Have you ever met a compulsive DIY’er (Do It Yourself’er)? You know the type. They get so intent on saving a penny that they can spend dollars to do it. Sure, some DIY activities are worth it. You own an auto repair shop so there’s no use paying another mechanic to fix your car! DIY. You used to be a professional painter? Then save a buck and paint your own house! DIY. There … [Read more...] about AdWords DIY (Destroy It Yourself) – 4 Reasons to Hire a PPC Professional
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Morning Clicks: Mobile is Taking Over the World, and Back-to-School Season Already?
Morning Clicks is your mid-week roundup of digital advertising news and notes. We're your one-stop shop for the most relevant and important news in the PPC world. Grab your cup of joe and come see us every Wednesday morning. Google released a new guide to Shopping Campaigns. [Inside AdWords] And while they were at it, they also made their annual update to the Product Feed … [Read more...] about Morning Clicks: Mobile is Taking Over the World, and Back-to-School Season Already?
ROAS For Beginners: The eCommerce Metric of Choice
For eCommerce Series Week, what could be more important than ROAS (return on ad spend)? While the rest of the posts this week will give great insight into what you should and shouldn’t be doing, my post is geared towards the eCommerce PPC beginner. If you are just starting PPC and you sell things online, both this post and ROAS are for you! What Is ROAS? ROAS is a good … [Read more...] about ROAS For Beginners: The eCommerce Metric of Choice
Three Next-Level Strategies for Ecommerce PPC [Webinar Recording]
You've heard of the dozens of PPC tools at your disposal to target your customer at the perfect point in the buying cycle - are you ready to take your ecommerce plan to the next level? Are Google’s Shopping Campaigns and Dynamic advertising still uncharted territory for you? These new features increase your reach for optimizing bids and settings while making the overall search … [Read more...] about Three Next-Level Strategies for Ecommerce PPC [Webinar Recording]
New Webinar with Google! Three Next-Level Strategies for Ecommerce PPC
You've heard of the dozens of PPC tools at your disposal to target your customer at the perfect point in the buying cycle - are you ready to take your ecommerce plan to the next level? Are Google’s Shopping Campaigns and Dynamic advertising still uncharted territory for you? These new features increase your reach for optimizing bids and settings while making the overall search … [Read more...] about New Webinar with Google! Three Next-Level Strategies for Ecommerce PPC
Sweat The Small Stuff: PPC Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making
Let’s face it, in the flurry of the tasks and strategy involved in PPC, we’ve all made mistakes, many of them avoidable (and some of them huge). That’s okay, PPC Hero is here to help you catch them before they happen! Let’s walk through some easy to make mistakes and give you some pointers in avoiding (or fixing) them! This is by no means an exhaustive list of things that … [Read more...] about Sweat The Small Stuff: PPC Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making
How To Get The Most Out Of AdWords Editor
AdWords Editor is great for making bulk changes to your accounts. It isn’t just a tool for uploading your excel work though. The editor has some great but overlooked features. Features that go beyond the “make multiple changes” button for uploads. Find and Replace You’ve probably used find and replace in other products and it works the same way in the AdWords editor. The … [Read more...] about How To Get The Most Out Of AdWords Editor
Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
From time to time, PPC Hero will publish a stellar post from an equally stellar author, and this is one of those times. This post was written by Oli Gardner, landing page expert and co-founder of Unbounce, one of our favorite optimization and testing tools for landing pages and CRO. Follow him at @OliGardner. -- If you care about your conversion rates, you know that every … [Read more...] about Eight Steps to Craft the Ultimate PPC Landing Page
Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
We love to talk about Conversion Rate at PPC Hero. Our job doesn't stop with acquiring traffic; we have to make sure that traffic ends up doing something of value - otherwise we've wasted our money. That part, however, isn't always easy. Our best intentions can sink for a number of reasons: No time or money for web designers / developers A boss or client who doesn't want to … [Read more...] about Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
Two Simple Tricks To Enhance your Excel Lookups
A few weeks ago we covered INDEX MATCH as a replacement for VLOOKUP in excel. We only scratched the surface though. There are many more uses for INDEX, MATCH and VLOOKUP, using them together can even help you in a few tricky situations where a simple VLOOKUP or INDEX MATCH doesn't do the trick. Using MATCH to Deal with Inserted Columns in VLOOKUP One of the major issues with … [Read more...] about Two Simple Tricks To Enhance your Excel Lookups
Holy Sidekick! The Ultimate PPC Partner Takes on Refined Targeting
Editor's Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf guest post contest. Based on a combination of pageviews and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the finalists we post throughout the week. Today's post comes to us from Ariana Wolf (@ArianaWolf), a search strategist for 90octane. “Holy jumble! Where's the hope of the world now?” – … [Read more...] about Holy Sidekick! The Ultimate PPC Partner Takes on Refined Targeting
Pleading the Case for Conversion Rate Optimization
PPC Hero’s February series will be focused on arming you, the PPC account manager, with all the necessary ammunition to make a strong argument for adding new focus areas in your paid search campaigns to your client. That client can be your direct supervisor or executives if you’re managing in-house, or a client in the traditional sense if you’re working in an agency on several … [Read more...] about Pleading the Case for Conversion Rate Optimization
