The holiday season has passed. The first major holiday of the year (Valentine’s Day) is in the rear-view mirror. PPC advertisers can finally catch a break. Well, that is unless you’re in the travel industry! Now is the time to begin preparing for the many families who are already searching for vacation round 2. With […]
DSA Series Part 2: 6 Tips for Making the Most of Dynamic Search Ads
As I mentioned in part 1 of the DSA series, Dynamic Search ads can be very lucrative but they do require the same (if not more) optimizations than regular search campaigns. In this post, I’ll walk you through a few tips on how to maximize the return on your dynamic search campaigns. For starters, I […]
Are Dynamic Search Ads Right For You? Part 1 DSA Series
Dynamic Search campaigns have been around for quite some time now and so I find myself surprised when I hear that companies haven’t given them a shot. There are many benefits to DSAs but each also comes with it’s own limitations. Nevertheless, given the right fit, the ROAS (or RODSAS, rather) can be plentiful. If you find […]
What’s Going On! Is Google AdWords Squeezing Out 3rd Party Tracking?
Recent announcements by Google AdWords have me a bit concerned and confused. First, it was the new destination url protocol that separates the landing page from tracking parameters. Next came call only ads. Both of these features have big upside potential and should allow advertisers to up their game. But they also have a significant […]
Case Study: Restructuring Shopping Campaigns To Improve Performance
Shopping campaigns can be pretty tedious to set up, to say the least. Up until recently, there was very little functionality for shopping campaigns in the AdWords editor and there are still features to be desired. It isn’t unusual to come across campaigns that have been structured with broad groups of products (and it can […]
PPC Growth Hacking: Building a Community Through Shared Knowledge
The PPC industry has been around for nearly 14 years now. We can no longer call this an industry in its “infancy.” The search marketing industry as a whole has been around even longer. This industry as a whole has always been one that was open to sharing knowledge. Much of this started in forums, […]
Are Your PPC Campaigns Really Working? Three Tips To Find Out
In PPC the last click is measured as a conversion, meaning the last ad that is clicked on is the one that counts. Sometimes advertisers will struggle with underperforming campaigns trying to decide if they are working or not, especially when they don’t see conversions coming through. We know that searchers will do multiple searches […]
Does Your SEM Company Fail at Mobile Marketing?
Mobile Marketing has been urgently knocking on search agencies’ doors for years now, begging to be integrated effectively into their offerings, but the plea remains largely unanswered. Early this year, 2014, Acquisio surveyed a group of SEM agencies to learn their top digital advertising objectives for the year. When we asked the agencies about the […]
Life Insurance Company Advertises on “Malaysian Airlines” on AdWords
We have often heard about pay per click advertisements being displayed at inopportune times or on inopportune news stories, but it is mostly the case of PPC managers who don’t react quickly enough when a bad news story hits their market area – such as cruise ships advertising on Costa Concordia news stories or Porsche […]
Control Your Negativity! (With Shared Negative Lists)
I’ve had the opportunity to audit hundreds of AdWords accounts over the last decade. I’m happy to say that the “face-palm” horrible accounts that I see are decreasing in volume as the bar is raised in our industry towards effective management. I am starting to see the opposite problem though – overly optimized accounts. That’s […]