Hot damn! Google has just announced the launch of Enhanced Sitelinks and I am pretty darn impressed. Traditional sitelinks (below) have served a role by encouraging a click on the ad rather than as a selection of alternative landing pages. They provide additional information and real estate on the SERP [...]
The value of different audience groups and search queries can be drawn on a sliding scale from the absolutely, guaranteed, desperate to make a purchase user to the zombified passive browser who coincidentally stumbles across your site. Naturally, most new PPC campaigns will focus on targeting the former, and if not will soon be stripped back to these core terms. We’re playing it safe, picking the low hanging fruit and spending the budget in the areas we’re confident will drive the most sales.
When analysing the search queries which have been activating your ads, it’s easy to become confused by the depth of strange search queries that Google shows your ads to. Why is the search query ‘football fixtures’ every considered relevant to the keyword ‘rugby socks’? The truth is Google doesn’t directly measure relevancy in the semantic way humans do – it’d just be too complex – how would they know that ‘Usain Bolt’ isn’t related to ‘nuts and bolts’, and that ‘Cheryl Cole’ once was, but is no longer, relevant to ‘Simon Cowell’?
Impression Share at Ad Group level
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Possibly the most exciting PPC news in months? Well, exciting for me anyway – Google has announced that from the end of January the Impression Share metrics will now be available at Ad Group level. One of the key elements of Adword’s success is Google’s balancing of available data – giving just enough data while keeping a lot of the insight hidden, pushing advertisers to work hard at trial and error and rewarding those who invest. Being able to identify ad impression we’ve lost out on at ad group level will help us hone in on the areas with poor relevance easier.
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Bid-per-Call (rather than Bid-per-Click) introduced to Adwords
Google Adwords Express launched for small local businesses in the UK
Mobile ads now in apps
WARNING: This is a controversial post… so enjoy it.
Pay-per-click advertising is often thought of as a numbers game, and in fact it’s rarely thought of as advertising. But it’s the same old-fashioned advertising we’ve always had, just with a little more sophisticated reporting. However, this reporting is a double-edged sword and [...]
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Adwords Editor upgraded too
Facebook allows users to hide all ads from individual advertisers
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