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Google Ads for Home Buyers
In this continuing series for specific industries, I'm covering Google Ads for Home Buyers in this article. For clarity, home buyers are often referred to as "house flippers" and most are in the business of buying homes, fixing them up, and selling them for a profit. However, that's not the only business model for home buyers as I'll describe later [...]
Google Advertiser Verification Program Q&A
If you haven't been asked to verify your Google Ads account yet you probably will be very shortly. The Google Advertiser Verification Program was slow-tracked over the past couple of years. But starting in April we've seen a big uptick in the number of clients Google has sent notices for. In this article I'll explain what the program entails, how [...]
Building Effective Google Ads Audience Signals
Google's Performance-Max campaigns heralded a new way to target audiences. Rather than direct targeting, Google introduced audience "signals" which instead use aggregate targeting to identify your ideal users. The Google Ads audience signals targeting method is akin to Facebook's Lookalikes. But instead of matching to a single list of users, "signals" incorporates virtually all possible audience targeting methods. The main [...]
Google Ads for Medical Devices
This is the first in a series of articles I'll be writing about Google Ads strategies for specific industries. This post will be about Google Ads for medical devices and will apply to both B2B and B2C companies. This particular industry is dear to my heart. I spent most of my career working for several medical device startups here in [...]
5 Ways to Use ChatGPT for PPC
ChatGPT is all the rage right now, and for obvious reasons. It is one of the first general-purpose AIs that's reliable enough to use as an everyday tool. It's also not from one of the big tech companies (yet), which many people see as a bonus. Interestingly, Microsoft just announced they will be adding it to their search engine in [...]
Google Ads Recommendations You Shouldn’t Follow
Anybody that's been managing Google Ads for a while is familiar with the relentless "recommendations" tab and has had run-ins with overzealous Google reps. While the intentions are always good, the results can be disastrous. These "optimization" tools can be particularly harmful to folks that are new to PPC. So how do you decide what Google Ads Recommendations advice to take [...]