degree of AI-induced neurosis at the fear the machines would at best steal our jobs, at worst bring about the apocalypse, then 2024 has so been the year of toned down expectations. Instead of depriving us of our livelihoods artificial intelligence is, if anything, giving us more work to do. In advertising at least. Could they not find … [Read more...] about Party Hats for Cats: More exciting AI creative tools coming
8 Essential Practices for Writing Impactful PPC Headlines
PPC headlines have a huge influence on the results of your performance campaign. However, users spend less than 0.7 seconds focused on each online ad, so you need to craft engaging websites that catch their attention in a minuscule amount of time. Every online user is constantly bombarded with stimuli when surfing the web. Catching someone’s attention with plain text … [Read more...] about 8 Essential Practices for Writing Impactful PPC Headlines
Learn PPC with Expert Training Courses and Essential Guides
Here at PPC Hero we're dedicated to helping you to learn more about the modus and mechanisms of the industry within which you work, in order to allow you do your job a bit better. Or become better equipped to do the job that you want. Whether you're just getting started in the trade or have a few years under your belt there'll should be something here to help. Because … [Read more...] about Learn PPC with Expert Training Courses and Essential Guides
How to enhance your paid search with audience targeting
To most marketers, paid search is all about capturing interest at the bottom of the marketing funnel. Given most verticals have several to hundreds of valuable keywords that convert at a profitable rate, this is a fair assessment. Many marketers don’t consider that they can use paid search a bit further up in the funnel by going after broader keywords with lower intent. … [Read more...] about How to enhance your paid search with audience targeting
Why YouTube Advertising is Essential to Your Marketing Mix
Whether it’s your favorite TV ad from when you were younger or a song that transports you back to something you saw in the ad breaks, there’s no denying the lasting impact that video advertising has had over the last 80 years. But why YouTube advertising? Is video advertising a must-have for advertisers in 2024? How can we, as PPC heroes, make sure we’re getting it right … [Read more...] about Why YouTube Advertising is Essential to Your Marketing Mix
Avoid Campaign Drift to Keep Your Clients Happy
Everyone knows if you don’t give regular care and attention to something it can start to deteriorate. This could apply to your house, garden or even your health and fitness. This concept - called 'campaign drift' - can equally apply to your Google Ads or other digital advertising activity. If you allow campaigns to become static, your regular routines to falter or become stale, … [Read more...] about Avoid Campaign Drift to Keep Your Clients Happy
