There are days where it’s easy to feel Quality Scores are assigned by a random number generator. Google just sets a range for Quality Score, throws some dice, and assigns you a number that has a huge impact on your account visibility.

In reality, Quality Scores can be fairly predictable and aren’t that hard to work with and improve.

In this short 12 minute video; we put together what you actually need to know (no fluff, no pretty charts with meaningless numbers, just the facts and workflow) to work with and improve your Quality Scores.

I hope you enjoy the video 🙂

We only have two more AdWords Workshops in 2018:

• • London
• • Seattle

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Managing negative keywords is essential to any PPC managers life.

Good keyword management is just managing search queries.

Great management means you are checking keyword conflicts and understand negative match type usage.

Amazing negative keyword managements is done when you start using n-grams to find patterns across your queries.

This short video will show you everything you need to know to properly use, analyze, and managing negative keywords from query analysis to n-grams.

I hope you enjoy the video 🙂

A couple years ago I keynotes Hero Conf and talked about why best practices can fail. This is one of my favorite talks (outside of time management as that’s one of my passions) as it showcases a large variety of industries and ‘exceptions’ to the typical PPC rules.

The issue is that many ‘best practices’ are called that because they work for most accounts; but not necessarily all accounts.

In many cases, we call them ‘common practices’ as they are commonly used; but they aren’t necessarily best for all accounts.

We recorded the session later with Simplilearn in a webinar. While the video is a few months old; the practices and issues that arise haven’t changed at all.

These practices range from why we should be CPA over ROAS for certain types of ecommerce accounts to lowering Quality Score on purpose to increase conversion rates.

You can enjoy the entire video here:

I hope you enjoy it 🙂

We have two upcoming AdWords workshops in the next few weeks:

• • San Jose
• • Munich

If you’d like to attend; this is your last chance to register and dive deeply into how efficient & creative you can run your AdWords account.

The SMX workshops are one day intensive training session about Google AdWords and how to extract the most value from your AdWords Account. We have partnered with SMX to bring you this interactive learning experience. You can attend a full day workshop, attend the conference, or do both if you desire.

2018 Schedule

The SMX workshops are one day intensive training session about Google AdWords and how to extract the most value from your AdWords Account. We have partnered with SMX to bring you this interactive learning experience. You can attend a full day workshop, attend the conference, or do both if you desire.

2018 Schedule

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Not everyone can make it to a conference, so we’ve partnered with Hanapin Marketing, the creators of Hero Conf to bring you a day full of PPC goodness online – for free on February 28th, 2018.

The sessions include:

• Machine Learning in Today’s Paid World
• Creating a Killer Paid Search & Paid Social Strategy
• Important 2018 Google AdWords Updates
• CRO 101: What it is and Why it Matters
• A Step Ahead: Analyzing Your Competition
• When & How to Pivot Your PPC Strategy

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Crafting great copy for your ads is one of the most important components of a PPC advertising campaign, as well as one of the trickiest.

Traditional advertising methods can offer paragraphs of text or awesome visuals to help you sell, whereas Google AdWords allows just 2*35 character headlines and a 90 character description. It’s not a lot of space to impress in.

Though creating and testing the perfect PPC ad can take some time, it’s worth the effort, as businesses make an average of $2 in revenue for every $1 they spend on AdWords. Those are some pretty good odds!

The following tips will help you to create persuasive and clickable copy for your next PPC campaign.

While you are here — check out our PPC do’s and don’ts.

Mirror the users desired outcome

Remember who you are writing the advert for. A potential customer for your new product line wants to accomplish something by making purchase, so the first step is to figure out what that is. Let’s say, for example, you’re selling a range of dandruff shampoo and you were considering these two headlines:

• Embarrassed by dandruff?
• Stop dandruff fast

The first headline tells the potential customer how they already feel about their predicament, whereas the second one offers to solve their problem, and quickly.

This mirrors their desired outcome in plain and simple language, removing any ambiguity and making it very easy for them to make the crucial decision to click on your ad instead of another seller’s.

This is all about being direct and actionable with your language, not going off-piste with a crazy metaphor.

Keep it simple

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Over the next couple of months; we have several upcoming appearances designed to keep you informed of what’s new in PPC; some good PPC chats, in-depth information; and strategies to optimize your lead flow.

We start the year looking forward to PPC Summit. This is an all day PPC event taking place on February 28. It’s hosted by Hannipan (the creators of PPC Hero & Hero Conf) and is full of amazing speakers and presentations.
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