While Hero Conf as a whole will be an intense and productive dive into the world of PPC, past attendees tell us the most valuable part of our events is the dedicated time with PPC pros discussing the most pressing issues facing their accounts or agency today. At Hero Conf London, 24-26 October, we have three incredible workshop options to help you be the best PPC Hero you can … [Read more...] about Workshops for Every Type of PPC Hero
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Expanded Text Ads: 7 Million Clicks Say They’re Underperforming
On Tuesday, AdWords released one of the biggest updates in the history of the platform with expanded text ads. If you haven’t seen all the chatter across the web then know that you can now create new ads that have (2) 30 character headlines, a single 80 character description line and two breadcrumb fields to enter extra keywords in your display URL called Paths. AdWords … [Read more...] about Expanded Text Ads: 7 Million Clicks Say They’re Underperforming
View Ad Creative Through The Eyes Of Your Searchers
Making decisions for PPC initiatives can be stressful. Within the industry, we toss around “best” and “common” practices like confetti. We are purveyors of patterns. Collectors of congruency. Emperors of efficiency. However, we lack perfect vision into the future and have to rely on 20/20 hindsight. For example, we rethink a campaign structure after performance doesn’t … [Read more...] about View Ad Creative Through The Eyes Of Your Searchers
4 Common Questions Prospects Ask Me During The Sales Process
We’re now more than half way through the year and already there have been many changes within digital marketing. Google’s Performance Summit yielded many updates, including: Expanded text ads Bid adjustments by device Demographics for Search Ads Pinterest has turned the advertising corner, growing into a strong player within the market and Programmatic continues to … [Read more...] about 4 Common Questions Prospects Ask Me During The Sales Process
Mobile Price Extensions Rolling Out In AdWords
Google seems to be celebrating an unofficial “Christmas in July” this year. On Monday, the official AdWords blog announced another new addition to the mobile marketer’s tool chest: the long-awaited price extensions! As more and more users turn to mobile for research and purchase decision help, the need to qualify clicks grows ever more significant. Google’s new price extensions … [Read more...] about Mobile Price Extensions Rolling Out In AdWords
The 2016 Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts
The time has come again Heroes! After a month of voting, rigorous research and data analysis, we are excited to announce the wildly anticipated list of the Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts for 2016. We release our newest edition of the Top 25 every summer—it’s a nice way to honor some of the hardest workers in our tight-knit community. We also included the Top Rising … [Read more...] about The 2016 Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts
How Dynamic Keyword Insertion Helped Increase Impression Share By 36%
Ad creative is the talk of the PPC town. Especially with the release of Expanded Text Ads in AdWords and Bing, it just goes to show you that ads are one of, if not “the”, most important areas to make an impact on your PPC performance. One oldie but goodie type of ad creative that has stood the test of time for improving ad to keyword relevancy is Dynamic Keyword Insertion … [Read more...] about How Dynamic Keyword Insertion Helped Increase Impression Share By 36%
Prepare Powerful PPC Client Presentations That Make An Impact
As PPC marketers, we spend a great deal of time in our accounts working toward goals and focusing on account growth and expansion. Since that’s the core of our role, it’s exactly what we should be doing with our time. However, clients frequently ask us to showcase our work in presentations. We sometimes get hung up figuring out what needs to be presented and how it should be … [Read more...] about Prepare Powerful PPC Client Presentations That Make An Impact
London Keynoter Sophie Newton Talks the The Future of PPC
We're quickly adding speakers and sessions to our Hero Conf London agenda, with the help of the experts at PPC Hero and Hanapin Marketing. And we're very excited to introduce you to our opening keynoter. Sophie Newton is Director and Head of Innovation at Brainlabs, where her mission is to revolutionise paid media through mathematical marketing. We had a chance to talk … [Read more...] about London Keynoter Sophie Newton Talks the The Future of PPC
Behold The Hidden Feature Of Custom Labels
Some weeks ago, Kirk Williams wrote an article about custom labels and how to not use them, or better said, discussing the incremental value of using custom labels for structuring your campaigns. He compared to structuring via your originating product type and brand structure. I totally agree on his points, especially if you are running in complex account structures that … [Read more...] about Behold The Hidden Feature Of Custom Labels
No Conversions? No Problem. Optimizing When Conversions Are Few And Far Between
PPC is all about optimization. We’re constantly thinking “how can I improve performance? What are my KPIs and goals? What’s the next step?” However, there are instances where the client isn’t tracking conversions (in the traditional sense, anyway) or conversions just don’t happen all that often. In these situations, we have to get creative in how we think about performance and … [Read more...] about No Conversions? No Problem. Optimizing When Conversions Are Few And Far Between
What Is Cost-Per-Click (CPC)?
Cost-per-click, or CPC, is the cost advertisers pay per click on a paid search or social ad. For example, a click on an AdWords ad may cost $0.50. Cost-per-click is a standard metric in all paid advertising platforms, including: Google AdWords Bing Ads Facebook Ads The actual cost-per-click advertisers pay is based on a variety of factors. For example, you may set a … [Read more...] about What Is Cost-Per-Click (CPC)?
