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 on. We work with several clients in this niche and have been running home-buying campaigns for over 8-years. Before going [...]

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 to verify, and the key benefits and drawbacks of being verified. I'll also discuss how you can use the program [...]

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 benefit of audience signals is a flexible audience size that will suit any budget while also self-optimizing to ideal prospects [...]

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 Toronto before opening my agency. Before jumping in I want to be clear about the scope and constraints of this [...]

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 and which advice to ignore? In this article, I'm going to give you insight into my agency's internal best practices [...]