It’s a busy time of year. There are so many products you want to sell, so many bids that need to be changed, so much ad text you need to refine. We here are PPC Hero have thought that you might be able to benefit from some of our own personal time savers. Spoiler alert: we’re very into templates. Think of it like an early present, but the best kind of present: … [Read more...] about PPC Hero’s Top Time Saving Tips During Your Busy Holiday Season
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Why PPC Agencies Should Include Call Tracking in All AdWords Plans
In early 2012, we here at White Shark Media were at a cross roads. We had acknowledged the need for call tracking for quite some time, but the interest to sign up with our call tracking partner wasn’t as high as we wanted it to be. We wanted 90% of all local-based Clients to sign up for dynamic call tracking, which would allow us to optimize AdWords a lot more … [Read more...] about Why PPC Agencies Should Include Call Tracking in All AdWords Plans
Holiday Ad Copy & How to Schedule Holiday Ad Tests
For the final installation in this month’s PPC Hero series on strategizing for the holiday season, we’re going to review the best and most effective ways to optimize ad copy to drive higher CTR’s and conversion rates. There will hopefully be some interesting tips you hadn’t thought of in terms of actual copy changes, but we’ll also take a look at a potential ad testing schedule … [Read more...] about Holiday Ad Copy & How to Schedule Holiday Ad Tests
Stocking Stuffer Keyword Ideas
The holidays are rapidly approaching, starting with the one-two punch of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a mere two weeks. I hope you’re ready, because every single ecommerce site in the world certainly is. So what can you do with your keywords to help your account keep up with the holiday rush? Have you ever tried to bid on the term “gifts” alone? It’s dumb. Don’t do … [Read more...] about Stocking Stuffer Keyword Ideas
Lead Generation’s Sad Holiday Season Won’t Last Forever
The holidays aren’t a total joy for everyone. The clearest example that always comes to my mind is Tiny Tim and his family sitting around their table and eating a boiled boot or whatever. (This probably depends on which of the roughly 1.6 million adaptations of A Christmas Carol immediately pop into your head.) Ok, so Tiny Tim and the Cratchits have love and a family and all … [Read more...] about Lead Generation’s Sad Holiday Season Won’t Last Forever
Benchmarking PPC in your Industry for the Holiday Season
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… or is it? We sat down in the Hanapin Marketing offices last week to discuss our account projections this holiday season. “Don’t forget to spend heavy going into thanksgiving,” was the cry of PPC Hero’s Jeff Allen. “If you don’t, you’ll likely miss budget targets with the slow few days.” This got me thinking, how many of us are fully … [Read more...] about Benchmarking PPC in your Industry for the Holiday Season
Top PPC Tips For Local Businesses
Here’s the deal – you want PPC to power your business, but you offer a product or service that can only cater to the local community. What options does that leave you? There are really two things I want to focus on – the first is making sure your PPC is as awesome as it can be, and this comes from taking advantage of all the tools and tricks available to you as a local … [Read more...] about Top PPC Tips For Local Businesses
10 Ways to Decrease Your Display Network CPA
The Display network is a beast. This is just a fact. An even truer fact is that Display will run away with your budget and CPA if you let it. We had a recent request at PPC Hero for some ideas on how to decrease CPA in the Display network, and I figured…let’s just cover some basics that may be getting missed in a panic, as well as a few in-depth options. And I mean, why not … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Decrease Your Display Network CPA
Google Economic Stats — A Comprehensive Analysis by Wordstream
Last week, Google released its "disappointing" Q3 advertising revenues (up 3% from Q2 and up 16% year-on-year.) To shed some light on how Google's advertising revenues reached a whopping $10.8 billion in Q3, our friends at WordStream have undertaken a comprehensive analysis of the performance of Google AdWords during the quarter. WordStream researched over $1 billion dollars … [Read more...] about Google Economic Stats — A Comprehensive Analysis by Wordstream
Facebook Ad As Publicity Stunt?
Red Bull has Felix Baumgartner and his 24-mile high, speed-of-sound sky dive, but Beta Brand has Fauxfu, the first “Vegetarian-Friendly Meat”: Two things I love about this ad: 1) The picture makes use of “non-existent functionality” by showing a play button over a static image. Even though this technically violates Facebook’s ad guidelines, it’s something I’ve … [Read more...] about Facebook Ad As Publicity Stunt?
Using Campaign Trends to Write Better PPC Ads
Campaign type is one of the most important things to keep in mind in your ad testing. Calls to action, benefits, punctuation and so much more should all get tested in your account in one way or another (Kayla has a great list here), but the results of each of these tests will vary wildly even within the same account based off of what type of targeting you’re using. I’ve been … [Read more...] about Using Campaign Trends to Write Better PPC Ads
7 Ways To Keep Your PPC Account Structure Manageable
I came across an account a few months ago so large and unwieldy that the thought of optimizing it made my eyes water. What was so wrong with the account structure you ask? Nothing! By my own admission it was perfectly set up. Campaigns were set up along tight thematic lines, each campaign had a separate mobile and desktop version, and these were both doubled up into both a … [Read more...] about 7 Ways To Keep Your PPC Account Structure Manageable
