Some Background By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of Google’s new enhanced campaigns. These will “simplify” your PPC accounts by allowing you to combine similar Campaigns in to one Campaign without losing any unique settings from the various Campaigns. Enhanced Campaign Features From the Campaign view, your account will look simpler (less Campaigns), but at …
Pay-Per Click (PPC) advertising is an effective way to market your company that also brings measurable value to you. PPC advertising creates a great amount of exposure and visibility. This makes it an efficient and cost effective way to increase leads, generate sales, and maximize your return on investment. Search engines like Google and Bing …
CPA or CPC? Which is best for your Pay per Click (PPC) Advertising Campaigns? To answer that, first let’s look at how these two strategies differ from each other. CPA – Cost per Acquisition (Conversions): You set a target CPA and Google will automatically adjust your CPC bid to keep you relatively close to your …
Consider This PPC Advertising Scenario… If you wanted to set up a Google AdWords Account with 3 Campaigns, and had 1 monthly budget that you were willing to spend across the account, then you would have to divide the monthly spend 3 ways (most likely not equally) between the 3 Campaigns. As the month goes …
I’ve just finished taking the Bing Ads Accreditation exam , which is free until the end of September. Microsoft is graciously offering this exam for free as part of its rebranding promotion, which includes the renaming of adCenter to Bing Ads and Search Alliance to Yahoo! Bing Network. Offering something for free is always good …
Google is always trying to give web surfers the best experience. Recently, with a change made to Display Advertising, Google has given the web surfer the capability to block or “mute” paid ads. As a marketer, initially my reaction was of fear and dread. Now, people on the web won’t just ignore my display ad, …
Exampale of PPC Ads on a Google search engine reuslts page Pay per Click (PPC) are the paid ads the show above and and along side of the search results, when you use Google, Bing, or other search engines. PPC can be a very powerful form of advertising. Google and Microsoft often brag about its …
Everyone knows that Google is king of search. But when it comes to Paid Search Advertising (PPC), is going with the Google always the best option? Although Bing and Yahoo combined do not compare to Google’s daily search volume, their paid advertising via Microsoft adCenter might be a cheaper alternative that could generate a higher …
Quality is important in advertising, but even more so in PPC advertising. Google AdWords gives the top Ad Position to the highest Ad Rank, and Ad Rank is Max CPC Bid multiplied by Quality Score. This means that there are two factors that decide what position your PPC ads are shown – 1) How much …
