Posts Tagged ‘ppc’

The holiday season is quickly approaching. Is your PPC account optimized for the impending visibility and traffic increase? Here’s a nice checklist to help make sure you set yourself up for success this year. RLSA (Remarketing in Search) Bidding Increase your bids for visitors who have been to your site before. With the increase in […]

Looking for another way to get your Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals into your ad copy? Well, now you can add an additional line of text to communicate your offer. A new type of structured snippet can be used to communicate special store hours, free shipping deals and order discounts. These structured snippets are […]

Bing Ads contributes to about 20% of the search engine market share (however it may decrease slightly over the next year due to the new Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership agreement). That’s nothing to sneeze at and definitely deserves some of your marketing time and budget. Simply importing your Google account into Bing Ads is extremely easy […]

With the holiday season upon us, it’s time to talk about how you’re going to optimize your PPC ad copy to draw holiday shoppers to your site. Promotions and sale messaging are widely utilized to compete with the rest of the paid ads listed on the same results page. However, if you’re going to offer […]

I’ve posted many articles about utilizing remarketing audiences to improve your Adwords account including How to Increase Adwords PPC Bids for Past Visitors to Your Site and my recent post on How to Improve Adwords Metrics with Audience Targeting. I have always lamented that Bing Ads doesn’t offer the same targeting abilities to reach past […]

I recently wrote about the new Bing-Yahoo search agreement and how PPC advertisers now need to transfer Bing Ads accounts over to Yahoo Gemini and manage both in order to continue displaying ads on Bing and Yahoo for all possible searches. As I have been doing just that for my own clients, I’m discovering that I’m […]

In an effort to speed up browser load times, Chrome has decided to block Adobe Flash ads by default. This change went into effect on September 1, 2015. If you are currently running Flash display ads in your Google Adwords account, be sure to update those ads to HTML format as soon as possible to […]

This is the third post in a 3-part series, so if you haven’t already read my other posts about Bing Ads param insertion, be sure to check out part 1, where I explain what it is, and part 2, where I give examples of how to use it in your ads. You might be thinking that […]

As I discussed in my last post, parameter insertion is a great way to customize and optimize your ad copy within Bing Ads. Below, I’ve listed three of the most effective and common strategies used to optimize ad copy. You may use your three fields in whatever way makes the most sense to you, but […]

For those who don’t work directly in the online marketing industry, many of the acronyms that are commonly used can get confusing when you don’t fully understand what each one means. I’m here to help you differentiate between them and prevent you from making common mistakes. PPC: Pay Per Click This term refers to the […]

by Karen Van Ert I’m a consultant, and I focus heavily on marketing initiatives, so that’s typically where conversations I’m involved in migrate. I also like to think of myself as channel agnostic, which seems to be rare in on-line marketing circles. I’m not easily surprised anymore because I’ve seen so many businesses metrics, but […]

Written by Jay Ratkowski Easily the most common rhetoric I hear in the PPC world is that display advertising doesn’t work.  Not that it’s overpriced, or there is too much suspicious activity – but that it flat out does not work. Surprise! Those working in an agency setting disagree.  To be honest, I am a big […]