Facebook recently revamped the relevance score metric to offer more information to marketers on what might be affecting ad performance. Similar to what Google offers in its quality score, Facebook broke its singular relevance score into three distinct measures of the ad experience: quality ranking, engagement rate ranking, and conversion rate ranking. These taken together give … [Read more...] about Facebook Relevance Score: One Metric Becomes 3
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YouTube Lead Form Ads for PPC: What You Need to Know Before Getting Started
Hello PPC nerds & nerdettes! In this post, I will be talking about YouTube strategy, but more specifically, I will be talking about turning prospects into customers with TrueView for Action Lead Form Ads. I’ll cover what you need to know about YouTube Lead Form Ads before you start putting forth time and energy into an endeavor such as this. Before I begin, if you’re … [Read more...] about YouTube Lead Form Ads for PPC: What You Need to Know Before Getting Started
Sticky Notes, To-Do Lists, Status Docs – Oh my!
In the world of PPC, you have to be organized in some way, shape, or form. Prior to my career as a PPC Hero, I was known as a procrastinator and probably still fall into that category more often than not. (Don’t ask me when I wrote this blog post.) When I first began working at Hanapin, I learned that to-do lists, status docs, roadmaps, and sticky notes would become my best … [Read more...] about Sticky Notes, To-Do Lists, Status Docs – Oh my!
Turn Your PPC To-Do List Into a Digital Strategy
Finding the time to work on a strategy with an ever growing task list is a day to day struggle in digital marketing. This challenge is particularly prevalent in paid search where many of our levers are tactically based. Following a few simple steps the tactics that manifest on your to-do list can set the stage for your strategy and help you become more efficient. Start with a … [Read more...] about Turn Your PPC To-Do List Into a Digital Strategy
PPC For Noobs: Tips for Starting Your New Job in Digital Marketing
Starting any new job is difficult: Getting a lay of the land from office desk maps, realizing who is in charge of what, and discovering the ins and outs of whatever industry in which you've chosen to work. I was ruminating on my early days working in digital marketing and the stress it brought me learning the ropes. I started in 2012, though the first time I encountered the … [Read more...] about PPC For Noobs: Tips for Starting Your New Job in Digital Marketing
3 Key Elements to Form Optimization
We all know that if you have lead gen forms, they are an important piece of the conversion rate optimization puzzle, but why does this piece often have a high impact on CRO? Forms are typically close to or tied to final conversion. Beyond this, they often play a role in guiding users through the conversion funnel. For example, a form to sign up for a blog would be … [Read more...] about 3 Key Elements to Form Optimization
The Top 25 Most Influential Experts of 2019
It's that time of year again! The time to release our newest edition of the Top 25 and honor some of the hardest workers in our tight-knit PPC community. There is a complex formula that goes into calculating what makes someone truly influential in our industry. You can read more about the methodology on how we arrived at the rankings below the infographic. The scores took into … [Read more...] about The Top 25 Most Influential Experts of 2019
Top Ways To Improve B2B PPC Performance
The first few months managing a B2B account I struggled. I could not understand the lifecycle of the customer, I could not grasp the client’s goals, and I did not understand how the account was structured. Further into management, I started to lose account efficiency because of my lack of understanding; I couldn’t even keep the client’s previous performance before I took over … [Read more...] about Top Ways To Improve B2B PPC Performance
“All I Want for Christmas is an Apple Editor”: Campaign Build and Bidding Tips for Apple Search Ads
Apple Search Ads is super useful. It’s unlike most app marketing platforms because of the level of control you can leverage with keyword targeting while maintaining ease of succinct messaging through screenshots and copy you apply on your app’s page. Conveniently, this is the only landing page and ad copy source that you will ever need, which is great because it’s the only … [Read more...] about “All I Want for Christmas is an Apple Editor”: Campaign Build and Bidding Tips for Apple Search Ads
Paid Search Basics for Events
Digital Advertising for events can be a tricky business, especially on the paid search side. Either the company you advertise for is running the event or attending the event which will dictate how you approach your strategy. You need to fill person quotas, need to drive traffic to the event page, and need to make sure your ads generate interest surrounding the event. This means … [Read more...] about Paid Search Basics for Events
Guide To Google Ads Performance Planner
On May 13, Google Ads announced a new tool in the UI called Performance Planner. The Performance Planner helps advertisers optimize campaigns by suggesting an "ideal plan" by "spreading spend in the most effective way among campaigns in the plan." Performance Planner is easy to use and certainly helpful, but it should be used with caution. What Does Performance Planner … [Read more...] about Guide To Google Ads Performance Planner
Ad Copy Must-Haves That Make or Break a PPC Campaign
Writing ad copy isn’t sexy. Typically done using a program like Excel (boring), it’s easy to just go through the motions and write copy that “will do.” While almost any ad copy you write will probably be okay, that kind of mediocrity won’t help you stand out and get the kind of performance you expect out of your paid search campaigns. Remember, your ad is competing with 10 … [Read more...] about Ad Copy Must-Haves That Make or Break a PPC Campaign
