The stay-at-home orders during the pandemic triggered dramatically increased online searches and demand for e-commerce products. Online advertisers are watching to see how consumers respond to growing vaccination rates and increased freedom to travel to brick-and-mortar stores. In recent weeks, many advertisers are starting to notice click declines compared to second quarter 2020, while at… Continue reading Slowing Google Clicks and Increasing CPC as America Reopens
Country-Specific Surcharges in Google Ads and Disappearing Location Data
Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) can be a powerful way to promote your business, but it’s important to watch out for wasteful ad spend. One thing you may not be aware of is that Google recently implemented country-specific surcharges, which impact ads that are served in specific countries. If you advertise in several countries, you may be… Continue reading Country-Specific Surcharges in Google Ads and Disappearing Location Data
Can Google Ads Drive Results on a Limited Budget?
Small business owners often have a marketing budget that is stretched pretty thin, and this is even more true because of the impact COVID has had. SMBs with low ad budgets don’t have to give up on paid advertising, and limited budgets don’t have to mean small returns. How Does Google Ads Work? For SMBs… Continue reading Can Google Ads Drive Results on a Limited Budget?
3 Common PPC Myths
Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is a great way to help you build your business but to be successful, you need to take the time to get to know the best way to use this strategy. There’s a lot of information about PPC online, but not all of it is accurate. There are several common assumptions about… Continue reading 3 Common PPC Myths
Choosing the Best Digital Marketing Metrics
Digital marketing metrics provide a way to measure the results of a marketing campaign which can give you insights into what’s working. Metrics give you important information about how well you’re doing and how close you are to achieving your goals. There are plenty of digital marketing metrics to choose from. The question is which… Continue reading Choosing the Best Digital Marketing Metrics
What You Need to Know About Google Retiring tCPA and tROAS
Target ROAS and Target CPA are two of Google’s oldest automated bidding strategies and Google is about to retire them. When you choose your strategy for bidding in a marketing campaign, you’ll find that they’re being integrated into other bidding strategies. This change isn’t going to happen overnight. Even though the change will be gradual,… Continue reading What You Need to Know About Google Retiring tCPA and tROAS
Validating Marketing Tags and Pixels
Effective advertising depends on measuring and tracking data so that you know what’s working and what needs to be tweaked. Validating marketing tags and pixels is an important way to monitor key pages and to collect information about site visitors and their behavior. Tag validation means checking which tags fire and what information they are… Continue reading Validating Marketing Tags and Pixels
Target CPA and Target ROAS Being Retired by Google
The one thing you can count on when it comes to PPC advertising is that things are always changing. In February, Google announced on their developer blog that they’re retiring Target ROAS and Target CPA bidding strategies. These strategies will no longer be separate from Maximize Conversions and Maximize Conversions Bid Value but will instead… Continue reading Target CPA and Target ROAS Being Retired by Google
Planning Digital Advertising Improvements in 2021
The global pandemic of 2020 caused economic volatility all over the world and impacted businesses big and small. Businesses in every vertical faced budget cuts and difficult decisions, some of which affected digital advertising. The beginning of 2021 represents a new year and a fresh start, but the pandemic and the uncertainty surrounding it aren’t… Continue reading Planning Digital Advertising Improvements in 2021
Should You Run PPC Brand Campaigns?
When prospects search for your brand, the search engine results page (SERP) displays both paid and organic search results. Ideally, your brand appears at the top of the organic search results for your brand name, but since paid search ads appear above organic search results, should your PPC strategy include bidding on branded terms? Bidding… Continue reading Should You Run PPC Brand Campaigns?
