Lost amid last week’s reactions to Google’s new Enhanced Campaigns was a pretty nifty enhancement to the Google interface. Search funnel information is now available for inclusion in the AdWords reporting, right alongside the rest of your data. As long as you have conversion tracking active in your account, you can add in these columns to get even more insight to how your ads … [Read more...] about Search Funnels Have Arrived in the AdWords Interface. Use Them.
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The Beginner’s Checklist of What To Do in the First Month of Your AdWords Optimization: Part 3
This month Andrew Lolk of White Shark Media joins PPC Hero as a guest blogger to discuss his personal tips for optimizing a PPC account within the first month. This is part 2 see here, for part 1 see here. -------------------------------------------------- This is a three-part series that helps you identify the areas of optimization during the first month of your Google … [Read more...] about The Beginner’s Checklist of What To Do in the First Month of Your AdWords Optimization: Part 3
The Beginner’s Checklist of What To Do in the First Month of Your AdWords Optimization: Part 2
This month Andrew Lolk of White Shark Media joins PPC Hero as a guest blogger to discuss his personal tips for optimizing a PPC account within the first month. This is part 2, for part 1 see here. -------------------------------------------------- This is a three-part series that helps you identify the areas of optimization during the first month of your Google AdWords … [Read more...] about The Beginner’s Checklist of What To Do in the First Month of Your AdWords Optimization: Part 2
Google To Force You To Go Mobile With Enhanced Campaigns
So for those of you in PPC land who were stuck under a rock for the past 24 hours – Google announced their exciting new ‘Enhanced Campaigns’. The main idea seems to be two-fold. On the one hand, make things easier to manage – fewer campaigns to work with, but on the other, more money for Google as more advertisers use mobile. In fact, I wrote something back in October about … [Read more...] about Google To Force You To Go Mobile With Enhanced Campaigns
11 Important Questions You Must Ask Yourself About Your Google Display Campaigns
For the final part of our January series – Things to test in your account in 2013 – I’m going to be diving into the wonderful world of the Google Display Network, or GDN for those of us who love pointless acronyms! Anyway, acronyms aside, there are plenty of things you want to be testing in your display campaigns this year. I’d wager that the majority of us in PPC land tend … [Read more...] about 11 Important Questions You Must Ask Yourself About Your Google Display Campaigns
Heroview: Randomness, Black Swans and Fragility and How they Affect SEM
Yesterday we had an amazing opportunity to talk to Andrew Goodman who talked about Randomness, Black Swans and Fragility & How They Affect SEM. ________________________________________ PPC Hero: Could you start by telling us a little bit about your background in PPC? Andrew: It's nearly as simple as having tinkered with AdWords Select in Mar 2002 & being blown away by … [Read more...] about Heroview: Randomness, Black Swans and Fragility and How they Affect SEM
Maximize Your PPC’s Efficiency With e-Commerce Tracking
In the world of ecommerce one idea is king: profit. As the old saying goes ‘revenue is vanity, profit is sanity’ and it is for this reason that properly optimized PPC can help keep all e-commerce website owners very sane and very happy. By setting up Google Analytics’ e-commerce tracking to integrate with your PPC data you can track the exact amount of revenue made on your site … [Read more...] about Maximize Your PPC’s Efficiency With e-Commerce Tracking
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Google Analytics
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Dennis Yu: Hero Conf 2013 Interview
We had the opportunity to interview Dennis Yu, who will be speaking about Facebook and PPC at Hero Conf 2013. Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzMetrics. He has helped brands grow and measure their Facebook presence and is an internationally recognized lecturer in Facebook marketing, having been featured on National Public Radio, TechCrunch, Fox News, AllFacebook, CBS Evening News, and … [Read more...] about Dennis Yu: Hero Conf 2013 Interview
Case Study: Geo Segmentation & How It Can Help Your PPC Campaigns In 2013
Granularity is an important concept for many PPC accounts today. In fact, the way you segment your campaigns and ad groups can have a huge effect on key metrics like conversion volume and CPA. This granular segmentation is particularly useful for those larger accounts that drive a lot of volume and spend quickly. After successfully testing this on one of my larger PPC accounts, … [Read more...] about Case Study: Geo Segmentation & How It Can Help Your PPC Campaigns In 2013
Seven Ways to Increase CTR Without Even Looking at Ad Text
Driving up click through rate is one of the most important things that we do in PPC. Hosting a webinar recently, I discovered that it is a lot of people’s key performance indicator (KPI). While all of my accounts are based around what happens after the click, I can understand that for many PPC advertisers driving traffic is the name of the game. While ad text and testing is … [Read more...] about Seven Ways to Increase CTR Without Even Looking at Ad Text
