Keyword research is a vital part of every PPC manager's task list. Hitting up your organic keyword data, hitting up the search query report, whatever you do: it's all in the name of expansion, expansion, expansion. You want your account to be huge and always have that conversion and ROAS line creeping up and to the right. But what does that leave us with? Probably an account … [Read more...] about How Keyword Research Is Tanking Your ROAS
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Heroview: How To Handle Keyword Research Late In The Sales Cycle With Eric Couch
Welcome to Heroview everyone, real-time interviews featuring PPC experts from around the industry! This month we had Eric Couch (@ecouch11) on who talked about how to handle keyword research late in the sales cycle. _______________________ PPC Hero: Thanks for joining us today Eric. We appreciate you being with us today! Eric: Thanks for having me! I'm thrilled to be … [Read more...] about Heroview: How To Handle Keyword Research Late In The Sales Cycle With Eric Couch
Stocking Stuffer Keyword Ideas
The holidays are rapidly approaching, starting with the one-two punch of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a mere two weeks. I hope you’re ready, because every single ecommerce site in the world certainly is. So what can you do with your keywords to help your account keep up with the holiday rush? Have you ever tried to bid on the term “gifts” alone? It’s dumb. Don’t do … [Read more...] about Stocking Stuffer Keyword Ideas
Demystifying Quality Score with Brad Geddes
Our next Hero Conf 2012 speaker transcript is from Brad Geddes, where he sheds some light on quality score. Don’t forget we will be posting our transcripts from last year periodically through out the coming months. Feel free to reminisce or check out what you missed! If you’re more of a straight to the point kind of person and want access to our full 339 page transcript … [Read more...] about Demystifying Quality Score with Brad Geddes
Are You Smothering Your All Time Top Converting Keywords?
Account expansion can be a messy business. No matter your methods, whether it’s adding keywords via Google’s Keyword Tool, utilizing templates, or good old-fashioned Keyword Research, you’ll occasionally run in to scenarios where your new additions to the keyword family act like divas and decide to steal the limelight from your more-established terms. This can be especially … [Read more...] about Are You Smothering Your All Time Top Converting Keywords?
Top PPC Tips For Local Businesses
Here’s the deal – you want PPC to power your business, but you offer a product or service that can only cater to the local community. What options does that leave you? There are really two things I want to focus on – the first is making sure your PPC is as awesome as it can be, and this comes from taking advantage of all the tools and tricks available to you as a local … [Read more...] about Top PPC Tips For Local Businesses
Heroview – New and Unusual PPC Auditing Techniques
Stuck in your old PPC auditing routine? Mix things up with our feedback from "British Sam" (Sam Owen of Hanapin Marketing) as he discusses new and unusual PPC auditing techniques in this week's Heroview. __________________________________________ Welcome to today's Heroview everyone, real-time interviews featuring #PPC experts from around the industry! As a reminder, we'll … [Read more...] about Heroview – New and Unusual PPC Auditing Techniques
Top 10 Reasons It’s Good To Be In PPC
PPC is the bee’s knees. It’s trackable, scalable and profitable. PPC can also be incredibly frustrating at times because the work is never done, the credit isn’t always forthcoming and consistent stellar results have led to excellence blindness. After a few long weeks of a lot of lever pulling and client meetings I stepped back and thought about why I do it. Here’s my top … [Read more...] about Top 10 Reasons It’s Good To Be In PPC
Wasting Money In Your PPC Accounts? Pivot Tables Are Here To Help!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVrZ_z_WV8&feature=youtu.be Dave Rosborough shows you how to use pivot tables in Microsoft Excel to make your PPC accounts more profitable! … [Read more...] about Wasting Money In Your PPC Accounts? Pivot Tables Are Here To Help!
Sharing is Caring: Google AdWords Introduces Shared Budgets
Google announced the new Shared Budgets feature for AdWords this past Monday. The intent behind the feature is to allow you to establish a single daily budget shared by multiple campaigns. This, in theory, should allow for a more consistent daily spend level by automatically adjusting spend allocation for full utilization. As Google Engineer Vidya Iyer explains: “Say you’re … [Read more...] about Sharing is Caring: Google AdWords Introduces Shared Budgets
Managing Multiple PPC Clients – A Guide to Keeping Your Sanity
There are quite a few PPC Hero readers who work at an agency themselves or are freelancing on their own and, in both cases, are responsible for more than one client at a time. Keeping things straight and organized in those situations can be tricky, so I thought I’d share some of my own tips for success with this task! Back in January, I posted on PPC time management and before … [Read more...] about Managing Multiple PPC Clients – A Guide to Keeping Your Sanity
Ad Testing Plan for the Professional Ad-(wo)man
I recently co-authored an eBook with Elisa over at Wordstream called “Tricks to Get the Click: 10 Ad Text Best Practices.” While writing it the one thing that stood out the most was the need for a systematic ad testing process. I’m talking beyond just a system for picking winners. I am talking about a system for planning out what to test, when, for how long and how to use what … [Read more...] about Ad Testing Plan for the Professional Ad-(wo)man
