PubCon Austin 2015 was held during the beautiful Spring in Texas. One of the most informative sessions was the Increasing Your Leads and Sales With Content Remarketing by Damon Gochneaur of Aspiro Agency and Sean Dolan of PushFire. These guys provided well documented insights into remarketing advertising. Damon kicked off our session with describing what feels like a […]
ASAP Utilities: One Tool to Rule Them All
4 ASAP Utility functions that will make you love Excel even more… As a senior production manager at PPC Associates, I spend a great deal of my day working in Microsoft Excel, whether that be manipulating data for reporting or prepping an upload sheet to load into AdWords Editor (Google AdWords’ offline editing program). When […]
Adwords, Simplified; Quality Scores, Not So Much …
Adwords are surprisingly complicated – a side effect of having LOTS of user options and the TON of data google collects and crunches to optimize user experience (ie, the likelihood of internet searchers to quickly find relevant ads). Infographic by pulpmedia: Awesomely Accessible Lesson in the Basics of Adwords 1) What you pay (CostPerClick) depends on: […]
Essential Excel Tools for Writing PPC Ads
Guest Blogger: Laura Rodnitzky is the Director of Production for PPC Associates, a search engine marketing agency with offices in San Mateo and Chicago. Writing PPC ads can be fun – using your brain to shoehorn great messaging into a limited number of characters is like doing puzzles. The parts of the copy-creation process that […]
3 Google Adwords Editor Tips to Manage Your PPC Campaigns
Guest Blogger: Laura Rodnitzky is the Director of Production for PPC Associates, a search engine marketing agency with offices in San Mateo and Chicago. AdWords Editor is a go-to tool for anyone managing large accounts or campaigns in Google AdWords. But even if you’re only dealing with small campaigns, it’s worth checking out this free […]
HOWTO: Use the Dimensions Tab to Improve Your PPC Campaigns
Guest Blogger: Laura Rodnitzky is the Director of Production for PPC Associates, a search engine marketing agency with offices in San Mateo and Chicago. If you’re running paid search campaigns in Google AdWords, and you don’t already use the Dimensions tab, you’re missing out on a ton of useful data. Rolled out in mid-2010, the […]
Google Updates AdWords Keyword Research Tool and Introduces New Features
By far the best free keyword research tool around is Google AdWords Keyword Research Tool. If you haven’t noticed already the interface may look a little different. Google has been busy rolling out changes for not only Google Analytics, but now the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Here’s a brief overview of some of the changes […]
SEM News – FBML adds Google Analytics to Facebook, Google Automates CPC – Measure
A couple of good articles we worked through this week in measure and online advertising. FBML can add Google Analytics tracking to your facebook pages. You finally have the outer edge offices understanding the need to allocate resources to social media. Now, you want to measure some of your traffic to your faceBook Fan page? […]
Adwords Tactics for Competitive Revenue and Traffic
When revenue dollars dip or seem to slow, it is natural to review tactics with a closer eye. One way to stay competitive is target specific and trending keywords. Everyone is looking for a good value and the best way to stretch their dollars, but this is especially true in the last twelve months. Here […]
Google AdSense Ad (Self)Serving – Now You Are in Control
If you aren’t too familiar with Google AdSense let me first explain what that is then we’ll get into how you are now in control – somewhat. Google AdSense Explained Google AdSense is a partnership between Google and website/blog owners that allows site owner/admin’s to place Google’s pay-per-click(PPC) ads alongside their site’s content. Site owners […]