Posts Tagged ‘ppc’

Inflation isn’t just affecting the cost of consumer goods. Since April of 2022, cost per clicks (CPCs) have been dramatically rising. According to Statistista, the average cost-per-click worldwide has risen 17 percent, from $0.52 in 2021 to $0.62 in 2022. A variety of marketplace and platform factors are contributing to CPC Inflation. These factors range […]

Marketing Automation: Top 8 Use Cases in Marketing that will Lift your Business to New Heights  The keywords that catch business leaders’ attention in the fast-moving world are Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). According to Forrester, “The RPA market will grow to $22 billion by 2025”.   Research carried out by Gartner finds […]

It’s no surprise that when you think of Marketo you think of Email first. But Marketo is so much more than that. It’s the perfect tool for tracking the true ROI of your entire marketing efforts, so why do so many brands fail to use Marketo to its full potential? Part of the issue is […]

Starting October 4th, Google is allowing themselves to spend up to twice the campaign daily budget on any particular day. Advertisers can’t opt out, either. The intention is “to help you reach your advertising goals, like clicks or conversions.” Google can now better accommodate the unexpected ups-and-downs of traffic on a day-to-day basis to help […]

With the rise in tablet and mobile device use over the past few years, marketers have been battling the difficult task of tracking individual users across devices. Understanding the impact of one’s ads on a mobile device when users regularly switch over to desktops to complete purchases is nearly impossible. However, as mobile phones become […]

We hosted a webinar on how you can maintain and maximize your digital marketing success when you’re going through a website redesign. This blog post outlines the SEO and PPC considerations you must make, taken from our webinar. Keys to SEO Success A migration can lead to a significant drop in organic search performance. But it is possible to make any […]

The Change Recently, Google announced a lot of new features that are coming to their search advertising platform, AdWords.  One of them being expanded text ads, which you can read about here.  Another big one announced was complete device targeting on AdWords.  Now, advertisers will be able to set bid adjustments at all three device […]

The Big Bang…in Digital Marketing Since the beginning of AdWords theoretical time, ad structure for AdWords has been as follows: 25 characters in the headline, 35 characters for description line 1, 35 characters for description line 2, and 35 characters for the display URL. On May 24th, Google decided to shake up the entire digital […]

What’s going on, Google? For years, Google has had an algorithm that states, as simply as possible, you only have to bid higher than the person below, while having a better ad experience to compete in the AdWords landscape.  This, for some brands, meant they could bid as low as they pleased on branded terms […]

Last Friday, rumors started circulating that Google planned to remove all PPC ads on the right-hand side of search results. These rumors have now been confirmed by Google. Today, final changes to the roll-out will be completed. Google has removed paid search ads from the right side of the search results page, reportedly due to […]

As most all digital marketers already now, Microsoft & Yahoo renegotiated their search partnership last year, which changed how Yahoo serves the paid ads on their search results page. While they used to serve ads solely from the Bing Ads platform, they are now using ads from their own platform, as well as testing out […]

  If you’re an e-commerce business that runs a lot of promotions in December to capture additional holiday traffic, this is a great time to take advantage of the high volume to test out ad copy variations and gain new insights into what users respond best to. Here are a few that I have tried […]