An Incomplete PPC Cinderella Story There once was a young girl who lived in a quaint Bavarian cottage with her step-mother and two step-sisters. This young girl was a hard-working, kind girl who loved all and hated none. She did much of the hard work that was customarily required in a household, yet, sadly her step-sisters took credit for everything. They would sit in bed all … [Read more...] about It’s Time For PPC To Stop Ignoring Client Management
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It’s A Wonderful PPC Life: 4 Different Caps PPC Allows You To Wear
There's a common saying that if you enjoy your job you don't work a day in your life. I am not sure that is entirely true - but I am sure that I chose the correct industry to be able to truly say I enjoy my job. As a sports nut with an analytical mind, I have spent a fair share of time trying to crack the code on these one-day fantasy sites such as FanDuel. Figuring out … [Read more...] about It’s A Wonderful PPC Life: 4 Different Caps PPC Allows You To Wear
Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
One of the most effective ways to relay information to your client is via Excel. The plus side is that it’s easy to pull data from most PPC platforms into Excel. The negative side is that it’s not so easy to make this data easy to digest. By taking the time to create a template that you can plug data into, you can save precious time that you can spend on analysis and … [Read more...] about Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
PPC Account Audit Survival Guide: Part 2
In our previous article, we discussed ways you can audit account performance. In this article, we are going to discuss additional auditing options for campaigns, ad groups, and keywords. Campaigns All Settings At the campaign level, there are other settings you might want to be aware of in case a previous manager had settings that might not be aligned with the account’s … [Read more...] about PPC Account Audit Survival Guide: Part 2
Index Census And Trends Data For PPC Performance Insights
The best RFP question I’ve read said something to the extent of, “how do you explain performance swings without always blaming external factors when things are bad but taking all the credit when things are good?” As with most answers PPC Managers give, the answer is “it depends.” But indexing PPC data to external sources can shed light on relative performance. Thus, helping … [Read more...] about Index Census And Trends Data For PPC Performance Insights
5 Ways To Improve Facebook ROI With Audience Targeting
A few weeks ago, Facebook updated how cost per clicks (CPC) are measured for advertisers. In essence, Facebook is excluding engagement clicks (likes, comments, shares) from link clicks and is only charging advertisers for link clicks. Depending on your campaign objective, link clicks may include clicks to websites, call-to-action clicks, clicks to install an app, etc. You can … [Read more...] about 5 Ways To Improve Facebook ROI With Audience Targeting
Nail Down A Mobile Strategy In 5 Simple Steps
Question: Do you have a solid mobile strategy in place for your PPC efforts? If not, you should carve out some time to think about it and nail down an action plan to capture this ever-growing market in the PPC space. We’ve talked about micro-moments and what that means for advertisers, but we didn’t really talk about the specifics of putting together an overall strategy. … [Read more...] about Nail Down A Mobile Strategy In 5 Simple Steps
Turn Yourself Into A PPC Time Management Machine With These 4 Techniques
About a year ago, I made the shift from in-house PPC to agency. With 10+ years of in-house experience, I knew that agency life was going to be a big change for me, with the biggest change having to manage a roster of different clients. Now I like variety as much as the next person, but sometimes agency life can provide quite a bit of it—especially if you happen to have … [Read more...] about Turn Yourself Into A PPC Time Management Machine With These 4 Techniques
[On Demand Webinar!] 11 Excel Tricks To Improve Your PPC Life
PPC and excel are like peanut butter and jelly or macaroni and cheese, you really can’t have one without the other (or at least its not as good a combination!). By becoming super savvy with excel, you’ll save a lot of precious time doing your PPC tasks and overall, become better at analyzing account performance. In this webinar, we’ll cover a variety of tricks that can have big … [Read more...] about [On Demand Webinar!] 11 Excel Tricks To Improve Your PPC Life
Could Low Cost-Per-Clicks Be Killing Your Conversion Rates?
Recently, I ran into an interesting change in my account. Interesting seems like a strange word to describe a change in performance, but, in this case, interesting was an accurate word. The “Interesting” Change For months, conversion rate had been steady at 8% with some natural variance that is always present in paid search. Then all of sudden conversion rate dropped by 3 … [Read more...] about Could Low Cost-Per-Clicks Be Killing Your Conversion Rates?
Pitch Now to Speak at Hero Conf London!
Hero Conf prides itself on bringing new ideas, creative concepts and exciting voices to the forefront of the PPC community. We love to see the progression of a digital marketing professional from PPC Hero reader, to Hero Conf attendee to Hero Conf speaker. Fresh perspectives often provide unexpected and genuine insight from truly devoted search marketing experts. That’s … [Read more...] about Pitch Now to Speak at Hero Conf London!
Reassess How Your Facebook Campaigns Are Structured
How old are your Facebook campaigns? I have a Facebook account that has just recently turned three years old. Over its first three years, creative has been updated, ad testing concluded, and new ad types added, but the account structure has been left alone. However, a lot has changed in the last year in Facebook. What Has Changed? Ad Sets – Also considered the ad … [Read more...] about Reassess How Your Facebook Campaigns Are Structured