Derek Andersen — August 9, 2018 — August 9, 2018 Last week, Bing Ads unveiled its new automated bidding strategies: Target CPA and Maximize Conversions. These two bidding strategies leverage machine learning to make smarter optimizations, freeing up digital marketers from the time-consuming A/B testing process. To inform the strategies, Bing uses a variety of … Continue reading 3 Ways Search Marketers Can Use Call Analytics with Bing’s New Ad Bidding Strategies
Ana Gotter — June 10, 2018 Follow @ana_gotter — June 10, 2018 ElisaRiva / Pixabay In my experience working with clients, I’ve found that they typically struggle most with two different aspects of the Facebook Ads system itself: targeting and bidding. Targeting at least stays relatively consistent year after year (barring the partner categories shutdown … Continue reading Facebook Ads Bidding Q&A: All Your Questions Answered
Henry Carless — June 8, 2018 — June 8, 2018 This is a case study about how our data scientists are writing automation scripts to free our PPC specialists from hours of manual work, enabling them to focus much more on strategic and creative tasks. Optimizing a Google AdWords campaign used to be simple: Some … Continue reading Smarter AdWords Bidding With Automatic Bid Adjustments
By Ryan Kh October 12th, 2017 AdWords is an excellent source of high-converting web traffic. I have had colleagues that have used AdWords to generate over 50% of their business for several years. But for marketers without a background in PPC, Adwords can be hard to crack. One of the biggest challenges new marketers face is … Continue reading Adwords: Higher Conversions & Lower CPA With Manual Bidding
One of the largest users of people-based marketing, PCH first launched header bidding with the OpenX ad exchange this past summer. Barry Levine on February 14, 2017 Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is best known among the general public for its free-to-play, chance-to-win promotional sweepstakes. Among marketers, it’s also known as the holder of one … Continue reading Publishers Clearing House attributes 26 percent revenue lift to header bidding
Columnist Kevin Lee explains the ins and outs of header bidding in programmatic display and how it will make its way into other forms of media. Kevin Lee on January 5, 2017 Header bidding is all the rage in the programmatic ecosystem at the moment, and it signals a significant shift in the way … Continue reading How programmatic and header bidding will disrupt all media in 2017
Contributor AJ Wilcox bucks the conventional wisdom and outlines a process for maximizing ROI for your LinkedIn Ads. AJ Wilcox on December 29, 2016 While consulting with companies on their LinkedIn advertising initiatives, I routinely get asked, “How should I bid? CPM or CPC?” I very quickly noticed that my response is very different from … Continue reading LinkedIn Ads: CPC vs. CPM bidding — Stop saying, ‘It depends on your goals’
Time-of-day bidding enables agile adjustment to holiday season volatility. If you manage paid search marketing and your business is retail, the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas probably don’t give you much time for sober reflection. Retail is intensely seasonal, and that is as true online as it is in stores. Search engine marketers generally … Continue reading ‘Tis the season to optimize search bidding
Elizabeth Marsten — November 24, 2016 — November 24, 2016 The holidays are nearly here, and PPC marketers are already in overdrive. As a rule of thumb, the holiday season means more impressions, more click-throughs and (hopefully!) higher conversion rates. However, there might be some paid search marketers out there who’re procrastinating and will dive … Continue reading Budgeting and Bidding Strategies for Paid Search During the Holidays
Columnist Mark Ballard explains how we can use statistics to supplement our conversion data and intuition when deciding on keyword-level bids in AdWords. Mark Ballard on November 14, 2016 Paid search is an industry that’s grounded in data and statistics, but one that requires practitioners who can exercise a healthy dose of common sense … Continue reading Coaxing smarter paid search bidding decisions out of sparse conversion data
