#CRODay was just around the corner when I received an email from Oli Gardner stating that I’d been selected to compete in the 5-second landing page showdown that at the time was just 3 days away. Setting The Stage 12 participants (including little ol’ me) and 12 conversion rate optimization professionals go head-to-head in the 5-second showdown. We’re given everything we … [Read more...] about Recounting My CRO Day 5-Second Showdown
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On Demand Webinar: Dominate SEO and PPC Listings With These 5 Tactics
More about this Webinar No matter what type of company you work for, you have probably found that PPC and SEO teams struggle to communicate and often work in silos. However, this connection is vital to the ability to leverage data from both sides and increase your conversion rate. You can’t make more people search for a query, but you can control how many of your listings show … [Read more...] about On Demand Webinar: Dominate SEO and PPC Listings With These 5 Tactics
3 Facebook Optimizations You Can Make Today
Last month, Hanapin Marketing Account Analyst Chadd Powell shared a few Facebook custom optimizations to gain control over campaign performance. Check out his post after reading the additional ideas for optimizations below. These optimizations do not require a social strategy overhaul and can be fast to implement in your Facebook accounts. 1) Test Different Bidding … [Read more...] about 3 Facebook Optimizations You Can Make Today
The Top Ten Tips For Effective Dayparting
Over the past year, I've started to truly embrace a new life motto: if it takes less than ten minutes to do, do it now. When it comes to optimizing a PPC account, ten minutes is a drop in the bucket. As digital marketers, we are left forever seeking those 0.01% incremental gains in hopes that soon enough they will amount to radical improvements. With that said, determining … [Read more...] about The Top Ten Tips For Effective Dayparting
Should You Be Creating Device Specific Campaigns?
Back in August, it was announced that Google would allow device bid adjustments on computers and tablets, and not just on mobile devices. With this announcement came the capability to segment campaigns once again by device. But creating new device specific campaigns is a lot of work and can potentially overcrowd your account. You need to determine if this tactic is right for … [Read more...] about Should You Be Creating Device Specific Campaigns?
Why Hero Conf is the Event for You!
What does The World’s Largest All-PPC Conference Series look like? Hero Conf is shaped mostly by nearly 1000 of our awesome and nerdy friends that join us each year. They range in title from Account Analyst to Founder and CEO, PPC Specialist to Director of Marketing and everywhere in between. They are innovators and leaders in their fields with a curiosity that drives them to … [Read more...] about Why Hero Conf is the Event for You!
The 3 Step Guide For Expanding Your Account Through DSA And Shopping Queries
Over the years, we've written many articles about the importance of Dynamic Search Ads (DSAs) and Shopping ads as a means to find new keywords to implement in your Search Network text ad campaigns. Both DSA and Shopping campaigns act as ongoing keyword research tools as you look to expand your account. That's great and all, but how do we go about extracting DSA and Shopping … [Read more...] about The 3 Step Guide For Expanding Your Account Through DSA And Shopping Queries
5 Common Excel Issues And How To Fix
Excel, while a fabulous tool for PPC, is not without its occasional hang-ups. In this post, we’ll go through some common problems, and how to fix them. To kick things off, it may be helpful to review Excel errors and what they mean. The Error The Meaning The Fix #NAME? Excel doesn’t recognize text in a formula Ensure your formulas are typed correctly, and that any text … [Read more...] about 5 Common Excel Issues And How To Fix
It’s Not Enough To Be Relevant – Your Landing Page Has To Be Dedicated
You spend months testing ad copy and optimizing bids to ensure that your ads are not only visible or relevant, but effective. It’s not about impressions. It’s not even about clicks. The end goal, the cherry on top, is the conversion. That conversion occurs on the landing page. So how do you choose the page that sends your visitors into conversion land? Do you base your … [Read more...] about It’s Not Enough To Be Relevant – Your Landing Page Has To Be Dedicated
Reach The Right Users With Gmail Ads
When it comes to advertising, the goal is always to be in the right place, at the right time, in front of the right person. Being PPC specialists, we know that isn’t always the case and that’s why we measure click-through rate, conversion rate, and any data that we can get our hands on to simply determine the effectiveness of our advertising. That is also why we look to have … [Read more...] about Reach The Right Users With Gmail Ads
Google To Release New Shopping And Travel Features
Well, we have all survived another Amazon #PrimeDay! Whether or not you found a great deal on Tuesday, Google has ensured that no PPC-er left the event empty-handed. According to their official blog, several upcoming changes to Shopping and travel-related ads can be expected in the near future. A New Kind Of Shopping Experience The first Shopping update relates to SERPs, … [Read more...] about Google To Release New Shopping And Travel Features
Are Your Expanded Text Ads Lit?
Dear reader, here is a confession: I am too old to be using slang and I am especially too elderly to be trying so hard to incorporate colloquialisms into a post about Expanded Text Ads. But when Google announced earlier this year they would be ditching the right side ads and would be extending the character lengths for headlines and descriptions, I was ready to make my ads … [Read more...] about Are Your Expanded Text Ads Lit?
