According to a post from this afternoon, Microsoft adCenter is receiving an update this week that will allow the interface to automatically serve the plural form of your account keywords, whether you’re bidding on them or not! So what does this mean, exactly? Let’s say a user queries for ‘blue belts’ and you have the keyword ‘blue belt’ in one of your account ad groups. The ad … [Read more...] about Microsoft adCenter: Here Come the Plurals!
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New Features For Google Search
For those of you that missed Google's announcements earlier today, feel free to take a peek at my notes. There are some exciting things going on in the Google-sphere! I'd love to chat about these new features and your opinions, so feel free to use the comment section as a discussion forum! Firstly, and probably most exciting in my opinion, search by voice and image. Later … [Read more...] about New Features For Google Search
If You Got It, Flaunt It: A Follow Up On Google’s New Product Local Ads
Google’s new product local ads (currently in beta) are designed for mobile, the perfect place for local advertisers to reach their consumers. Mobiles phones can detect location (if the user opts in), so Google can easily match up nearby retailers with consumers. Google also matches up geo-qualified queries (the same way they do with desktop queries) to best meet the searchers … [Read more...] about If You Got It, Flaunt It: A Follow Up On Google’s New Product Local Ads
Impressions Strongarm Relevance in adCenter Quality Score
A couple of days ago, Jessica’s latest episode of Ticker Tuesday focused on an issue that’s of pretty substantial interest to search marketers of late: adCenter quality score. Since Yahoo and MSN became one, many paid search advertisers have noticed substantial differences in their performance that are difficult to account for. Given the amount of time we’ve had to adjust our … [Read more...] about Impressions Strongarm Relevance in adCenter Quality Score
Google & Privacy – Adwords Wiggles into Your Private Life
The next time you read emails in your Gmail account, take a look at the advertisements on the side bar. Do they have anything to do with what you are talking about in your email? Chance are, they do. Gmail continues to be a free service because they allow advertisements to show while you read your email. For Paid Search Marketers, Gmail is yet another outlet for a client’s … [Read more...] about Google & Privacy – Adwords Wiggles into Your Private Life
Google Analytics Intelligence: An Invaluable Tool
Custom Alerts in AdWords are helpful. At the campaign or ad group level, you can create a custom alert. For instance, you can be notified when your average CPC for all or certain ad groups within a campaign shoots too high over goal. You can tell Google to check it weekly or daily and you can be notified via email. But, in my opinion, creating custom alerts in Google Analytics … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Intelligence: An Invaluable Tool
Profit per Impression: A Better Metric for Ad Testing
Today we have a guest post from one of our PPC Hero allies! Michael Wiegand is a PPC Guru & Google Analytics Consultant at Portent Interactive, a full-service internet marketing company based in Seattle, WA. In this post, Michael explains why Profit per Impression is the perfect metric for ad testing. —————- Ad split-testing is one of the core disciplines of PPC. If we … [Read more...] about Profit per Impression: A Better Metric for Ad Testing
Secrets to Paid Search Success
Today we have a guest post from one of our PPC Hero allies! Ken Robbins is the President and Founder of Response Mine Interactive, an online marketing company dedicated to the idea that data and testing should drive marketing decisions and media optimization. —————- Search is like no other marketing channel. People are literally telling you what they want. In fact, all of … [Read more...] about Secrets to Paid Search Success
Our Guide to Google Analytics IQ Testing: E-commerce Tracking
This is the second installment of a collaborative series between PPC Hero and SEO Boy to help readers prepare for the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Test. This series covers the most important aspects of the IQ Test and will prepare you to earn a high score. While the Google Analytics test might seem daunting, I am here to say it isn’t nearly as difficult as … [Read more...] about Our Guide to Google Analytics IQ Testing: E-commerce Tracking
What Visible Quality Score Isn’t Telling You
Today we have a guest post from one of our PPC Hero allies! Craig Danuloff is doing a 'Blog Tour' to promote his upcoming book 'Quality Score in High Resolution' which will be released in May and is now available for discounted pre-order. In this post he explains some of the lesser-known facts of the quality score metric reported by AdWords ---------------- Ready for a simple … [Read more...] about What Visible Quality Score Isn’t Telling You
WTQ?! 12 Weird Search Queries, and What They Say About Your Audience
Of all the routine tasks we do for PPC, updating our negative keyword lists is my favorite. Why? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not the CPC comparisons, nor analyzing an account’s keyword health. It’s not even the satisfaction I get from telling Google that, actually, I’m the better judge of relevancy (thank you very much!). No. The true reason I love working with negatives is … [Read more...] about WTQ?! 12 Weird Search Queries, and What They Say About Your Audience
My Top 5 Excel Tips for PPC Managers
This post is in response to you, our readers! In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve added a box at the bottom of the page where you can write to the PPC Hero team with ideas for us to write about next. This is great as it allows us to give the people what they want and learn things that maybe we hadn’t thought of visiting before. Thanks for all your responses! Now on to my … [Read more...] about My Top 5 Excel Tips for PPC Managers
