Testing new platforms, bid strategies, ad types, etc. can be exciting, but also daunting. Exciting, because you think you’ve found the newest way to enhance performance. Daunting, because you can’t guarantee it will work, and you might be unsure how to quantify the results. But isn’t anxiety part of any test? It doesn’t have to […]
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If you are like most marketers, you have already spent hours in spreadsheets creating thousands of messaging variations to send to copywriters or designers. You have probably also thought to yourself; “this is going to catch the hook, line, and sinker”. But does it? One of the simplest ways to do this is to develop
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There have been a lot of changes over the last couple of years when it comes to something as basic and fundamental as ad copy. In my almost three years at Hanapin, we’ve seen the major shift from two ads split tested to now a Google recommended 3 to 5 ads in each ad group.
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I go back and forth on whether ad copy truly makes an impact on PPC. I’ve heard stories of how my co-worker’s sister literally just clicks on the first result on the SERP page or how one time this guy was working on an account and saw that there were still Black Friday ads running
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Apple Ads is a great platform to target new users efficiently, however, their targeting is less than preferable to advertisers who rely on detailed custom targeting. With the upcoming Holiday season, where inevitably new phones will be purchased as gifts, it’s more important than ever to ensure you’re taking advantage of creative testing in Apple
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In this industry, if you blink you might miss something important. And it has never been more the case than with the rollout of various new ad formats and ad reports (or the quiet closing down of formats you may have found useful in the past, with the launch of Google Ad’s new UI.) Quarter
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July 25, 2018 Ad Testing Reviewed Over the past decade, ad testing has, for the most part, been a simple A/B test. Change messaging or URLs and see which ad performs best through a 50/50 split serve. Then after enough statistical significance, see which ad performed best based on the CTR and other KPI metrics
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July 3, 2018 source: Product Manager HQ For many digital marketers, when we hear “split testing,” we immediately think of A/B testing creative variations across advertising platforms. This usually means taking two nearly identical ads, which differ only by one variable (e.g. headline), and running them simultaneously in a campaign to determine which variation has
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June 4, 2018 Last August, Google switched up the options for ad rotation settings. We all saw it. And we all, for the most part, adjusted the settings to suit our needs, (I say “for the most part” as I to this day onboard clients with the unsupported “Optimize for Conversions” selected). Mary wrote a
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April 23, 2018 Artificial intelligence, and what it means for the PPC industry, is buzzing around like crazy right now. As we see more and more automation tools come out, we are constantly wondering how it will change digital marketing. Have you thought about what AI could impact your…ad copy? With ad copy being controlled
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