Hello PPC Heroes and Heroines! As we grow our writing team we are also looking for guest bloggers. If you’ve ever been interested in writing for PPC Hero now is your chance. These are the qualities we’re looking for in the ideal guest blogger: 1) You have a strong passion for PPC 2) You have unique perspectives on day-to-day PPC management activities 3) You are constantly … [Read more...] about Now Accepting PPC Hero Guest Bloggers
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How to Form a Remarketing Strategy
On average, only 2% of users convert on their first site visit, making it crucial in today’s competitive landscape that you have a solid remarketing strategy in place. Thanks to Google, remarketing is now really easy to set up and implement. At a basic level, you can add the remarketing code to your website and easily show ads to anyone who has visited your website. If you want … [Read more...] about How to Form a Remarketing Strategy
How To Do Keyword Research for Ecommerce Accounts
Ecommerce accounts are a beast all their own. Many PPC Account Managers deal strictly with one type of account, so if you get thrown an ecommerce account for the first time, you may be a little lost about where to start for keyword research. There are a lot of awesome ecommerce tools out there, like shopping campaigns, dynamic ads, etc. Sometimes, keywords can become a second … [Read more...] about How To Do Keyword Research for Ecommerce Accounts
Smoke Your Competition: 14 Ways To A High Conversion Rate [Webinar Recording]
What happens after the click is just as important as what happens before the click, but there's way more to conversion rate optimization than just the technical side, like button color and layout. It's also about the experience. Searchers are smarter now. Not only should you be prioritizing what really leads to a conversion, you should also be looking at the unique perspectives … [Read more...] about Smoke Your Competition: 14 Ways To A High Conversion Rate [Webinar Recording]
Stop Your Google Display Campaigns Going Off The Rails
This week our blog series is taking a look at the most expensive "set it and forget it" mistakes. To open up I'm going to focus on some common problems I see sneak into Display campaigns that aren’t regularly maintained. I'll also show how you can take a few steps to avoid most of the major issues that creep into these campaigns. When it comes to Display advertising on Google … [Read more...] about Stop Your Google Display Campaigns Going Off The Rails
53 CRO Tips to Improve Your PPC Campaigns – New Whitepaper!
When it comes to conversion rate optimization (CRO), you'd be hard spent to find someone who DIDN'T want more of their website traffic to convert. But wanting the conversions and making them happen are a completely different story. It's a challenge to figure out what CRO tactics are going to work best for your campaign. You probably know you should be testing - but what should … [Read more...] about 53 CRO Tips to Improve Your PPC Campaigns – New Whitepaper!
How Hero Conf Grew My Account by 500% Before I Even Attended
Just imagine if your boss told you that you had the opportunity for an all-expense paid trip to Austin, Texas to attend Hero Conf. All you had to do was pick a single client and have the best month-over-month percentage growth in five different key metrics: average cost-per-click, total clicks, click-through-rate, cost-per-lead, and conversion rate. Which client would you use? … [Read more...] about How Hero Conf Grew My Account by 500% Before I Even Attended
Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
From time to time, PPC Hero will publish a stellar post from an equally stellar author, and this is one of those times. This post was written by Oli Gardner, landing page expert and co-founder of Unbounce, one of our favorite optimization and testing tools for landing pages and CRO. Follow him at @OliGardner. -- If you care about your conversion rates, you know that every … [Read more...] about Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
The 4 Big CRO Lessons I Learned at OptiCon
Last week I flew west to San Francisco to attend the very first OptiCon. OptiCon is Optimizely’s brand new conversion rate optimization conference. Experts from many different companies took the stage to talk about their work and shed a little light on improving CRO services. Despite the varied industries and methodologies, at the heart of each presentation were a few key … [Read more...] about The 4 Big CRO Lessons I Learned at OptiCon
Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
We love to talk about Conversion Rate at PPC Hero. Our job doesn't stop with acquiring traffic; we have to make sure that traffic ends up doing something of value - otherwise we've wasted our money. That part, however, isn't always easy. Our best intentions can sink for a number of reasons: No time or money for web designers / developers A boss or client who doesn't want to … [Read more...] about Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
#ThinkPPC – Stop Guessing: Get CRO Tactics That Drive Results [Webinar Recording]
So much attention in digital advertising happens before the click: bidding, testing, optimizing, and more. But one of the most valuable ways to get results is by optimizing what a user sees and does at the end of their click journey. It's called Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). Chances are, you've tried it. Did you get the results you were looking for? Did you have a … [Read more...] about #ThinkPPC – Stop Guessing: Get CRO Tactics That Drive Results [Webinar Recording]
Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
A good click-through rate is one of the most fundamentally important parts of any paid search account. It's the primary metric Google uses to judge us, determine our quality scores and set our cost-per-click (CPC) in the auction. However, loads of us still make the mistake of treating every click equally. We're taking a lazy approach with our ads and accepting aggregate data … [Read more...] about Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
