Today we’ll tackle a few basics of budget based scripts. Why budgets? Well, first of all, they impact every advertiser. In fact, it is one of the requirements for launching a campaign. Second, since budgets are relatively limited and fixed in their implementation it is a great way to get your feet wet in the scripts world. Through my examples, you’ll see how to change a … [Read more...] about Automate And Better Manage Your Budgets With Scripts
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Start RLSA On The Right Foot
RLSA (Remarketing Lists For Search Ads) works similarly to traditional retargeting. RLSA shows ads to previous website visitors that are now searching on Google or Google’s Search Partners for your targeted keywords. In direct response accounts, building brand awareness is a side benefit of advertising. Direct response accounts want revenue and lead numbers. Brand awareness … [Read more...] about Start RLSA On The Right Foot
Get More Bang For Your Buck – 6 Ways To Use Google Analytics for Ecommerce
Running an ecommerce PPC account, as you would imagine, can be quite different than running a lead generation account. In these instances, we are particularly interested in what the user is doing on the site, which products they’re looking at, and what they are purchasing. In this post, we'll review 6 ways you can make use of Google Analytics in order to improve your PPC … [Read more...] about Get More Bang For Your Buck – 6 Ways To Use Google Analytics for Ecommerce
Are You Maximizing Your Revenue? Impression Share Reporting in Excel
Lost Impression Share Due to Rank - The estimated percentage of impressions on the Search Network that your ads didn't receive due to poor ad rank. This seems to be a very important metric. Especially when talking about the top performing keywords in your account. So, why is it so underutilized? A lot of the paid search community has appeared to put all their eggs in the … [Read more...] about Are You Maximizing Your Revenue? Impression Share Reporting in Excel
Using Bid Simulations And Estimates More Effectively
One of the most underutilized AdWords tools is bid simulators. That isn’t to say they are unused as more often than not, users are simply skeptical. We’ve all seen the estimates for top of page bids and there is plenty of room for doubt. However, ignoring the tool completely means you aren’t taking advantages of potential areas for improvement. What Is It? You’ve probably … [Read more...] about Using Bid Simulations And Estimates More Effectively
The Hierarchy of PPC Account Realization
There are many aspects of PPC account management but few frameworks for explaining them. Often times account management is portrayed as a bundle of tasks, which may or may not be needed for a specific account. This lack of a clear explanation leaves it open ended as to where tasks fall in relation to one another. Most have probably heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. If … [Read more...] about The Hierarchy of PPC Account Realization
Shopping Campaigns: How Does Bing Really Stack Up To Google?
Product Listing Ads have absolutely revolutionized how shoppers research and ultimately purchase products online. What started as an exclusive set of ads in the search engine results page has become a must have for any e-commerce advertiser. Google and Bing have both launched Shopping campaigns, which offer specialized segmentation and biding strategies for your PLAs. If you … [Read more...] about Shopping Campaigns: How Does Bing Really Stack Up To Google?
How To Use Historical QS To Diagnose Your Account
It can get really frustrating when you seem to do everything right but Google doesn’t want to raise your Quality Score and you end up paying high bids for no apparent reason. On the other hand, when you do manage to increase your QS to 10 for example, AdWords rewards you big time! Your traffic increases and your costs drop dramatically, but how do you know what change or … [Read more...] about How To Use Historical QS To Diagnose Your Account
Setting Clear PPC Expectations From The Beginning
Over the past five years the PPC industry has evolved and changed. As more pay-per-click agencies target small business we are increasingly seeing cost per clicks (CPCs) increase. This is simply because there are more companies in the marketplace bidding for positions on the results pages. Increasingly it is rare that a company does not spend money in PPC. As agencies we … [Read more...] about Setting Clear PPC Expectations From The Beginning
Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
Sometimes, I think there is one single mantra that runs through the mind of every PPCer, “Let’s test that.” Ad testing and conversion rate optimization get a lot of the testing hype, but what about bidding strategies? At intervals, experimenting with bidding strategies gets sprinkled into the testing mix, but not enough. How do we spend money in paid search? The answer is … [Read more...] about Bidding Strategies: A Pair of Case Studies
Using RLSAs To Stay Live When Budget Is Low
Recently, one of my clients came to me with a fairly common problem. Due to the seasonality of their business, they have certain months during the year with a lower budget allocated to Search and Shopping campaigns. During these months, since they track monthly budget by day, most of their product focused campaigns run out of budget early in the day. Thus, the account then runs … [Read more...] about Using RLSAs To Stay Live When Budget Is Low
One Surefire Way to Maximize a Limited by Budget Campaign
It’s a painful thing, seeing those three orange-faced words smackdab in the middle of the AdWords Interface: Limited by budget. The way that AdWords defines the criteria for a campaign to slapped with the “limited by budget” tag, is that the campaign’s budget is set at a lower daily amount than what is recommended by Google. Granted, this definition comes with the world’s … [Read more...] about One Surefire Way to Maximize a Limited by Budget Campaign
