Once you’ve started advertising through AdWords, it’s easy to either forget about it and not get the results you want or to spend too much time working with it, making you neglect other facets of your business that need your attention. Today we’ll talk about setting up an AdWords campaign calendar to help you budget [&hellip
Google Adds Callout Extensions to Adwords
Google is enhancing the power of Adwords by adding different levels of callouts for advertisers to use. Callouts are not links, so they do not require landing pages. Rather, they are used to grab the attention of readers, encouraging them to click-through. In particular, Adword users should be aware of the following changes and nuances [&hellip
The Basics of Google Analytics and How it Can Help Your AdWords Campaign
You know what gets me CRANKY? You’d be surprised at the number of clients that we deal with that during the initial discovery process we find out that they have not linked Google AdWords to their Google Analytics accounts! You’d expect that this would be one of the fundamental steps that any advertiser would be [&hellip
5 Tips for Diversifying Your Google AdWords Account
The famous 80/20 ratio applies in business and sales: 20% of clients tend to make up 80% of revenues. This ratio also applies in Google AdWords and other PPC campaigns, according to Jospeh Kerschbaum. While many campaign managers are happy to rest on their laurels with 80/20, this strategy is not without risk. What works [&hellip
Does Google Behave Like Microsoft?
We are really involved with our AdWords clients, and our goal is to make them profitable and successful using online advertising. Part of our on-boarding process is to make sure that goal and conversions are setup and tracked appropriately in their analytics and AdWords accounts. Which means that form fills, contact us pages, e-commerce pages and phone calls [&hellip
Google Offers Valuable New Way to Track Calls from Ads
Google has always been known as a leading major search engine that strives to help businesses advertise their products and services. Via Google’s AdWords, many businesses have found much success in carrying out effective marketing campaigns. And best of all, AdWords easily allows these businesses to track which ads are working and which ones aren’t, [&hellip
Google Adwords Removing Ability to Specify Exact Match Types
On the list of news items that web advertisers absolutely need to know: no more exact matches on Google Ad Words. This isn’t going to “change everything” about web marketing, but it will demand a switch in tactics for many advertisers. Taking advantage of exact match in search engine optimization means that you command a [&hellip
Why Using Google Adwords Offline Conversion Tracker is so important for e-commerce
While you have become used to the keyword data reports from Google Adwords which tracks the clicks from customers that have led to sales, there is no way to track the customers who see your ad through Google Adwords and then they complete the order “off line”. Offline conversions may be a prospect filling out [&hellip
Testing Your AdWords Asssumptions
Advertising is a tricky field. Just when you think that you know which ads customers and prospects will respond to, they turn on a dime. If you assume that people will act in any specific manner, it is best to test your theory with real data. And then constantly revisit your initial assumptions. Before you [&hellip
An Overview of Google AdWords Dynamic Sitelinks
Dynamic Sitelinks are rolling out around the world; are you familiar with them yet? They are one of the latest developments in Google AdWords, taking the form of an add-on similar to other automatically generated content like consumer and seller ratings