Hero Conf 2015, your best opportunity to connect with PPC Hero friends new and old, is fast approaching. We're headed to the Pacific Northwest for the first time, April 27-29 in Portland, OR. And we're adding speakers and sessions daily to what will be our biggest and best all-PPC event yet. Hero Conf is different in a lot of ways, but here are four that we think are pretty … [Read more...] about Hero Conf 2015 Super Early Bird Pricing Expires Tomorrow!
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Webinar: 5 Reasons You Need To Use Bing Advertising in 2015
More about this Webinar For the past few years, Bing has been making quite the impact on the competitive landscape for search engine marketing, comprising 29% of the search marketplace. 2014 alone saw many newly added features, like the accounts summary feature and Universal Event Tracking, that has increased the usability and value for digital marketers. In the webinar … [Read more...] about Webinar: 5 Reasons You Need To Use Bing Advertising in 2015
The Role Of Social Networks Moving Forward
Social networks play a large part in the advertising industry. It’s likely that the majority of you get plenty of advertisements shown to you once logging in to Facebook or Twitter. As the industry continues to grow, be prepared for even more advertising platforms. In 2015, advertisers will want to focus on non-Google opportunities. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are … [Read more...] about The Role Of Social Networks Moving Forward
Creating A Full Funnel Marketing Strategy With AdWords
I find that the more I learn about SEM, the more I realize I don’t know. There are many layers of sophistication that we can build into our campaigns and targeting to increase performance. The days of matching a relevant keyword with a relevant add and landing page and thinking you are done are behind us. It’s time to get more sophisticated about our targeting and audience … [Read more...] about Creating A Full Funnel Marketing Strategy With AdWords
5 Ways Location Targeting Delivers Big Results [Webinar]
If your company is based in a certain area or you have branches of your company that service a number of geographic locations, it’s only logical that you want to advertise to the area you service. Search engines have a pretty wide array of targeting options so its easy to make the mistake of advertising to too many locations or ones that are not even serviced by your company. … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Location Targeting Delivers Big Results [Webinar]
Learn How To Fight Click And Conversion Fraud
Click and conversion fraud is one of the most frustrating things to deal with when managing a paid search account. You methodically plan strategy, execute it flawlessly, and the traffic and conversions start rolling in. Everything is going according to plan and life is pretty good. Then the other shoe drops. Traffic starts to spike, spend is rising sharply, and no … [Read more...] about Learn How To Fight Click And Conversion Fraud
Determining The Most Impactful Ad Types
With 2015 quickly approaching, it’s the perfect time to look back at what happened this past year. There is valuable information we can take from 2014 that we should be aware of for implementation in the coming year. In this 2014 State of Paid Search survey, the most popular industries for PPC consist of retail, lifestyle and education. What ads are most important to those … [Read more...] about Determining The Most Impactful Ad Types
Using Google Analytics for AdWords Conversion Tracking
Everyone accepts the tenet that conversions matter. Any successful marketing campaign needs some form of conversion tracking, whether they are sales, leads, or e-mail sign-ups. Most often accounts default to utilizing the AdWords conversion code. This simple to implement code automatically fires anytime someone reaches a certain stage of the customer cycle. However, there are … [Read more...] about Using Google Analytics for AdWords Conversion Tracking
Canceling eCommerce Summit, What We’ve Learned + Two Requests for Hero Conf
It’s best to just rip the Band-Aid off… Unfortunately, I’m announcing that we’re canceling Hero Conf eCommerce Summit. We’ve already taken a number of steps towards this, one of them being that we’ve removed the eCommerce Summit pages from heroconf.com. Registration is closed, and our sponsors, speakers, and attendees know too. This public announcement is one of the last … [Read more...] about Canceling eCommerce Summit, What We’ve Learned + Two Requests for Hero Conf
How I Raised My Conversion Rate By 400% In 6 Days (And Why These Numbers Count)
Many times the difficulty with PPC is that users don’t know and trust your company yet. You could run the most trustworthy company in the world, but because users only know of your company via an online search, they automatically give you the same level of trust they would if Bernie Madoff told them he had a great investment opportunity. But what can you do? You can’t … [Read more...] about How I Raised My Conversion Rate By 400% In 6 Days (And Why These Numbers Count)
Moving Beyond Keyword Targeting In 2015
Series week continues at PPC Hero as we try to write about the same topic every day. This week’s topic is predictions for 2015. When I’m asked to think about 2015, the first area I assess is how keyword targeting seems like it’s becoming less relevant, and there are so many new alternatives to targeting ads. I fully expect all the new features in 2015 to follow … [Read more...] about Moving Beyond Keyword Targeting In 2015
Keep Your Eyes Focused On Non-Google Opportunities
My biggest recommendation and prediction for 2015 is to stay focused on all the other available advertising channels. We all spend a lot time and money in Google AdWords, but big things are in the works for other platforms. What makes 2015 different from 2014? All the bigger changes that happened in 2014 are going to eventually trickle down and create change for us – the … [Read more...] about Keep Your Eyes Focused On Non-Google Opportunities
