TrueView can now be accessed on the core AdWords interface, new reporting columns have been introduced to offer insights, native Gmail ads have been launched to let marketers reach more audience. Apart from all these announcements by Google, here are other articles on building shopping campaigns, optimizing PPC campaigns for phone calls, using ad extensions and more articles covered in this week’s PPC news.
At Marketing Festival, last year, Martin Roettgerding Head SEM at Bloofusion, discussed about Google Shopping Campaigns and how to go about creating an effective bid strategy.
Optimize your AdWords account by scheduling your reviews, allocating budget properly and experimenting with a new bidding formula. All this covered in this week’s PPC articles. Also, included are articles on blocking of autocomplete API, Google’s announcement of structured snippet extensions and how to spend less time on reporting.
Search engine marketers argue that broad match keywords have become epic and consider it the mark of an un-optimized account. Such a theory has made Susan Waldes voice out her opinion and advocate the importance of Broad Match Type keywords. In her article, she drives her focus on why broad match keywords are important in giving your SEM account a boost.
As your PPC account grows you might find it a little difficult to keep a track of things. Companies with in-house PPC may struggle with organizing campaigns, creating seasonal campaigns, building keyword lists etc. More so, defining a proper workflow and task management may affect their marketing strategies. Alternately, the agencies handling multiple PPC accounts may experience a roadblock in client expectations vis-à-vis deliverable. You may easily run out of ‘post-its’ to keep a note of actionables or alerts on phone which may just let your phone run out of battery.