A few months ago, I was tasked with ramping up one of our flagship client’s PPC program by driving as much volume as possible on a month over month spend increase of $90K. I was both excited and terrified at the prospects of what the potential consequences could be. Driving client spend is always exciting for an agency as it creates additional revenue. A spend increase of … [Read more...] about Need Fast Growth? How To Ramp Up Your PPC Program Quickly
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Year-Over-Year Performance is Rarely “Apples-to-Apples”
People love to talk year-over-year performance – both the good and the bad. Every six months (or so), we will do an account review for our clients. A lot of the time, if there is year-over-year data, we use it! And why not? How do we know that we are doing well if we have nothing to compare performance? However, the problem with year-over-year performance is that a lot can … [Read more...] about Year-Over-Year Performance is Rarely “Apples-to-Apples”
And the Hero Conf Guest Post Giveaway Winner is…
...JD Prater, Paid Search Specialist at Inflow! JD had what was by far our most popular blog post on 4 Google Analytics Hacks To Improve Your ROI – Frank Underwood Approved. For the great content, he wins a free conference pass to Hero Conf 2015, April 27-29 in Portland, OR! We'd like to thank our other finalists (and the dozens of other folks who sent in some really … [Read more...] about And the Hero Conf Guest Post Giveaway Winner is…
Why Moving Towards People-Based Targeting is Essential for PPC Practitioners
Editor’s Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf Guest Post Giveaway. Based on a combination of pageviews, shares and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the 4 finalists we post throughout the week. Today’s post comes to us from Sandeep Basra, a PPC Executive at Conversion Works. Just to recap, people-based targeting … [Read more...] about Why Moving Towards People-Based Targeting is Essential for PPC Practitioners
4 Google Analytics Hacks To Improve Your ROI – Frank Underwood Approved
Editor’s Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf Guest Post Giveaway. Based on a combination of pageviews, shares and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the 4 finalists we post throughout the week. This post originally came to us from JD Prater (@jdprater). JD is now a Senior Account Manager at Hanapin Marketing and regular … [Read more...] about 4 Google Analytics Hacks To Improve Your ROI – Frank Underwood Approved
New Facebook Product Ads – Promote Multiple Products Across All Devices
This week Facebook introduced Product Ads, stating that it is a solution designed to help businesses promote multiple products or entire catalogs, across all the devices their customers use. They can help you: Boost clicks and conversions Highlight more aspects of your business Find new customers or remarket to your current ones Product Ads offer businesses a number … [Read more...] about New Facebook Product Ads – Promote Multiple Products Across All Devices
How Bing Ads Tablet Bid Modifiers Helped Reduce CPA by 47%
The PPC industry is always evolving and changing. One of the biggest changes to impact the PPC community was the roll-out of AdWords enhanced campaigns and Bing Ads compatibility with AdWords enhanced campaigns. While some great features have been made available by enhanced campaigns, one of the biggest pain points for ppc managers was, and continues to be, the lack of control … [Read more...] about How Bing Ads Tablet Bid Modifiers Helped Reduce CPA by 47%
Give Your Product Feed The Attention It Deserves
At this point, any ecommerce advertisers who aren’t running Google Shopping campaigns (or have at least tried them) are being left in the dust. According to RKG’s Q4 2014 Digital Marketing Report, Shopping ads drove 51% more clicks and 45% greater ad spend year over year. Take Shopping management a step further and you have the upload and optimization of the product feed. For … [Read more...] about Give Your Product Feed The Attention It Deserves
Escape Your PPC Data Rut With These Four Reports
It’s easy for PPC analysts to fall into a rut, looking at the same metrics and components within an account every day. Let’s face it, working within the Google AdWords or Bing Ads interface day after day can get pretty monotonous at times. We all log into our account first thing in the morning and check spends for the previous day and overall performance to see if anything … [Read more...] about Escape Your PPC Data Rut With These Four Reports
Top Products Or All Products? The Google Shopping Debate
I've heard this question before, the most recent being on Twitter from Sam Gordon: Do any of you only include only top products in your shopping feed, instead of all products? Wanting my most relevant ads to show #ppcchat — Sam Gordon (@SamGordonPPC) February 9, 2015 My answer to this (and the others like it) is: "it depends". Don't stone me yet for that ridiculously … [Read more...] about Top Products Or All Products? The Google Shopping Debate
True or False: My PPC Goals Are Realistic
Please select the multiple-choice answer that best describes your paid search goal: (A.) I want to increase conversion and/or revenue volume. (B.) I want to decrease cost-per-conversion and/or increase return on ad spend. (C.) I want to increase spend. (D.) I want both A and B. (E.) None of these goals describe me. (F.) I am goal-less. Goals are important. Without goals, … [Read more...] about True or False: My PPC Goals Are Realistic
Punch AdWords In The Face With These 5 Easy Scripts
If you have been running AdWords for more than 5 minutes it’s safe to say you have some pent up feelings of aggression. It’s completely normal to get curse at inanimate objects like a computer, right? Instead of spending a ton of time and brain power pulling data and manipulating pivot tables we’ve come up with a few scripts that will help you to minimize frustrations and … [Read more...] about Punch AdWords In The Face With These 5 Easy Scripts
