A few months ago, the Hanapin team conducted a thorough competitive analysis for one of our largest clients. This particular client wanted to know how they fared against their competition in the Google marketplace when showing in the same auction. Today, we’ll discuss both how the analysis was conducted and how we used it to drive strategy. Pulling the Data: The Auction … [Read more...] about Performing Competitive Analysis – How to Stay Ahead of Your Competition
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Google Updates: Brand in Analytics, Powerful Location Segmenting, and AdMob
It’s been a busy week for the developers over at Google AdWords and Analytics, as they’ve rolled out a bevy of new functionality items over the past few days. Automating Branded Segmenting in Analytics Recognizing the ubiquity of the commonplace best practice to segment Brand traffic out from the rest, Google Analytics can now automatically do this for you. Analytics is able … [Read more...] about Google Updates: Brand in Analytics, Powerful Location Segmenting, and AdMob
Morning Clicks: Mobile is Taking Over the World, and Back-to-School Season Already?
Morning Clicks is your mid-week roundup of digital advertising news and notes. We're your one-stop shop for the most relevant and important news in the PPC world. Grab your cup of joe and come see us every Wednesday morning. Google released a new guide to Shopping Campaigns. [Inside AdWords] And while they were at it, they also made their annual update to the Product Feed … [Read more...] about Morning Clicks: Mobile is Taking Over the World, and Back-to-School Season Already?
Growing the PPC Community
It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that I announce I am now part of the Hanapin Marketing team! My new role is Senior Account Manager, Community. Along with managing accounts, my main priority is running PPC Hero and increasing its readership. I’ll also be spending more time continuing to foster the PPCChat community. As many of you know, I’ve been running PPCChat … [Read more...] about Growing the PPC Community
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 Keep Your Broad Match Keywords in Check
This week our blog series is taking a look at the most expensive "set it and forget it" mistakes. Sam has already focused on Display campaign pitfalls and how to avoid them. Carrie has brought up the horrors of zombie keywords, while Jake has tackled the secrets of the Search Partner network. Today? We'll discuss how to get a handle on your broad match keywords. Broad match … [Read more...] about How to Keep Your Broad Match Keywords in Check
How to Catch an Affiliate Red-Handed in PPC
It's important to understand that in PPC, you're often part of a bigger picture than you realize. Whether in-house or agency, there are many moving parts– external non-Google display buys, social networking, old media advertising, SEO, webinars... the list is virtually endless. It can be easy to slip into an egocentric viewpoint and say to yourself: "Surely, I'm the only person … [Read more...] about How to Catch an Affiliate Red-Handed in PPC
Better Attribution Modeling – AdWords or Analytics?
A few days back I read this post about AdWords’ Attribution Modeling being released within the UI. It is a great feature to have in AdWords, but as mentioned in the post, this information does not show us the whole story. In this article I will compare Attribution Modeling in AdWords and Analytics. What are the main differences in how Attribution Modeling works in AdWords and … [Read more...] about Better Attribution Modeling – AdWords or Analytics?
2014: The Year of Ad Extensions
Editor's Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf guest post contest. Based on a combination of pageviews and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the finalists we post throughout the week. Today's post comes to us from Paula Spencer, Online Campaigns Manager at Effective Spend. It’s the beginning of a new year, the holiday … [Read more...] about 2014: The Year of Ad Extensions
Targeting Your Mispeeled Search Temrs
Misspellings and typos are part of this wonderful and mysterious world of technology in which we live. Hurriedly typing in a search query while simultaneously performing six other tasks or trying to get your huge thumbs to accurately convey your message on your new phone’s tiny screen, it’s a common problem. In creating a PPC campaign based on those searches, it is only natural … [Read more...] about Targeting Your Mispeeled Search Temrs
A Perfect Account Structure: Fact or Unicorn?
Here at Hanapin, we’re always trying to find the best way to do things. If there’s a method that generates the best results, we’ll call it a best practice and teach it to all the Account Managers as the best way to do that thing. One such thing we’ve been working on for a while is account structures. It seems there are a number of different methods that different people in the … [Read more...] about A Perfect Account Structure: Fact or Unicorn?
3 Ways To Save Money Using Negative Search Audiences
If you’ve got your site tagged with an AdWords remarketing tag, you can build out audiences in AdWords based on URLs from your site. You can see estimated audience sizes for Google Search based on audiences you’ve already built out, if you have any currently built out. I’ve found when I create new audiences based on URLs, the estimates for audience size are at least there by … [Read more...] about 3 Ways To Save Money Using Negative Search Audiences
