This month has been a long month for advertisers. First, the looming iOS 14.5 privacy update threatens to throw their Facebook Ads for a loop. Now, Google is adding insult to injury by announcing their latest amendment to keyword match types for Google Ads. On Feb. 4, Google announced an update to their Broad Match…
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…
In a recent webinar we’ve been conducting, we talk about using an “optimal blend” of match settings in an Adwords account. There seems to be a bunch of confusion surrounding this topic because we receive frequent requests that we elaborate on the subject. Some questions that come in are: What match setting is the best?…
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…