There's a huge body of AdWords knowledge circulating on the web if you know where to look. You can find training, guides, tips, advice and more. Today I'm going to give you a few little AdWords hacks that you, most likely, haven't heard of. 1. Add the CPI (Conversions per Impression) Metric to Your Ad View Columns Pro agencies (including mine) use CPI as a primary metric for ads split testing. A full explanation of the theory and implementation is [...]
A while back, Google removed our ability to target email domains with Gmail ads. This, effectively, put the kibosh on targeting your competitors' user base. Now Google is giving us a little something back. Google has rolled out new Gmail campaigns with website visitor remarketing options. In our experience so far, Gmail remarketing works superbly, far outperforming similarly targeted GDN remarketing. If you're not already running Gmail remarketing now is the time to get started. In today's article, I'm going [...]
A big part of assessing what agency or consultant to use includes their pricing model. In this post, I'll discuss the most common PPC pricing models and the pros and cons for each. While there are a lot of exotic hybrid or combination pricing models I'll stick to the basics. The four main PPC pricing options are a percentage of ad spend, fixed price, performance-based, and hourly. I'll run down how each one works in some detail. Percentage of Ad [...]
If you've adopted an old Google AdWords account you may be wondering where to start. Mature AdWords accounts come with a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Even before you start your audit, there are some things we can do to make life easier. Cleaning House Mature AdWords accounts typically contain a lot of old out of date campaigns. The first step in your cleanup should be to mark all the campaigns you won't need moving forward. Select each inactive campaign [...]
We all want to know what our competitors are up to on AdWords, right? There are 3rd party tools and Google's own auction insights report to assist you with AdWords competitive analysis. Today I'm going to show you several ways you can use these tools to gain a competitive advantage. In these examples, I'll use SEMRush, but you can accomplish the same thing with SpyFu, iSpionage and others. Competitor Identification If you're relatively new to the niche you may not [...]