As an Account Director I am responsible for hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in ad spend through Google every month. Furthermore, that number is growing by approximately 15% a month. Why is it then when client’s have questions that should have good answers, or when I want to do simple things in AdWords that makes perfect sense to do, Google seems to … [Read more...] about 8 Ways Google Makes A PPC Manager Less Efficient
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Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
We held another successful Heroview yesterday with remarketing expert, John Ellis. John is the CEO at Crescent Interactive, an online marketing firm based in Nashville, TN. We had a great conversation about best practice; see the recap below! PPC Hero: Today, John Ellis will talk with us about utilizing remarketing without being too intrusive, annoying, or creepy! We are … [Read more...] about Heroview- How to Avoid Intrusive Remarketing
The Benefits & Drawbacks of Modified Broad Match
When it comes to traffic control for your paid search ads, AdWords offers a variety of tools to help us increase, maintain or even restrict the flow of traffic to your website. Perhaps the most obvious way to manipulate this flow would be to utilize the three basic keyword match types (broad, phrase, exact). For example, an advertiser with a limited budget might consider … [Read more...] about The Benefits & Drawbacks of Modified Broad Match
PPC Hero’s Greatest Hits of First Quarter 2012!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from January, February, and March. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy! Our very own Jeff Allen doled out the advice with his 145 PPC Must-Do's for 2012 article. He points out high … [Read more...] about PPC Hero’s Greatest Hits of First Quarter 2012!
Using Pivot Tables To Perform Ad Reviews
Pivot tables are the most excellent way to make huge sets of data digestible. Account Manager Sean Quadlin teaches you how to use pivot tables to perform ad reviews, making ad testing a breeze. … [Read more...] about Using Pivot Tables To Perform Ad Reviews
165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
In early January we wrote 145 tips for 2012. It’s been a whirlwind year in the land of PPC so this is an update to that post with an additional 20 tips. These new PPC tips come from conferences, tests, failures and new Google services and features that have been rolled out of the past 5-6 months. The new tips are at the tope and numbered 146-165 and below them you will find … [Read more...] about 165 PPC Tips, Tricks and Tools (updated)
Achieving Efficiency With AdWords Editor
You have kept up with AdWords Best Practices, and your account now has about 30+ ad groups per campaign. Even though you have tried to be creative in your advert creation, the data insists that CTR is higher with bland ad text. Fine. With all these creative versions of ad text running around, you may not have the same ad in each ad group and don’t want to spend your time in … [Read more...] about Achieving Efficiency With AdWords Editor
PPC (Over)optimization: How Not to Destroy a PPC Account
As PPC managers our job is to continually be optimizing. But what happens when we over-optimize? Over-optimization is the result of many changes within a small window of time. They are typically all individual great ideas but as a whole they can actually hurt performance. Worse than just an uptick in CPL or CPA, when over-optimizing an account it becomes increasingly harder to … [Read more...] about PPC (Over)optimization: How Not to Destroy a PPC Account
Big and Angry Landing Page Reports: Go Beyond Conversions
Conversion rate optimization is an important part of PPC management. No doi. It’s a huge factor in the ways that we chose to organize our accounts and allocate our spend. But it’s possible to see more than just conversion rate when looking at the performance of your landing page. Whether you’re trying to promote brand awareness or create a lasting repeat customer list, your … [Read more...] about Big and Angry Landing Page Reports: Go Beyond Conversions
3 No-duh PPC Tips That You Forget to Use
PPC is riddled with tips and best practices. Sometimes this means that some of the more simple tips get lost and forgotton. Here are 3 forecasting, reporting and optimization PPC tips that are no-brainers but we often forget to use. PPC Change Forecasting Using Expected Value Amanda wrote a brain tingling post on bookending PPC changes back in April. This gave a … [Read more...] about 3 No-duh PPC Tips That You Forget to Use
Brad Geddes Presents: How to Identify Google AdWords Quality Score Problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df7Lo7CMQiI&feature=youtu.be Is the quality score of your keywords limiting your account? How can you tell? Where do you start fixing them? In a PPC Hero first-look exclusive, Brad Geddes, voted the most influential person in PPC, teaches you how to extract data from AdWords and manipulate it in Excel to find areas where increasing your … [Read more...] about Brad Geddes Presents: How to Identify Google AdWords Quality Score Problems
Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
This is the final installment of our April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers series for this month. For the purpose of today’s post, we will discuss a few ways to nurture a new or inherited PPC account. Now that we’ve covered the structuring of new and existing accounts, it’s time to start thinking about nurturing the account itself. We typically refer to this concept as … [Read more...] about Nurturing Your PPC Account: What To Do Next?
