Building an effective e-commerce approach can be tricky - as it is not simply the case of building a website and waiting for the orders to come in. There are lots of tips, tricks and tactics that you can do to increase conversions from your website. Highlight Product Benefits You could have the best product in the world, but if a customer doesn’t know why they need it, then they probably won’t buy it. As a business, you...
What is an attribution model? According to Google, the attribution model is the rule or set of rules that determine how the credit for a sale or conversion is assigned to the touchpoint throughout the consumer journey. A consumer journey is never as linear as shown in the old consumer journey funnel below. These days consumers have a lot more choices/platforms available at their fingertips for research. Chances are, most consumers will do their research from multiple channels such...
What are negative keywords? Negative keywords are a very basic yet essential tool for controlling the positioning and spending in the digital landscape. They allow us to remove any keywords that we do not wish to appear for or that may not resemble & represent our product/service. Let’s take the example of a phone reseller, let’s say you sell all the major brands apart from Nokia. In that case, it would make sense that you do not want your...
From October 7th Google Ads Campaigns Will Start Switching To Standard Delivery Back in August, Google Ads announced that along with retiring the average position column, it would also be retiring the accelerated ad delivery option from October 7th onwards. This is another shift to machine learning. While accelerated delivery used to be to ensure your ads were always served this often meant that restricted budgets were running out during the day. Google has said that standard delivery has...
With the increased growth of digital channels used everyday, it is important for organisations to acknowledge and adapt to achieve long lasting customer success. To do this, continued upskilling is essential. 76% of marketers state that digital has changed more in the last 2 years than the last 50. Being skilled in digital can help engage customers, build brand awareness and drive revenue. However, a high volume of businesses remain resistant to digital tools and technologies, which could...
You may have noticed the Google results looking a little differently lately, and this is all down to the new search redesign update that Google rolled out towards the end of May. This new update is intended to make the search results more concise and easier to read while making it easier to determine which results are the most relevant and helpful to you. For the world of advertising this means that Google text ads have a fresh...
Setting up AdWords ads is a great way to get your website noticed on the Search Engine Results Page, but how do you make them more memorable to viewers? Here are our top tips of things to include… Create Compelling Headings Ensure you use compelling heading ad text with descriptive phrases that highlight your products or services. This should be relevant to what is being advertised, and should be kept short but sweet. This helps to...
Google Ad Extensions help to increase ad rank and click through rate of your website. These allow you to add more content to your ad, giving you more space on the search results page and give people additional ways of reaching you. There are a variety of Ad Extensions that you can use. Sitelink Extensions These are clickable words that link to specific pages. They can appear in two ways - simple wording or with descriptions....
Improving quality score and optimising your Ad account structure are some of the things regularly said to help your PPC campaign, but what people often miss is that great content can help improve your ad campaign. This relationship also works both ways, not only does great content help your Google Ads campaign, but you can also drive traffic to your content through other Paid Search channels such as Facebook Ads. How Does Content Help PPC? ...
In Quarter 2 of 2016 Google released Expanded Text Ads which created a lot of hype in the paid search industry. Previously users were only allowed to create an ad with one 25 character headline and two 35 character description lines. However the expanded text ads allowed advertisers to create an ad with two 30 character headlines and one 80 character description line. This meant that ad copy space was increased by 47%. Marketers Rejoiced...