Google has announced it’s replacing the default ‘Search & Display Networks’ campaign setting with a new and improved setting called “Search with Display Select.” This new default setting provides “improved signals and methods of predicting when and where your ads are likely to perform best, and sets a higher bar for when to show them”. According to initial tests, Google … [Read more...] about Google’s New Campaign Type: Search with Display Select
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Find Quick Wins With AdWords’ New Opportunities Tab
Earlier this week Google introduced the new opportunities tab. The old opportunities tab offered suggestions on keywords, bids, and budgets. All the things that you might not know are limiting you. Based on the performance of your account the system might suggest bumping up your budget. It may also offer more keywords similar to the ones you have in your account in order to get … [Read more...] about Find Quick Wins With AdWords’ New Opportunities Tab
7 Tips For Getting Your PLA Campaign Holiday Ready
With just 15 days left until Black Friday, are your Product Listing Ad Campaigns optimized and ready to go? If not, it’s time to get them ready, ASAP! According to Google 40% of annual retail sales will happen during the holiday season. With Hanukkah a week earlier and 6 less shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the time to start preparing is now! In 2012, Black … [Read more...] about 7 Tips For Getting Your PLA Campaign Holiday Ready
How Google’s New Campaign Type Expands Your Market Reach
Earlier this morning, Google announced a new campaign type. The bad news is it is nothing radically different nor does it take advantage of any special NSA algorithms for super specific targeting. The new campaign is more of a revision on the “search and display” campaign type. Search Network and Display Select The new campaign type is titled Search Network with Display … [Read more...] about How Google’s New Campaign Type Expands Your Market Reach
56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
We've seen the leaves changing, sweatshirts adorned with pumpkins, and so much candy everywhere we turn! While we enjoy the fall, that sneaky holiday season is right behind it! If you've not yet begun planning for how to manage your PPC accounts for the holidays, the time is now. Holiday Strategy There are myriad best practices on how to effectively prepare for your … [Read more...] about 56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
Easily Increase Your Leads with Bing Phone Extensions
This week Bing unveiled the next set of enhancements for their ads. This time it’s call extensions, something I am very excited about. What is the Big Deal? Phone extensions are a tremendous source of traffic for some of our clients at Hanapin. The extensions not only draw attention to your ad, the offer an alternative way to contact your business. This is especially … [Read more...] about Easily Increase Your Leads with Bing Phone Extensions
AdWords Cross-Device Estimates. Good or Bad?
Google announced yesterday the release of the new Estimated Total Conversions for search ads in AdWords. This first part of the release, cross-device conversion tracking, will help provide advertisers with estimates on how AdWords search performance influences conversions for businesses across multiple devices and eventually phone and in-store conversions. Google said this day … [Read more...] about AdWords Cross-Device Estimates. Good or Bad?
Case Study: 78% Lower CPAs With Dynamic Remarketing
In the final part of our September 'dynamic' series we're going to look at dynamic remarketing and how it has fared for us so far. We've already looked at Dynamic Search Ads, Dynamic Keyword Insertion, Using AdWords Scripts, and Bing's Dynamic Parameters. ----- Back in August we took a dive into some of the most recent feature changes in Google AdWords. The one that most … [Read more...] about Case Study: 78% Lower CPAs With Dynamic Remarketing
PPC Reality Vs. PPC Theater
Disclosure: The idea for this post from Chiefmartec.com who gave a great argument against big fancy dashboards that pump data into your brain and for strategic data that helps you make good choices. I see this type of PPC Theater when looking at reports from other agencies, when trying to peel back data I am sent from clients and even internally, at times, when we are talking … [Read more...] about PPC Reality Vs. PPC Theater
Webinar Recording – Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate
Join renowned PPC experts Matt van Wagner and Neil Sorensen as they tackle the PPC automation debate in our latest #ThinkPPC webinar discussion, moderated by our own Sean Quadlin. Due to some technical difficulties we do not have a video for you from this webinar, however, we do still have the audio and power point slides! Bonus Questions and Answers with Sean … [Read more...] about Webinar Recording – Man vs Machine: The Automation Debate
PPC & SEO Unite with the New Paid & Organic Report in AdWords
AdWords has done it again with the release of another amazing new report that will allow online marketers to analyze and optimize your paid & organic search traffic directly in AdWords. The data is pulled via Webmaster tools and populated in your AdWords account so you don’t have to be using Google Analytics to view the paid & organic traffic. The PPC and SEO gloves … [Read more...] about PPC & SEO Unite with the New Paid & Organic Report in AdWords
The PPC Meeting Survival Guide
Some of my favorite topics on this blog deal with case studies analyzing account performance in painstaking detail. It makes sense - this is an intensely data-driven line of work, often requiring hours of analysis. But it's important that we don't lose sight of the other facets of this job, like long-term account strategy, expansion, and (in this case) how to have a great PPC … [Read more...] about The PPC Meeting Survival Guide
