8/12/2020 What is URL Tracking? URL tracking is the process of adding unique identifiers to your final URLs. If you aren’t tagging your URLs for tracking in either Google Analytics or your analytics platform of choice, you are losing out on helpful information. When you manage pay-per-click campaigns in conjunction with other online marketing efforts, it is extremely … [Read more...] about Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
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Tracking Click Events In Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager makes tag placement simple. Many users utilize GTM for placing conversion tags but you can track many other page elements as well. In this article, we’ll tackle a scenario in which we track click events on a webpage. Tracking click events is helpful for sites that don’t have separate confirmation pages. Events are also useful for tracking specific … [Read more...] about Tracking Click Events In Google Tag Manager
Liveblogging Google Marketing Next 2017
We're excited to be liveblogging the Google Marketing Next 2017 event as updates to AdWords, Analytics, and DoubleClick are announced. Follow along to read our live reactions to these announcements. (TL;DR? Announcements Summary at the end) -- With the 5-min countdown, Google is highlighting a lot of Travel, Shopping, and Mobile stats. Foreshadowing the announcements to … [Read more...] about Liveblogging Google Marketing Next 2017
How To Choose A Programmatic Vendor
Programmatic can be a tricky channel to navigate. One of the biggest pieces of a successful programmatic strategy is the selection of the best buying solution for your needs. However, the landscape and choices available are so vast and wide that it can be confusing, stress inducing, and bring you down so many time-sucking rabbit holes. I mean, look at this graphic. Above … [Read more...] about How To Choose A Programmatic Vendor
Universal App Campaigns Vs. Mobile App Install Campaigns
How many apps do you have on your smartphone or tablet? How many of those apps do you use on a regular basis? While I don’t know how many apps I have, I can honestly say I use 30% or less on a regular basis. No matter how many apps you have on your device, the fact of the matter is that before you ever downloaded them, they had to have been placed in front of you in some … [Read more...] about Universal App Campaigns Vs. Mobile App Install Campaigns
The Complete Google AdWords Shopping Campaign Settings Breakdown
When it comes to paid advertising, Shopping can be one of the most intimidating and complex initiatives to tackle. It has multiple moving pieces with the setup, management, and continued optimizations. Plus, you not only have to manage your campaign on AdWords, but you also have to manage your feed, which can be especially tedious if you have a large, diverse inventory of … [Read more...] about The Complete Google AdWords Shopping Campaign Settings Breakdown
The [FUN]damental Guide to PPC for Education Marketers
Crafting a smart and effective PPC campaign can be a vital ingredient to a successful student enrollment strategy. It can help you reach areas you’ve been wanting to break into, geo-target personalized messages to specific campuses if you have multiple locations, and strategically remarket to those students that may have landed on your site but haven’t converted yet. In … [Read more...] about The [FUN]damental Guide to PPC for Education Marketers
Using Supermetrics To Report PPC Projected Lag Revenue
Do you ever wonder why your Analytics revenue for the month is higher than your AdWords revenue during the same time period? Wouldn't AdWords be more likely to give itself credit? What is more than likely occurring in this situation is that Analytics is attributing revenue to the current month from clicks that occurred last month, while AdWords attributes that revenue back to … [Read more...] about Using Supermetrics To Report PPC Projected Lag Revenue
Fight Click Fraud In Your Bing Ads Lead Gen Accounts
Click fraud can be a major hassle and a costly problem. Click fraud happens when an individual or bot repeatedly clicks on an ad to generate fraudulent charges. The major search platforms have protections in place to stop click fraud, but when those protections fail it can be hard to catch, especially in Bing. Luckily, there are a couple tactics that can be deployed to find … [Read more...] about Fight Click Fraud In Your Bing Ads Lead Gen Accounts
Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
Last month, I came to you with 3 ways to use ROAS for lead gen optimization. Today, I want to talk about another way Hanapin Marketing has begun embracing “back-end,” atypical KPIs in our PPC strategies and tactics. This example comes from a dynamic, sometimes complicated vertical that blends both lead gen and e-commerce attributes: Healthcare. The Complexity Of Healthcare … [Read more...] about Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
Navigating Location Based Bid Adjustments In Bing
Are you interested in further building out your bidding strategy? If you serve ads across the country or the world this new Bing Ads tool could help. If you visit the Opportunities tab in Bing you will see new suggestions for your location bid adjustments. These new suggestions are based on how your campaigns are performing in different locations. Let’s look a little further … [Read more...] about Navigating Location Based Bid Adjustments In Bing
5 Steps To Master Facebook Projections NOT Predictions
“Tell me how much I should spend in Facebook and what results I can expect.” This sentence is one we hear frequently from our clients. I used to cringe every time I heard this sentence. When I would hear it the over-analytical side of me would take over and freak-out because A.) I knew the volatility of Facebook’s ever-changing platform, varying audiences, and fewer metrics … [Read more...] about 5 Steps To Master Facebook Projections NOT Predictions
