Chaitanya Chandrasekar Performance marketing — especially PPC — is a powerful way for marketers to demonstrate their worth. With PPC campaigns, we’ve carved out our place at the table. Now we’re producers of actual revenue, beyond more qualitative channels like PR and content. This is good news for digital advertisers. But does Google have other...Read More
Matt Southern Google AdWords has rolled out the ability to remarket search ads to those who have watched a business’s YouTube videos. YouTube already allows advertisers to remarket YouTube ads to people who have previously interacted with their channel. Now, that same list of people can be used with remarketing lists for search ads. This...Read More
Most successful online businesses typically aim to make maximum profits. To reach this goal, these businesses greatly rely on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and PPC (Pay Per Click) to drive traffic. The more people that visit your site, the better your chances of making sales. Both SEO and PPC advertising offer profitable result. However, there are...Read More
Even though the New AdWords Experience (AKA the new user interface) doesn’t quite have feature parity with the current AdWords yet, it actually offers some exclusive features. They can be hard to identify without some hunting, so we’ve gathered them here in one place. The new interface has been steadily rolling out to more advertisers over the past...Read More
Corey Morris Is your AdWords account as effective as it could be? Unless you’ve audited your AdWords account, you can’t know for sure. What is an AdWords Account Audit? Simply, an AdWords account audit is the process of evaluating the effectiveness of your AdWords accounts. An audit can reveal painful hidden issues that need to...Read More
It has been almost three years, but Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has finally released Version 12 of the Adwords Editor. Number 12 will, according to the company, simplify the management of your campaigns with new rules and tools. Just in case you don’t know what AdWords Editor is, it manages large Adwords accounts. The free app lets...Read More
Shutterstock One of the top questions I hear from clients and prospects is, “How much should our budget be for pay-per-click advertising?” The answer to identifying the appropriate PPC advertising budget depends on projections, assumptions and math. In this article, I’ll dive into a few of the formulas we use to help companies determine how much...Read More
If you’ve ever been frustrated at the amount of time you spend creating PPC reports, you’re not alone. Today, I’ll do my best to help you with a new AdWords script I just finished. The severity of the reporting problem became very clear to me at a conference I recently attended. Attendees were asked to leave sticky notes describing the...Read More
In 2016, mobile drove the nearly $6 billion year-over-year increase in search spend and and surpassed desktop for the first time, according to the IAB. Now that mobile is a given and we no longer have to wonder if this is its year, let’s look at the big trends, launches and news we’ve seen so far...Read More
Google really wants advertisers to adopt their best practices. The latest version of AdWords Editor, version 12, has a whole new section to show you where you’re not complying, along with some other new features. Custom Rules The new “Custom Rules” section can be found in the left navigation pane in AdWords Editor (AWE). It...Read More
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