Google Enhanced Campaign feature for PPC
Google Enhanced Campaign FeatureGoogle are at it again on paid search. Just when you had got your head around Google’s latest change, they go and change the game again. What are we talking about? Google’s new ‘Enhanced Campaign’ feature. Even the name doesn’t give much of a clue. In fact it’s all about moving to specific targeting by device.
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Google Enhanced Campaign feature for PPC
Google AdWords – No Longer a Game for Amateurs
Time was when anyone with a real or hobby website could have a go with Google AdWords. We remember that time. And Google seems to be nostalgic for it too judging by the number of ‘£50 Off’ vouchers they keep on sending us - presumably to tempt the national brands that now dominate our client portfolio into ‘having a go’ at PPC?
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Google AdWords – No Longer a Game for Amateurs
The Rise of Mobile in PPC
Back in 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, made an observation that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 24 months – something that became known as ‘Moore’s Law’. Chips that work faster and faster would drive the technological and digital revolution we have seen so far. And it was an officer in a technology company back in the mid 80’s that said “Technology will never again advance as slowly as it is advancing today”.
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The Rise of Mobile in PPC
Improving your Landing Page for Paid Search
Google have changed their landing page algorithm for paid search. Previously, this included a cursory check that the page content included key phrases used in the campaign. Now Google goes a lot further in looking at your landing page. We show you how to optimise your landing pages for paid search.
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Improving your Landing Page for Paid Search
Localising PPC Campaigns
There’s a famous saying in marketing that states that marketers need to ‘think global, act local’, and this is even more poignant in the internet world as the world wide web knocks down previous boundaries that made it near impossible for smaller businesses to ‘go global’.
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Localising PPC Campaigns
Thumbs Up for Google's +1?
Google continues to battle it out with Facebook with the introduction of a new feature that it hopes will push its way into the social arena.
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Thumbs Up for Google's +1?
Google to Launch Video PPC
Google is beta testing a video extension to PPC ads in the US. The videos play automatically beneath each standard ad – if a user clicks on the video they will be taken through to a branded website.
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Google to Launch Video PPC
Only 20% of Advertisers Happy with PPC
Often when we win new business, we inherit the PPC campaigns that our clients’ previous agencies haphazardly assembled. We nearly always start the campaigns again after some business segmentation work and some strategic planning which cuts costs for our clients whilst increasing their conversions.
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Only 20% of Advertisers Happy with PPC
The Top 3 Mistakes in Pay Per Click Advertising
One hundred and seven thousand key phrases. And over seventy randomly named Campaigns. Manageable? Of course not. This is what we ‘inherited’ when we recently won a new client. And the culprits? The UK’s biggest SEO & Internet Marketing Agency, and well – Google themselves who had a hand in it.
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The Top 3 Mistakes in Pay Per Click Advertising
Paid Search results beat Organic
“Stop your Pay Per Click advertising when you get to page one of Google”. Right or wrong? Well we have been repeating this received mantra since we have been in the business. It seems to make sense – why pay to get on to page one of a search engine when you’ve got there for free?
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Paid Search results beat Organic