You may have a client, or you may be a client, asking the question, should we spend more on branded or non-branded terms? Like anything in PPC, it depends on the industry, the type of product/service, what your competitors are doing, how your PPC account is currently set up, etc. Having worked with a variety of clients, I have seen a wide range of strategies. Two opposing … [Read more...] about The Missing Ingredient to Your PPC Strategy: Non-Branded Campaigns
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4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
Digital marketing can be very time consuming. Advertising across multiple channels and devices can consume all your bandwidth if you let it. That's why you need to take advantage of every time saving tool and feature you can. Facebook has really grown and allowed users to automate and mass edit their campaigns in recent months. Utilizing these four features in Facebook will … [Read more...] about 4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
Dynamic Search Ads for Advanced Users
In a previous article Dynamic Search Ads for Beginners, Shannon discussed different reasons you might want to use Dynamic search ads (DSA) and how to set them up in your account. In this post, I am going to discuss some advanced ways to use Dynamic Search Ads in your account. Why Use Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) As previously mentioned, DSA are great for catching additional … [Read more...] about Dynamic Search Ads for Advanced Users
Automated Bidding Strategies By The Numbers
When you think about automated bidding, or any machine-learning algorithm, it’s useful to envision a physical machine with lots of gears and belts in need of plenty of oil to stay running smoothly. Not to mention, useful human stewards to keep it all functioning. Even though the machines we’re working with in the digital marketing sphere are less tangible, there’s a lot we can … [Read more...] about Automated Bidding Strategies By The Numbers
Google Adds New Tools to Highlight Physical Store Locations
Buying in-store is still a big deal for shoppers, and Google has announced a few cool new tools to let physical retailers target those shoppers heading to the stores. These initiatives are coming on the heels of research reporting nearly 80% of shoppers are willing to buy in-store when the items are available immediately. Google is expanding affiliate location extensions, … [Read more...] about Google Adds New Tools to Highlight Physical Store Locations
Quick Tips to Earning Trust When Onboarding a New Client
First impressions are important – but so are second impressions, third, fourth, etc. In onboarding a paid search client, it is important for the account manager to realize that the first 90 days of the working relationship are crucial. Gaining trust within the first three months of working together sets the stage and tone for the rest of the interactions in the months … [Read more...] about Quick Tips to Earning Trust When Onboarding a New Client
How to Supercharge Your Google Shopping Ads
Running a successful Google Shopping campaign isn’t rocket science, but there’s definitely an art to it. Whenever I get asked to audit an account, the same issues or areas for improvement come up time and time again. So, I’ve put together this article to tackle some of those common problems and help you get the most out of your Google Shopping ad campaigns. The first thing to … [Read more...] about How to Supercharge Your Google Shopping Ads
Return on Ad Spend, An Unsung Metric
Return on ad spend (ROAS) is one of the easiest revenue-based metrics to measure. It is simply the total revenue generated for a specific marketing channel (like PPC) divided by the total spend on that channel. Here’s the formula: (Revenue/Spend) = Return on Ad Spend Pretty simple, but here’s an example for further clarification: If I spent $10,000 on paid search in October … [Read more...] about Return on Ad Spend, An Unsung Metric
5 Things to Make You Better at PPC Marketing
I Love Us I love the PPC community. We are funny, smart, and, for the most part, do our work without much hubris. And one of the greatest things about PPC Hero is this: we are dedicated to making the funny, smart, humble PPC community better. PPCers are very much interested in knowledge-sharing and the old adage “a rising tide lifts all boats”. So in this post, I am going to … [Read more...] about 5 Things to Make You Better at PPC Marketing
Ultimate Guide to Paid Search Acronyms & Terminology
Whether you’re new to the game or a seasoned account manager, PPC terms and acronyms can be difficult to digest at times. The sheer volume of terms, acronyms and technicality is enough to make even the boldest of individuals cry. The folks here at PPC Hero believe it is important to provide our readers with as much information possible, so we’ve decided to compile a … [Read more...] about Ultimate Guide to Paid Search Acronyms & Terminology
Why You Should Rethink Your Bing PPC Strategy
Okay, so we all know that Google continues to have the highest volume of searchers compared to Bing and Yahoo. In the last comScore Search Engine Share release, Google has 63.8% of the search engines share. Bing has 21.3% and Yahoo has 12.4% of the remaining search market share. In 2017, when the next market share report is released we can expect a few shifts, but we do not … [Read more...] about Why You Should Rethink Your Bing PPC Strategy
Reframing The Conversation: The Benefits Of Profit-Based PPC Management
As digital marketers, many of us are used to being multilingual when it comes to communicating KPIs to clients. Some clients are interested in efficiency metrics, like ROAS, CPA, or Ad/Cost. Others prefer more growth-oriented metrics, and aim to maximize revenue or leads within a given budget. In the vast majority of cases, though, all these metrics serve as proxies for the … [Read more...] about Reframing The Conversation: The Benefits Of Profit-Based PPC Management
