Ad testing is an essential part of managing your PPC account. To properly test ads, you must also be choosing winners and losers based upon metrics that further your overall account goals. Unfortunately, CTR (click through rate), conversion rate, and even CPA are too often used in choosing winners and losers when they are rarely […]
A common tactic for analyzing your Google Ads data is to do a year over year comparison of the data (or a timeframe vs a timeframe). This is especially true when you do a reorganization, and something seems off in your data. In those cases, you often jump to your search terms data and do […]
Google Ads launched ad suggestions last year. By default, you are enabled into this program. What this program does is: Create ads for you Gives you 14 days to approve or reject the ad If there is no rejection, then the ad is automatically added live in your account You can easily turn off this […]
As we look across accounts; one of the biggest issues we see time and time again is how ad groups are organized. It’s called an Ad Group for a reason; the ad is what the searcher sees. A keyword’s job is just to match to a query to decide if an ad can show or […]
An important aspect of PPC is having your client (which might be your boss or an internal division) understand what is happening in the account from a data perspective and then adding context to the numbers so that someone can easily grasp what is happening. To accomplish this we need: An easy way to visualize […]
Thank You for Our Search Award We’re happy to announce that for the 2nd consecutive year; we’ve been awarded the Best PPC Management Suite Award by the US Search awards. While we get to collect the award; this is an award that should also be presented to our customers as they push us to keep […]
Competing in Google Shopping is tough, but its fundamental to retailers success as it now accounts for more spend than search ads in the USA. To be successful there are 7 key things that you need to do, which are broken down in this infographic. The first is to segment search queries by brand v […]
Attribution management is one of those tossed-around buzz words that most people don’t know what to do with. Attribution isn’t that difficult. The hard part is knowing what question to ask: What model should I use for bidding? How do I determine if a channel should use ads with strong calls to action or brand […]
Google just made a huge announcement: Exact match keywords can now show for semantic matching queries and not just syntactic matching queries. What this means in reality is that your exact match keywords may show: When the query is in the reverse order of the keyword [New York City Flights] can now match to the […]
Ads are the only part of your account a searcher sees. They set the expectation for what the user will find on the landing page. When we think about the basics of testing; we can test in 3 ways: Ads versus other ads: This tests the message the user sees Landing page versus landing page: […]