Every business can grow to a point where it might be time to take the leap and hire an SEO agency to take the next step in growth. Unfortunately, with SEO there’s not a lot a business can do to avoid the time and money it takes to boost their website rankings and organic search…
When it comes to onsite convertibility, few strategies do the job quite like an eye-catching landing page. Landing pages are unique from other pages on your site in the sense that they serve as a static, standalone web page. Unlike your homepage, for example, they are focused on getting users to perform one solitary function…
Brand awareness is one of the most valuable assets for any business. But reaching that goal isn’t overly simple, especially when very few people are actually searching for what you sell. Or maybe they’re searching for the product, but they’ve never heard of your business. Fortunately, a quick glance at Google Adword’s keyword planner tool…
All advertisers are ultimately working towards the same goal with their campaigns: increasing sales. And even with plenty of resources available to help educate advertisers and marketers on best practices, there is still a major underlying problem. When a business’ profits start to decline, advertising budget is often scaled back or cut off for a…
I can’t help but feel that almost every PPC advertiser manages their paid search based on instinct more than logic. This is problematic for two reasons: 1. Instinct can be highly derived from a “survival mode” or “stop the bleeding” mentality, and 2. A natural instinct of humans is to take the reasons from what…
Just like with any new business venture, it’s advised you get dirty with a business plan so that you can be super familiar with the costs associated running that business. You’d be surprised how many established businesses still don’t really have a grasp on cost and what their target CPAs for various products should be.…
Google has just released the biggest Adwords update since Enhanced Campaigns almost 2 years ago. We’ve covered this built up before but now we believe this change will have a bigger impact on advertisers than the Enhanced Campaign Update and bigger than when they removed the 2nd page ad listings. Similar to how Google removed…
Today at exactly 12pm Pacific, Google officially announced its plan to roll out major changes to the Adwords campaign functionality. Calling the “upgrade” Enhanced Campaigns, Google has said this is the “first step to help you more simply and smartly manage” Adwords campaigns as it pertains to the different devices, locations, day scheduling, and conversions…
The state of Adwords Advertiser Accounts have changed over the years where it was once very common to find an account without negative keywords and now it is rather uncommon. In time, advertisers have either become savvier to Adwords best practices or they have hired agencies to implement strategies. But how far have they really…
Most advertisers use negative keywords in the most limited fashion. Limitations occur both in the way advertisers retrieve their potential negative keywords, as well as where and how their negative keywords are executed. It’s very common to see advertisers try their luck guessing as to which negatives to use and it’s obvious those advertisers aren’t…