Saying you do dynamic ads is like saying you do digital advertising. There are many different types and strategies for each.
In the future, all ads will be dynamic in nature, so you need to know what you’re doing and what makes sense for you.
A little used Adwords feature can be an invaluable aid to analysing performance.
When taking over new accounts, one of the features I see used least are the Labels. On the one hand, this is understandable since they don’t actually ‘do’ anything, but this is likely the very reason that such a handy feature is often overlooked.
PPC is complicated.
The past decade has brought with it a massive increase in digital marketing platforms and technologies, giving marketers the ability to focus on multichannel like never before.
This has fundamentally altered the way brands plan and execute marketing strategies and given us new insight into how customers are using those channels.
In which we take a look at the experience of searching for a product, clicking-through to an ecommerce store and purchasing the item, all from a customer’s point of view.
Much like previous investigations on retailers Apple and John Lewis this explores the customer journey in a nutshell, looking at paid search visibility, ad relevancy and the speed and ease of the ecommerce user experience.
This week: Ikea.
More than ever, customers are using a variety of ways to interact with your business offline or online.
This multichannel connectivity means it’s difficult to measure the impact of one particular marketing effort on a conversion, particularly if that conversion happens offline.
This was going to be a rigorous test of another specific UK fashion retailer’s paid search strategy, through to landing page and eventually checkout. Essentially a complete ecommerce journey from the customer’s point of view.
But then I was bombarded with LED festooned Christmas tree jumpers, wool sweaters featuring Santa with a fake wobbly Santa belly and pullovers with Rudolph’s glowing red nose and things went dramatically off-course.
In which we take a look at the experience of searching for a product, clicking-through to an ecommerce store and purchasing the item, all from a customer’s point of view.
Much like previous investigations on UK retailers John Lewis and Halfords this explores the customer journey in a nutshell, looking at visibility, relevancy, ease-of-use and speed of experience.
Paid search is a key element of marketing campaigns during the festive shopping season.
What should advertisers be focusing on to succeed this year?
It’s pleasing to have so many upper case letters in a headline.
I sent some questions to Jared Field, PPC specialist at high street fashion retailer, REISS.
It’s an interesting time for the retailer, with increased numbers of stores and successful expansion into the USA.
Here’s what Jared had to say about life on the PPC shop floor.
Search marketing is a tried and trusted digital marketing channel, which is why Google can rely on making several billion dollars each quarter.
Both SEO and paid search can result in huge gains when done right, so it takes something special for a campaign to stand out from the crowd.
If you’ve been involved in a search marketing campaign that you think is worthy of an award, then enter it into The Digitals, Econsultancy’s annual awards celebrating excellence and innovation in digital marketing.
To give you some inspiration here’s a round up of five entries we received last year…
Econsultancy’s expert team of analysts have continued their sterling work this year, and to highlight some of their excellent research I’ve rounded up a load of interesting stats from our Q2 reports.
Yes, I am aware that Q2 ended more than a month ago, but the saying “better late than never” is my guiding principle with this post.
It includes data on customer lifetime value, mobile optimisation, paid search, big data, mobile commerce and the UK’s top digital agencies.
This by no means includes all of the reports published by Econsultancy this year, so head here to explore our full range.