Since the Apple store launched in 2008, it's grown to house 2.2 million apps in 2016 and receives more than 500 million unique customers per week. So how can you make sure you standout from the crowd? Below are 4 optimizations that have helped several accounts increase their installs and efficiently increase volume. 1. Play around with your cost per tap bids One of the … [Read more...] about Step Up Your Apple Search Ads Performance
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New AdWords Updates to Finish the Year Strong
It’s that time again – time to go over all the new and improved features you need to be using in Google AdWords! Since the platform is constantly changing and updating, we want to be your go-to resource when you need the ultimate scoop. So, what new features do you need to be focusing on for your best AdWords results? Join Optmyzr’s Fred Vallaeys and Hanapin’s Matt Umbro as … [Read more...] about New AdWords Updates to Finish the Year Strong
The Five Ad Creation Methods You Should Be Testing
Google recently rolled out new best practice recommendations for optimizing search Ads within Ad Groups. The new recommendations move away from traditional A/B Ad testing and instead focus on Google’s algorithm to determine which ad copy performs the best. Google now recommends a minimum of 5 Ads per Ad Group to give the algorithm enough data to properly determine a … [Read more...] about The Five Ad Creation Methods You Should Be Testing
The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Quality Score 2024
A comprehensive explainer guide to Google's Quality Score Everyone is familiar with the Quality Score available for individual keywords in your Google Ads account – this is the visible keyword-level Quality Score. What a lot of people fail to recognize, is that there is more at play here than meets the eye. Most of the time, you can’t solve a Quality Score issue with just … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Quality Score 2024
Demystifying Average Position in AdWords
I plan to dig into what seems like one of the more simple metrics – average position. It seems pretty straight forward, right? Avg. position is the where your ad lands on the page most of the time, right? Not so much. The avg. position is the mean average of where your ad is placed. This type of average can be very misleading if not broken down correctly so below we will check … [Read more...] about Demystifying Average Position in AdWords
A PPC Account Manager’s Checklist
Whether you’re the most novice paid advertiser or a seasoned vet, the question “what do I do now” has likely come up numerous times. Maybe you feel that you’ve done all you can do and are stuck. Maybe you’ve been so busy driving strategy that daily/weekly account maintenance has fallen by the wayside. Maybe you’re working through the learning curves of managing your first PPC … [Read more...] about A PPC Account Manager’s Checklist
A Case For Automated Bidding
It is universally agreed upon that more power is better. More power means more control. It means more knowledge, more capability. Power means superiority. So, having more power over an AdWords account must mean that the account is in better hands, is in superior hands, is in more knowledgeable hands. A claim can be made that having complete power over an account’s bidding … [Read more...] about A Case For Automated Bidding
Getting To The Point – How To Create Actionable PPC Reports
While PPC nerds certainly love their data, sometimes we can (admittedly) go overboard. We throw every metric, dimension, and number we can think of into a report, maybe add in some notes, sometimes changing the formatting, and call it done. Some clients like this strategy as they want to be able to see every single piece of the data. Others, not so much. In today’s post, … [Read more...] about Getting To The Point – How To Create Actionable PPC Reports
How To Utilize PPC Brand Building Strategies
When working with clients, you are going to be asked how to increase brand impression share. Clients love seeing conversions and revenue but making sure that your brand name is on top of the search results is another important metric that could lead to sticky conversations. Increasing brand impression share is not an easy task because sometimes your impression share is in the … [Read more...] about How To Utilize PPC Brand Building Strategies
Finding Seasonality In Your PPC Accounts
Seasonality as a topic is often used as a substitute for holiday talk. As in we expect more sales due to seasonality in the winter holiday months. While helpful this concept can lead you to overlook the variances in performance across the year. This will throw off any forecasting or analysis project you work on. But how do we find these trends? The answer is through basic … [Read more...] about Finding Seasonality In Your PPC Accounts
Using Excel Regressions To Better Understand KPIs
A group of us here at Hanapin recently participated in a free 21-Day Excel Course directed by renowned Microsoft Excel expert Dr. Wayne Winston. The course itself felt slow at first, but ultimately revealed several Excel capabilities I’d never known. Most exciting of these, to me, is the capacity to regress multiple variables without an advanced statistical software (such as … [Read more...] about Using Excel Regressions To Better Understand KPIs
Use These Competitor Tools To Improve Results Through Competitor Insights
Competitor insights are a key part of how we can improve performance and spike conversion rates. This happens through using a multitude of tools and data insights to form a summary about a specific set of competitors that are directly influencing change in SERPs or ad performance. In today’s post, we will visit just a few of the top tools we can use to show value to our … [Read more...] about Use These Competitor Tools To Improve Results Through Competitor Insights
