Constant connectivity has increased the ways that people engage with your business, meaning more data and metrics for you to use to manage ad performance. Google is introducing Upgraded URLs to provide an easier way to manage and track important information about each click on your ads and other targeting options available for Search, Display and Shopping. Upgraded URLs … [Read more...] about New Upgraded URLs for Faster and Easier URL Tracking
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Give Your Product Feed The Attention It Deserves
At this point, any ecommerce advertisers who aren’t running Google Shopping campaigns (or have at least tried them) are being left in the dust. According to RKG’s Q4 2014 Digital Marketing Report, Shopping ads drove 51% more clicks and 45% greater ad spend year over year. Take Shopping management a step further and you have the upload and optimization of the product feed. For … [Read more...] about Give Your Product Feed The Attention It Deserves
Top Products Or All Products? The Google Shopping Debate
I've heard this question before, the most recent being on Twitter from Sam Gordon: Do any of you only include only top products in your shopping feed, instead of all products? Wanting my most relevant ads to show #ppcchat — Sam Gordon (@SamGordonPPC) February 9, 2015 My answer to this (and the others like it) is: "it depends". Don't stone me yet for that ridiculously … [Read more...] about Top Products Or All Products? The Google Shopping Debate
Automate And Manually Change Bids With Excel
You are at an event with old friends, and you (a PPC Specialist) are asked: "what are you doing these days?" You reply: "I do online advertising through search engines such as Google." The response back always seems to be something like, "So, what exactly does that entail". If you do not want to get into all of the details that go into paid search advertising, the … [Read more...] about Automate And Manually Change Bids With Excel
Simplify With The Google Analytics New Display Advertiser Features
Last week, we told you about this sweet new thing in Google Analytics (GA) called “Display Advertiser Features”, which lets you toggle a switch to start collecting remarketing data without the pain associated with placing new codes. If you have Universal Analytics set up, you can tell GA to start collecting data on your site visitors that allow you to use these types of … [Read more...] about Simplify With The Google Analytics New Display Advertiser Features
Don’t Let Google Shopping Campaigns Trip You Up
It’s been just about a year since Google officially replaced Product Listing Ads (PLAs) with the new and updated Shopping campaigns. Shopping campaigns provide everything an online shop could want: prime real estate on search pages, attention grabbing images, and hyper relevance to searcher intent. Yet, for all their great aspects in promoting products to would be buyers, … [Read more...] about Don’t Let Google Shopping Campaigns Trip You Up
Case Study: How We Turned a Client from Near Loss to Best Friend
My account team was recently assigned a new client. The relationship appeared to get off to a good start with clear goals established and performance on target towards meeting those goals. However, the client expressed concern about not having a strong strategy in place and a clear direction for moving the PPC program forward. Today we’re going to discuss in detail how we … [Read more...] about Case Study: How We Turned a Client from Near Loss to Best Friend
Know The Differences Between Facebook and Google Ads And When You Should Use Each
For a newer article on this topic visit: 5 FAQs For Marketing on Facebook Maybe you’ve traditionally run PPC campaigns with AdWords, and you aren’t sure how Facebook Ads compare. Or maybe you’ve run Facebook Ads in the past, didn’t get good results, and don’t understand how Facebook advertising has changed over the past couple of years. Regardless, it’s helpful to … [Read more...] about Know The Differences Between Facebook and Google Ads And When You Should Use Each
Take A Walk Down The Conversion Path With Google Analytics
Google AdWords attributes each conversion back to the campaign that was last clicked before conversion. Even though you see that a conversion has occurred, you don’t get the whole story. It’s like reading the last page of a novel. You get the end result, but miss all the fun stuff in between the beginning and the end. This post will go through different uses for the Top … [Read more...] about Take A Walk Down The Conversion Path With Google Analytics
It Takes Two To Make A Thing Go Right—A Tale of Two Clients
So perhaps not ALL good PPC advice can come from a hip-hop song from the 80’s, but I think it certainly applies in this case. As account managers, we are given accounts and told to make them grow, make them more efficient, and make them more profitable, among other things. And we want to do exactly that. We really want to. But it can’t be a one-sided story. We need clients … [Read more...] about It Takes Two To Make A Thing Go Right—A Tale of Two Clients
Simplifying Remarketing With Google Analytics Instant Activation
To help make it easier for advertisers to reach their most qualified customers, Google has enabled remarketing with a single toggle. Instead of manually updating all of your site tags, you will use Instant Activation. Google states that it repeatedly see marketers struggle with tagging hurdles and complex implementation challenges, and that 1 in 5 remarketers … [Read more...] about Simplifying Remarketing With Google Analytics Instant Activation
It’s The Year Of Mobile…Again!
As PPC account managers not a year goes by where we don’t get told this is the year mobile is going to take over the world and change our lives forever. I think we can all agree that mobile devices have taken over our personal lives over the past few years with the advances in smart phones and tablet technology. However, as PPC account managers we haven’t been at the stage … [Read more...] about It’s The Year Of Mobile…Again!
