There are many different types of marketing professionals, who specialize in many different fields. Some specialize in television, radio, print advertising, or digital marketing. Some don't specialize in any one particular field and offer services through many different mediums. Some of those professionals are AdWords Certified Partners (as we are),…
How do you know how many phone calls you got from AdWords? By analyzing the tracked mobile calls segment. Here's how I went about that analysis: In the comments section of my last post on the new click type segment, someone asked me: "Do you have any data to show…
Google recently came out with a new campaign type for the display network, mobile app targeted campaigns. With mobile device sales set to outpace PC sales by 2015, it's important not to wait until it's too late to get ahead of the mobile device curve. Before last Christmas tablet sales…
Aha! At last we can finally answer the question, why doesn't the click type segment reported mobile click to call clicks match up to the dimensions tab reported received calls. It has been such an issue of confusion and frustration for so long, and we were all left to assume…
If you measure the effectiveness of your AdWords advertising by tracking conversions, max CPA bidding is well worth experimenting with. Here a just a few of the reasons why: 1. Increased conversions, and reduced cost per conversion. Unlike automated bidding to optimize for clicks, max CPA bidding focuses on achieving…
I am not one to believe that quality score is all there is to life, let alone AdWords. I have made my opinions on the matter known before, but something peculiar has happened recently that gives me pause. For several accounts which I have kept AdWords quality score logs for…
So you've gone through the process of setting up call extensions for AdWords using Google call forwarding numbers, and now you want to know how many calls AdWords generated. When it comes to trying to figure out all this AdWords call stuff, what do these statistics mean? Well, that all…
Have you been seeing ad disapproval messages in the AdWords UI lately, and when you click view to see those disapproved ads, nothing comes up? What's going on here, is this some kind of bug? No. Unfortunately, there is no accompanying explanation to the disapproval, or why you are seeing…
If you are currently using AdWords call extensions with a using a Google forwarding number be careful - If you enabled automatic bidding and call extensions, you will not accrue any phone impressions! For several of our clients, a phone call to their business is the ultimate goal of their…
Contextual Targeting on the Google Display Network has always been a bit if a tricky business, especially if you use multiple targeting options for a single adgroup. The new display network tab makes it a bit easier to visualize your selected targeting methods, but which bid was used, or which…
