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?
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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
Revisiting Display Targeting One Year Later
For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. For this month's series post I knew I wanted to talk about the Display Network, so … [Read more...] about Revisiting Display Targeting One Year Later
25 Ways PPC Has Changed In The Past Year
For this month’s series on PPC Hero, we’re taking a look back through our archives and revisiting some ideas we’ve talked about in the past and how the past year or more has changed our thinking about them. Things are always changing in PPC, and our views and opinions about it are no exception. -- This month we're looking at the exciting world of changes. More specifically … [Read more...] about 25 Ways PPC Has Changed In The Past Year
Comparison-Shopping Engines: A deep dive into comparison-shopping engines & strategies, Part 1
Comparison-Shopping Engines: An Overview It is series time! One topic that we haven’t really talked much about in our blog are comparison-shopping engine sites. I have worked with multiple online retailers that have seen great success with this type of online advertising. So I want to take this series as an opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery of … [Read more...] about Comparison-Shopping Engines: A deep dive into comparison-shopping engines & strategies, Part 1
INFOGRAPHIC: Catching Up With the Mobile PPC Market
Catching Up With Mobile The State of the Mobile PPC Market and Why You Should Be Involved In the infographic above, we at Hanapin Marketing take a look at the mobile PPC landscape, not just in terms of cost-per-click but how those mobile clicks actually perform, right down to the individual platforms that advertisers most frequently use. The big "a-ha moments" come into sharp … [Read more...] about INFOGRAPHIC: Catching Up With the Mobile PPC Market
What PPC Certifications Should Really Be Testing For
PPC Certifications have been a hot topic as of late. One of the most popular posts on PPC hero is about Google’s Fundamentals Exam. I also receive a lot of questions about the best certification programs during webinars and at conferences. (MarketMotive is the non-Google PPC Certification, ipassexam is a great one for preparing for Google Certifications and I liked the most … [Read more...] about What PPC Certifications Should Really Be Testing For
Case Study: Do People Actually Click Sitelinks?
A little while ago I wrote a post about how much I liked the new features that Enhanced Campaigns brought to Sitelinks. Today I'm going to dive into the newly available Sitelink statistics and see if we can learn something about the impact they have on your user behaviour. There are really two things we want to know: Do Sitelinks work and how well? Do people actually … [Read more...] about Case Study: Do People Actually Click Sitelinks?
