AdWords Tips Posts from the Internet Marketing Blog
Which Content Network is Better, Google or Bing? We Have the Answer: Both!
This post originally appeared on the TechWyse blog. Many thanks to Ryan Stephenson, a client, for bringing it to our attention and asking us to share this content with our other customers!Managing paid search ads for the past 3 years has taught me a lot about the big two competing content networks, Google and Bing.
The simple yet true fact is that all content networks are not made equal. However, a smart online advertiser will seek opportunity anywhere and must determine a methodology to make multiple content networks work simultaneously for a host of different outcomes.One tool that I have been using for the last year to manage Google ads is a services known as WordStream. This tool is incredible for building and maintaining campaigns. It offers a next level functionality above and beyond... > Read more
New Google AdWords Campaign Setup Options
Among the most common tasks that new AdWords advertisers can find daunting is simply starting a new campaign. Just in the initial campaign setup screen (before you even begin to create your actual ad groups and ads), you’re presented with 22 separate choices! We recently created a series of posts dedicated to determining the right Google AdWords settings for your campaign, but as you might have noticed, Google introduced a new look to their interface recently.
In this post, we’ll walk through a couple of subtle but important differences that have been introduced with the new interface that you can leverage when setting up a campaign.What’s New in the AdWords Campaign Settings?On the whole the new interface does improve the workflow of setting up a new campaign, introducing elements li... > Read more
Perry Marshall on the AdWords Stupidity Tax & Why You Should Never Let a Google Rep Near Your Account
Perry Marshall is one of our favorite people in PPC. We’ve partnered with him on a few webinars, and we love that he doesn’t just parrot back conventional wisdom at you. He shares real insight into web marketing strategy and has a knack for analogies that hit home. He recently sent me the new edition of his popular AdWords guide, The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords, and spoke with me about some of the great advice you can find inside.
About Perry: Entrepreneur Magazine calls him “the #1 author and world’s most-quoted consultant on Google Advertising … He has helped over 100,000 advertisers save literally billions of dollars in AdWords stupidity tax.” His Chicago company, Perry S. Marshall & Associates, consults both online and brick-and-mortar companies on generating sales ... > Read more
Mapping Your AdWords Retargeting Campaigns to the Right Landing Pages
We had an interesting question posed by a commenter named Scott recently regarding how to target a very specific offer to a remarketing audience:Thanks for your insights. I have a question about how to really implement a remarketing strategy on the website. Take this scenario into consideration: a user views a page on the site, leaves, is later targeted with a remarketing ad that says something like 'Come back for 25% off' and includes a coupon code on the ad, so they click on it, return to the site, proceed to checkout.
..and can't remember the coupon code... What to do then? I'm trying to brainstorm ideas for how to remind remarketing customers about the coupon code without telling everyone about it who visits the site.For this it seems like the best way to direct these visitor... > Read more
Google AdWords Account Access: How to Manage Your AdWords Account Access & Settings
Because they have so many products and users, Google’s account login and access processes are often fairly complicated, and this is never more clear than with Google AdWords. If you’re a small business using AdWords, you might have struggled with some of the following issues:How to grant access to your Google AdWords account to other usersUnderstanding which users currently have access to your accountRevoking AdWords account access to previous usersGranting access to an agency or a third-party PPC software productIn this post we’ll walk through how to deal with each of the above scenarios.
Managing My AdWords Account AccessBy navigating to the “Account access” option in the “My account” tab, you can quickly get a view of:Pending Invitations – See a list of the the invi... > Read more
Higher AdWords Returns with Mirrored Campaigns
Simultaneously decreasing your cost per conversion, but still getting inspiration for new keywords in order to expand your successful AdWords campaign? It’s possible! Using so-called "mirrored campaigns," the current campaign is split into two campaigns. One of these two campaigns contains keywords that are set at the keyword option exact and the other campaign contains keywords that are set at broad.
This post describes how you can easily create these mirrored campaigns in AdWords, as well as sharing some real results.AdWords advertising allows you to buy search terms in four different ways. These four keyword matching options determine which Google searches can trigger your ads to appear. The first option is broad match, in which the ad appears on similar phrases and relevant variation... > Read more
Google AdWords Billing: Know Your AdWords Billing Options
As with any aspect of Google’s AdWords program, billing within AdWords can be somewhat complicated and confusing for newer advertisers. In this post we’ll walk through some of the different AdWords billing options and billing features available for advertisers.What Are My Billing Options for Paying for Google AdWords?To customize your billing options you can simply navigate to the Billing Preferences screen under the Billing menu:Or you may have to go to the Billing Settings screen, depending on which version of AdWords Billing your account is showing:Regardless of what your interface looks like there are several specific options for payment:Method of Pay: Postpay versus PrepayYou can set up billing either postpay or prepay.
If you use postpay billing, you’ll accrue advertising costs... > Read more
Google Announces AdWords Scripts - Simplifies AdWords Scripting!
In case you missed it, Google AdWords has released a new API called AdWords Scripts! In my opinion, this primarily impacts high-end platform providers (like Kenshoo perhaps?) who have pretty sophisticated e-commerce functionality, for example, live integration of product feeds with AdWords Campaigns. Now, these more sophisticated advertisers can (potentially) roll out this kind of functionality without having to develop an entire AdWords platform.Last week, I spoke to Aaron Karp, a colleague on the AdWords API team at Google, to learn more about AdWords Scripts. Here’s what I learned.What Are AdWords Scripts?AdWords Scripts are a lightweight JavaScript style interface for performing routine activities against an account, such as AdWords scripting for updating and reporting on your AdWord... > Read more
AdWords Ad Writing Tools: 3 Ways to Write Better Ads (Faster) with WordStream
If you have been working with PPC for a while you’ve probably already reached the conclusion that your text ads play a large part in determining the overall success of your PPC account. While bidding on the right keywords ensures that your ads are appearing in front of qualified searchers, if your ad copy isn’t enticing, there is a good chance that searchers won’t reach your site.
Worse still, they may end up at your competitor’s site. It doesn’t matter that your competitor charges more for a lower quality product while providing less service than you do. Why not? Because they wrote a better text ad. My old soccer coach used to say that you missed every shot that you didn’t take. In PPC, you miss out on every potential customer who doesn’t click.Need more proof that text ads ... > Read more
AdWords Live Chat Ad Extension Now In Beta!
Breaking News!Adwords Releases New Live Chat Ad Extensions! Take a look at this incredible screenshot!What is the New AdWords Live Chat Ad ExtensionThis new Ad Extension appears to enable a live chat session by clicking on the "Live Chat" icon within the Google AdWords ad! The chat extension has not been announced by Google yet in any official capacity.
This exciting new ad extension builds on many other interesting ad extensions released by Google in the last year including:AdWords Communication/Email ExtensionsAdWords Social Ad ExtensionsAdWords Product Ad ExtensionsAdWords Call Ad ExtensionsAdWords Sitelink ExtensionsPersonally, I am very excited by Live Chat Ad Extensions in AdWords because it greatly reduces the the time it takes to speak to your leads, which should lead to higher conv... > Read more
