Even though ad customizers aren’t anything new, they are arguably underutilized. Personally, I’m a fan of them as well as other advertisers in the PPC world who won’t be named. I also am a big fan of utilizing marketing psychology principles into my ads to help implement user-focused strategies. Ad customizers make this tactic a lot easier. When creating a text ad for your … [Read more...] about Using Business Data Feeds To Implement Marketing Psychology Principles in Your Ads
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View Ad Creative Through The Eyes Of Your Searchers
Making decisions for PPC initiatives can be stressful. Within the industry, we toss around “best” and “common” practices like confetti. We are purveyors of patterns. Collectors of congruency. Emperors of efficiency. However, we lack perfect vision into the future and have to rely on 20/20 hindsight. For example, we rethink a campaign structure after performance doesn’t … [Read more...] about View Ad Creative Through The Eyes Of Your Searchers
How Dynamic Keyword Insertion Helped Increase Impression Share By 36%
Ad creative is the talk of the PPC town. Especially with the release of Expanded Text Ads in AdWords and Bing, it just goes to show you that ads are one of, if not “the”, most important areas to make an impact on your PPC performance. One oldie but goodie type of ad creative that has stood the test of time for improving ad to keyword relevancy is Dynamic Keyword Insertion … [Read more...] about How Dynamic Keyword Insertion Helped Increase Impression Share By 36%
6 Strategies For Targeting Followers With Twitter Ads
Every day, millions of people log into Twitter to discover what’s happening around the world. Whether they’re sifting through headlines, engaging with their community or sharing pertinent news, Twitter is a tailored newsfeed for finding the latest news and content you want to read. Did you know that on average: 9,100 tweets are sent every second (cool visualization) … [Read more...] about 6 Strategies For Targeting Followers With Twitter Ads
Sidebar Ads – My Conspiracy Theory
The best, and sometimes worst, thing about paid search is that while everything changes…it all stays the same. I’m specifically talking about the ever-dynamic world that is Google AdWords. There are always small tweaks and adjustments, and usually, the wide-sweeping changes are few and far between. The latest and greatest of these changes has been the removal of sidebar … [Read more...] about Sidebar Ads – My Conspiracy Theory
The AdWords Script To Create Ads In Bulk
This month I’d like to share a script I originally built 3 years ago to help with ad text optimization in AdWords. It’s intended to make sure all ad groups have enough experiments running, and can also be used to create new ads across many ad groups in bulk. It could also be used to clean up the worst performing ad in each ad group. AdWords Script For Bulk Ad Creation The … [Read more...] about The AdWords Script To Create Ads In Bulk
Amazon Text Ads Are Here – What Does It Mean For You?
In a surprising move last week, Amazon announced that Product Ads would be discontinued effective this October 31st. The actual announcement is only viewable to those who have Seller Accounts, however, here is a screenshot of the messaging. The move is surprising since many merchants are seeing good results from Product Ads. Merchants can show their ads on Amazon and … [Read more...] about Amazon Text Ads Are Here – What Does It Mean For You?
[New Webinar with AdStage!] The Most Valuable Google AdWords Features for the PPC Account Manager
Google AdWords offers a huge amount of features to strengthen your campaign efforts and give you as much data as possible to make the best decisions for your account. However, there’s a lot of data and a lot of different features to try – how do you know which ones are the most valuable? From Search Partners and keyword reports to Auction Insights and Dynamic Search Ads, this … [Read more...] about [New Webinar with AdStage!] The Most Valuable Google AdWords Features for the PPC Account Manager
PPC Facepalm: 7 Reasons Your Ads Aren’t Working
Although Paid Search advertising is something that can be learned over time, there are always areas of performance that need further guidance. One example of this is your ad copy. Now, we’ve given you example after example of why to test, what to test, and all the elements of ad copy that you need to utilize in your PPC account. But there are still things, very basic things, … [Read more...] about PPC Facepalm: 7 Reasons Your Ads Aren’t Working
Google Introduces AdWords Dynamic Structured Snippets
Google recently launched dynamic structured snippets for AdWords. The automated extensions display industry-specific, structured information about products and services on those advertisers’ sites. Currently they can show for retail, hotel and flight searches. Additional verticals are scheduled to follow later in 2015. Here’s an example of what a sample snippet look … [Read more...] about Google Introduces AdWords Dynamic Structured Snippets
Boomerang Conversions: Nurture Leads & Gain Repeat Customers With PPC
Paid search is (mostly) concerned with gaining conversions. This is great and all, and definitely should be your main focus, but often times we forget about what happens after the conversion. Why is this important, you ask? For lead generation, most conversions will not immediately turn into sales. These leads have to be nurtured in order to become legitimate sales … [Read more...] about Boomerang Conversions: Nurture Leads & Gain Repeat Customers With PPC
10 Reasons You Will Save Time and Money with DoubleClick Search
DoubleClick Search (DS3) is a powerful bid management tool that offers a cross channel view of your paid search campaigns. The platform will save you time and money, as it promotes integrated channel management. Most importantly, once you start using the tool you too will love the speed in which you can manage multiple paid search publisher accounts all in one place. Here … [Read more...] about 10 Reasons You Will Save Time and Money with DoubleClick Search