I’ve been involved in PPC since 1998; and over those years I’ve used a lot of PPC tools from GoToast to PAD to Omniture and many more. There’s one tool that I started using for PPC in 2001 and I’m still using it today: My Calendar. Now most people don’t consider this a PPC tool; […]
We’re a big fan of RLSAs (remarketing list for search ads). If you’re unfamiliar with RLSAs; they allow you to group website users into Audiences and then apply one of the following techniques to the audience: Change bids Expand keywords Use different ads Use DSAs for previous visitors only Any combination of the above As […]
We’re on a quest to make managing your overwhelming amount of PPC data much easier. This technique can help you in both Google AdWords and Bing Ads to find negative keywords and insights into your own data. It’s already easy to manage ads, quality score, and make bulk ad changes within Adalysis. We’ve just launched […]
There are several ways to test ads: A/B Testing Pattern Testing Label testing And more And then you need to: Determine winner and loser metrics Segment your ad tests Determine minimum data Determine maximum data Ensure you are confident in the results All of these decisions are assuming that you’re testing and have ad ideas […]
B2B (business-to-business) companies often struggle with quality score and ad writing as they are often competing against B2C companies for the same keywords; but only a small segment of the actual search audience. For instance, take the term ‘safety gates’. The most common searcher for this term is a consumer that is looking for a […]
We’re working on an amazing new negative keyword feature; but to build it – we need to develop some other functionality along the way and we’re happy to announce some of this functionality has been launched. Negative Keyword Conflicts A common problem in accounts is that some of your keywords are being blocked by negative […]
We’re joining the Acquisio team for an in-depth look at Quality Score that’s open to anyone on June 2nd. There’s a few topics we’ll cover in the webinar. Quality Score Importance Quality Score is one of the most important and least important numbers in your AdWords account at the same time. When its bad, it […]
Searchers don’t search for the same keywords over and over and over again. People search once, maybe twice, on the same keyword and that’s it. This means that if you are customizing your ads by ad groups (and have good account structure so that the ads are highly related to the keywords and random keywords […]
When you work in ecommerce, the name of the game is ROAS (or ROI, depending on your definitions) management. You deal in margins, hard costs, and you need to ensure that your bidding and testing is accounting for these margins. However, there are times when ROAS fails; and I want to take you through a […]
We recently launched several new features to make diagnosing and improving your quality scores in AdWords & Bing easy to do within Adalysis. This quick video tutorial will walk you through the process and give you some quality score insights on how to diagnose and increase your quality scores using these new features. You can see […]