Two of the most underutilized but effective AdWords features are labels and ad scheduling. What makes these features especially tremendous is their usefulness for writing holiday ads in July, and then scheduling for Q4. The holiday season is busy enough for PPC Specialists. Save yourself the stress of time-sensitive tasks by writing and scheduling your ads now. Writing … [Read more...] about Write and Schedule Your Holiday Ads Now – Save Time Later
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Morning Clicks: Google, Bing Make Big Updates, Bing Teams Up With Twitter, Acquisio
Morning Clicks is your mid-week roundup of digital advertising news and notes. We're your one-stop shop for the most relevant and important news in the PPC world. Grab your cup of joe and come see us every Wednesday morning. Google was busy with updates this week as you can now segment Brand terms in Analytics, segment performance by distance from a location, and reach the … [Read more...] about Morning Clicks: Google, Bing Make Big Updates, Bing Teams Up With Twitter, Acquisio
Bing Ads Announces Keyword, Editor, Security, and API Updates
After last week’s steady stream of updates from Google, Bing brought to our attention that they haven’t exactly been twiddling their thumbs. Below is a list of recent enhancements to your Bing Ads experience. Opt out of exact match plurals It’s amazing the difference one little “s” can make. After all, there’s not much funny about the four humors, right? Before, if … [Read more...] about Bing Ads Announces Keyword, Editor, Security, and API Updates
A Client’s Introductory Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing
If you’re planning on running a pay per click (PPC) campaign, and you’d like to hire an agency this guide is for you. I hope to show you how pay per click marketing works, and how you can contribute to the relationship in a way that will help you make the most money. I’ve broken this post into three parts: 1. What is Pay Per Click Marketing? 2. What is the Key to Winning at … [Read more...] about A Client’s Introductory Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing
Google Updates: Brand in Analytics, Powerful Location Segmenting, and AdMob
It’s been a busy week for the developers over at Google AdWords and Analytics, as they’ve rolled out a bevy of new functionality items over the past few days. Automating Branded Segmenting in Analytics Recognizing the ubiquity of the commonplace best practice to segment Brand traffic out from the rest, Google Analytics can now automatically do this for you. Analytics is able … [Read more...] about Google Updates: Brand in Analytics, Powerful Location Segmenting, and AdMob
Roundtable: The eCommerce Feature Producing Great Results
With eCommerce week coming to a close we wanted to glean more information from our authors as all have a vast and diverse history working with eCommerce PPC campaigns. Hopefully, they provided good insight this week that you can test in your campaigns! Without further ado, here's the question: What is one eCommerce PPC feature/campaign type that has produced great results … [Read more...] about Roundtable: The eCommerce Feature Producing Great Results
Get Ready for Google Shopping
Google Shopping campaigns offer an intuitive way to advertise your products. Shopping has been out of beta for a few months now and I’ve had great success on the platform. If you haven’t heard, Shopping campaigns will completely replace PLAs in August. As a result, it is important that you are both prepared to transition as well as manage the new campaigns. Many of the … [Read more...] about Get Ready for Google Shopping
AdWords Dynamic Remarketing – Oh The Possibilities
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of AdWords Dynamic Remarketing as I’ve seen this type of campaign produce amazing results for my clients. The ability to showcase the products visitors viewed as they traverse Google’s Display Network is powerful. In trying to capitalize even further, I’ve put together a list of Dynamic Remarketing audience combinations I’d like to try. … [Read more...] about AdWords Dynamic Remarketing – Oh The Possibilities
Google: Stop Losing the Forest for the…Quality Score
In an effort to provide clarity regarding the components and significance of quality score, Google Chief Economist, Hal Varian released a white paper, Settling the (Quality) Score (PDF), in tandem with a video explaining the AdWords auction parsing process. While there’s a treasure trove of information in both resources, Google seems primarily interested in driving home … [Read more...] about Google: Stop Losing the Forest for the…Quality Score
Decrease CPA by 79% with Dynamic Search Remarketing
I’ve talked about how to use Dynamic Search Ads (DSAs) for eCommerce, and how to find success. The tl;dr version is that DSAs can fill gaps in product coverage and bring in new keywords ideas through the search query report. Sometimes with 1000s of products, you don’t have the time to build out every single product. Along with the time challenges, many of these keywords won’t … [Read more...] about Decrease CPA by 79% with Dynamic Search Remarketing
Go Beyond The Basics! Guide to Google Adwords – Intermediate Edition
By now, you’ve been in PPC for a while and have a basic understanding of how AdWords and PPC works. Now, you’re getting into questions about some technical details like campaign types and settings, ad extensions, and how to start optimizing your account. In this white paper you will learn: How to select appropriate campaign type Understanding campaign settings and … [Read more...] about Go Beyond The Basics! Guide to Google Adwords – Intermediate Edition
4 Reasons Your Mobile E-Comm Is Still Sucking (& How To Fix It)
When it comes to mobile e-commerce, we tend to go for the big flashy topics and metrics. But we don't always spend time actually looking into performance and identifying when it's working and when it's simply not. Today we investigate e-commerce from a mobile perspective and identify just you're doing (or not doing) that's causing your mobile e-comm to, for lack of a better … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons Your Mobile E-Comm Is Still Sucking (& How To Fix It)
