Today's article is provided by PPC Hero Ally Andrew Fellmuir on behalf of Ingenuity Digital. -- PPC is a method of converting impressions directly into leads and sales. The typical measurements of success for begin with click through rate and conversion. PPC lends itself to this because of its simplicity in measuring – X clicks resulted in Y sales and the X clicks cost a … [Read more...] about PPC & Brand Awareness: Are You Doing it Right?
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3 Essential Tips for Spying on PPC Competition
Competitive research should be part of all marketing programs and is especially important in the ever-changing and highly competitive world of PPC, but how do you get started? Below we will discuss how to create a plan, what tools are available and how often to perform PPC competitive research. You all know this person “Let’s just see what the competition is doing and copy … [Read more...] about 3 Essential Tips for Spying on PPC Competition
How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
Whenever we make changes in an account here at Hanapin we like to do what we call “Bookending”. Essentially this is creating a rough estimate of the projected impact of our changes on spend, conversions, CPA et al. It’s a fairly simple way of mitigating the potential problems at the end of the month that are common with managing PPC accounts: “How did we get so far over … [Read more...] about How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
The Visitors Flow report in Google Analytics gives a great visualization of what users are doing on your site. Since we PPC’ers are paying for our traffic, it is imperative that we have maximum clarity into their behavior. You can investigate your sweet, sweet traffic using all sorts of lenses, and you can use the information that you find in all sorts of ways in this awesome … [Read more...] about How the Visitors Flow Report in Analytics Will Make Your Account Better
3 Crucial Ways To Look At Day-Parting Data
PPC Hero is a great resource for PPC newbs and PPC vets alike. We throw around a lot of lingo and acronyms, as well as methods and strategies that may be uncharted to some you. Day-parting is a perfect example of a common piece of analysis used by PPC Heroes everywhere that requires an extra step in how you evaluate your data. What is day-parting? This refers to the … [Read more...] about 3 Crucial Ways To Look At Day-Parting Data
What to Make of View-through Conversions
View-through conversions have been around for nearly four years in AdWords. In paid search land, that’s close to an eternity. But it still seems to me that people don’t really know what to do about them. We’ve talked about them and their slippery attribution in the past, and today I’d like to spend even more time diving into VTCs and how they should affect the ways in which … [Read more...] about What to Make of View-through Conversions
A Great Facebook Ad Deserves an Equally Great Landing Page
I’m definitely a hotdog enthusiast, frequently having a couple for lunch. I mean, what’s not to like: they’re easy to make, taste good, and are nicely filling with a good balance of protein to carbs. Of course, the not to like part is what might go into them and how they’re made. And that’s one reason I insist on Hebrew National and Nathan’s. But I’m certainly open to … [Read more...] about A Great Facebook Ad Deserves an Equally Great Landing Page
Has Modified Broad Match Effectively Killed Phrase Match?
I've been creating a lot of campaigns lately between getting new clients, standard keywords research for existing clients, and existing clients getting new products or running sales on seasonal products. With a tight deadline on these campaign builds, I've found myself wondering why I should even bother with phrase match keywords. See, I build my campaigns by match type. I … [Read more...] about Has Modified Broad Match Effectively Killed Phrase Match?
Refresh Your Ad Testing With 4 New Analyses
For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. As you spend more and more time doing the same thing, it’s expected that you’ll … [Read more...] about Refresh Your Ad Testing With 4 New Analyses
25 Ways PPC Has Changed In The Past Year
For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. -- This month we're looking at the exciting world of changes. More specifically … [Read more...] about 25 Ways PPC Has Changed In The Past Year
Google’s Auction Insights Just Got Even More Awesome
Auction insights, Google’s tool for comparing your performance with other advertisers, is amazing. We’ve written about it in these parts before and we’ve even spoken about it at Hero Conf (as part of the Sizing Up the Competition panel). They’re powerful, and it’s sort of crazy that Google is even willing to share that information with all of us. It makes sense, as being … [Read more...] about Google’s Auction Insights Just Got Even More Awesome
Facebook’s Partner Categories: The Complete List (So Far)
Facebook has actually been trying over the past six months or so, which has been so tremendous for us advertisers. (I wonder if it has anything to do with this.) One of the more prominent of Facebook's new options for marketers is the release of partner categories in April of 2013, which uses third party data to create new categories for targeting. This powerful new feature … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Partner Categories: The Complete List (So Far)
