Why hello offline conversions in AdWords, where have you been all my life? Optimizing lead gen accounts in AdWords just got a little sweeter with the release of the new AdWords Conversion Import feature. The Conversion Import feature allows advertisers to track the entire sales cycle from ad click, to offline conversions AND THEN… import these offline conversions back into … [Read more...] about Optimize For Offline Conversions With New AdWords Conversion Import Feature
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What to Make of View-through Conversions
View-through conversions have been around for nearly four years in AdWords. In paid search land, that’s close to an eternity. But it still seems to me that people don’t really know what to do about them. We’ve talked about them and their slippery attribution in the past, and today I’d like to spend even more time diving into VTCs and how they should affect the ways in which … [Read more...] about What to Make of View-through Conversions
Getting Intimate With Keyword-Level Bidding Strategies
The month of May has brought us not only showers and flowers, but it's also included the arrival of the Flexible Bidding Strategies as promised this spring! This is another example of Google giving us additional control of the work we do. As the waves in the ocean of Enhanced Campaigns begin to die down, Google has been taking step after step to allow us more say-so in how we … [Read more...] about Getting Intimate With Keyword-Level Bidding Strategies
Use Many-Per-Click Conversions With CPA Bidding
Are you using the Conversion Optimizer in your Google AdWords account at the moment? It should be a really awesome tool that leads to much more efficient bid management, however it has always had one major drawback - only allowing me to set my target CPA on a one-per-click basis (one user can only ever cause one conversion). This is fine for lead generation accounts but kind of … [Read more...] about Use Many-Per-Click Conversions With CPA Bidding
Mobile PPC: Proven Strategies & Untapped Opportunities – Upcoming Webinar
"The Year of Mobile" seems to have been the moniker of the past 3-4 consecutive years. The good news? You don't have to hear it anymore! Mobile is here, and making up 10-20% of all pay per click ad spend and conversions. In this month's FREE webinar, co-presented by experts at Hanapin Marketing and WordStream, you will learn: Why you need to invest in mobile PPC Who's doing … [Read more...] about Mobile PPC: Proven Strategies & Untapped Opportunities – Upcoming Webinar
Picking the Best PPC Call-to-Action Using Conversions per Impression
Picking winning PPC ads seems like an easy task. You find the one ad with the best metric(s) such as conversion rate, pause the rest, spin out a variation of that ad, and test again. This can lead you in the right direction fast, or it sometimes can blind you to another value of your ads, gross conversions. Below are three case studies that use a metric call Conversion per … [Read more...] about Picking the Best PPC Call-to-Action Using Conversions per Impression
Big and Angry Landing Page Reports: Go Beyond Conversions
Conversion rate optimization is an important part of PPC management. No doi. It’s a huge factor in the ways that we chose to organize our accounts and allocate our spend. But it’s possible to see more than just conversion rate when looking at the performance of your landing page. Whether you’re trying to promote brand awareness or create a lasting repeat customer list, your … [Read more...] about Big and Angry Landing Page Reports: Go Beyond Conversions
3 View-through Conversion Attribution Problems
View-through conversions are conversions where a customer saw—but didn’t click— a display ad on the display network before completing a conversion. - source Agencies and account managers want to report this, or a portion of these to their clients and bosses, but unfortunately the problem of how to give credit to these conversions always arises. Basically it revolves around, … [Read more...] about 3 View-through Conversion Attribution Problems
Conversions from Another “Dimension”- Free Webinar!
We here at PPC Hero understand how exhausting it can be to deal with all of the information the Dimensions Tab provides. So much so, that we even had a whole Hero Conf session dedicated to Advanced Dimensions Settings! But, once you have the right data in front of you, you can get more conversions and raise your conversion rates with this awesome tool. That's why we're going … [Read more...] about Conversions from Another “Dimension”- Free Webinar!
New from Google: AdWords Ad Extensions Conversion Data
This week, Google softly launched an incredibly valuable improvement to Ad Extension reporting metrics in AdWords; you can now view conversion data for your ad extensions. I have deemed this a soft launch because there has been no official statement concerning this addition on Google’s blog, but of course there has been a lot of hype amongst industry professionals. What does … [Read more...] about New from Google: AdWords Ad Extensions Conversion Data
Shorten Your Sales Cycle with PPC After the Conversion
For most, PPC is an invaluable way to drive low cost leads and/or ecommerce sales. But with its precise targeting capabilities, PPC is also an amazing way to stay in front of these leads and customers to increase closing rates, reduce sales cycle time, and maximize up/cross-sales. So don’t limit your PPC efforts to the first conversion or sale. Use it help your prospects and … [Read more...] about Shorten Your Sales Cycle with PPC After the Conversion
Improve PPC Results by Ignoring Conversions – Case Study
Can relying on interface data, specifically lead numbers and CPL significantly hurt your PPC accounts’ performance? The following is a case study that sheds light on exactly this, and will show you why I have cut down on the time I spend looking at that data in the AdWords and adCenter interfaces. The set up: I recently was put on an account that has a history of up and down … [Read more...] about Improve PPC Results by Ignoring Conversions – Case Study
