{"id":39123,"date":"2015-12-17T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T23:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/?p=39123"},"modified":"2015-12-17T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T23:59:00","slug":"paid-search-marketing-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/paid-search-marketing-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Search Marketing Lessons from 2015: Our PPC Virtual Conference Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
Search engine marketing grew up a lot in 2015. Advertisers began looking beyond Google desktop PPC ads to mobile ads across Google, Yahoo and Bing, as well as new sponsored post opportunities on many major social networks. New ad formats targeted the mobile user specifically, and verticals<\/a> for automotive, hotel, insurance and other industries sprang up, each with its own specific ad types. Remarketing ads (which display to people who previously clicked on an ad or visited a web property but did not convert) became more prevalent; for instance, remarketing in Bing ads<\/a> became possible for Search and Shopping campaigns.<\/p>\n Our livebloggers captured news and lots of in-depth information from top paid search experts throughout the year. Here we present the four most popular of those to bring search marketers up-to-speed on 2015 developments in pay per click.<\/p>\n First up at our PPC<\/a> virtual conference, while your brain is still fresh and your morning caffeine still running through your veins, let\u2019s talk scripts! While AdWords scripts weren\u2019t new in 2015, we did get some great tips during this year\u2019s SMX West session \u201cMastering AdWords Scripts for Search Marketers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n With an AdWords script, your paid search ads can adjust automatically based on external data, such as from a Google Drive document, calendar, or even a third-party API. For example:<\/p>\n It\u2019s not hard to create these types of flexible ads using AdWords scripts, which are pieces of code that let you automate AdWords reporting and management. Scripts give search marketers more flexibility than automated rules and require less skill (and server resources) than APIs do.<\/p>\n The session\u2019s three expert speakers \u2014 Frederick Vallaeys, Steve Hammer and Patrick Bennett \u2014 give you:<\/p>\n This AdWords-focused liveblog<\/a> will get you scripting so you can make your pay-per-click ads more adaptive and powerful.<\/p>\n With more than half of searches occurring on mobile devices, advertisers simply must have a mobile strategy these days. But before you dive in with your ad dollars, it\u2019s important to understand your mobile audience \u2014 because mobile users behave differently, and have different motives, than desktop users<\/strong>. To give you a jump on your own mobile persona research, Aaron Levy shares fascinating stats from his own mobile research on the four types of mobile searchers and their typical behavior, wants and needs.<\/p>\n Second up is Amy Bishop, talking about the importance of location targeting for mobile advertising. Searches containing \u201cnear me\u201d have grown exponentially \u2014 and 80 percent of those searches occur on a mobile device.<\/strong> If you\u2019re not targeting the best location radius and timing for your mobile ads, you may be wasting money.<\/p>\n Last in the lineup, John Busby zeroes in on the two PPC ad formats that support phone calls<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The session \u201cWinning at Mobile PPC Advertising<\/a>\u201d liveblog contains the full slide decks and in-depth information to help you take advantage of mobile advertising to drive ecommerce.<\/p>\n In this session from Pubcon Las Vegas, PPC pros David Szetela and Mona Elesseily discuss the changing SERP landscape \u2014 with mobile gaining over desktop and the layouts changing for paid and organic listings. They list a few dozen specific mistakes that advertisers commonly make and, more importantly, how to avoid them. Here are a few big ones:<\/p>\n These and many more common problems are remedied in \u201cMajor AdWords Mistakes and How to Prevent Them<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n We wrap up our Virtual Conference PPC track with a power session by two Google execs. Richard Zippel, product manager for publisher quality, and John Brown, head of publisher policy communications, answer paid search marketers’ questions in an ask-me-anything (AMA) style. Topics range from ad policies that didn\u2019t work to what the search engine is doing for advertisers in the face of rising ad blockers. Find out what Google says about:<\/p>\nUsing AdWords Scripts for Relevancy-Triggered Automation<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Mobile PPC Advertising Takes Off<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Watch Out: How to Prevent AdWords Mistakes<\/h2>\n
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Keynote: Google AdSense, AMP and More<\/h2>\n
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