Who is Perry Marshall and how has he influenced your adwords?
If you’ve spent any time researching or performancing your adwords account, no doubt, you’ll have come across the name, Perry Marshall.
For the last 10 years Perry Marshall has been the leading authority in the world on Google Adwords – featured in Fast Company, USA Today, The Washington Post and Entrepreneur Magazine among others.
Assuming your Adwords account is structured correctly for both Search and Display networks, its time to optimise your spending. Bidding strategy can get very complicated – however the most difficult part isn’t the technical ability to set and adjust bids, its understanding the numbers in your business. Get that part right, and bidding strategy becomes easy.
With that in mind, this video demonstrates the simplicity of Bidding Strategy (but hides the complexity of how real life businesses can actually quantify their ‘Value per Click’).
This is one of those videos that I love to hate…Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian, (very simply) discusses advanced bidding strategies for maximising your profit using Google Adwords. Enjoy!
This Infographic was released a few weeks ago but I’ve mentioned it enough times to people that I thought it was worth adding to the blog. Keep in mind that these are US based Keyword & Cost Per Click statistics so we’re not looking at the same level of competition per keyword for domestic advertising [...]
For those in Australia, you might have seen the recent news story where 670,000 Australians failed to hit ‘Submit’ after completing their Census form online – because the Call to Action wasn’t clear. The next day when a friend told me about this I had to google it (of course) only to see this ad [...]
Do you have a Control Ad that no matter how much you split test, you just can’t seem to beat? I have adapted a technique from Marketing Psychologist Glenn Livingston, that involves using Adwords, a Landing Page and the KISSinsights survey tool to beat long-standing Controls. Long story short, Hiten Shah, CEO of CrazyEgg and [...]
Just like the rest of Google, Gmail will soon be rolling out a new look-and-feel that will soon become the default for all Gmail users. Before they roll out those changes, they have given us a sneak peak. Lets have a look at 3 ways this new theme will affect your Gmail Center Top targeted [...]
Here’s an example of an advanced Adwords sniper tactic: the Single Line Gmail Ad. Gmail ads have always been a useful Adwords sniper tactic for the simple reason that you can target keywords in people’s emails.
Last week on July 7th 2011, Google announced a new Adwords format that continues the evolution of the Sitelinks Ad Extensions feature set. Different to the regular Single-line and Multi-line Sitelinks that appear below Adwords ads, Embedded Sitelinks appear inline within your actual ad text.
Over the past 12 months I’ve seen more Adwords updates and notifications than in the previous 2-3 years combined. Google have no doubt felt the serious competition that Facebook (and soon to be LinkedIn) is presenting to advertisers and have thrown serious resources into giving advertisers more options for advertising on the Google search & [...]