A comprehensive explainer guide to Google's Quality Score Everyone is familiar with the Quality Score available for individual keywords in your Google Ads account – this is the visible keyword-level Quality Score. What a lot of people fail to recognize, is that there is more at play here than meets the eye. Most of the time, you can’t solve a Quality Score issue with just … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Quality Score 2024
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Smart RLSA Tips for the Holiday Season
In AdWords, I have found that conservative bid adjustment work best for most settings within the account. For device, location, and ad schedule I will usually use minor positive bid adjustments +5-10% and usually stronger negative adjustments -15-50%. There is one area of the account where I have found that higher bid adjustments are really effective. Over the years, I have … [Read more...] about Smart RLSA Tips for the Holiday Season
Optimizing Display Advertising in an Omni-Channel World
Display advertising keeps evolving. To increase ROI, you must stay on top of the latest omni-channel strategies around attribution, audience targeting, and conversion optimization. That includes going beyond what happens online and using offline insights from phone calls to drive better results. We’re teaming up with DialogTech to tell you all about display tactics you can … [Read more...] about Optimizing Display Advertising in an Omni-Channel World
Be A Negative Nancy In Your Ad Accounts
Our instinct as marketers can be to chase what’s working and max out performance everywhere possible. When our optimizations are going swimmingly and we see conversion volume is growing and CPA is shrinking like a kid in a Rick Moranis film, we get to pat ourselves on the back and push more budget, energy and time into our top performers. This is not a bad instinct, but I want … [Read more...] about Be A Negative Nancy In Your Ad Accounts
Facebook Custom Audience Targeting Updates
Almost a year ago I wrote about the ability to build remarketing audiences in Facebook without a user having to actually leave Facebook and visit a site. It’s a unique way to try and “meet” people where they are and learn something about them. It’s also a pretty powerful technique for filtering out your best potential customers and then later remarketing to them a more specific … [Read more...] about Facebook Custom Audience Targeting Updates
PPC Persona Targeting for the Fitness & Health Industry
When developing a PPC strategy for your health/wellness/fitness business, it can be helpful to start by building out personas. What is a persona, you may ask? Here’s Hubspot’s definition: “A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customer based on market research and real data about your existing customers. When creating your buyer persona(s), consider … [Read more...] about PPC Persona Targeting for the Fitness & Health Industry
Reasons Why You Should Consider Call Recording
Over the years, we have come across many clients who are not tracking phone calls. There are advertisers who get significant volume of phone calls. If your PPC accounts are missing this type of conversion, you could be making critical bidding errors. Whenever I am optimizing an account, I would rather have as much data as possible before deciding to shut a high traffic keyword … [Read more...] about Reasons Why You Should Consider Call Recording
It Takes A Village: Keeping Up with the PPC Industry
You have probably heard the phrase “it takes a village to raise a child.” Well, it also takes a village to run a PPC account. The parallels between a baby and an account are numerous. They both can get cranky for absolutely no reason at all. You will go crazy if you do nothing but watch them day in and day out. Throwing money at them doesn’t solve problems. When they are too … [Read more...] about It Takes A Village: Keeping Up with the PPC Industry
The Great Rollover: Google Pushes Universal App Campaigns
Earlier this month, Google notified AdWords customers that all app install campaigns will be migrated to Universal App Campaigns (UAC). On October 16, new app install campaigns created in AdWords will begin running on UAC. And on November 15 of this year, existing app promo campaigns for search, display and YouTube will stop running. So what are UACs, and why does Google … [Read more...] about The Great Rollover: Google Pushes Universal App Campaigns
Why Manual Bidding Will Slowly Ride Into The Sunset
Throughout the evolution of AdWords, we have seen so many rollouts and changes to how we manage our campaigns and strategy. Removal of close variant controls, the removal and then re-introduction of device bidding, ETA’s, the dread of changing to the new UI. Despite all of this, one thing has always remained a constant: Control of our bids and the choice to use automation if … [Read more...] about Why Manual Bidding Will Slowly Ride Into The Sunset
A PPC Account Manager’s Checklist
Whether you’re the most novice paid advertiser or a seasoned vet, the question “what do I do now” has likely come up numerous times. Maybe you feel that you’ve done all you can do and are stuck. Maybe you’ve been so busy driving strategy that daily/weekly account maintenance has fallen by the wayside. Maybe you’re working through the learning curves of managing your first PPC … [Read more...] about A PPC Account Manager’s Checklist
The PPC Puzzle: A Checklist
Entering in the PPC world can be intimidating: there’s the terminology to grasp, there’s the formulas to memorize, there’s the clients to manage, there’s the reports to build, there’s the numbers to check and recheck, there’s the client industries to understand… The checklist, notes, and post-it reminders seem endless. Then to take all these introductory tasks a step further to … [Read more...] about The PPC Puzzle: A Checklist
