We’ve spoken before about using Google website optimizer to test different elements of your landing page to help increase conversion rates. But the other day the team here at Hanapin Marketing came up with a full list of those elements to test using the multivariate testing option in Website optimizer. The multivariate testing allows you to add in a piece of code to your … [Read more...] about A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions
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5 Tips To Save Money & Generate Additional Revenue with Ad Scheduling
I know that ad scheduling/day parting isn’t new to PPC, but I was recently at a marketing conference where the speaker mentioned he used ad scheduling for nearly every one of his clients. This got me thinking: why I don’t use ad scheduling more often or at least run a few daily/hourly reports to see if it’s a good idea? If you’re thinking about doing any kind of ad scheduling … [Read more...] about 5 Tips To Save Money & Generate Additional Revenue with Ad Scheduling
Generate Extra Revenue this Holiday Season with These 5 PPC Tips
Hanapin Marketing is hiring three search engine marketing (SEO + PPC) specialists! We're the publishers of PPC Hero and SEO Boy and are an award-winning and fast-growing search engine marketing company located in Bloomington, Indiana. You'll work with clients on both search engine optimization and pay per click advertising, helping drive strategy and day-to-day management. … [Read more...] about Generate Extra Revenue this Holiday Season with These 5 PPC Tips
10 Easy Ways to Optimize Your PPC Landing Pages & Increase Conversions
It’s common knowledge that a professional website design can increase conversion rates and sales. A professional website design ensures trust and credibility with your users. Over at www.seoboy.com (our brother site) there is a post outlining a few do’s and don’ts on creating a web design that conveys trust and credibility to help increase conversions. But website design and … [Read more...] about 10 Easy Ways to Optimize Your PPC Landing Pages & Increase Conversions
How to Spend All That Money: A Few PPC Budgeting Strategies
When you are in the process of building a pay-per-click advertising campaign, one of the least enjoyable but most important things to consider is your budget. How, in fact, do you intend to spend your (or your clients’) money? The answer, as always: It depends. Are you a veteran online who is trying to drive a specific part of the business? Or are you a first-timer trying to … [Read more...] about How to Spend All That Money: A Few PPC Budgeting Strategies
What You Need to Know about Google AdWords’ New Conversion Tracking Metrics
One of the newly visible metrics within the updated Google AdWords interface pertains to conversion tracking. Today, we will explore the difference between the "Conversions (many-per-click)" data and the "Conversions (1-per-click)" data. If you have migrated to the new AdWords interface, you have probably noticed these additional conversion tracking columns within your stats. … [Read more...] about What You Need to Know about Google AdWords’ New Conversion Tracking Metrics
Learn How to Import Your Google Analytics Goals into AdWords Conversion Tracking
Early on in my search marketing career, one of the discrepencies that annoyed me most was that Google Analytics and Google AdWords were almost entirely separate entities. With the exception of AdWords data populating in Analytics, there wasn't any cross-functionality - especially for conversion tracking. This killed me. Until now. It is now possible for you to have data … [Read more...] about Learn How to Import Your Google Analytics Goals into AdWords Conversion Tracking
Simple PPC Ad Tests Can Drive Up Your Click-Throughs and Conversions
In many cases you may be running a strong, mature PPC campaign, exceeding your goals and driving strong results. The causes of this – strong keyword lists, effective ad creative, efficient bidding strategy, and a website that delivers on the promises made – are obvious and hopefully familiar. While your ad text in this situation may appear to be optimal, there are countless … [Read more...] about Simple PPC Ad Tests Can Drive Up Your Click-Throughs and Conversions
Bonus! Business.com Adds Conversion Tracking
For those of us who believe in the power of vertical search engines, Business.com has given us another reason to celebrate: Conversion Tracking for Featured Listings! I'm a fan of Business.com's Feature Listings (big word for PPC) and was just a little excited when I happened upon this news in their help section. Because of Business.com's unique B2B marketplace, this … [Read more...] about Bonus! Business.com Adds Conversion Tracking
When Are Conversions Attributed to Your PPC Campaigns?
During our last blog series we discussed using the ad scheduling feature within Google AdWords to save time and money when managing a PPC campaign. That article sparked a few questions in regards to when a conversion is attributed within AdWords. In the previous post, we provided tactics for using the ad scheduling feature to automatically just your keyword bids, or completely … [Read more...] about When Are Conversions Attributed to Your PPC Campaigns?
Review Your Conversion Paths To Look For Optimization Opportunities
In order to properly optimize your conversion rate, you don't want to to track just the total number of conversions you generate at any given time. You need to understand the path users take through your site on their way to converting, and you need to understand which path is most successful. I was reviewing the goal funnels within Google Analytics for a client the other day. … [Read more...] about Review Your Conversion Paths To Look For Optimization Opportunities
Know the How, When, Why of AdWords Conversion Optimizer
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next week. Enjoy! I only recently realized that Google’s conversion optimizer had lowered its requirement on the search network to 30 … [Read more...] about Know the How, When, Why of AdWords Conversion Optimizer