Today’s post comes from PPC Hero Ally Hayley Coutinho. Hayley is a Paid Search Consultant at Receptional, one of the UK’s longest running digital marketing agencies. On a day to day basis, Hayley is the manager of various client accounts, both small and large scale, across several industries. -- Google's Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) program was first launched in beta in late … [Read more...] about Get More From Google Adwords Dynamic Search Ads
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3 Events You Must Start Tracking In Analytics
Paid search and Google Analytics work hand in hand in so many ways (including right there in the AdWords interface). This month’s series week is all about how you can make the most of Analytics in your account, whether that’s with content experiments, event tracking or custom reporting. We’re going to find all of the ways that you can get even more insight into the clicks … [Read more...] about 3 Events You Must Start Tracking In Analytics
6 Cool New Advertising Options In Google AdWords
It seems like it's been a crazy few weeks at the Googleplex with the amount of new features that have been added into AdWords. We're going to take a quick look into 6 of the different features available that you might not have heard of and want to get set up in your account. RLSA - Remarketing Lists for Search Ads What is it? RLSA stands for Remarketing Lists for Search … [Read more...] about 6 Cool New Advertising Options In Google AdWords
RLSA & Why Tablet Targeting Isn’t Dead
Today's post is brought to you by PPC Hero Ally Thomas Hertkorn. Thomas is currently Head of SEM at Netlead GmbH & Co. KG, SEM in Berlin (Germany), specializes in PPC consulting, automation of large PPC accounts and has over 6 years of experience in Online Marketing. You can reach him @ThomasHertkorn -- Imagine you have a online shop that sells only tablet cases, where … [Read more...] about RLSA & Why Tablet Targeting Isn’t Dead
Facebook Reports Get an Extreme Makeover
Facebook has finally decided to make our lives in the PPC world a little easier for a change with the recent updates to the Reports in the Facebook Ad Manager. Facebook now allows you to select all the columns you want including: ad performance, spend, URL conversions, unique clicks, unique click through rate (CTR), cost per unique click, cost per 1,000 people reached, and … [Read more...] about Facebook Reports Get an Extreme Makeover
Save Time With The Ten Minute PPC Audit
It's series week on PPC Hero and we continue our run-down of time-saving techniques we've adopted in the past 12 months. This week Eric has already looked at building out your account and Carrie has dived into quick and dirty quality score techniques. Today we're going to look at the ten minute 'sense-check' audit. ---- A well-researched, in-depth audit of a PPC account can … [Read more...] about Save Time With The Ten Minute PPC Audit
Comparison-Shopping Engines: How to Optimize CSEs, Part IV
It is series time! One topic that we haven’t really talked much about in our blog are comparison-shopping engine sites. I have worked with multiple online retailers that have seen great success with this type of online advertising. So I want to take this series as an opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery of comparison-shopping. So you have decided to advertise on a … [Read more...] about Comparison-Shopping Engines: How to Optimize CSEs, Part IV
Boost Your AdWords CTR with Sitelink Descriptions
Sitelinks have been a staple of best practices since they were introduced. Sitelinks help searchers find topical information beyond the specified landing page of your ad. Last February, enhanced campaigns brought a little spice to sitelinks by including descriptions. Additional lines of text were added from your other ad copy to flesh out the sitelinks. These provided extra … [Read more...] about Boost Your AdWords CTR with Sitelink Descriptions
Acquisio’s PPC Management Software: How and Why We Use It
When it comes to automating your PPC workload, there exists a wealth of tools out there on the market. The past few years have seen a real growth in the quality of these tools, and as generally most companies will be using either no tools, or just one (particularly as changing often requires re-training), we wanted to take some time to review Acquisio for you and explain why we … [Read more...] about Acquisio’s PPC Management Software: How and Why We Use It
Refresh Your Ad Testing With 4 New Analyses
For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. As you spend more and more time doing the same thing, it’s expected that you’ll … [Read more...] about Refresh Your Ad Testing With 4 New Analyses
Facebook’s Partner Categories: The Complete List (So Far)
Facebook has actually been trying over the past six months or so, which has been so tremendous for us advertisers. (I wonder if it has anything to do with this.) One of the more prominent of Facebook's new options for marketers is the release of partner categories in April of 2013, which uses third party data to create new categories for targeting. This powerful new feature … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Partner Categories: The Complete List (So Far)
5 Approaches To Unlocking The Secrets Of Your Different Customer Types
In getting to know an account, a major component is your target audience. All industries have their specific clientele, and yet all industries stand to constantly reexamine what potential user they may be missing. A client has a business that offers supplies for those interested in fantasy games involving dice and role-play. You may be a seasoned D&D player who wants to … [Read more...] about 5 Approaches To Unlocking The Secrets Of Your Different Customer Types