Tag: bid management
Demographic Targeting for PPC Campaigns
Here’s an article in Search Engine Watch that gives an overview of what demographic targeting is currently available in Google Adwords, MSN Adcenter, and Yahoo Search Marketing as well as some demographic data from some social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook
Run Your Brand Phrases In A PPC Campaign? Part 2: How to Test the Results
Should you pay to run your own brand phrases in a PPC campaign such as Google Adwords when most of these phrases are reaching top “organic” search results anyway? In part one we showed you why it usually works. In this post, Part-2, we’ll show you how to test the results to see if it’s paying off for you.
Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising: It’s about Traffic that Engages and Converts: Not Impressions, Clicks, or even Click-Through Rates (CTR)
Often, after we take over a Pay Per Click (PPC) search engine advertising campaign for a client (such as a Google AdWords campaign) we get a panic call from the client that goes something like this, “You’ve lowered my Impressions!” or “My Click-through rate has gone down, What are you doing!” or “The number of Clicks to the site is down!”
Our goal when managing a PPC campaign is to bring targeted traffic to the site that is engaged enough to convert in some manner, whether this is filling out an inquiry from, purchasing something, picking up the phone and calling, downloading an important white paper, visiting a brick & mortar facility, or at the very least spending a reasonable amount of time on the site.
In this post I’ll show you some actual examples from client campaigns where we’ve lowered one of the metrics such as Impressions, number of Clicks, and even the Click–Through Rate (CTR) while we increased the number of conversions or a lowered the cost per conversion or both.