Before I had ever heard of Pay-Per-Click or Paid Search, I was completely unaware of how it was determined which ads or search results would appear on a page. Now, over four years later, I have a solid understanding of how search results are populated, ads are shown, how display ads follow me around, and so much more. It’s the wonderful world of Digital Marketing led by Google, … [Read more...] about How Google Determines Which Ads To Serve
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PPC Testing: Your Key to Innovation
Being an account manager means that you are constantly walking the balance between what is ideal and what is possible. We have all been in situations where creative assets arrive late or do not meet the best practices for a given campaign. The best thing you can do is turn these non-ideal situations into an opportunity gain deeper insights. Background Earlier this year, our … [Read more...] about PPC Testing: Your Key to Innovation
How to Lower Your Cost Per View for LinkedIn Video Ads
We've put more focus on LinkedIn in recent months, and for good reason! LinkedIn has made great strides in targeting options and functionality in the last 1-2 years since their acquisition by Microsoft. Those improvements make the platform more appealing to marketers which leads to more testing. More testing equates to more key learnings, which are exactly what I want to share … [Read more...] about How to Lower Your Cost Per View for LinkedIn Video Ads
The Top 4 Google Ad Format Updates: Less Transparent Reports and More Options than Ever Before
In this industry, if you blink you might miss something important. And it has never been more the case than with the rollout of various new ad formats and ad reports (or the quiet closing down of formats you may have found useful in the past, with the launch of Google Ad's new UI.) Quarter 2-3 of 2018 has felt, to me, like an avalanche of such changes rolling down the hill. … [Read more...] about The Top 4 Google Ad Format Updates: Less Transparent Reports and More Options than Ever Before
Why You Need To Be Layering & Testing Search Audiences
It seems like much of the news coming out of Google Ads and Bing is the continued push towards audiences whether they be custom made or created by the platforms themselves. From in-market audiences for search, custom intent audiences, and I’m sure more in the future, we’re being presented some great targeting options and you really need to be testing these out across your own … [Read more...] about Why You Need To Be Layering & Testing Search Audiences
LinkedIn Ads: How Videos are Performing
If you haven’t noticed, LinkedIn has been rolling out new ad formats and platform features at a rapid pace over the last year. Back in March, LinkedIn announced video ads for all advertisers. In June LinkedIn took a page out of Facebook’s playbook with the launch of the carousel ad format. More recently LinkedIn has rolled out updates to the campaign manager that make it … [Read more...] about LinkedIn Ads: How Videos are Performing
4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
Digital marketing can be very time consuming. Advertising across multiple channels and devices can consume all your bandwidth if you let it. That's why you need to take advantage of every time saving tool and feature you can. Facebook has really grown and allowed users to automate and mass edit their campaigns in recent months. Utilizing these four features in Facebook will … [Read more...] about 4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
Amazon Advertising: How to Conquer This New Frontier
Amazon accounted for 43% of all U.S. e-commerce sales in 2016 and it is predicted to account for 50% or more of the market by 2021. Just the marketing platform alone accounts for $3 billion of North America’s advertising market, and is expected to hold $20 billion of the global market by 2020. It shouldn’t be a question of “why Amazon”, but a question of when. Now is the time … [Read more...] about Amazon Advertising: How to Conquer This New Frontier
How We Used Ad Customizers to Decrease Our Client’s Cost-Per-Lead By 34%
It’s no secret that I love ad customizers. They allow you to write dynamic ad copy that changes depending on who is searching. Even more importantly, they stand out from your competition. For example, if we know that a product takes longer to ship to Florida vs. California, we can customize the ads in each location to include the shipping time. Or, if our inventory always … [Read more...] about How We Used Ad Customizers to Decrease Our Client’s Cost-Per-Lead By 34%
Is Your Website A Conversion Nightmare? Try Facebook Lead Ads!
What are Facebook Lead Ads? In today’s blog post, we’re going to talk briefly about the benefits of Facebook Lead Ads! As you are aware, most of us are captive servants to our mobile phones. This of course presents an opportunity and a challenge, especially for activities that require longer research and contemplation. Mobile-users have twitchy attention spans and often … [Read more...] about Is Your Website A Conversion Nightmare? Try Facebook Lead Ads!
An Introduction to Advertising on Facebook Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace has been a placement option for advertisers since the beginning of the year and it seems to have flown a bit under the radar. Depending on the business, the hyper-local focus of marketplace doesn’t jive with many companies and professional product photos really stand out amongst the grainy, cellphone pictures that are pervasive throughout. The lure of … [Read more...] about An Introduction to Advertising on Facebook Marketplace
Dynamic Search Ads for Advanced Users
In a previous article Dynamic Search Ads for Beginners, Shannon discussed different reasons you might want to use Dynamic search ads (DSA) and how to set them up in your account. In this post, I am going to discuss some advanced ways to use Dynamic Search Ads in your account. Why Use Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) As previously mentioned, DSA are great for catching additional … [Read more...] about Dynamic Search Ads for Advanced Users
