The Q2 digital marketing report shows some interesting findings on how paid search is eating away the share of organic search even though the paid search spend dropped steeply from the last 4 quarters. Other insights include, data on the performance of expanded text ads beta stage, dropping CPCs, increased clicks on Google’s PLA’s, Facebook ad trends and more.
Google introduced Price Extensions to help showcase price details along with product details in your paid ads, improves TrueView discovery ads, shares success stories of advertisers witnessing increase in conversion with cross-device conversion. Other topics discuss why you must still stick with your non-converting PPC campaigns, why PPC campaigns fail, insights on how display of four ads have improved phone traffic and more PPC articles in this week’s PPC recap.
The ideal number of keywords that one can use in an account is a subject of debate. Well, then is there any ideal number as such? For better control over your keywords, better CTRs and improved quality score, resulting in lowering down you CPC, PPC experts across have shared a minimum figure they are comfortable with.
Some interesting features launched the last week to make viewing bidding insights easier, travel planning and mobile shopping easier fr advertisers. Learn more about RLSA campaigns, PPC secrets by PPC expert Johnathan Dane, rising Mobile brand CPCs, Facebook Custom Audience. All this discussed in this week’s recap of the top PPC news.
PPC audit is the process of analyzing your account, revisiting the general settings that were previously overlooked and syncing new features or settings to improve account performance. But what areas should you look at? With so many improvement prospects, you might get baffled between shortlisting the focus points and deciding what changes to make.