Add an Ad Extension Today
There are several available additions to your ads beyond the 140 characters and spaces known as Ad Extensions. Ad Extensions can be used to supplement your ad copy and give you an extra opportunity to show extra information about your business to potential customers. The usage (or non-usage) of ad extensions is one of the…
Update Your Keyword Matching Settings
Today, our focus is going to be on keyword matching settings. To get the most efficient performance out of your ads, you can choose various keyword matching options to get the ideal balance between the Quality and Quantity of Traffic. Adjustments to the keyword matching settings can help improve Conversion & Click through Rates which…
Are Your Ads Getting The Right Rotation?
Today, let’s check in on your campaign’s ad rotation setting. Proper ad rotation is crucial to getting a valid split test from multiple ads in Google AdWords and the default value may not be in your best interest. If one of your ads is not getting a fair rotation in the test, it will not…
AdWords Essentials – Split Testing
Split testing is an essential skill for an AdWords Expert professionally managing an account in today’s world. In this article we are going to explore some of the details that need to be considered to run a professional split test. We could write an entire book on this topic and still not cover it all,…
Mobile is changing the AdWords World
I propose that it is impossible to scale the web experience from desktop to mobile or the other way around with today’s tools. I am sure that hordes of web designers are gathering to burn me in effigy for uttering such heresy. After all, everyone knows that responsive design and CSS fixed all these problems….
Are Audiences the new keywords?
I was inspired by the article by Christi Olson posted on Search Engine Land on this subject. While I respect her research and the quality of the article I do not agree with every detail. There is no doubt that PPC strategies need to evolve and that audiences will be a big part of that…
Mobile Impressions
Ever since the rollout of the Call-Only Campaign type, mobile traffic has been odd and we are seeing some strange results in a few of our accounts. One client who is a local service provider believes, as we do, that mobile traffic is extremely important. This client’s account is large and well established. That being…
Search Underway for Side Ads
As we all know, the first 24 hours are the most critical in a missing advertising investigation and so it is with the Google Side Ads case. One day they were there, hanging out doing their thing and then bang they were gone. On Monday February 22nd, 2016 SEO and PPC experts alike were quickly…
Getting Started with Google Ads Scripts
Programmatically Control Your Google Ads Account Google Ads Scripts allow you to programmatically control and customize your Google Ads data. Scripting, in general, is a type of programming in which you control the behavior of existing complex objects. Although you can set up your own internal scripting structure, you ultimately rely on another program for…
Things we find in SQR’s
In the AdWords world there is an expression that helps explain the SQR (Search Query Report). “Never under estimate the creativity of a user with a blank search box” The SQR is where all that creativity goes and it is probably the most important data that you can extract from the AdWords System. Many people…