Tag Archives: ppc
Blog Elizabeth Marsten // 5 Mar, 2015
PPC at mozCon – Challenge Yourself to Cross Geek Out
Last year I received an invitation to speak at one of the biggest search conferences of the year, MozCon. MozCon is put on by Moz (formerly known as SEOmoz) an SEO software/tool company in Seattle and MozCon, in the past, has been more commonly known as an SEO conference. As such, I’ve noticed that those… Read More
PPC Elizabeth Marsten // 6 Nov, 2014
A Big Idea: The International Geek Exchange
As a part of our Big Idea series, I wanted to share more detail to a special pilot program that I took part in recently and will be presenting on in Dallas at State of Search later this month. It’s the International Geek Exchange that Toni Voutilainen, a senior PPC specialist of the Tulos Agency… Read More
PPC Chad Kearns // 9 Oct, 2014
Six Ways to Win on your Competitor’s Branded Keywords
Occupying your competitor’s SERP space with a pay-per-click ad provides the ability to capture traffic and convert visitors into customers who may have had previous intentions of spending their money elsewhere. While bidding on the branded terms of your competitors is not an innovative practice, poor execution is something we see over and over again.… Read More
PPC Mike Fitterer // 24 Sep, 2014
Pay Per Click Advertising Explained by a Non-PPC Person
Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC) should be an integral part of every company’s online marketing strategy. Seriously, it’s legit. After all, what marketer wouldn’t like having totally transparent marketing spend and return data available just a few clicks away? Oh, every marketer likes that sort of data? That’s what I thought. Here’s the problem. Most… Read More
PPC Laura Oden // 11 Sep, 2014
PPC and SEO — Shouldn’t They Get Along?
Both pay-per-click advertising and organic listings vie for your attention when you search, but do the two types of search results always have to be at odds, or can savvy marketers use SEO(Search Engine Optimization) and PPC (Pay-Per-Click) in tandem to dominate the search results? Making Portent history, Laura Oden (PPC Strategist) and Kaitlin McMichael… Read More
PPC Ryan Moothart // 5 Sep, 2014
Getting Started with Mobile Bid Modifiers
Problem Ever since Google AdWords introduced enhanced campaigns, targeting mobile traffic effectively using mobile bid modifiers has been an important strategy for all PPC managers. Some of you may have mobile bid modifiers set in your campaigns already, but aren’t seeing very good results from mobile traffic. Others may have your mobile bid modifiers set… Read More
Featured Elizabeth Marsten // 17 Aug, 2014
Unexpected Loss of Control: Google AdWords Exact Match Controversy
Google AdWords’ recent announcement on the retirement of exact match in favor of the “close variant” default setting not only came as a bit of surprise to me, but definitely garnered the expected outrage from the PPC community, including petitions, Tweets and blog posts like this one. (Strangely enough, we seem to have avoided the… Read More
Project Management Ken Loeu // 12 Aug, 2014
If Portent Were a Band: It’s All About the Hair
Here at Portent, we work together to do our best to wow the crowd with our many talented individuals and skills. Have you ever listened to a song that’s just one long guitar solo? I have, and while it’s an impressive show of expertise and skill, more often than not there’s a lot left to… Read More
PPC Elizabeth Marsten // 31 Jul, 2014
Creating Personas for PPC
“Persona” is not a PPC word, but it’s certainly been seeing a lot more attention as we shift more and more away from keywords to audiences, intent, behaviors and (not provided). Some marketers keep their personas in their heads, some write them on Post-Its and some have fully written profiles with pictures and graphs. I… Read More
PPC Kiko Correa // 1 May, 2014
Harvesting Bulk Negative Keywords with Excel
When I was just a boy, my mother caught me out behind the garage using broad match. I couldn’t sit for a week. Later, I graduated to the hard stuff: media buys, QR codes, direct mail… bad scene, man. Still, despite her best attempts at teaching me the value of plus signs, quotes and brackets,… Read More
PPC Chad Kearns // 21 Mar, 2014
Exploring the Potential Impact of Google AdWords Online Video Ads
Last December, PPC Essentials, Portent’s pay-per-click service offering designed for growing small businesses, took a leap of faith in positioning ourselves as an entity offering services separately from Portent’s enterprise-level internet marketing services. One essential element of this transition was to create a new website for ourselves that would completely separate us from Portent’s main… Read More
PPC Kiko Correa // 27 Feb, 2014
Are You Optimizing Your PPC Campaigns To Death?
Ok ok, now that I’ve gotten all the link bait title out of the way, let’s get down to actual business. Now, I love my coworkers but they also set pretty high bar. When I inherited a major cosmetics account from my colleague Michael Weigand, I knew I had my work cut out for me,… Read More
PPC Ryan Moothart // 6 Feb, 2014
Google Shopping Campaigns Get Results
For the past few months, we at Portent have been trying out Google AdWords’ new Shopping Campaigns format for a couple of our clients. We had been eager to try it out and finally got the opportunity last November when one of our clients was accepted into the beta program. After 2 and half months,… Read More
Blog Toni Voutilainen // 9 Jan, 2014
An AdWords Wishlist for 2014
This post is brought to you by our special guest, Toni Voutilainen. Toni is a passionate PPC practitioner from a Finland-based Internet Agency Tulos Helsinki, operating in Scandinavia. Tulos and Portent are conducting a pilot of an International Geek Exchange program – this article is the culmination of Toni’s visit here to Seattle. This October, AdWords… Read More
PPC Portent Staff // 17 Dec, 2013
Remarketing for Search Ads
Remarketing Lists for Search Ads [RLSA] is an extremely useful feature that Google rolled out over the summer. It allows you to serve search ads to people who are on your remarketing lists, and for Portent’s small e-commerce clients, it’s definitely proven profitable. So if you’re looking for another way to increase your sales, read… Read More