The calendar year is filled with milestones for a Paid Search marketer. From gift-giving holidays to college enrollment deadlines, we all mark our respective calendars with dates and time frames to remember year after year. An undeniably vital time for each and every single one of us is the deadline for Next Year’s Budget. Because this is such an important topic and I’d … [Read more...] about Paid Search Budgeting For 2016: Estimating Your Best Budgets
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Advanced AdWords Budget Script
For a newer article on this topic visit: Automate And Better Manage Your Budgets With Scripts At the recent HeroConf in London, I had the pleasure of meeting several customers of Optmyzr. One of them told me they had to spend a significant amount of time ensuring that none of the accounts they managed would exceed the monthly budget set by their clients and that got … [Read more...] about Advanced AdWords Budget Script
5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
Analyzing the PPC competitive landscape can help provide key insight into performance trends and determine how your ads stack up to competition. By not taking the time to analyze PPC competitors, you could be missing out on huge gaps in your program that could leave your account vulnerable to deep-pocketed competitors driving up costs and stealing impression share. Below, we … [Read more...] about 5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
Making The Case for Attribution: Prove The Entire Value Of PPC To Your Stakeholders
My Google rep recently shared a study with me that stated people spend an average of 5 hours per day online and visit over 10 different sources before converting. For instance, potential customers in my PPC accounts are spending ever-increasing amounts of time on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and review sites like Yelp. They’re researching and discussing … [Read more...] about Making The Case for Attribution: Prove The Entire Value Of PPC To Your Stakeholders
Bidding Methods For Platforms Outside Of Google
If you are a consistent reader of PPC Hero, then you've read up on in-depth bidding strategies for the Search Network in Google and Bing. But what are the best strategies to utilize on other platforms? How should we be bidding on the traffic being received from our ever growing Facebook budget? How about managing the money in Pinterest? Or what are best practices for bidding on … [Read more...] about Bidding Methods For Platforms Outside Of Google
Are Your Match Types Functioning The Way You Think They Are?
We all know that in AdWords there are three main match types: broad, phrase, and exact. Broad can be further narrowed down to regular broad match and modified broad – signified by “+” markers. When we analyze our accounts we often look at match type performance and search query reports, but one thing is often overlooked - queries can “exact match” to broad match keywords. What … [Read more...] about Are Your Match Types Functioning The Way You Think They Are?
Google Rolls Out RLSA To AdWords Shopping Campaigns
With the holiday season fast approaching, paid search advertisers received an early gift as Google introduced RLSA to AdWords Shopping Campaigns. Although advertisers have long since enjoyed the many benefits of Remarketing Lists for Search Ads, this update effectively extends their application to both Shopping ads (PLAs) and Local Inventory ads (LIAs). The increased reach … [Read more...] about Google Rolls Out RLSA To AdWords Shopping Campaigns
Workflow and Campaign Performance Are High Priorities In New Bing Updates
Bing Ads recently announced a number of improvements to Universal Event Tracking (UET), the fairly new conversion and goal tracking, that will also soon power retargeting on search. If you haven’t yet implemented UET, there is now a simplified workflow and documentation that will make it easier to get started and understand how it works. Likewise, if you are still using … [Read more...] about Workflow and Campaign Performance Are High Priorities In New Bing Updates
Determining The When And How Of Cross-Channel Budget Allocation
Google’s global search market share is 67%. That volume combined with the decent quality of traffic Google provides is the reason why so many PPC advertisers spend 75% of their PPC budget with the engine. But how do you know when it’s time to branch out? Are You Budget Constrained And Running Only (Or Mostly) In Google? Break your campaigns and/or keywords into buckets. … [Read more...] about Determining The When And How Of Cross-Channel Budget Allocation
Diminishing Returns in PPC – When Doubling Your Budget Doesn’t Mean Doubling Your Profits
“We’ve been cleared for double the budget per month for PPC next year…” That’s music to an Account Manager’s ears, right? Well, it would be – except it’s generally followed by: “…and we’ve set goals for twice the revenue to match.” Oh boy. That could be possible, but it’s also more than likely highly improbable. Most PPC accounts have the bulk of their spend in Google or … [Read more...] about Diminishing Returns in PPC – When Doubling Your Budget Doesn’t Mean Doubling Your Profits
[New Whitepaper!] 5 Ways to Improve Facebook ROI with Audience Targeting
Facebook recently updated how cost per clicks (CPC) are measured for advertisers. This change is exciting, as it will help advertisers align their campaigns more with business goals by giving a more accurate picture of how their ads are performing against their objectives. Plus, we can actually compare Facebook ad clicks to other ad platform clicks to get a better understanding … [Read more...] about [New Whitepaper!] 5 Ways to Improve Facebook ROI with Audience Targeting
The Pre-Holiday Planning Guide You Can’t Afford To Miss
Although you may still be recovering from your banner Back to School year, I regret to inform you that it’s not time to relax just yet. That’s right, it’s time to prep for your 2015 Holiday Season! Any seasoned ecommerce vet will tell you that if you’re not ready by September, you’re already getting left behind. Although we’re midway into September, I’m going to give you a … [Read more...] about The Pre-Holiday Planning Guide You Can’t Afford To Miss
