Google made some significant announcements the last week. From rolling out the three major ad innovations announced during the Google Performance Summit to the future removal of converted clicks, these were the talk of the town. The digital marketing report for second quarter and google’s quarter performance report were also released. All this and more discussed in this week’s recap of PPC news.
AdGooroo recently released their paid search advertising report for Q2. The study was conducted on Google’s text ad activity across 14 industry categories and measures the 6 major paid search metrics namely CPC, CTR, clicks, impressions, spend and no. of advertisers.
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.
