With Expanded Text Ads live, a useful AdWords Script is shared to simplify things for advertisers, learn more about which bidding systems works best and when (automated vs. manual), the default settings that are affecting your performance, boosting your mobile device campaigns in Bing and more PPC related articles consolidated in this Week’s PPC recap.
With Expanded Text Ads, finally launched, Google made some other strategic announcements. The crucial one was the removal converted clicks and making ‘Conversions’ the default metric altogether. If you missed out on all that happened in the month of July, then here are the Top 10 PPC News that is not worth a miss.
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.
