Category: AdWords
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What Holds Back D2C E-Commerce Brands from Successful Google Ads Campaigns?
I’ve spent some time reviewing the biggest problems that hold back Google Ads campaigns for E-Commerce Direct-To-Consumer businesses. In one case, the owner was barely breaking even on ad spend. There were loads of small issues that were collectively keeping the campaigns from being profitable. It takes a lot of hard work (And expertise!) to…
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How to Link Google Ads to Analytics
Note: Please make sure you both have an existing Google Ads and Google Analytics account before proceeding with these steps. 1. Login to Google Analytics at analytics.google.com. 2. Click Admin at the lower left corner of the page. 3. Choose which account and property you’d like to manage 4. Under property, choose “Google Ads Linking”. …
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How To Link Your Google Adwords and Analytics Accounts
1. Open Google Analytics and sign into your Analytics account. 2. Click the admin tab on the lower left side of the page. 3. Select the account that you want to make changes on. 4. In the property section, select the corresponding property of the selected account. Then, click on Adwords Linking. 5. On…
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How to Link Your Google Analytics and Adwords
1. Login to your Google Analytics account at www.google.com/analytics. 2. On the bottom left navigation, click on “Admin”. 3. Under the Account column, select the Analytics account that you want to link to your Adwords accounts. 4. In the property column, select the Analytics property you want to link, and click “Adwords Linking”. 5. On…
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[VIDEO] Does AdWords always use my maximum bid or does it optimize CPC?
Someone recently asked: Does Google like FB ads try to optimize your spend? So if it sees my maximum CPC bid does it always bid the max? Or lower based on what the market price is? In other words, if I put that I’m willing to bid $1.57 (Max CPC) for a click will Google…
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[Checklist] Don’t Waste Good Traffic On A Bad Site
If you are running any kind of paid traffic and your site has ANY kind of loading issues, you are Burning Money. 90-Second Quick Checklist Here’s a quick list of what to check for: SSL errors Broken pages Page takes more than a few seconds to load Doesn’t load consistently Broken links Layout gets confusing…
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PPC Tracking: What’s a Conversion?
A conversion is a measurement of something you want the visitor who clicked on the ad to do, an action you want them to take online. In most cases you want them to buy. Buying is the conversion. The price they paid is the conversion value. This is easiest to understand in an ecommerce business.…
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What is a Micro-Conversion in Web Tracking?
Micro conversions are upstream events that are not purely direct money generators … … but they are absolutely essential to get people to buy, such as watching a video, downloading a lead magnet, booking a call, setting up a consultation or opting into your email list. Essentially we are monitoring when someone takes an…
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What Goes into a Google Analytics Account or View?
A skilled colleague with a fairly advanced web configuration recently asked me: At this point I realized I want all conversion data in one GA view. Period. Is there is some major reason why I shouldn’t use this approach, that you can think of? I agree, having it all in one view is a good…