Category: PPC

We recently talked about how to differentiate branded from non-branded terms, particularly for manufacturers. Oftentimes, the follow up question that retailers have: “Should I be bidding on my trademark term in search? And if so, how much?” While every advertiser’s trademark landscape is different, we advise testing to confirm the incremental return for the costs  … Read more

Driving more incremental traffic through search starts with understanding how your prospective customers search for you. There’s nothing more fundamental to understand in your customer’s search intent than what it means to distinguish your branded vs non-branded terms. But for some advertisers, such as manufacturers who distribute through wholesale channels, identifying and valuing your branded  … Read more

Our PPC team uses a variety of tactics honed over years of managing performance-driven PPC accounts. Today I want to share one, quite powerful tactic hiding in plain sight, disguised as a mundane account setting: ad delivery options.

ROAS is Return on Ad Spend. It’s the metric that combines cost (Ad Spend) and revenue (Return) into the most common KPI used to measure SEM performance. With a healthy ROAS, budget shouldn’t matter. It’s like the fountain of youth for your PPC campaign and your bottom line.

Gypsy’s Dispatches from the SEM Trenches While bid management and negative keywords are the most important day-to-day management tasks for Google Shopping campaigns, the Dimensions tab gives data geeks like myself a number of additional opportunities to maximize performance. Here are a few of my favorites: 1. Identify Outliers in Spend, Impressions, or Conversions The  … Read more