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How to Get Smart About Retargeting Ads

Sharpspring

Most PPC campaigns focus on the top-of-the-funnel (awareness building) and run on Google AdWords, Bing Ads, etc. A relatively low conversion rate and high cost-per-click (CPC), ultimately resulting in an extremely high cost-per-acquisition (CPA). Here’s what to know about the smart approach to retargeting. cost-per-mille (CPM), 5.2%

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Evaluating the Role of PPC Competition in Your Google Adwords Audit

QuanticMind

Here’s how to consider this in your Google Adwords audit, and make the right changes to optimize. But often the best keywords have a lot of PPC competition, and targeting too many highly competitive keywords will use up your budget quickly, leading to a high cost per acquisition (CPA) and poor performance overall.

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How Do Your Google AdWords Metrics Compare to Industry Averages? [New Benchmark Data]

Hubspot

Trouble is, mastering Google AdWords is really tricky. To help shed some light on the situation, the folks at WordStream released a detailed new study on AdWords industry metrics. This information can be used to inform your AdWords strategy, and ultimately help you improve your overall ad performance.

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PLA Query Segmentation – How to Drive Stronger Google Shopping Performance with PLA Query Segmentation

QuanticMind

Product Listing Ads (PLAs) for Google Shopping are powerful, but don’t let you target clicks by individual keywords, like AdWords. As you probably already know from our PLA blog series , Google Shopping doesn’t offer a clear way to segment product listing ads (PLAs) based on keywords, the way AdWords does for text ads.

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The Role of Bid Optimization Technology in Preventing PPC Performance Issues

QuanticMind

Advertisers must constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve Adwords performance if they want to stay ahead of the growing competition. Most PPC marketers rely on so-called “vanity metrics” such as impressions, clicks, clickthrough rates, and conversions to measure success. Anomaly detection.

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5 Simple Steps to Develop an Effective PPC Strategy

QuanticMind

Today there are so many different PPC targeting options available within Adwords and beyond it. For example, digital marketer, Ben Wood, has some actionable advice about distributing investment between social and search ads: 4 Advanced AdWords Audience Targeting Tactics. AdWords audience targeting. Step 2: Audience targeting.

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How to Save Up to 50% on Your PPC With Quality Score

Hubspot

In my experience, looking at thousands of Google AdWords accounts and billions in combined spend, there are two metrics that correlate most strongly with success: Account Activity: You get out what you put in. New Data Shows AdWords Quality Score Can Save You Up to 50% on PPC. Quality Score lowers your CPA, too. How much lower?