Account expansion can be a messy business. No matter your methods, whether it’s adding keywords via Google’s Keyword Tool, utilizing templates, or good old-fashioned Keyword Research, you’ll occasionally run in to scenarios where your new additions to the keyword family act like divas and decide to steal the limelight from your more-established terms. This can be especially … [Read more...] about Are You Smothering Your All Time Top Converting Keywords?
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Increase Your PPC ROAS In 2 Minutes With Dynamic Value Tracking
Better measurement of PPC results leads to better Return on Ad Spend. This post walks you through how to increase your ROAS by customizing your Google AdWords conversion tracking code to dynamically pull in order values or assigning values to leads based on the likelihood of a specific lead generating revenue for your business. (Side note, this is probably my most verbose post … [Read more...] about Increase Your PPC ROAS In 2 Minutes With Dynamic Value Tracking
Going Beyond AdWords: How to Use Niche Ad Networks
Sites like Bing, Google, and even Facebook have done a great job making advertising available for everyone. There is huge potential in all three of them for profit, if done correctly. The big ad networks are nice because people recognize the names, they’ve heard stories about people who have gotten rich off of AdWords, and they are stable. These big players are a big part of … [Read more...] about Going Beyond AdWords: How to Use Niche Ad Networks
Heroview — Onboarding New & Existing Client Accounts
Starting a PPC account from scratch is a far cry from taking on an existing PPC Account. In this month's Heroview Kayla Kurtz covers new & existing client accounts, their differences and why you should care! -------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to today’s Heroview, everyone! Real-time interviews featuring PPC experts from around the industry! … [Read more...] about Heroview — Onboarding New & Existing Client Accounts
How To Fix Your PPC Lead Quality When It Tanks
It’s a PPC manager’s worst nightmare – you hear from your sales team that suddenly the leads you are sending them are no good - An unexpected decline in lead quality that can affect any account. The question is, what steps can you take to deal with this shocking news? Your first step should be identifying the cause of your lead quality issues. Check back over everything you … [Read more...] about How To Fix Your PPC Lead Quality When It Tanks
3 Time-Saving Techniques For PPC Managers Using Excel Filters
Mounds of data, MS Excel and large coffee; these are three things that I’ve come to know and love as a PPC manager. In fact, these things go hand-in-hand with each other (some would argue about the coffee) because Excel provides us with ways to manipulate and analyze all of the data we’re confronted with on a daily basis. Perhaps this is why we’ve decided to pursue the topic … [Read more...] about 3 Time-Saving Techniques For PPC Managers Using Excel Filters
PPC Myth Busting! Myth 5: Broad Match Isn’t Worth Pursuing
I have to admit that I’m guilty of buying into this myth myself. I’ll be setting up a new campaign with super strict cost per acquisition goals, and think “I just can’t afford to waste money on broad!”. This might be a good strategy to begin with, but what happens when you’ve finished building your account, you’re hitting cost goals, but your volume is teeny tiny? This is … [Read more...] about PPC Myth Busting! Myth 5: Broad Match Isn’t Worth Pursuing
Heroview – PPC Account Structure & Organization
Organization in PPC is essential! Today our Heroview focused on just that: PPC account structure & organization. Cassie Allinger (@CassieAllinger), a Sr SEM Strategist at @dealerdotcom, pulled back the curtain on her organization and account structure techniques & showed us how it's done! Welcome to today’s Heroview, everyone! Real-time interviews featuring PPC experts … [Read more...] about Heroview – PPC Account Structure & Organization
Converting Facebook Leads into Sales
Last year my friend and mentor, Bryan Eisenberg, exposed the biggest lie of pay-per-click marketing: “Keywords don’t fail to convert!!! It’s we who fail to convert visitors from those keywords.” Bryan’s point is that as long as: the keyword phrase is relevant to your business, and the keyword-based ads are relevant enough to your prospects to cause them to click on the … [Read more...] about Converting Facebook Leads into Sales
ABC’s of PPC – A Guide for the Basics!
We’ve been posting some pretty advanced optimization techniques recently at PPC Hero to make sure our audience is getting the next level of PPC advice. That doesn’t mean new advertisers aren’t getting in the paid search game daily or that you all-star vets couldn’t use a little reminder of the basics. The following alphabetical list is going to seem a little simple, but you … [Read more...] about ABC’s of PPC – A Guide for the Basics!
Christmas in July: Considerations for Holiday Planning
The holidays loom for retail marketers, making July the time to start thinking about paid search campaign planning if you want to ensure your efforts are a success. Yes, it might be painful thinking about Black Friday keywords and holiday themed landing pages when the air conditioner is blasting, but it’s important to catch the holiday wave early. Analyzing your … [Read more...] about Christmas in July: Considerations for Holiday Planning
6 Useless PPC Account Audit Techniques
PPC Audits are incredibly useful. At our agency we have Account Mangers audit accounts routinely and they almost always find ways to increase account performance that the lead on the account glossed over. We also perform audits for companies small and large. Unfortunately, as with everything PPC, sometimes these audits are ineffective, or even cause damage. That’s because they … [Read more...] about 6 Useless PPC Account Audit Techniques
