If you know a thing or two about digital and online marketing, you have probably heard of “Pay-Per-Click Advertising.” To give you a summary, Pay-Per-Click is a fairly common method of online advertising; Using this marketing strategy, advertisers pay every time a user clicks their online ad. PPC advertising can take various forms such as: […]
Continue ReadingMarketing isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution anymore. It involves a vast net of different industries and areas of emphasis, and you need to be adept at doing several things at once to make sure your business comes out on top. While you generally want to make sure that your business shows up at the top […]
Continue ReadingReaching your audience – and converting those visits into tangible conversions – isn’t as easy as it used to be. With the growth and expansion of the different ways we can access websites, we’re more attuned than ever to the many ways that ads work online. Since audiences have gotten smarter and better at bypassing […]
Continue ReadingRecently, Google announced the new Google Ads Editor, version 1, which replaces the old AdWords Editor. Along with a name change, there are quite a few new features and capabilities that address long-standing requests from the Google Ads community. The newly renamed and redesigned Ads Editor significantly increases productivity for anyone with a Google Ads […]
Continue ReadingAs the internet has grown into the sprawling, interconnected web of services it has become today, we’ve seen companies like Google and Amazon dip their toes into the home-service industry. Since we use these services every day, all across the globe, it only makes sense that they’d try to take advantage of the opportunities that […]
Continue ReadingIt’s impossible to avoid using the internet when you’re on the lookout for a new service – or to find someone who can provide said service for you. And just about all of us turn to search to help us find what we’re looking for. Pay-per-click advertising, or PPC, is one of the most tried-and-true […]
Continue ReadingEvery business has the same goal: to attract as many customers as possible and to leave them satisfied so they’ll keep coming back. However, the hard part is figuring out the precise combination of factors that would make your business stand out among the rest. Everyone tells you different things, and it’s difficult to pinpoint […]
Continue ReadingMachine learning is a step toward artificial intelligence. And that’s a good thing, don’t worry. We’re not talking about the artificial intelligence of Sci-Fi/Horror films. No, we’re talking about artificial intelligence that acts as your digital personal assistant, one who is smarter than you, but (c’mon, really?) not sentient. Now, we know what you’re thinking: […]
Continue ReadingWe are often asked by clients why they can’t see their own ads. While there are multiple factors to this question – including time of day, location of the searcher and what keyword they were searching for – to help narrow things down, most often a Client Relationship manager from VitalStorm will first ask: Were you using the Google Ad Preview Tool?
Continue ReadingWhile the goal of a PPC campaign manager is to draw as many clicks as possible to certain ads by placing bids on certain words, sometimes the best strategy is to know which terms your audience isn’t looking for. These are known as negative keywords, and you can optimize your campaign by identifying which ones you need to weed out to produce better performance from the terms you want people to click on. However, starting from scratch and knowing which negative keywords to choose can be daunting, and it can sidetrack the work you’re doing quite easily.
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