For the longest time, I and the PPC industry as a whole, have defaulted and still in a lot of circumstances still default to a Google Paid Search first strategy. Google Ads is still the number 1 platform, and is still required in any digital marketing strategy. It can produce great results, but in some industries that have more obscure keywords and when higher results are … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons I Prefer Facebook Ads over Google Ads
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How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals
“How much money should we spend on PPC this year?” “How many sales can we get with X amount of budget?” “We are looking at expanding into ____ platform, how much budget should we allocate?” In the five years I’ve worked at Hanapin, these types of questions from clients are becoming more and more common. Budget recommendations and planning are not so straightforward as they … [Read more...] about How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals
What Constitutes Discrimination for Digital Employment Ads?
In the past, we’ve posted about the complicated intersection of civil rights law and digital marketing. It’s an interesting topic, largely because it’s an area where there is very little settled law. Since the marketing technologies available on platforms like Google Ads and Facebook are relatively new, courts do not have decades of precedent to rely on. This can leave digital … [Read more...] about What Constitutes Discrimination for Digital Employment Ads?
UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
If you are like most marketers, automation can make you nervous. Universal App Campaigns are one of the simplest campaigns to set up in Google Ads. Simple is a word you like to hear, but how do you know Google will target the right users? How do you maximize performance and ensure you are getting quality conversions? 1) Form a Strategy Forming a strategy is a given for any … [Read more...] about UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
As every digital advertiser should know by now, AdWords has officially rebranded to Google Ads. Whether you are pro-change or anti-change with Google’s advertising services, there is one certainty - You have to change regardless. That in mind, there have been a ton of updates recently with name changes, new offerings, shuffled offerings, the completely new UI, and the list goes … [Read more...] about New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
Max Clicks For Budget-Limited Campaigns: A Case Study
What bidding strategy will perform best for a given campaign? This can be a tricky question. While aggregate data as well as common sense can provide some answers, absent a crystal ball no one can say how any given campaign will perform with a particular automation strategy until it is actually tried. As such, I designed an experiment to run for 8 lead generation campaigns for … [Read more...] about Max Clicks For Budget-Limited Campaigns: A Case Study
AdWords Global Site Tag Implementation Guide
AdWords introduced their new site-wide tagging back in October 2017. Like Bing’s Universal Event Tracking, the new AdWords site-wide tagging uses one tag on the entire site with additional event snippets to track conversion actions. The global site tag (gtag.js) will also be used for Google Analytics in the future. There will no longer be a need to use separate AdWords and … [Read more...] about AdWords Global Site Tag Implementation Guide
All The Bing Ads Tracking Updates You Need To Know In One Place
One of the most important aspects of managing an account is making sure tracking is implemented and set up correctly. The data that conversion tracking and final URLs bring in, is a crucial part of the steps you take to further optimize your paid search efforts. Let’s go through two important tracking changes and updates happening in Bing Ads. First, starting October 31st, … [Read more...] about All The Bing Ads Tracking Updates You Need To Know In One Place
4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
Digital marketing can be very time consuming. Advertising across multiple channels and devices can consume all your bandwidth if you let it. That's why you need to take advantage of every time saving tool and feature you can. Facebook has really grown and allowed users to automate and mass edit their campaigns in recent months. Utilizing these four features in Facebook will … [Read more...] about 4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
Expectations & Marketing Ideas for PPC Clients with Drift
A few weeks ago, I got a disturbing message from Google notifying me that thousands of my client’s ads were down due to “Malicious Content.” As any good Account Manager would, I called Google using my stern, don’t-be-passive-aggressive-but-get-results-voice to uncover the issue and figure out what hoops I had to jump through to get the ads live again. The “Malicious Content” in … [Read more...] about Expectations & Marketing Ideas for PPC Clients with Drift
Amazon Advertising: How to Conquer This New Frontier
Amazon accounted for 43% of all U.S. e-commerce sales in 2016 and it is predicted to account for 50% or more of the market by 2021. Just the marketing platform alone accounts for $3 billion of North America’s advertising market, and is expected to hold $20 billion of the global market by 2020. It shouldn’t be a question of “why Amazon”, but a question of when. Now is the time … [Read more...] about Amazon Advertising: How to Conquer This New Frontier
3 Tips to Building Good Lookalike Audiences in Facebook
As advertisers we know Facebook can be great for reaching out to cold audiences, but we also know costs can get high and return low if we don’t get our targets right. One of the very first things one should do when trying to reach cold audiences is to build lookalike audiences and target them before passing budget onto to other target audiences. Lookalikes can often be very … [Read more...] about 3 Tips to Building Good Lookalike Audiences in Facebook
