Ad extensions are touted as an important component of any PPC account. The AdWords system even rates your ads based on the use of ad extensions. Beyond the “use them or suffer” reasoning, extensions offer a great way to differentiate your ads or are simply a way to take up more real estate in the search results. Despite their visibility, there remains a constant doubt to the … [Read more...] about How To Evaluate Your Ad Extensions
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Fix Your Remarketing Campaign In 5 Steps
Contrary to what you may hear, remarketing is not a magic bullet and it won’t automatically work wonders for your account. As with anything else in your PPC accounts, test it! Today, we’ll go through 5 areas to walk through while troubleshooting a poor performing remarketing campaign. 1: Who Are You Remarketing To? The audience you are targeting is the most important part … [Read more...] about Fix Your Remarketing Campaign In 5 Steps
When Should You Create New Campaigns?
There are many reasons why it makes sense to create new campaigns and other times when it is not a good idea. If your account is budget constrained, you may want to consider additional ad groups instead of campaigns. The one exception is you always want different campaigns for different networks. Search, Display and Remarketing have different performance statistics and spending … [Read more...] about When Should You Create New Campaigns?
How To Create Better Ad Extensions At The Ad Group Level
It's hard to believe that ad extensions have been around since 2009. When the new ad formats were introduced, there were only 4 extensions. Furthermore, these extensions were only available at the campaign level. Since then, both Google and Bing have released, tested, and retired at least 20 extensions over the years. What was once simply an "add-on" feature to your text … [Read more...] about How To Create Better Ad Extensions At The Ad Group Level
6 Simple Physical Store Tactics To Boost Your Black Friday PPC Sales This Season
Black Friday sales have existed long before ecommerce was recognized. For over 50 years, stores have tried and tested ways to ensure they make the most out of the valuable footfalls, even without the luxury of measurability that PPC provides. Though many online advertisers are sharpening their toolkits to prepare for the weekend, too often, I find that ecommerce marketers … [Read more...] about 6 Simple Physical Store Tactics To Boost Your Black Friday PPC Sales This Season
8 Ridiculously Easy Tactics You Can Implement Today For Better Client Relations
As account managers, doing the actual PPC work is only part of our job. While the tactical side is imperative, we must also effectively communicate with clients in order to produce better results and mutually grow accounts. The combination of great work and stellar client relations yields happy clients. In this post, we'll look at 8 easy to implement tactics that you can employ … [Read more...] about 8 Ridiculously Easy Tactics You Can Implement Today For Better Client Relations
Naming Your Campaigns: The Unsung Hero of PPC
Nothing kills the excitement of a PPC conversation like talking about how you name your campaigns. No really, try discussing your finely tuned naming strategy at your next party, even a PPC one. You’ll notice you have the snack table all to yourself. How you name your campaigns can make your PPC life easier or a lot harder. As an analyst I deal with a lot of PPC accounts on … [Read more...] about Naming Your Campaigns: The Unsung Hero of PPC
How to Build a Solid CRO Strategy
With new clients, new websites, and concluding of previous tests, the need for a testing and CRO strategy never stops being important. Creating a structured plan for your Conversion Rate Optimization strategy will align the goals and ensure the process will run smoothly. There are four key components to form a strategy: Gather all information Collect data Put all the … [Read more...] about How to Build a Solid CRO Strategy
Why Dynamic Search Ads Are The Perfect Solution For Internal Paid Search Cannibalization
Working with an advertiser has its perks. Sometimes everything is fine as you are managing the entire business in your country and you have an eye on almost everything related to Paid Search. Sometimes (most of the time to be honest) you don’t control as much as you want and even worse, you don’t have any visibility on what is going outside of your scope. In the worst case … [Read more...] about Why Dynamic Search Ads Are The Perfect Solution For Internal Paid Search Cannibalization
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 Flash Webinar!] 4 PPC Tips To Boost Your Online Retail Sales
Hanapin’s Senior Account Analyst, Jacob Fairclough, discusses 4 PPC tips that will help boost your online retail sales, including using ad customizers, looking at time of day metrics, and utilizing product feed categories for improved Shopping campaign structures. This live 20 minute webinar will be Thursday, September10th at Noon EST. You’ll get expert-level PPC tips … [Read more...] about [New Flash Webinar!] 4 PPC Tips To Boost Your Online Retail Sales
Boost Your PPC Strategy By Focusing On Where Users Are Going
Last week, Marketing Land published an article with statistics around mobile browser usage. According to the article, people are spending more time than ever on their mobile phones. More than likely if you are anything like me you don't need a think-tank to tell you this fact. It turns out that the time spent using apps has grown to 90% while browser time has declined to 10%. … [Read more...] about Boost Your PPC Strategy By Focusing On Where Users Are Going
