I know we’ve had a few posts about mobile campaigns here on PPC Hero, but after recently reviewing my accounts by device segmentation and rediscovering how many visitors are actually clicking my ads via mobile devices, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of paying attention to your mobile audience. Amy wrote a great post not too long ago on mobile landing page best … [Read more...] about Segmenting by Device: Why All Your Accounts Should Be Running Mobile Campaigns
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adCenter 101: Capitalizing On Consumer Queries
This series is designed to help provide you with a better understanding of the true potential behind Microsoft adCenter’s paid search interface. Last month, I wrote about Campaign Analytics in adCenter. This month, I will talk about adCenter’s revamped search query performance reports and the benefits you can now take away from them. Overview Up until recently, I found … [Read more...] about adCenter 101: Capitalizing On Consumer Queries
PPC Budgets: Optimizing Accounts with Budget Constraints
At some point in our account management adventures, we’ve all hit the point of needing to scale back our accounts’ budgets. Whether your account is large or small, it can be challenging to scale back your spend while maintaining an account’s performance. Whether your client has had to reduce their PPC budget, or you’re pulling back at the end of the month to stay under a … [Read more...] about PPC Budgets: Optimizing Accounts with Budget Constraints
Letter from the CEO – “Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.”
That's a quotation from Loretta Young, and it fits the theme well this month of highlighting accomplishments. We're now at the 180-day mark of our blog re-investment, and the team at Hanapin continues to make great progress toward our goals! Comparing the previous 180 days to the same time frame before that, we're now up 31% and 47% in visits and pageviews, respectively! Last … [Read more...] about Letter from the CEO – “Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.”
Quick Guide To Analytics Multi-Channel Funnels
Last Wednesday Google announced the solution to all of my life's problems, Multi-Channel Funnels. Okay so that might be a slight over exaggeration, but I've only been playing around with this new feature for a few days and am already feeling giddy about the PPC benefits it will provide. We all know that to get a clear understanding of PPC performance you can't just look at … [Read more...] about Quick Guide To Analytics Multi-Channel Funnels
Hanapin is Hiring! Looking for Account Executives!
Hang out with people who understand the web, work with some of the best companies nationwide, and spend your days where your talents and intelligence are appreciated and make a difference! Hanapin Marketing is now hiring, and we’re looking for talented people who love search engine marketing. Applications are due by 5 pm (EDT) on Thursday, September 1, 2011 so get … [Read more...] about Hanapin is Hiring! Looking for Account Executives!
Search Intent: Session Based Broad & Advanced Location Targeting
This week, the Hanapin team got together and sat down for our monthly Redbop training session. One of the topics we covered was the psychology aspect of search marketing, including search intent. Our presentation brought up the point of session based broad match queries and advanced location targeting, and I’d like to share some of that information with you. Session Based … [Read more...] about Search Intent: Session Based Broad & Advanced Location Targeting
Modified Broad Match, Understood
One of my favorite movies of recent memory is Wedding Crashers, and while looking for a picture to put on Facebook to mock a friend, I stumbled upon a picture of Todd Cleary, the misunderstood son of the powerful Cleary family. Laughing to myself, I saved the pic to get back to work. Later, while puzzling over why my broad match keywords were getting impressions in an account, … [Read more...] about Modified Broad Match, Understood
Ad Writing Tips for a New Account
Welcome to part 3 of our series ‘Starting an AdWords Account From Scratch.’ In this article, we’ll be covering ad writing. Your ad groups won’t start triggering impressions until you have at least one active ad running. Read on for best practices and writing ideas. The Importance of Great Ads: Thorough keyword research and a tightly knit structure will be useless without … [Read more...] about Ad Writing Tips for a New Account
PPC Campaign Structure Basics & Best Practices
This is part 2 of our week-long series on starting an AdWords account from scratch. The series will walk you though each step of the process, from creating your initial keyword list to activating your campaigns. Give us 5 days and we’ll teach you how to start you very own AdWords account! Ready to start filling your designer handbags with the millions of dollars made from the … [Read more...] about PPC Campaign Structure Basics & Best Practices
Diagnosing a Problem Account
At some point in our tenure as a PPC account manager, we all encounter an account that just seems flat out stuck. Conversions start to steadily decrease, click-through rate starts to slide, and if you’re especially unlucky you’ll start seeing your traffic numbers stall too. I recently had an account that had all these problems for no easily identifiable reason, and thought it … [Read more...] about Diagnosing a Problem Account
Dealing With Google AdWords and Analytics Data Discrepancies
A few months ago I wrote a guest post for Portent Interactive about the data discrepancies between Google AdWords and Analytics. It's still something I deal with every day when trying to analyze and make account decisions and I wanted to share this post with our readers. In a touching speech by President Jack Nicholson, he asks alien invaders “Why can't we work out our … [Read more...] about Dealing With Google AdWords and Analytics Data Discrepancies
