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
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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!
Post 11/30: The Evolution Of The PPC Account Manager
This is part of a 30 posts in 30 days series chronicling my first 30 days in my new role as President of Hanapin Marketing. In the early days Account Managers didn’t exist. Someone in the IT department who knew how the Internet worked typically ran PPC. No one really knew what they did so they received a budget and occasionally reported on things like impressions and … [Read more...] about Post 11/30: The Evolution Of The PPC Account Manager
7 Tips For Getting Your PLA Campaign Holiday Ready
With just 15 days left until Black Friday, are your Product Listing Ad Campaigns optimized and ready to go? If not, it’s time to get them ready, ASAP! According to Google 40% of annual retail sales will happen during the holiday season. With Hanukkah a week earlier and 6 less shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the time to start preparing is now! In 2012, Black … [Read more...] about 7 Tips For Getting Your PLA Campaign Holiday Ready
How to Raise CTR From The Dead
All accounts have their ups and downs. This week we’re all about how we troubleshoot the “downs,” offering the practical application of PPC know-how to solve major mysteries plaguing your account’s performance. Eric and Carrie have already given a few tips on how to address the source of bad lead quality and how to increase a low conversion rate; now we’ll help you pull more … [Read more...] about How to Raise CTR From The Dead
How to Create a PPC Budget
New companies enter the PPC marketplace daily. We see it first-hand as we bring on new clients who require their accounts to be built from scratch, or with our current clients as they see increased competition in their vertical. Whether it’s your first time diving in to paid search marketing or you’re opening up a test budget for a new segment – the following tips will help you … [Read more...] about How to Create a PPC Budget
Get Up to Speed With Bing’s Latest Updates
Bing has continually rolled out new features over the past few months in order to improve their service. They added enhanced change history graph, new extensions, and some great graphs to help analyze your account performance. During the enhanced campaign transition, Bing added support to help accommodate the forced switch to enhanced campaigns. There were still enough … [Read more...] about Get Up to Speed With Bing’s Latest Updates
Why Aren’t Your Quality Scores Higher?
“Why are some of our keywords sitting at 3 or 4 Quality Scores? How can we make those better? Shouldn’t you just work on increasing CTR?” Similar to my previous post on what a ‘good’ CTR is for your PPC campaigns, quite often we hear questions surrounding account Quality Scores and what is being done to proactively improve them. Let’s get the obvious out of the way… YES – … [Read more...] about Why Aren’t Your Quality Scores Higher?
PPC Reality Vs. PPC Theater
Disclosure: The idea for this post from Chiefmartec.com who gave a great argument against big fancy dashboards that pump data into your brain and for strategic data that helps you make good choices. I see this type of PPC Theater when looking at reports from other agencies, when trying to peel back data I am sent from clients and even internally, at times, when we are talking … [Read more...] about PPC Reality Vs. PPC Theater
