PPC Audits are incredibly useful. At our agency we have Account Mangers audit accounts routinely and they almost always find ways to increase account performance that the lead on the account glossed over. We also perform audits for companies small and large. Unfortunately, as with everything PPC, sometimes these audits are ineffective, or even cause damage. That’s because they … [Read more...] about 6 Useless PPC Account Audit Techniques
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Deeper Understanding of CPA Bidding: Best Practices, a Case Study and Breaking It Off
As part of our ongoing series on automation and time-saving, we felt that talking about AdWords’ Cost-Per-Acquisition bidding was a must. Aside from the Display Campaign Optimizer, which is a whole post in and of itself that will happen at some point in the future (though sadly not in this series), CPA bidding is the most automated you can get within all of the different … [Read more...] about Deeper Understanding of CPA Bidding: Best Practices, a Case Study and Breaking It Off
Top 3 Ways to Self-Automate Your PPC Account Work
The PPC Hero blog series team decided to focus this month on automation in paid search. The rest of the week, our PPC rock stars are going to discuss true automated tools or features to make your jobs easier, but I decided to take a more abstract approach to automation and focus on how you can automate yourself to work more efficiently. For your Monday reading pleasure, I bring … [Read more...] about Top 3 Ways to Self-Automate Your PPC Account Work
9 Step Guide to Increasing PPC Sales by 39.4%
Recently I had the good fortune to be on ta team that produced quite a turn around for an Ecommerce account. In 1 month sales grew by 39.4%. This was during a time when month-over-month sales trend downwards due to seasonality. Below is a brief summary of our to-do list from that month. 1. Check your funnel to see what percent of cart abandons you have. If above 80% … [Read more...] about 9 Step Guide to Increasing PPC Sales by 39.4%
Seven Tips For Creating Killer Mobile Landing Pages
Mobile advertising has grown exponentially during the past few years. You can shop, check bank accounts, tweet, play video games and more, all from the comfort of your own smartphone. Thinking back to the first cell phone my father owned, which resembled something like a large brick, it’s hard to believe technology has come so far. For this reason, adapting your website for … [Read more...] about Seven Tips For Creating Killer Mobile Landing Pages
Two Ways to Improve Ecommerce Conversion Rates
Simplicity is key when it comes to making online purchases today. Faster, cheaper, easier… These are all traits that people have come to expect during their shopping experiences. Try and think back to the last time you ordered something online… Was it a difficult process? Was the landing page cluttered? If users answered yes for either of the above in regards to your website, … [Read more...] about Two Ways to Improve Ecommerce Conversion Rates
But What Happens If You GET The Click?
“Plan the sale when you plan the ad” -- Leo Burnett First, I should say that I DO believe that Facebook ads can have a branding effects simply from exposure -- that the unclicked ads can still prove valuable in influencing “share of mind.” Of course, this works much better for known brands, by the way, which makes Facebook Advertising a much better conjunction (rather than … [Read more...] about But What Happens If You GET The Click?
Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
We held another successful Heroview yesterday with remarketing expert, John Ellis. John is the CEO at Crescent Interactive, an online marketing firm based in Nashville, TN. We had a great conversation about best practice; see the recap below! PPC Hero: Today, John Ellis will talk with us about utilizing remarketing without being too intrusive, annoying, or creepy! We are … [Read more...] about Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
A Three Step Guide To Account Growth
This week, I created the below guide to break account growth down into an easy to digest format. I often see accounts grow to a point of stability and growing beyond that point always seems to be challenging. As an agency, it seems like every time we get together to address growth on a client, we come up with a plan that seems, on the surface, to be unique to that particular … [Read more...] about A Three Step Guide To Account Growth
Getting Your Ads Right First Time! Case Study: $300 For An Ad?
When it comes to writing ads, even the best of us can be guilty of getting a little lazy. Considering how easy it is to swap ads in and out with AdWords Editor, it’s no wonder that we often just throw some ads up and think we’ll switch out the one that isn’t doing so well once we have some data. However, what if you had an account where you had to pay for every new ad you … [Read more...] about Getting Your Ads Right First Time! Case Study: $300 For An Ad?
6 PPC Optimization Tips For mCommerce Campaigns in 2012
Mobile Commerce, also referred to as mCommerce, is the most portable and accessible marketing channel today. Perhaps this is because mCommerce literally places brands in the palms of customers’ hands. Never before have consumer goods been so readily available. Therefore, it becomes particularly important to provide a stellar user experience from start to finish. For the third … [Read more...] about 6 PPC Optimization Tips For mCommerce Campaigns in 2012
165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
In early January we wrote 145 tips for 2012. It’s been a whirlwind year in the land of PPC so this is an update to that post with an additional 20 tips. These new PPC tips come from conferences, tests, failures and new Google services and features that have been rolled out of the past 5-6 months. The new tips are at the tope and numbered 146-165 and below them you will find … [Read more...] about 165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)