PPC / January 16, 2020 / Comments
When done right, PPC advertising can prove to be very profitable. When done poorly, PPC becomes a money pit with no benefits to the business. If you turn to Google support for advice, then what they’re going to tell you is something that will definitely be good for them but may not necessarily be good for you. This is because it is in Google’s interest for you to keep spending and increasing that spend.
Read MorePPC / September 09, 2019 / Comments
PPC can be challenging, but there are a number of tools available on the internet to make things easier. If you’re on a budget and are looking for free PPC tools, then I’ve compiled a list of the top 46 below. Some of these tools have paid options, but I’ve only included details of the free versions. We don’t use all of the tools listed, as we have our own in-house built tools. But for everyone else, the below may be useful.
Read MorePPC / September 02, 2019 / Comments
One of the first things that people learn when starting out in PPC are some basic formulas like how to calculate clickthrough rates and cost per clicks. A PPC account can’t be managed successfully without knowing a few basic formulas. This is because to do data analysis, it is necessary to manipulate the data in ways that reveal where the opportunities and pitfalls are.
Read MorePPC / August 19, 2019 / Comments
With so many paid advertising platforms being available to marketers, there is a wealth of opportunity out there. But if you’re advertising on multiple advertising platforms and operate in a niche that has a long sales funnel, then you may end up with more than one platform taking credit for the same conversion. Another problem is that if you add up conversions from more than one advertising platform with what you’re seeing in Google Analytics, the numbers almost never match up.
Read MorePPC / August 12, 2019 / Comments
Let's want to talk about the specific instances when you could consider bidding on brand and how to go about deciding whether to do so. Whether you choose to bid on brand or not, it’s important to make sure that you’re funnelling traffic into the correct campaigns.
Read MoreGoogle Ads / August 05, 2019 / Comments
In many eCommerce Google Ads accounts, Google Shopping is the most profitable part of the account. Many marketers will put in a lot of time and effort optimising what they can see within Google Ads but will often neglect an important aspect of a Shopping campaign — the feed! While there are many factors that you can look at when optimising a feed. Here are eight areas that you can start looking into.
Read MoreSearch / July 29, 2019 / Comments
When you’re creating a new campaign, the Google Ads interface will ask if you want to switch on Search Partners, but have you ever wondered what this option does? Search Partners allows advertisers to extend the reach of their ads to show (in a search results like fashion) on sites other than in Google’s search engine.
Read MoreQuora / April 16, 2019 / Comments
While Google Ads is still the go-to platform for paid online marketing, it makes sense to keep an eye on other platforms and diversify your portfolio. As marketers, we should be aware of the benefits of each advertising platform so that we’re better equipped to make full and informed paid marketing strategies that are right for our businesses or clients...
Read MorePPC / April 02, 2019 / Comments
Are you suffering from poor conversion rates and can’t seem to figure out why? Well there’s a number of factors that could be causing this but have you thought about click fraud? Click Guardian predicts that $27 billion was lost to click fraud in 2018. Click fraud is any click on your PPC ads where the person or bot clicking has no interest in what you’re offering and has no intention of making a purchase...
Read MorePPC / February 26, 2019 / Comments
Last year Google released some new impression share metrics to help advertisers monitor and identify where their ads appear on search engine results pages (SERPs). Two of these metrics are “Search top impression share” and “Search absolute top impression share”. They help to address some of the limitations of only looking at average position to determine an advertisers’ ad position...
Read MoreAmazon / February 25, 2019 / Comments
With over 300 million users and more than 50% of shoppers using Amazon in their product search, I’ve been impressed with the growth of Amazon’s advertising platform this year...
Read MorePPC / December 04, 2018 / Comments
Having worked many years in PPC, there tends to be one question that I’ve seen account managers ask again and again:
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