The digital marketing landscape has undergone a seismic shift over the past decade. Once dominated by a singular focus on keyword targeting, the world of PPC advertising now thrives on a more nuanced understanding of audience behaviour and intent. This evolution mirrors the growing complexity of consumer journeys, where decision-making spans multiple … [Read more...] about Beyond Keywords: How to Build Winning Campaigns with Audience Targeting and First-Party Data
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6 Ways Small Businesses Can Leverage AI to Level the Playing Field with their PPC Campaigns
In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is one of the most effective ways to increase visibility and drive traffic to a website. However, managing PPC campaigns can be a complex and resource-intensive endeavor, especially for small businesses with limited budgets and staffing. Enter artificial intelligence (AI) – a transformative technology … [Read more...] about 6 Ways Small Businesses Can Leverage AI to Level the Playing Field with their PPC Campaigns
Power up your Demand Gen campaigns with new AI features
Demand Gen campaigns were brought out last year by Google. Their purpose was to allow advertisers to “to help put your potential customers into a purchase mindset,” while they’re engaging with more visual and immersive digital platforms, including YouTube, Discover and Gmail. Unlike the majority of Google’s ad inventory which are based on locating, identifying and … [Read more...] about Power up your Demand Gen campaigns with new AI features
How To Implement Geotargeting in Your PPC Campaigns
Geotargeting has been around for well over a decade, but its recent developments have made it a game-changer in helping marketers reach the right audience and boost online traffic. Companies all over the world use geotargeting for their pay-per-click (PPC) marketing campaigns to strengthen their strategy and drive new leads. Large corporations like Target and Walmart … [Read more...] about How To Implement Geotargeting in Your PPC Campaigns
Why You Should Test Target ROAS Bidding for Shopping Campaigns
For many Ecommerce businesses, AdWords shopping campaigns can make up a large share of PPC traffic, and often a significant proportion of overall revenue. The importance of these campaigns can sometimes provoke paralysis on the part of digital marketing managers; it’s easy to adopt the attitude of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” when the prospect of even a small dip in … [Read more...] about Why You Should Test Target ROAS Bidding for Shopping Campaigns
AdWords Announces Upcoming Changes To Enhanced CPC Bidding
Beginning in early June, AdWords will be rolling out changes to Enhanced CPC bidding (ECPC). You’ve probably been seeing the below notification when logged into the AdWords interface. Keep reading to find out what changes are being implemented and how they could affect account performance. What’s Changing? Currently, ECPC is an automated bidding strategy that increases … [Read more...] about AdWords Announces Upcoming Changes To Enhanced CPC Bidding
Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
Last month, I came to you with 3 ways to use ROAS for lead gen optimization. Today, I want to talk about another way Hanapin Marketing has begun embracing “back-end,” atypical KPIs in our PPC strategies and tactics. This example comes from a dynamic, sometimes complicated vertical that blends both lead gen and e-commerce attributes: Healthcare. The Complexity Of Healthcare … [Read more...] about Enhanced Day-Of-Week Budgeting With Non-PPC KPIs
When Should You Create New Campaigns?
There are many reasons why it makes sense to create new campaigns and other times when it is not a good idea. If your account is budget constrained, you may want to consider additional ad groups instead of campaigns. The one exception is you always want different campaigns for different networks. Search, Display and Remarketing have different performance statistics and spending … [Read more...] about When Should You Create New Campaigns?
AdWords Call-Only Campaigns – Who Should Use Them?
On February 20th, 2015, Google announced Call-only campaigns, though the option to only receive phone calls on mobile has been around since soon after the introduction of call extensions in January of 2010. The phone call only option for call extensions changed the manner in which ads from those campaigns appeared on mobile phones. Instead of clicking an ad to go to the … [Read more...] about AdWords Call-Only Campaigns – Who Should Use Them?
Getting Your Shopping Campaigns Holiday Ready
Product Listing Ads are now found within Google Shopping campaigns. Unlike text ads, these ads show photos of products, along with prices and product names right on the search results page when people search for items on Google. Product Listings are a crucial piece of online sales for Ecommerce accounts during this time, so make sure your accounts are ready. Google has … [Read more...] about Getting Your Shopping Campaigns Holiday Ready
13 Reasons You Should Geo-Target PPC Campaigns
Multiple accounts that I manage daily use city or state specific geo-targeting at the campaign level. While we have the option to use geo-bid modifiers across the campaign, this type of segmentation takes optimization to the next stage. Inside every paid search account manager, there is a control freak. Targeting campaigns at the city level gives us that much control over our … [Read more...] about 13 Reasons You Should Geo-Target PPC Campaigns
Dominate Your Enhanced Campaign Bid Adjustments with New Google Analytics Report
As we wrap up the first week of the official Enhanced Campaign migration and start to gather all the data we can to optimize our accounts in the brave new world of enhanced campaigns, Google Analytics comes in to save the day with the announcement of enhanced campaign Bid Adjustment Reporting. Google Analytics now allows you to view how your bid multipliers are preforming by … [Read more...] about Dominate Your Enhanced Campaign Bid Adjustments with New Google Analytics Report
