This past month we saw the big release of Google’s new approach to your ad position: the Ad Rank Algorithm. This algorithm now looks at an additional factor, expected positive impact of an ad, when determining which ad will show and where. When an auction used to be determined by Quality Score and max. CPC, now if both of those factors are equal, Google will turn to the … [Read more...] about One More Moving Part To Ad Rank – Don’t Get Left Behind!
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56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
We've seen the leaves changing, sweatshirts adorned with pumpkins, and so much candy everywhere we turn! While we enjoy the fall, that sneaky holiday season is right behind it! If you've not yet begun planning for how to manage your PPC accounts for the holidays, the time is now. Holiday Strategy There are myriad best practices on how to effectively prepare for your … [Read more...] about 56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
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 Display Doubled My Conv. Rate in 90 Days: A Real Life Adventure
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 has already given a few tips on how to address the source of bad lead quality and now we'll help you expand your reach in a way that pays off! Wouldn't it be nice … [Read more...] about How Display Doubled My Conv. Rate in 90 Days: A Real Life Adventure
Optimizing What You Can’t See: The Lead Quality Challenge
Lead Generation. These two words have the ability to strike fear in the hearts of PPC Heroes everywhere. Leads can be as elusive as Bigfoot himself when it comes to identifying the value your client associates with each conversion. All of my lead gen clients appreciate when I can bring them buckets of leads, but they are even more excited when the leads are actually qualified … [Read more...] about Optimizing What You Can’t See: The Lead Quality Challenge
6 Excel Tricks to Save Your PPC Life
It comes as no surprise to most of you, but we get a lot of mileage out of Excel in PPC. Seeing as how the AdWords and Bing Editors are capable of accepting spreadsheet uploads, and how each interface can turn out roughly a billion Excel-based reports, it doesn't hurt to brush up on your Excel skills from time to time. While every function listed here isn't always useful 100% … [Read more...] about 6 Excel Tricks to Save Your PPC Life
Why You Can’t Manage AdWords Without A Multi-Device Strategy in 2013
I was presented with a pretty big account a couple of months ago from one of our Clients who asked me for help to build out their future strategy. They came to me with the following talking points. We think we’re doing pretty well in Search and we don’t need much external help (yes, this was their first talking point) We need someone to help us set up a system for our … [Read more...] about Why You Can’t Manage AdWords Without A Multi-Device Strategy in 2013
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?
8 Simple Ways to Leverage SEO Data & Improve PPC Results
As most of you have heard by now, AdWords released a new report within their interface that allows PPC managers to look at paid and organic keyword/query data in one place. With that release, we’re also hearing a lot of you ask about how you can utilize that, and other, SEO metrics and data to increase performance in your paid search campaigns. Well ask and ye shall receive, … [Read more...] about 8 Simple Ways to Leverage SEO Data & Improve PPC Results
6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
It comes up often, and I’ll admit in my younger PPC days it made me shudder: “So if you’re charging us a fee based on spend, doesn’t that mean you’ll just push the spend to increase your fee?” Well, let me start by saying – yes…if we were real scumbags who didn’t want to keep you around as a client for the long-term. Of course I realize that’s not the ANSWER, but it’s always … [Read more...] about 6 Reasons Pay-for-Performance Models Suck
3 Events You Must Start Tracking In Analytics
Paid search and Google Analytics work hand in hand in so many ways (including right there in the AdWords interface). This month’s series week is all about how you can make the most of Analytics in your account, whether that’s with content experiments, event tracking or custom reporting. We’re going to find all of the ways that you can get even more insight into the clicks … [Read more...] about 3 Events You Must Start Tracking In Analytics
