This week our blog series is taking a look at the most expensive “set it and forget it” mistakes. While search partners is not necessarily expensive, its distortion of common metrics may mislead you. By recognizing search partner performance and how it affects your metrics you can then adjust accordingly. Search partners are one of the largest causes of data discrepancies in … [Read more...] about Are You Being Fooled By Search Partners?
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How To Find and Easily Exploit PPC Advertising Opportunities In Foreign Languages and Global Markets
If there is one thing Google is good at, it’s making money. This is good news for you and me because Googles primary business is advertising, or helping businesses find and reach customers, so they invest very heavily in figuring out ways to get more people to advertise and existing advertisers to spend more money. They recently announced a whole bunch of new products within … [Read more...] about How To Find and Easily Exploit PPC Advertising Opportunities In Foreign Languages and Global Markets
Step Inside AdWords’ Latest Updates with UI Tools, App Ads, and More
For the last week, speculation has run wild through the PPC industry about the contents of the April 22nd "Step Inside AdWords" presentation. Today, Jerry Dischler, Paul Feng and the Google AdWords team put our fears to rest by announcing several new updates to the advertising platform. Updates that, on the whole, didn't live up to the hype. First and foremost: we still have … [Read more...] about Step Inside AdWords’ Latest Updates with UI Tools, App Ads, and More
Transcript: Our AdWords Announcement Liveblog – App Ads, Estimated Conversions, and Buzzword Bingo
Join us today at 11:45 AM EST for coverage of Google's AdWords event. In the event announcement, the AdWords team promised to unveil over 10 new products, features, and research studies that have been in the works over the last year. In particular, they stressed the user (and advertiser) multi-screen experience, in-app advertising, and targeting improvements that "let … [Read more...] about Transcript: Our AdWords Announcement Liveblog – App Ads, Estimated Conversions, and Buzzword Bingo
How To Find eCommerce Success With Dynamic Search Ads
I’ve written about Dynamic Search Ads in the past. I told you about how you can set them up and gave some basic best practices for how to optimize them. When I wrote this article, I was only using them in one of my accounts that was basically a lead generation account. I was just using the “all pages” target while constantly adding negative keywords. This worked great, and I am … [Read more...] about How To Find eCommerce Success With Dynamic Search Ads
Non-Converting Cost %: Illuminating Trends in Your Account
I'd like to start off this post with a big hat tip to Kevin Klein, a fellow account manager at Hanapin, for his thoughts, feedback, and assistance. All of which were all essential for bringing this post together. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming. “Taken out of context, I must seem so strange.” – Ani DiFranco Early this month we stressed the importance of … [Read more...] about Non-Converting Cost %: Illuminating Trends in Your Account
Small Changes That Make Bing Faster
Sometimes, it is as easy as asking. Bing Ads listened to feedback from its users and added some additional features to their campaign tab, which should be live across the Bing Ads interface. While these changes will not change the world of paid search, they will make some of the little things easier and faster. What is new? The key word to remember is faster and faster means … [Read more...] about Small Changes That Make Bing Faster
Updates to Bing Reports
We tend to focus our attention more towards Google AdWords here on PPC Hero, but many of us also use Bing Ads on a daily basis. One thing that I find a bit more challenging when using Bing is pulling reports. The process seems to be integrated better into the tabs in AdWords. Bing has recently announced some changes, though, to help make the reporting process more … [Read more...] about Updates to Bing Reports
Hero Conf 2014 Workshops are Nearly Sold Out!
Only 10 seats remain for our valuable 1-on-1 workshops at Hero Conf! These workshops are the perfect opportunity to work side-by-side with our digital advertising experts to explore the specifics of your account, giving a fresh perspective that may be all it takes to reinvigorate a campaign or push past a difficult benchmark. Join Hanapin Marketing and industry pros to discover … [Read more...] about Hero Conf 2014 Workshops are Nearly Sold Out!
Are You Wasting Spend on Google Shopping?
Google Shopping is the next generation of PLAs. Offering a more retail centric advertising model, advertisers can easily segment their product feeds by categories and labels. This is all well and good but what do you do when performance is lacking? Do these new campaign types require new tactics or can you treat them like your other AdWords campaigns? The Account The account … [Read more...] about Are You Wasting Spend on Google Shopping?
Branded vs. Non-Branded Keywords – Worth It To Budget for Both?
A company’s brand is defined by many things – the people that make up the company, the clients or customers that company serves, the mission the company sets for itself, the messaging that brand uses to market itself…along with a much longer list of other factors. Splitting out that last piece about how the brand goes to market, they have to determine which marketing channels … [Read more...] about Branded vs. Non-Branded Keywords – Worth It To Budget for Both?
Holiday PPC Budgeting Made Easy!
For November’s series we’re diving into the exciting world of the holiday season. With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas and Boxing Day (for our non-American friends) all approaching quickly we’re sharing our favorite tips & tricks for strong holiday-PPC results. So far we’ve covered ad copy and CRO; today we’ll uncover how you can make the daunting task of budgeting … [Read more...] about Holiday PPC Budgeting Made Easy!
