As Google Shopping moves to a paid platform, it’s more important than ever to invest time in developing the best product feed you can in order to stay competitive and to ensure your ad spend is driving as much return as possible. We blogged about this a couple years ago but it’s about time for an update!
Facebook launched Sponsored Results Search ads, giving advertisers the opportunity for their app or page to appear in the search results when a user searches for something similar. We were surprised to find that actually far from being a poor supplement to standard Facebook advertising, it actually performed better at driving app installs than the standard ads.
Between automated rules, conversion optimiser, product listing ads, ad rotation settings and now dynamic search ads, some PPC account managers could be forgiven for fearing all this automation threatens to leave them redundant in their job. Some could also be forgiven for championing the belief that this was always Google’s intention – to claim back that 10-20% of the client’s PPC budget that goes to agencies instead of on more clicks.
Since the launch of labels in the AdWords interface it can make running and reviewing simple ad copy tests much, much easier.
This is especially true if you’re running an ad copy test across multiple ad groups at once, and, though this can make it a bit more difficult to evaluate, for a lot of small accounts it’s the only way to quickly progress.
If you’re managing a small PPC account you may think you’re not using rules to govern how you manage your bids, when actually you use rules every time you change bids. If your keywords are performing well you might raise the bids, if they have a low CTR you may want to investigate the search queries behind them, and if they’ve spent a fair bit of money and not converted you might pause them. Whether they’re automated or not, or you’re aware of them or not, they’re still the rules you’re using to optimise your bids.
Google AdWords Ad Auctions Insights lets users run a report (only for individual keywords at the moment) and view half a dozen metrics against other advertisers. These include impression share, verge position, overlap rate, position above rate and top of page percentage.
If you’ve been managing an AdWords account this week you’ll probably have noticed a pop-up notification about changes to the way AdWords uses Phrase and Exact match: plurals and misspellings will now be included by default. So what does this mean, and when should you use it?
Facebook is testing a new targeting option to reach users ‘more likely’ to complete a certain action. In essence, it allows advertisers to target conversions, rather than users. But these actions are only a measurement of success, and shouldn’t be confused with the actual purpose of the campaign.
On this momentous occasion, the European launch of Bioware’s latest instalment in the Mass Effect trilogy, we were disappointed to see an opportunity for promotion so wasted. In fact, we almost didn’t even notice the ad, as Mass Effect 2 has been out for 2 years now.
Facebook is going to shorten their ads so they can fit more in. Either this will give users a greater choice of ads and drive up clicks, revenue and general goodness for all (users, advertisers and Facebook) or the current good advertisers will have their ads lost in a blanket of poor ads and users will ignore the wall of ads completely.
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