If you’re running an AdWords campaign with any sort of trackable conversion, make sure you’re using the Search Funnels data to inform your optimization. It offers such stats as Time Lag, Path Length, First and Last Click Analysis, Assisted Conversions, and Top Conversion Paths, all of which can help you better optimize your account.
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Reading: 5 Reasons Why Brand Marketers Should Use Search Retargeting
Search Engine Land‘s Frost Prioleau explains how search retargeting, also known as remarketing, supercharges your PPC campaigns. Roughly 98% of visitors to your website will leave without converting. Remarketing serves display ads to those visitors on other sites, keeping your brand top of mind and offering more opportunities for messaging. Prioleau writes that retargeting offers access to consumers at the top of the purchase funnel, but the real value of remarketing is connecting with visitors in the middle or bottom of the funnel. Any target of a remarketing campaign is already interested enough in your services that they have either searched for your service or visited your site. Continue reading
Reading: Google Testing Unique AdWords Format Designed for Gmail
Google posted revenue of $29.3 billion in 2010, much of it coming from paid search. Search Engine Land reported today that the search giant may be rolling out a new AdWords unit which will bring display ads to Gmail. Continue reading
New Google SERP's Potential Effects on Paid Search
You’ve probably already noticed the fact that Google rolled out a new look yesterday for its SERP (Search Engine Results Page) for local searches. As you can see in the screenshot below, the old SERP featured a “7-Pack” of local business listings, interspersed with organic results from the wider web, surrounded on the top and right hand side with paid ads.
Running a Paid Search Campaign? Keep a close eye on Search Partners
All the major search engines increase the number of searchers they offer an advertiser by allowing their search results to show on 3rd party websites. The traffic for paid ads showing on these 3rd party sites is typically of a lower quality than that generated by the search engines’ own sites. However, that traffic is also usually cheaper, so some types of businesses benefit by having their ads show on search partner sites.
If you allow your ads to show on search partner sites, it’s important to constantly monitor the traffic those sites generate. This fact was underscored one day a few weeks ago when a Path Interactive client suffered an 800% traffic spike on one particular adgroup in a Google campaign, with most of the spike coming from one keyword, with no corresponding increase in conversions.
