In Part 16, we talked about how to broaden PPC campaigns beyond the obvious high-intent search inventory. This week, I’ll reopen an age-old conversation: can the Google Display Network perform for your business? I won’t bury the lede. I’ve seen Display perform well—so much so that the ROI on a carefully curated list of Display placements is comparable to Search...
PPC platforms offer an amazing array of specific optimization opportunities. Once many details have been optimized, a “mature account” (it can take over five years for an account to reach that stage, especially as the competitive landscape and other circumstances change) might not require as much detailed optimization than during the earlier building and learning phases...
“Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Ol’ Yoda dispensed sage advice, but not for the reasons that amuse most observers. The thing that impresses me is that he included both “do” OR “do not”! A contingent mindset will make you more money than a bland how-to anytime. That’s why this 50-part series is not a bland how-to. The...
Last time I enthused about the power of the Google Ads Campaign Drafts and Experiments architectural framework. This week, I’ll suggest five experiments to try. I’d love to hear about your own unique experiments, too! In terms of setup, as alluded to previously, the process will often be about the same. You outline a key change or “big idea” you want to test...
In the behavioral economics literature (for an approachable overview, see Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow; also, Michael Lewis’ vivid biographical account of Daniel Kahneman’s and Amos Tversky’s lifelong intellectual relationship in The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds), Nobel-winning economists fuse psychology and economics to suss...
Andrew Goodman is Founder & President of Page Zero Media. His accomplishments include writing the first-ever full-length book about Google AdWords, heading up this Google Ads Premier Partner agency, maintaining a string of 48 consecutive speaking engagements at Search Engine Strategies in North America, co-founding a startup called HomeStars, and wearing the dickens out of a lab coat at the SMX Advanced session called Mad Scientists. His active lifestyle requires increasingly elaborate bowls of yogurt. He works from the Toronto office as well as a home office in Fredericton, NB.