Because April was National Poetry Month, we wanted to celebrate the creative side of PPC-ers everywhere! We hosted a haiku contest, and here is our winner: New client, new goals An empty canvas to fill Words and ads, not paint - James Thompson (@JamesSThompson) Congrats, James! You will be receiving an Amazon gift card! Here are some other honorable mentions! Pouring over … [Read more...] about PPC Hero Haiku Winner!
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Ad Testing With Tight Margins: Keep Control
Ad testing is a major portion of what we do as PPCers. The large-scale impact is that without great ads, we won’t convert sales or leads on a consistent basis. In our PPC ecosystem, another factor that must not be ignored is CTR and it’s contribution to quality score. As an agency, I frequently see situations where ad testing as a strategy is essential but when the ad testing … [Read more...] about Ad Testing With Tight Margins: Keep Control
Advanced PPC: Optimizing for Per Visit Value
You likely have keywords that spend money, get conversions, but convert at well below CPA/CPL goal. While these keywords are frustrating, the real sneaky profit killer keywords are those that spend money, get conversions but hide underneath good performance. Good performance often means good CPA/CPL. So a keyword that has a goal of a $30 CPA and that is at $28 is a good … [Read more...] about Advanced PPC: Optimizing for Per Visit Value
PPC Account Goal Setting: Set Yourself Up for Incremental Success
Today brings the second post in our April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers series. In today’s post, I’ll be diving into setting account goals to help your account mitigate torrential downpours. PPC account goal setting can be quite the conundrum for new, or newly acquired, accounts. If you’re starting a new account, you don’t have any historical data to work with, and if you’ve … [Read more...] about PPC Account Goal Setting: Set Yourself Up for Incremental Success
Bookending: Predict The Success Of Your Optimizations
It's hard to see the forest for the trees when making account changes, sometimes. Meaning, when we get granular in our account changes, which we should, it's often difficult to understand exactly how granular changes will affect the entirety of your account. The best way to remedy this is to utilize bookending. Bookending is a term we use at Hanapin to mean that you've did all … [Read more...] about Bookending: Predict The Success Of Your Optimizations
Interview with Lisa Raehsler: PPC, Display, and Ecommerce
This week, we have the pleasure of sharing an interview with Lisa Raehsler, Founder and SEM Strategy Consultant at Big Click Co. Lisa will be joining us at Hero Conf 2012 to speak about PPC for Ecommerce and Retargeting. There are a couple great offers still available that will save you money on Hero Conf registration. If you purchase two registrations, you will receive an … [Read more...] about Interview with Lisa Raehsler: PPC, Display, and Ecommerce
9 PPC Tasks for a 10% Boost in 10 Minutes
PPC optimization hyperbole? Could be. But for me, any one of the following ppc tasks can take me a mere 10 minutes and have produced a 10%+ bump in performance. The spirit of this post is not to convince you these can be done in 10 minutes, though. So please give me some space here to make the greater point. That point being that it doesn’t always have to take hours of work to … [Read more...] about 9 PPC Tasks for a 10% Boost in 10 Minutes
Interview with Bethany Bey
Today I am delighted to present an interview with Bethany Bey, PPC Hero Blog Manager at Hanapin Marketing. Laura: To start with, tell us a little about yourself and your background. Bethany: I have lived in Indiana my whole life. I attended Indiana University (go Hoosiers!) from 2004-2008 and got my degree in Marketing and Management. I also got a minor in Gender Studies … [Read more...] about Interview with Bethany Bey
Slam Dunk! In Your Face(book)!
Welcome to the second installment of our Reach Expansion Final Four series for March PPC Madness! Today’s bracket is all about Facebook. We all know and love it as the platform that keeps us socially viable and in the loop. But does it work for marketing and PPC specifically? Here at Hanapin Marketing we have seen accounts win the game every month and some that at least … [Read more...] about Slam Dunk! In Your Face(book)!
Quality Score Optimization Makes Everyone a Loser
Quality Score is meant to be an indicator of the relevancy of your ad to a user’s search query. It is merely an instrument or a gauge that indicates the clickability of your PPC marketing efforts. PPC marketers often look to Quality Score as something to optimize. You insert your keywords in ads and landing pages, use negatives to weed out irrelevant queries, and on and on. … [Read more...] about Quality Score Optimization Makes Everyone a Loser
Mobile Growth and Utilization
Jeff Allen, an Account Manager at Hanapin Marketing, conducted this interview with Josh Aston. Josh is Director of Online Marketing at Progrexion (which is not a client of Hanapin Marketing.) He is leading Progrexion’s efforts in the mobile marketplace. Jeff: At Hanapin, we take a much different approach to Mobile devices than we do for desktop. Specifically, we try to truly … [Read more...] about Mobile Growth and Utilization
10 Changes to make to Your AdWords Search Campaign that will Boost Your CTR
Have the text ads in your AdWords campaigns got to a point where they need a click-through rate (CTR) boost without you making any immediate changes to your CPC bids? You know that increasing your text ads Click Through Rate (CTR) would not only lead to increased traffic, but would ultimately result in improved Quality Scores and a higher Ad Rank. You might also not want to … [Read more...] about 10 Changes to make to Your AdWords Search Campaign that will Boost Your CTR
