For this month's series, PPC Hero is concerned with all things dynamic. We'll be discussing topics ranging from Dynamic Search Ads to Dynamic Remarketing, as well as asking the age-old question of "Does Dynamic Keyword Insertion actually work?" If it can be automated, scripted, or dynamically generated, we've got it - so stay tuned! Dynamic Keyword Insertion (henceforth known … [Read more...] about The Ultimate How-To Guide for Bing Parameters
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Get Up to Speed With Bing’s Latest Updates
Bing has continually rolled out new features over the past few months in order to improve their service. They added enhanced change history graph, new extensions, and some great graphs to help analyze your account performance. During the enhanced campaign transition, Bing added support to help accommodate the forced switch to enhanced campaigns. There were still enough … [Read more...] about Get Up to Speed With Bing’s Latest Updates
How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
Whenever we make changes in an account here at Hanapin we like to do what we call “Bookending”. Essentially this is creating a rough estimate of the projected impact of our changes on spend, conversions, CPA et al. It’s a fairly simple way of mitigating the potential problems at the end of the month that are common with managing PPC accounts: “How did we get so far over … [Read more...] about How To Bid Smarter With Your Ideal Keyword Positions
Are There Any Real PPC Experts?
As part of our training program we like to lay out time frames for people new to PPC in terms of how long it will take to feel comfortable and become an expert. I usually say 1 year to be proficient, 2 years to become an expert and 3 years to be able to actually apply that knowledge at an expert level. In the most recent training I made a joke, but then quickly realized it was … [Read more...] about Are There Any Real PPC Experts?
Do Mobile Preferred Ads Actually Prefer Mobile?
Enhanced Campaigns have been pretty controversial, as I'm sure you're aware. While some of us here at PPC Hero have experienced some success due to the massive influx of mobile traffic, others are still wrestling with the total loss of device segmentation and traffic control that we previously enjoyed. Chief among our concerns are business models that focus solely on mobile … [Read more...] about Do Mobile Preferred Ads Actually Prefer Mobile?
Stay Ahead of the Game with Google’s Newest Dashboard
Earlier this week Google unveiled a new resource, the Dashboard for Research Insights. This dashboard offers a few really cool features, most notably putting Google’s research in one easy to use destination. This won’t directly help you manage your account but can be very helpful overall. While managing an account is its own game there is also the need to keep abreast of … [Read more...] about Stay Ahead of the Game with Google’s Newest Dashboard
Has Modified Broad Match Effectively Killed Phrase Match?
I've been creating a lot of campaigns lately between getting new clients, standard keywords research for existing clients, and existing clients getting new products or running sales on seasonal products. With a tight deadline on these campaign builds, I've found myself wondering why I should even bother with phrase match keywords. See, I build my campaigns by match type. I … [Read more...] about Has Modified Broad Match Effectively Killed Phrase Match?
Don’t Forget About Bing – Three Great New Features
There has been a lot of talk about AdWords lately. Google has been releasing new extensions such as review and site link descriptions. Of course the other big topic is the imminent rollover into enhanced campaigns. You can find out more about that all over the blogosphere and get ready with our PPC Hero enhanced campaign tool kit. Back to the topic though, Bing has introduced … [Read more...] about Don’t Forget About Bing – Three Great New Features
Google’s Keyword Planner: What’s changed and is it any good?
Today's post comes from PPC Hero Ally Hayley Coutinho. Hayley is a Paid Search Consultant at Receptional, one of the UK’s longest running digital marketing agencies. On a day to day basis, Hayley is the manager of various client accounts, both small and large scale, across several industries. -- Google recently rolled out the Keyword Planner tool and despite it going … [Read more...] about Google’s Keyword Planner: What’s changed and is it any good?
Happy 4th of July from PPC Hero!
Just to help you celebrate the long holiday weekend, here is some of our latest and greatest content, including guides, The Compass, and our new site: The Five Laws of Great Social PPC Ads [Free Guide!] Google AdWords Optimizations Post-Enhanced Campaigns [Quarter 2 Compass] PPC Hero Pro: Premium apps and content to help you master your accounts … [Read more...] about Happy 4th of July from PPC Hero!
New Keyword-Level Impression Share Data: Hot Tips For Boosting Performance
Google has just announced the release of Search Impression Share data at the keyword level! Our search for tools that allow for the most detailed analysis has reached another mile marker. This will allow us to change our approach to impression share metrics (and the leveraging thereof) Quick glance at what this means, exactly: We are looking at our individual keyword … [Read more...] about New Keyword-Level Impression Share Data: Hot Tips For Boosting Performance
Boost Your AdWords CTR with Sitelink Descriptions
Sitelinks have been a staple of best practices since they were introduced. Sitelinks help searchers find topical information beyond the specified landing page of your ad. Last February, enhanced campaigns brought a little spice to sitelinks by including descriptions. Additional lines of text were added from your other ad copy to flesh out the sitelinks. These provided extra … [Read more...] about Boost Your AdWords CTR with Sitelink Descriptions